1. Aşağıdaki soruları parçaya göre cevaplayınız. When you stay as a guest in someone’s house, you give up your anonymity. This becomes quite a challenge if you are the kind ofperson who cherishes independence. However, when you and your host are on the same wavelength, you can can buy. Some years ago when I went to Auckland, New Zealand, for the first time, my hosts were a couple, about my age, whom I had met while travelling in Europe. They had a full programme lined up for me. They drove me around and showed me their favourite hot springs and also the beach where a popular TV series had once been filmed. At mealtimes, they introduced me to their favourite restaurants, where I sampled cheeses from south New Zealand that don’t get exported, and fruits grown locally. Normally such a tight schedule would make me nervous, but I found myself happily relinquishing control to my hosts, who truly understood the pleasures of their native country and enjoyed sharing them. I couldn’t have encountered this New Zealand on my own. As we understand from the passage, the narrator —.

2. It is suggested in the passage that a person with a sense of independence —.

3. According to the passage, while the narrator was in New Zealand, he —.

4. It is pointed out in the passage that the narrator and his hosts —.

5. It is implied in the passage that the narrator usually likes —.

6. Aşağıdaki soruları parçaya göre cevaplayınız. In Finland now, everything is all right. Fifteen years after one of the worst recessions any European country has seen, triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Finns feel very content. Their small country of a population of 5 million is the first in the World Economic Forum’s list of the world’s most competitive countries, and the second in its business-competitiveness index. It is also the first in the OECD’s world ranking of educational performance and has the second-highest share of research-and-development spending in the European Union. Moreover, the country is reversing its demographic decline and, hence, its fertility rate is one of the highest in Europe. Perhaps best of all the Finns are facing globalization without paranoia. Theirs is one of the few European countries to have succeeded in businesses in which international prices are falling because of global competition and technological change. In most of Europe public opinion and even business èlites seem gloomily resigned to being overwhelmed by India and China. Finland suggests that this fate is not inevitable. We learn from the passage that, in addition to Finland’s recent economic success, —.

7. It is clear from the passage that Finland’s previously weak economy —.

8. We understand from the passage that Finland’s population —.

9. We see from the passage that Finland’s economy —.

10. According to the passage, one indicator of Finland’s economic success is its —.

11. It is clear from the passage that the giant American energy company Enron was founded through —.

12. We understand from the passage that, when Kenneth Lay was a child, he —.

13. We can infer from the passage that Kenneth Lay expected Mr Bush to offer him a high position in his administration because Mr Lay —.

14. We see from the passage that Kenneth Lay’s imprisonment was —.

15. Aşağıdaki soruları parçaya göre cevaplayınız. Until the giant American energy company Enron collapsed, and its director Kenneth Lay was imprisoned, his life had been a model of the American dream of rising from rags to riches on the strength of merit and hard work. His beginnings were socially and financially very modest. He was born in Tyrone, Missouri, in 1942, as the son of a preacher who was also a part-time salesman. He helped his father make ends meet by cutting grass and delivering papers. His start in the energy industry seemed similarly modest. After obtaining a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Houston, he got his start in the booming Texan oil industry. In 1985 he merged Houston Natural Gas with InterNorth of Nebraska in order to form Enron. As Enron became stronger, Mr Lay turned increasingly to politics and was one of the biggest donors to the Bush-Cheney campaign. After Mr Bush entered the White House, Mr Lay had hopes of a seat in the cabinet, perhaps as energy secretary or even at the Treasury. However, for reasons that remain unclear, Mr Bush overlooked him, so his professional life ended in frustration. According to the passage, after Mr Bush was elected president of the Us, Kenneth Lay —.

16. Aşağıdaki soruları parçaya göre cevaplayınız. There seems no question but that the clock dial, which has existed in its present form since the seventeenth century and in earlier forms since ancient times, is on its way out. More and more common are the digital clocks that mark off the hours, minutes, and seconds in ever-changing numbers. This certainly appears to be an advance in technology. You will no longer have to interpret the meaning of “the big hand on the eleven and the little hand on the five.” Your digital clock will tell you at once that it is 4:55. And yet there will be a loss in the conversion of dial to digital, and no one seems to be worrying about it. Actually, when something turns, it can turn in just one of two ways, clockwise or counter-clockwise, and we all know which is which. Clockwise is the normal turning direction of the hands of a clock, and counter-clockwise is the opposite of that. Since we all stare at clocks (dial clocks, that is), we have no trouble following directions or descriptions that include those words. But if dial clocks disappear, so will the meaning of those words for anyone who has never stared at anything but digitals. The author maintains that, when dial clocks go out of use and only digitals are used, _.

17. It is pointed out in the passage that the use of the clock dial _____.

18. In the passage, the author admits that digital clocks, compared with dial clocks, _____.

19. The author asserts that people _____.

20. As has been pointed out in the passage, the word “clockwise” _____.

21. It is pointed out in the passage that, compared with Mozambique, South Africa has _____.

22. The author points out that, along with the institution of a multiparty democracy, _____.

23. It is emphasized in the passage that, in the post-amnesties period, _____.

24. It is implied in the passage that the provision of basic services in Mozambique and South Africa in the pre-amnesties period was _____.

25. Aşağıdaki soruları parçaya göre cevaplayınız. When Mozambique and South Africa ended their internal conflicts in the early 1990s, they enacted widescale amnesties, and in both countries the rule of law quickly improved. In each of them, political leaders opted to move past the violence and injustices of the past and to focus on the tasks of social and political reconstruction. As part of that reconstruction, each country became a multiparty democracy in which the accountability of leaders and other key norms of the rule of law could finally take root. The restoration of public security, meanwhile, allowed the provision of basic services. And though their criminal-justice systems remained woefully underfunded, both were finally able to start providing citizens with basic protections. While the legal, social and political improvements in South Africa between 1994 and 2004 were impressive, in poorer Mozambique, the improvement was smaller but still marked. It is clear from the passage that both South Africa and Mozambique _____.