GAP- FILLING 1
(BOŞLUK DOLDURMA)
SEVİYE: B1-B2
* Put the following words in the suitable blanks in the paragraphs.
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PARAGRAF 1
1) career (n)
2) increasingly
(adv.)
3) though
(conj.)
4) offers (v)
5) like (prep.)
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_____ heavy with history and slow to
change, the city of Vandalia, is quick to spot an opportunity. Take Abraham
Lincoln, whose _____ began there during the city’s brief stint as the state
capital. Sticklers note that Lincoln loathed Vandalia, helping to move the
capital to Springfield. For many Americans, rural spots such as Vandalia are _____
mysterious, drifting further and further away from larger cities in their
values, politics and economics. Vandalia _____ a unique viewing point. _____ lots
of Midwestern towns, it is ringed by farms, has a fine, brick-built main
street, and boasts a single high school and many churches.
PARAGRAF 2
1) partly (adv)
2) enterprise (n)
3) set up (phr. v.)
4) successful
(adj)
5) bearing (v)
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When the Civil War begins, in 1861,
Mathew Brady is the most _____ portrait photographer in the USA. Deciding to
undertake a photographic record of the conflict, as a commercial venture funded
by himself, he _____ a number of photographic teams with darkroom wagons of the
kind pioneered by Fenton in the Crimean War. Eventually Brady has as many as twenty photographers in the
field. Some of the best of them equips on their own account before the end of
the war, _____ because Brady insists on their images _____ his name alone. But
the crucial initiative has been his, in an _____ which vividly captures the
tone of the war.
PARAGRAF 3
1) revived (v)
2) due to (conj.)
3) peasants (n)
4) after (conj.)
5) soldier (n)
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_____ many centuries when horsemen
dominate the battlefield whether the heavily armed knights
of Europe or the swift Mongols
of the steppes, the early 14th century sees the reassertion of the foot _____. Partly
this is ______ new weapons - the English longbow and the Swiss halberd. But the
change also involves the return of very ancient tactics. The Greek
phalanx, with the long spear introduced by Alexander
the Great, is _____ to devastating effect by Swiss _____ armed with pikes.
PARAGRAF 4
1) lead to (phr. v)
2) not only (conj)
3) by-products (n)
4) intensive (adj)
5) genes (n)
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Flying
is a very energy _____ activity that also produces toxic _____, and bats have
developed some novel _____ to deal with the toxins. Some of these genes,
including P53, are implicated in the development of cancer or the detection and
repair of damaged DNA. Chris Cowled, post-doctoral fellow at AAHL says the
research may eventually _____ strategies to treat, or even prevent disease
in humans. "What we found intriguing was that some of these genes also
have secondary roles in the immune system," Dr Cowled said. "We are
proposing that the evolution of flight led to a sort of spill over effect,
influencing _____ the immune system, but also things like ageing and
cancer."
PARAGRAF 5
1) compiled (v)
2) traders (n)
3) accomplishments
(n)
4) view (n)
5) prominent (adj)
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Fuat Sezgin is one of the world's most _____ historians of science and technology in the Muslim world. The 80-year-old
Turkish professor is the director of the Institute for the History of
Arabic-Islamic Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt,
Germany, and a prodigiously productive writer. He has _____ a 13-volume
history of Islam's Golden Age of Science, including three new books on the
_____ of Arabic and Islamic cartographers. He says the cartographers
not only opened much of the world to Muslim _____ but also paved the way for
European navigators, who later defined our modern _____ of geography.
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