YDS İNGİLİZCE 2020

TEST YOURSELF 

1. Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking service that ----- its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services.

A)   prevents

B)   insults

C)   surrenders

D)   escapes

E)   enables

2. The formation of planetary systems is thought to be a natural result of star formation, with ----- terrestrial planets forming closer to the star and colder giant planets forming further away, beyond the so-called frost line.

A)   trivial

B)   dense

C)   conceited

D)   stingy

E)   vague

3. The best way to travel is with the group and also a tour guide who direct the group, ----- you spend less money during the travel, you can overcome difficulties of travel easily and you live more efficient time in the travel.

A)   in the event of

B)   in order to

C)   because

D)   according to

E)   thereafter

4. The majority of an individual’s beliefs are non-occurrent; these are beliefs ----- the individual has in the background but is not entertaining at a particular time.

A)   whether

B)   whose

C)   that

D)   whom

E)   wherever

5. Understood more broadly, epistemology is about issues having to do ----- the creation and dissemination of knowledge ----- particular areas of inquiry.

A)   from / by

B)   for / at

C)   with / in

D)   below / behind

E)   on / without

6. (I) Humans are fallible beings, and fallibilism is the view that it is possible to have knowledge even when one’s true belief might have turned out to be false. (II) Knowledge requires factual belief. (III) However, this does not suffice to capture the nature of knowledge. (IV) Just as knowledge requires successfully achieving the objective of true belief, it also requires success with regard to the formation of that belief. (V) In other words, not all true beliefs constitute knowledge; only true beliefs arrived at in the right way constitute knowledge.

A) I      B) II     C) III    D) IV      E) V

7. (I) Informal soccer games can be of any length, but most regulation games last 90 minutes and are divided into two 45-minute halves. (II) There is a 15-minute break between the halves, called halftime. (III) Before each game the referee tosses a coin to determine which team will kick off. (IV) The referee calls fouls on players who commit one of ten major infractions. (V) The team that wins the toss chooses to begin the game either by kicking off the ball or by defending.

A) I      B) II     C) III    D) IV      E) V

8. (I) The most important factors necessary to lower population growth rates in the developing world are democracy and social justice. (II) Studies show that population growth rates have fallen in areas where several social conditions have been met. (III) Increasingly large numbers of people are being added to the world every year. (IV) In these areas, literacy rates have increased, and women are given economic status equal to that of men and thus are able to hold jobs and own property. (V) Also, birth control information is more widely available, and women are free to make their own reproductive decisions.

A) I      B) II     C) III    D) IV      E) V

9. The growing importance of women playwrights is one of the most significant features of recent American and British theater. Some of them are part of a recent trend toward solo performance, including Karen Finley, with her Constant State of Desire, or Rachel Rosenthal, with her Pangean Dreams. -----. These playwrights include Beth Henley in Crimes of the Heart, Wendy Wasserstein in The Heidi Chronicles and, and Paula Vogel in How I Learned to Drive.

A)  During the 1990s Ireland maintained the strongest tradition of new drama in Europe   

B)  Many of the most honored and influential works of literature around the world have been dramas

C)  Others work within the general tradition of realist drama, whether in serious drama or in comedy  

D)  Aristotle divided the elements of drama into plot, character, thought, language, and spectacle

E)  The postwar years also saw the American musical become a major force

10. The smoking habit and addiction to nicotine usually begin at an early age. In the United States, more than 70 percent of adults who smoke began smoking before the age of 18. -----. From the early to mid-1990s the proportion of teenage smokers in the U.S. rose, despite increasing warnings about the health hazards of smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places.

A)  Cigar and pipe smoke contains the same toxic and compounds found in cigarette smoke      

B)  Tobacco industry representatives have long denied that nicotine is addictive

C)  Cigarettes, the most popular method of smoking, consist of finely shredded tobacco rolled in lightweight paper

D)  In 1999 Philip Morris, the nation’s largest cigarette maker, publicly acknowledged that smoking causes serious health problems

E)  This fact has led to particular concern over smoking in teenagers and young adults