1. YDS 4. BİRİKİM TESTİ ING(0797B)
SINAVI
1.-8. sorularda, verilen tümcede boş bırakılan
yerlere uygun düşen sözcük ya da ifadeyi
bulunuz.
1. They _____ us only one letter since they
_____ married.
A) have written / had been
B) wrote / have been
C) wrote / were
D) had written / have been
E) have written / were
2. Ann _____ her driving test three times
because she's so bad at reversing. But she
_____ reversing since last week and I think
she _____ a bit better at it.
A) has failed / has been practising / has got
B) failed / practised / got
C) failed / was practising / is getting
D) fails / practises / is getting
E) has failed / is practising / gets
3. A: When is Mr. Jones planning to retire?
B: Soon, I think. He _____ here for a long
time. He'll probably retire either next
year or the year after that.
A) worked
B) had been working
C) has been working
D) was working
E) is working
4. Homestead High School's football team
_____ a championship until last season
when the new coach led them to take the
first place in their league.
A) had never won
B) has never won
C) is never winning
D) had never been winning
E) has never been winning
5. After ten unhappy years, Janet finally quit
her job. She _____ getting along with the
boss for a long time before she finally
decided to look for a new position.
A) hasn't been B) isn't C) didn't
D) hadn't been E) weren't
6. By the time Fred finally graduated from
university, he _____ seven different
schools because his parents moved
frequently.
A) will have attended
B) had attended
C) attended
D) was attending
E) had been attending
7. Our committee is trying to raise money to
buy a new lifeboat. By the end of the year
we _____ out 5.000 letters asking for
contributions.
A) are going to send
B) will send
C) will be sending
D) will have been sending
E) will have sent
8. When Professor Jordan retires next
month, he _____ for 40 years.
A) will have been teaching
B) had been teaching
C) has taught
D) will teach
E) was teaching
9.-12. sorularda verilen tümceyi uygun biçimde
tamamlayan ifadeyi bulunuz.
9. We have had a number of threats during
the past few weeks, _____.
A) it almost seems as if this is connected
with the one last year
B) that there was a minor fire in the store
last year searching
C) and now we are searching about it hoping
to find out where it comes from
D) but the police have not been able to find
out where they have come from
E) and the officer said that they were not
quite sure how it started
10. No one has ever been able to interview her
_____.
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2. A) during her illness which made her take
many tablets a day
B) especially after she became a world-
famous belly-dancer
C) since she had started taking drugs
D) because she prefers that people don't
know anything about her
E) when she wanted to be all alone in her
two storey house
11. By the time we arrived at the Browns’
_____.
A) they will have finished their lunch and will
be waiting for us
B) all the doors have already been locked
C) the party had already finished
D) they will have enjoyed themselves by
listening to music, eating and dancing
E) Tom had never seen a stage play before
12. The audience got bored and whistled
_____.
A) as soon as the actors and actresses came
to the stage
B) when I tell them the truth
C) because they've enjoyed the performance
very much
D) so the players had to come to the stage
three times more
E) because the actors performed badly
throughout the whole show
13.-15. sorularda, verilen Türkçe tümcenin
İngilizce dengini bulunuz.
13. Jane gelecek ayın sonunda bir yıldır
Fransızca çalışıyor olacak.
A) Jane would have been studying French
for a year by the end of the previous
month.
B) Jane will have completed studying
French by the end of next month.
C) Jane will start studying French for a year
by the end of next month.
D) Jane will have been studying French for a
year by the end of next month.
E) Jane will have been studying French
since last year by the end of next month.
14. Onun on iki yaşında böyle zor bir sınavı
geçmiş olduğunu işitince şaşırdık.
A) We are always surprised when she
passes such difficult examinations
because she is only twelve years old.
B) We were surprised to hear that she had
passed such a difficult examination at the
age of twelve.
C) We will be very surprised if she passes
such a difficult examination because she
is only twelve.
D) We were surprised to hear that she
couldn't pass the examination.
E) Even though the examination was so
difficult for a 12-year-old girl, she passed
it.
15. Futbol kulübü bazı oyuncularını kaybettiği
için gelecek hafta yeni adamlar arıyor
olacak.
A) The football club has lost some of its
players because they will be looking out
for new men next week.
B) The football club has been looking out for
new players for a week because it has
lost some of its men.
C) Since the football club has lost some of
its players, they will be looking out for new
men next week.
D) Because the football club lost many of its
players last week, next week they are
going to start searching new men.
E) Because of having lost some of the
players, the football club must look out for
new men next week.
16.-18. sorularda, verilen İngilizce tümcenin
Türkçe dengini bulunuz.
16. Throughout history, man has changed his
physical environment in order to improve
his way of life.
A) Tarihte insanoğlu kendi fiziksel çevresini
ve hayatını daha iyiye götürmek için
uğraş vermiştir.
B) Tarih boyunca insanoğlu yaşam biçimini
geliştirmek için fiziksel çevresini
değiştirmiştir.
C) Tarihte insan fiziksel çevresini
değiştirmek için değişik yaşam biçimleri
denemiştir.
D) Tarih boyunca insanlar fiziksel
çevrelerine uygun bir yaşam biçimi
sürdürmeye uğraşmışlardır.
E) Tarih boyunca insan fiziksel yaşamını
değiştirmek için yaşam biçimini
değiştirmiştir.
17. I hurriedly thanked the woman for the
trouble she had taken and left the house
as quickly as I could.
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3. A) Evden çabuk bir şekilde ayrılırken kadına
katlandığı sıkıntı için teşekkür
edemedim.
B) Verdiğim zahmet için kadına acele bir
şekilde teşekkür ettim ve evden hemen
kaçtım.
C) Katlandığı sıkıntı için kadına çok acele
teşekkür ettim ve evden mümkün
olduğunca çabuk ayrıldım.
D) Evden çabuk bir şekilde ayrılmadan önce
kadına katlandığı sıkıntı için uzun uzun
teşekkür ettim.
E) Önce kadına katlandığı sıkıntı için acele
bir şekilde teşekkür edecek sonra da
çabucak evden ayrılacaktım.
18. The communications industry has made
more progress than any other industry in
the last ten years.
A) Haberleşme endüstrisi on yıldan beri
diğer endüstrilerden daha fazla ilerliyor.
B) Son on yıl içinde haberleşme endüstrisi
diğer endüstrilerden daha çok ilerleme
göstermiştir.
C) Son on yıldır haberleşme endüstrisi başka
endüstriler kadar ileri gidiyor.
D) On yıldan beri haberleşme endüstrisinin
diğer endüstrilerden fazla ilerlediğini
biliyoruz.
E) Son on yıldan beri haberleşme
endüstrisinin diğer endüstrilere
nazaran daha hızlı geliştiği öne sürülüyor.
19.-21. soruları, verilen parçaya
göre yanıtlayınız.
Andy was in a bad mood. It was Friday and at
six o'clock his favourite programme "Travel
With Us" was on TV. Andy liked to get home
in good time for that. But then, just as he was
leaving the office a little early, a customer
rang up with a few complaints. The customer
complained steadily for the next 15 minutes "I
can still get home in time if I hurry" Andy told
himself as he dashed out of his office. But
then, as he drove off in his car, he noticed
that he was almost out of petrol. "I'll have to stop
at Fenton's" Andy thought. He hated Fenton's
because it was a self-service petrol station.
“You do all the work yourself, but you pay the
same for the petrol" he grumbled.
19. Andy was in a hurry because _____.
A) he had already missed his favourite
programme
B) he had to talk to a very impolite customer
C) his job was very boring
D) he was home in good time
E) he didn't want to miss his favourite TV
programme
20. Andy didn't like Fenton's because _____.
A) the service wasn't good there
B) it was more expensive than the others
C) it was a self-service station at the same
price as others
D) the owner of Fenton's was his customer
on the phone
E) it wasn't on his way home
21. Andy _____.
A) needed to buy some petrol
B) got no complaints from his customer
C) wanted to be home after 6:00
D) talked on the phone for half an hour
E) already knew he had a little petrol before
driving off
22.-24. soruları, verilen parçaya
göre yanıtlayınız.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's world was a
world of music from the moment he was born.
His father who was a wire musician, was
teaching his daughter to play the piano. Little
Wolfgang used to listen to his sister as she
practised. He quickly learned the pieces she
played. One day he said he wanted to play
too. But he was only three years old then, and his
father thought that his hands were too small.
However, that evening, alone and in the dark,
he played the pieces his sister had been
practising and he played them much better
than her.
22. While his sister was practising, Mozart
_____.
A) usually made a lot of noise
B) used to play by himself
C) used to feel very bored
D) and his father talked about music
E) used to listen to her
23. Mozart's father didn't believe that _____.
A) his daughter practised often enough
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4. B) a child of three could possibly play the
piano
C) his children would ever learn to play well
D) music could be regarded as a profession
E) children could understand music well
24. As a child, Mozart _____.
A) was hated by his father
B) was taught to play the piano by his sister
C) merely listened to any music
D) had a great talent for music
E) used to play for his sister
25.-28. sorularda, verilen tümceye anlamca en
yakın ifadeyi bulunuz.
25. She realised the danger she had been in
only after she had read the newspaper the
following morning.
A) Although she was aware of the danger,
she didn’t get frightened.
B) She realised what kind of dangers one
might have had when he was reading a
paper.
C) When she read the newspaper, she found
herself in a danger she had already
realized.
D) She was lucky that she had survived the
danger as the papers expressed.
E) She hadn’t been aware of the danger she
was in until she read the newspaper.
26. He's just arrived, so he still doesn't know
what's happened.
A) It's a long time since he came, so he
doesn't know what's been happening.
B) He hasn't been here long, so nobody
thought the news would interest him.
C) As he only got here one minute or two
ago, he hasn't heard the news yet.
D) All that happened just before he arrived.
E) If he had arrived a little earlier he
wouldn’t have been given all the news.
27. I have persuaded Tom to become the new
secretary of the club.
A) I am considering Tom for the job of
secretary.
B) I asked Tom to be the secretary of the
club and Tom agreed.
C) Tom is wondering whether to accept to be
the secretary.
D) Tom begged to become secretary of the
club.
E) I offered Tom to take the job but he didn't
accept it.
28. We won't be getting married until we have
had enough money.
A) We will marry when we have had enough
money.
B) We won't be married although we have
enough money.
C) We won't marry even when we have had
enough money.
D) We will get married because we have
enough money.
E) We will marry before we start to earn
money.
29.-31. sorularda, verilen parçada boş bırakılan
yere uygun düşen ifadeyi bulunuz.
29. It was just before the Second World War.
Tom was only 20 at the time and was living
with his mother. He was working in a bank
and travelling to London every day. _____.
It was addressed to "Mr. Thomas Parker".
A) The stranger explained that Tom's father,
Bill, was a secret agent in the First World
War
B) It was full of people and Tom couldn't
recognize anyone
C) Tom was wondering whether he should
do this
D) One morning, he received a mysterious
letter
E) The letter, which was signed "A Friend",
asked Tom to go to the cafe round the
corner during his lunch hour
30. When I was at school, we used to play a
game called "daredevil". _____. I did it
when there were no teachers around to
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5. see me but the only problem was that I
couldn't get down again.
A) I remember someone dared me to climb
up the fire escape onto the school roof
B) This was the only game I knew how to
play
C) One day, I promised myself not to play it
again
D) It was such an interesting and joyful
game that we could hardly stop playing
before sunset
E) My father, one day, saw me playing that
game with my cousin
31. One day, a great furniture-van drew up
near our front gate, and in a short time,
tables, chairs and countless other things
were heaped up on the pavement. _____: a
man, a woman and five children of various
ages. The children hurried out delightedly
as the whole family got into the house. It was
our first introduction to the Robinsons.
A) Our garden soon became an unsafe
place for us
B) We became friends with our
neighbours, but we often had a cause to
be irritated by them
C) A car out of which seven people emerged
arrived
D) Mrs. Robinson dropped in for a cup of tea
and a chat some time later
E) We lent them many things in case they
didn’t have any
32.-34. sorularda, verilen durumda
söylenebilecek sözü bulunuz.
32. You see someone throwing away a paper
bag in a park when there is a litter bin
provided not far away. You try to be
critical, but polite:
A) I wonder why you use a paper bag
B) He doesn’t like my habit of leaving things
around for others to pick up.
C) I suppose you haven’t noticed the bin.
D) Why don't you learn to keep your
environment clean, you stupid?
E) Throw away something again, and you'll
be in trouble.
33. You need a job for three months in the
summer, and you have seen an
advertisement in a newspaper about a
temporary job as a tourist guide in your
town or city. You want to take your friend's
advice:
A) Do you know how long I have been
looking for a job?
B) Do you recommend me to apply for it?
C) Would you like to work instead of me?
D) I just want to hear your proposal.
E) Have you experienced being a tourist
guide before?
34. Your new sweater shrinks the first time
you wear it and you take it back to the
shop. You complain angrily and claim a
refund:
A) Look what you have done to my new
sweater. Buy me a new one.
B) I'm sorry to disturb you but I badly need
your advice.
C) You should have no right to claim a
refund. Look at this sweater!
D) Don't throw it away. Your child might wear
it when he grows up.
E) Don't ever say it's not your fault and
either replace it or pay my money back.
35.-37. sorularda, verilen karşılıklı konuşmanın
boş bırakılan kısmında söylenmiş olabilecek
sözü bulunuz.
35. A: Where did you go for your holiday last
year?
B: To Rome.
A: _____
B: Yes, I often spend my holidays there.
A) Did you spend a lot of money getting
there?
B) Will you have a holiday this year?
C) Really? How did you like it?
D) You must have seen a lot of interesting
places.
E) To Rome? Had you ever been there
before?
36. Jim : Do you know where my glasses
are?
Betty: I thought you put them in that
drawer last night.
Jim : _____.
Betty: Then try your raincoat pocket.
A) I've been using glasses for 17 years
B) But I've already found them
C) I can read without my glasses
D) They're not there; I've already looked
E) No. I think Jane put them there
37. John: _____?
Tim : Sure, what do you want to know?
John: Well, first of all, how do you score
points?
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6. Tim : Come and sit next to me and I'll
show you.
A) Can you tell me about the rules of this
game
B) Do you think I'll enjoy the game
C) You find this game very exciting, don't
you
D) What about the playing of the game
E) Do you know how the ball changes hands
between the teams
38.-40. sorularda, verilen parçaya anlamca
uygun olmayan ifadeyi bulunuz.
38. (I) I'd always wondered what my father was
like. (II) He had left my mother when I was
only 6 months old and hadn't kept in touch
with us. (III) After all he had left her with no
money and two young children to bring
up. (IV) He had even sent me a birthday card.
(V) I used to ask my mother what he was
like but she never had a good word to say
about him.
A) I B) II C) III
D) IV E) V
39. (I) One summer night I went to bed,
leaving my bedroom door open because it was
very hot. (II) During the night I heard, in my
sleep, someone trying to strike a match.
(III) If the man runs away immediately, I
will rush after him. (IV) For a moment I thought
it must be the friend I lived with. (V) But
then, I remembered that he was away.
A) I B) II C) III
D) IV E) V
40. (I) If you can read, you know a lot of
English words. (II) You can also write,
speak and understand if you study more.
(III) But there is another kind of language
you need to know; the language of body.
(IV) All over the world, people "talk" with
their hands, and with their eyes. (V) When
British and American people eat in a
restaurant, every one pays his or her own
bill.
A) I B) II C) III
D) IV E) V
TEST BİTTİ.
YANITLARINIZI KONTROL EDİNİZ.
YDS 4. BİRİKİM TESTİ ING(0797B)
SINAVI YANIT KAĞIDI
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7. A B C D E A B C D E
1 X 21 X
2 X 22 X
3 X 23 X
4 X 24 X
5 X 25 X
6 X 26 X
7 X 27 X
8 X 28 X
9 X 29 X
10 X 30 X
11 X 31 X
12 X 32 X
13 X 33 X
14 X 34 X
15 X 35 X
16 X 36 X
17 X 37 X
18 X 38 X
19 X 39 X
20 X 40 X
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