YDT İngilizce — Orta Deneme — Çalışma Kağıdı

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

1. The manuscript is written on a type of paper that was not manufactured anywhere in Europe before 1450, which means that the monk to whom it is traditionally attributed, and who died in 1391, ---- it.

A) mustn't have written B) cannot have written C) might not have written D) shouldn't have written E) needn't have written

YDT İngilizce · Types of Pronouns

2. Unlike the earlier prototype, which had to be recharged every two hours, the device now being tested by the engineering team stores most of ---- operating energy in a graphene capacitor.

A) itself B) its C) it's D) their E) theirs

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

3. The research team ---- the final set of soil samples when a sudden thunderstorm forced them to abandon the site halfway through the process.

A) collected B) was collecting C) had collected D) has been collecting E) used to collect

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

4. The number of applications to the archaeology programme ---- sharply at present, largely because a popular documentary series has drawn public attention to the recent excavations in the region.

A) rises B) is rising C) are rising D) rise E) isn't rising

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

5. If the research team wants its grant to be renewed for a second term, it ---- the interim report before Friday; the funding body is notorious for rejecting late submissions without any further correspondence.

A) would rather submit B) had better submit C) does not have to submit D) might as well submit E) ought to have submitted

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

6. When the observatory celebrates its centenary in 2031, its main telescope ____ the northern sky night after night for a hundred years, ever since it was first switched on in the winter of 1931.

A) will scan B) has been scanning C) would have been scanning D) is going to be scanning E) will have been scanning

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

7. Under the revised data-protection policy, researchers ---- written consent from every participant before any recording begins; the ethics board regards this as an absolute condition of approval, not as a recommendation.

A) ought to obtain B) need not obtain C) are required to obtain D) are supposed to obtain E) had better obtain

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

8. As the delegates were making their way into the conference hall, a power failure ---- the entire building into darkness for almost twenty minutes.

A) was plunging B) has plunged C) would plunge D) plunged E) had been plunging

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

9. No sooner ---- their preliminary assessment of the fault line than the provincial authorities ordered the evacuation of three nearby villages.

A) the seismologists had published B) did the seismologists published C) have the seismologists published D) had the seismologists published E) the seismologists published

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

10. ---- had the newly built bridge been opened to traffic ---- inspectors detected worrying cracks in one of its main support columns.

A) No sooner / when B) Hardly / when C) Hardly / than D) Scarcely / than E) No sooner / as

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

11. Looking back, the editor concedes that the journal ---- the controversial figure without first asking the authors for their raw data; the humiliating retraction that followed could easily have been avoided.

A) must not have published B) did not have to publish C) need not have published D) could not have published E) should not have published

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

12. There is no need to book a taxi for tomorrow morning: the shuttle bus to the conference centre ____ from the hotel entrance at a quarter past eight every day of the congress.

A) leaves B) will leave C) is leaving D) is going to leave E) will be leaving

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

13. Ayla ---- the entire dataset by hand over three exhausting weekends; she found out only afterwards that a free conversion tool would have done exactly the same job in a matter of seconds.

A) did not have to transcribe B) must not have transcribed C) was not supposed to transcribe D) should not transcribe E) needn't have transcribed

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

14. While the volunteers ---- water samples from the lower stretch of the river, a sudden rise in the water level forced them to abandon the site.

A) were collecting B) have been collecting C) are collecting D) will be collecting E) had collected

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

15. The dispatches were being delivered to an abandoned consulate throughout that autumn, so the ambassador ---- what his government had decided; not a single one of the papers ever reached his desk.

A) mustn't have known B) could not have known C) didn't have to know D) shouldn't have known E) needn't have known

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

16. The lights in the observatory dome have been burning since dawn and all three vehicles are still parked outside, which can only mean that the team ---- still analysing the data from last night's session.

A) can be B) might be C) must have been D) must be E) had to be

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

17. Although the museum's newly opened east wing ---- more than three thousand artefacts from the late Bronze Age, no more than a tenth of them can be put on display at any one time.

A) contain B) is containing C) contains D) are containing E) doesn't contain

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

18. Under the laboratory's safety protocol, visitors ---- the culture plates under any circumstances; the document treats this as an absolute prohibition rather than a mere expectation, since even momentary contact can ruin months of work.

A) must not touch B) do not have to touch C) had better not touch D) are not supposed to touch E) should not have touched

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

19. Under the regulations that come into force next January, no construction permit ---- until an independent environmental impact assessment has been submitted to the ministry.

A) is issued B) will not be issued C) has not been issued D) would not be issued E) will be issued

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

20. By the time the new desalination plant becomes fully operational in 2040, the region ____ nearly a third of the groundwater reserves it had at the beginning of the century.

A) is losing B) will lose C) will have lost D) will be losing E) would have lost

YDT İngilizce · Types of Pronouns

21. Most of the referees found ---- hard to believe that a study based on only twelve participants could justify so sweeping a generalisation about the limits of human memory.

A) it B) there C) this D) that E) them

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

22. Since the laboratory ---- the automated sequencing protocol in 2019, the number of samples it can process in a single working day ---- more than fourfold.

A) has adopted / increased B) adopts / has been increasing C) adopted / has increased D) had adopted / increases E) has been adopting / has increased

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

23. Dr. Ateş ---- to the Antarctic research station three times so far, and she is due to fly out there once again in November.

A) went B) has gone C) had been D) has been going E) has been

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

24. The materials science laboratory ---- an electron microscope so sophisticated that researchers from three neighbouring universities regularly book time on it.

A) is having B) have C) are having D) doesn't have E) has

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

25. Until the theory of plate tectonics gained acceptance in the 1960s, most geologists ---- that the continents had always occupied their present positions.

A) used to believe B) would believe C) were used to believe D) were believing E) have believed

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

26. Whenever he prepares a béarnaise for the tasting menu, the chef ---- the sauce at least four times, since he insists that it ---- unpleasantly sharp if the vinegar goes into the pan too early.

A) tastes / tastes B) is tasting / tastes C) tastes / is tasting D) is tasting / is tasting E) taste / tastes

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

27. Although the volcano ---- ash continuously for the past six weeks, the monitoring team ---- no significant change in the underground pressure readings so far.

A) has been emitting / have detected B) has emitted / have been detecting C) emitted / detected D) is emitting / had detected E) has been emitting / had been detecting

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

28. Before digital archives became widely available, doctoral students ---- to distant libraries and copy rare manuscripts by hand, a process that could easily consume an entire summer.

A) had to travel B) must travel C) must have travelled D) didn't have to travel E) needn't have travelled

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

29. With her publication record and her fluency in three languages, Dr. Aydın ---- the international research grant without much difficulty, but she chose to remain in the private sector and never even applied.

A) could obtain B) must have obtained C) might obtain D) could have obtained E) should have obtained

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

30. The ethics board has assured the research team that the funding for the marine sampling project will be transferred to the university account as soon as the final risk assessment ____ by the two independent reviewers.

A) will be approved B) is approved C) will have been approved D) would be approved E) is going to be approved

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

31. When the committee finally ---- the funding proposal, the researchers immediately began recruiting participants for the longitudinal study.

A) was approving B) has approved C) used to approve D) would approve E) approved

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

32. The ethics board will not authorise the second phase of the clinical trial until the independent review panel ---- its evaluation of the preliminary safety data.

A) will finalise B) finalises C) will have finalised D) had finalised E) is going to finalise

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

33. I am afraid I cannot attend the departmental meeting on Friday afternoon; I ____ a group of visiting researchers around the new laboratory, and the timetable was fixed weeks ago.

A) take B) will take C) am taking D) will have taken E) would take

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

34. Unless the funding agency ____ its decision on the grant applications before the end of the month, the laboratory will have to suspend the two clinical trials that are already under way.

A) will announce B) is going to announce C) will have announced D) announces E) would announce

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

35. Although the two beetle species ---- virtually identical to the naked eye, taxonomists ---- perfectly well that they belong to entirely different genera.

A) are appearing / know B) appear / are knowing C) are appearing / are knowing D) appears / knows E) appear / know

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

36. The photograph captures a single instant in the summer of 1962: children ---- in the square, vendors were shouting their prices, and a tram was crawling past the fountain.

A) were playing B) played C) had played D) used to play E) have been playing

YDT İngilizce · Types of Pronouns

37. The reading habits of adolescents who have grown up with smartphones differ in almost every measurable respect from ---- of the generation that reached adulthood before the internet became widely available.

A) that B) these C) them D) it E) those

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

38. By the time the additional funding was finally approved, the laboratory ---- for more than two years on a grant that had originally been intended to cover only six months.

A) operated B) has been operating C) was operating D) had been operating E) would have operated

YDT İngilizce · Types of Pronouns

39. During the first year of the joint project the two laboratories were extremely reluctant to share unpublished data with ----, since each of them feared that the other would claim priority for the discovery.

A) themselves B) them C) each other D) itself E) their own

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

40. The manuscript was sent out for review eight months ago, but the editors ---- the authors any feedback ----.

A) did not give / already B) have not given / yet C) have not given / already D) had not given / still E) do not give / ever

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