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SQUASHED DOG STORIES

Newspapers have a (01)………………. for what the French call “squashed dog” stories. In England, they are “goldfish emerging from bathroom tap” stories. Such stories run under the “Man Bites Dog” (02)………………. . From France comes the story of an (03)………………. savage attack on an old man near Calais carried out by a swarm of bees. The scenario might have pleased Hitchcock. The victim was (04)………………. himself in his garden at the time. The firemen were called but were driven back into their van by the (05)………………. of the insects. After 45 minutes someone arrived with (06)………………. clothing and (07)………………. . By then the man sitting in the deck chair was dead, covered in hundreds of stings, most of them on his eyelids.

The French liked the story from London about grafting a pig’s kidneys on to a human patient. They went for the animal rights angle. They like the idea of putting a (08)………………. ring round the hospital to repel people who are intent on rescuing the pig from (09)………………. . From London, too, came the story of the brown paper parcel in London’s main parcel sorting office, a parcel which moved. Packages do not normally move very quickly through the post office at the best of times, but this one was definitely frisky. A lady customs officer was summoned to X-ray the package. The X-ray revealed a (10)………………. reptile called a gila monster wrapped in a sock. The subsequent police trail led to a salesman in Hampshire whose back bedroom was filled with rattlesnakes, lethal lizards, snapping turtles and a python, most of which he had sent himself through the post.

WORDS : Kelimeler

01. fond

02. head

03. except

04. sun

05. fierce

06. protect

07. insect

08. secure

09. member

10. poison

CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar

01. fondness

02. headline

03. exceptionally

04. sunning

05. fierceness

06. protective

07. insecticide

08. security

09. dismemberment

10. poisonous

PARLIAMENT

Parliament consists of two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The third part of the (01) …………………. is the Monarchy, which is of (02) ………………. (03) …………………. only.

The Lords are not elected. A member of the House of Lords can inherit his position, or he can be made a member, appointed for his service to the State. The members of the House of Lords receive no salary for their (04) …………………. work. However, they receive travelling expenses from their homes to Westminster, together with an (05) …………………. (06) …………………. .

The House of Commons is a (07) …………………. (08)…………………. elected by everyone over the age of 18. Members receive a salary for their work, and are elected. The Commons is presided over by the Speaker who is elected by the members immediately after a new Parliament is formed.

English politics have been dominated by two parties: the Conservative, or Tory, party, and the Socialist, or Labour, party. The small Liberal party also has quite a lot of popularity. However, as England does not have proportional (09) …………………. , small parties are not very (10)………………….

WORDS : Kelimeler

01. govern

02. symbol

03. signify

04. parliament

05. attend

06. allow

07. represent

08. assemble

09. represent

10. succeed

CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar

01. government

02. symbolic

03. significance

04. parliamentary

05. attendance

06. allowance

07. representative

08. assembly

09. representation

10. successful

PIGEON POWER

Tom Jones, a psychologist, reports a new role for pigeons. Asked by a pharmaceutical company to measure the effects of drugs on animal behaviour, Jones noticed one day that some 70 women were employed to check flawed capsules. “That is a job any pigeon could do,” he said, because he knew about the pigeon’s learning (01)………………………. .

On (02)………………………. , capsules left the (03)………………………. line. There, Jones arranged for a bright, narrow beam of light to pass through them. If a capsule was perfect, the light showed a single spot; if it was (04)………………………. , the light showed a double spot.

In their training, two pigeons were rewarded with food every time they correctly identified a wrong capsule. The experiment worked. A (05)………………………. belt carried the capsules as fast as two a second past the pigeon (06)………………………. , who achieved 99 per cent success within a week.

But the company rejected (07)………………………. of the pigeons on a permanent basis. They feared (08)………………………. that might be bad: The public might think pigeons were not as (09)………………………. as humans. “A main obstacle to progress,” commented Jones sadly, ” remains man’s obstinate belief in his (10)………………………. over other creatures.”

WORDS : Kelimeler

01. able

02. complete

03. produce

04. perfect

05. convey

06. inspect

07. employ

08. public

09. rely

10. superior

CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar

 01. ability

02. completion

03. production

04. imperfect

05. conveyor

06. inspectors

07. employment

08. publicity

09. reliable

10. superiority