Paragraf Tamamlama 5

1. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Ballet is theatrical representation in dance form in which music also plays a major part in telling a story or conveying a mood. Some such form of entertainment existed in ancient Greece. —. From there, it was taken by Caterina de’ Medici in the 16th century to France in the form of a spectacle combining singing, dancing, and speech. During the 18th century, there were major developments in technique, and ballet gradually became divorced from opera, emerging as an art form in its own right.

2. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? In finance, interest, which is a sum of money paid by a borrower to a lender in return for the loan, is usually expressed as a percentage per annum. —. In compound interest, the interest earned over a period of time is added to the principal, so that at the end of the next period, interest is paid on that total.

3. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Logistics as a business concept began to gain ground in the 1950s, particularly in the US. This was because, as businesses expanded and reached out both to far-flung markets and sources of materials, the need for expert logisticians became imperative. Logisticians applied their own ingenuity to create companies that aimed to deliver the right item in the right quantity at the right time in the right place for the right price. —. Indeed, with increasing globalization and ever longer and more complex supply chains, logistics companies have become ever more sophisticated and adaptable.

4. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? The year 1960 seemed golden and full of promise. Despite nearly constant international tension, everyday life in Europe and North America seemed to be improving. Economies recovered, many standards of living rose, and new forms of culture flourished. The economic horizon looked bright. —. Western Europeans could no longer be so certain of their prosperity or of their leaders’ ability to provide the sort of life they took for granted.

5. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? St. Petersburg is not just a city of names and movements. It is also a city of bridges, with more of them than any other city in the whole world. With its 101 islands, it is also worthy of the title “city of islands.” Not only that, but it has enough canals to compete with Venice, Amsterdam, and Stockholm. —. As Dostoevsky’s hero puts it, “It is the most abstract and fantastic city on earth.”

6. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Despite numerous intellectual and literary advances, the longest-lived achievements of the Italian Renaissance were made in the realm of art. Of all the arts, painting was undoubtedly supreme. Although Giotto was the great artistic genius around 1300, it was not until the fifteenth century that Italian painting began to come fully of age. —. Fifteenth-century artists also experimented with effects of light and shade and, for the first time, carefully studied the anatomy and proportions of the human body.

7. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? World War II left Europe a land of wreckage and confusion. Millions of refugees travelled hundreds or thousands of miles on foot to return to their homes while others were forcibly displaced from their lands. —. Food remained in dangerously short supply, and even a year after the war roughly 100 million people in Europe stil lived on less than 1,500 calories per day.

8. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Western perceptions of the Middle East as a viable tourist destination have been adversely affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, the subsequent war on terrorism, and the war in Iraq. Indeed, the impact of the 9/11 attacks upon the tourist sector in the region has been profound. —. North Africa in general and Tunisia in particular have fared comparatively well, but Morocco has suffered badly.

9. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Most foreign tourists visiting London come to see the Houses of Parliament. This monumental Gothic building on the River Thames is probably Britain’s best-known landmark. Indeed, the people who come to visit it may know very little and care even less about what happens inside, but they appreciate the place as one of the greatest achievements of nineteenth-century art. —. Indeed, the Parliament is a magnificent building.

10. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? At the start of the twentieth century, Britain was still the greatest world power. By the middle of the century, although still one of the “Big Three”, Britain was clearly weaker than both the United States and the Soviet Union. —. Its power had ended as quickly as Spain’s had done in the seventeenth century. One reason for this sudden decline of Britain was the cost and effort of two world wars.

11. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? During World War II, the Allies had started to think of ways in which a new world order could replace the failed League of Nations. Even before it joined the war against Germany and its allies, the US had agreed on an “Atlantic Charter” with Britain. The basis of this new charter was US President Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms”: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want. At the end of the war, the victorious Allies created the United Nations, which expressed the ideas of the Atlantic Charter. —.

12. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Little is known about the life of women in the Middle Ages, but without doubt it was hard. —. It also spread two very different ideas about women. So, on the one hand, women were regarded as pure and holy, while, on the other, they could not be trusted and were a moral danger to men. Such religious teaching led men both to worship and also to look down on women.

13. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Around 1550, the Renaissance in Italy began to decline. The causes of this decline were varied. —. The French King Charles VIII viewed Italy as an attractive target for his expansive dynastic ambitions. In 1494, he led an army of thirty thousand well-trained troops across the Alps to press his claims to the Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples.

14. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Our knowledge of the Celts in Britain is slight. As with previous groups of settlers, we do not even know for certain whether the Celts invaded Britain or came peacefully as a result of the lively trade with Europe from about 750 B.C. onwards. At first, most of Celtic Britain seems to have developed in a generally similar way. —. Consequently, this fall led to serious economic and political differences between the Celts of southeast Britain and those of the northwest.

15. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? The Africans who go abroad to work usually send money back home to pay for their relatives’ medical care, education, and housing. Today, most African countries get the largest part of their foreign exchange earnings from such remittances. —. Without this subsidy, Africa’s dictators would have to face the political consequences of an angry population.

16. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? The United States and its allies cannot remain in Afghanistan indefinitely. For them, building a capable Afghan security force and a credible Afghan government is the fastest and most responsible exit strategy. —. On the other hand, a security force can only be as good as its government, and the Afghan government has been crippled by corruption. However, national elections scheduled for this year provide an incentive for the Afghan government to continue to improve.

17. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? After more than 30 years without building a nuclear plant, US power companies are seeking licences for over 30 new reactors. In addition, more than 300 reactors have been proposed worldwide. Countries such as Egypt, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela have serious plans to build their first nuclear plant. —.

18. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? For decades, China has been content to let the invisible hand of the market work its magic on the country’s economy. But there’s one area where the government wants to reassert state control: healthcare. —. Today, nearly 40 per cent of the population can’t afford to see a doctor. The average hospital stay for a Chinese citizen costs nearly as much as an individual’s annual per capita income in the country. Healthcare grievances have been at the heart of thousands of organized protests countrywide in recent years.

19. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? The African Union is well aware that, although Africa has enormous agricultural potential, it stil remains a major food importer. The majority of Africans live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood; but the performance of the agricultural sector has been dismal. In addition to internal and structural problems that each African country faces,external setbacks such as climate change and global economic instability have made the conditions worse for growth and development in all sectors, including agriculture. —.

20. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Turkey offers much for the naturalist, with rich marine ecosystems, abundant birdlife, and elusive larger mammals. Especially the rugged eastern provinces and also the regions with thick forests harbour a large variety of these mammals. —. The tulip is perhaps the most famous of these. The great diversity of plants stems not only from the variety of habitats, which include arid plains as well as mountains and temperate woodlands, but also from Turkey’s position as a “biological watershed” at the crossroads of Europe and Asia.

21. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? One of the causes of World War II was the failure to create lasting, binding standards for peace and security in Europe in particular and in the world at large. Diplomats spent the 1920s, trying to restore such standards. Some put their faith in the legal and moral authority of the League of Nations. —. Throughout the decade, a number of leading European statesmen tried to reach a set of agreements that would stabilize the peace and prevent rearmament.

22. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Youth culture in America in the 1950s and 1960s owed much to the hybrid musical style known as “rock and roll.” During the 1930s and 1940s, the synthesis of music produced by whites and African Americans in the American South found its way into northern cities. Indeed, from the 1950s onwards, black rhythm and blues musicians and white Southern performers found much wider audiences through the use of new technology, such as electric guitars, beter equipment for studio recording, and wide-band radio stations in large cities. The blend of styles and sounds and the cultural daring of white teenagers came to create rock and roll. —.

23. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? —.Like the French Revolution, they brought down not only a regime, but an empire. Like the French Revolution, they gave way to violence. And again like the French Revolution, they had sweeping international consequences. These revolutions and the fall of the Soviet Union marked the end of the Cold War, which had structured international politics and shaped the everyday lives of millions of people since the end of World War II.

24. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? Nineteenth-century liberals had confidence in science. Not only did science deliver technological and material progress, but it also confirmed liberals’ faith in the power of human reason to uncover and command the laws of nature.—.Evolutionary theory, psychology and social sciences all introduced visions of humanity that were sharply at odds with conventional liberal wisdom. At the same time, artists and intellectuals mounted their own revolt against nineteenth-century conventions. Morals, manners, institutions, and traditions: all established values and assumptions were under question.

25. Aşağıdaki paragrafta boş bırakılan yeri en iyi tamamlayan cümle hangisidir? In ancient Egypt most people were poor, living in crowded conditions in simple mud-brick dwellings. During the period of prosperity, however, skilled artisans, such as jewellers, goldsmiths, and the like, could elevate themselves and enjoy nicer surroundings. —. The vast majority of Egyptians, however, were peasants who, as unskilled labourers, provided the brute force necessary for agriculture and construction. Beneath them were slaves, typically captives from foreign wars rather than native Egyptians.