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YDT İngilizce · Types of Pronouns

1. The 1783 eruption of Laki, ---- released enough sulphur dioxide to disrupt harvests across northern Europe for two consecutive seasons, is still used to calibrate volcanic forcing in climate models.

A) that B) what C) which D) whose E) it

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

2. 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 · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

3. ---- the ferry was approaching the harbour, a dense fog ---- so quickly that the captain had to drop anchor offshore and wait until dawn.

A) During / descended B) Whereas / was descending C) Until / had descended D) Meanwhile / descended E) While / descended

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

4. 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 · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

5. 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 · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

6. The manuscript on display in the second hall is the oldest complete copy of the epic that ---- to the public anywhere in Europe.

A) was ever shown B) had ever been shown C) is ever shown D) has ever shown E) has ever been shown

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

7. The fossil's teeth show no trace of wear and its limb bones are unusually slender, and since that combination occurs at no other stage of growth, the only possible conclusion is that the animal ---- a juvenile when it died.

A) cannot have been B) must be C) should have been D) might have been E) must have been

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

8. At the exact moment when the tsunami warning finally ---- the coastal resorts, hundreds of tourists ---- on beaches that would be under water within the hour.

A) was reaching / sunbathed B) reached / sunbathed C) was reaching / were sunbathing D) reached / were sunbathing E) used to reach / were sunbathing

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

9. Although the expedition had been pinned down by the blizzard for almost two days, the rescue helicopter ---- the base camp shortly before nightfall on Thursday.

A) could reach B) can reach C) was able to reach D) might reach E) could have reached

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

10. The department's field trip starts on Monday morning, so this time next week the geology students ____ rock samples along the eastern ridge instead of sitting in the lecture hall.

A) will collect B) will have collected C) collect D) will be collecting E) have been collecting

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

11. 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 · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

12. 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 · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

13. 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 · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

14. The evaluation committee ---- its final report to the ministry last Thursday, but the document has not been made public yet.

A) submitted B) has submitted C) has been submitting D) had been submitting E) is submitting

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

15. 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 · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

16. 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 · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

17. By the time the ministry announced its new emission targets last spring, a number of large manufacturers ---- their own carbon-reduction programmes without waiting for any legal obligation.

A) have already launched B) already launched C) had already launched D) would already launch E) will already have launched

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

18. 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 · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

19. The shuttle bus linking the north campus to the city centre ---- every twenty minutes throughout the academic year, so students seldom bother to consult the printed timetable.

A) leaves B) is leaving C) leave D) are leaving E) doesn't leave

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

20. I must ask to be left off the programme for Friday morning, as I ---- a delegation of visiting scholars around the excavation trenches at ten, and the arrangement was made weeks ago.

A) show B) was showing C) have shown D) am showing E) don't show

YDT İngilizce · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

21. By the time the orbiting telescope becomes fully operational at the end of this decade, the engineering team ---- more than fifteen years to the design and calibration of its primary mirror.

A) have been devoting B) are devoting C) had devoted D) will devote E) will have devoted

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

22. 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 · Types of Pronouns

23. ---- has been remarkably little agreement among historians of science about why the phlogiston theory continued to attract serious defenders for several decades after oxygen had been isolated.

A) It B) This C) That D) They E) There

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

24. Once the automated logging system is installed next semester, the technicians ---- each measurement manually, which will free them for the far more demanding analytical work the department has been postponing.

A) mustn't record B) needn't have recorded C) don't have to record D) won't have to record E) aren't allowed to record

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Ability & Possibility

25. The signal has been traced to a source roughly forty light years from the solar system, which means that whatever is producing it ---- a spacecraft built by human beings.

A) cannot be B) mustn't be C) might not be D) doesn't have to be E) shouldn't be

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

26. 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 · Types of Pronouns

27. 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 · Future Tenses

28. 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 Ability & Possibility

29. 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 · Tense Agreement in Time Clauses

30. ---- 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 Ability & Possibility

31. The seismic network has recorded unusual tremors beneath the caldera, and volcanologists warn that the mountain ---- at some point within the next decade, though nothing is certain yet.

A) must erupt B) can erupt C) should erupt D) can't erupt E) may erupt

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

32. - Why have you brought all those printed charts and satellite images with you today?
- Because I ____ the committee how dramatically the coastline has retreated since 2010.

A) will show B) show C) will have shown D) was going to show E) am going to show

YDT İngilizce · Future Tenses

33. - The projector in the seminar room has stopped working again, and the guest lecture is due to start in ten minutes.
- Don't panic. I ____ the technical office right now and ask them to send someone up immediately.

A) will ring B) am ringing C) ring D) would have rung E) will have rung

YDT İngilizce · Modals Verbs of Obligation, Necessity & Prohibition

34. The committee's decision to release the preliminary findings without independent replication now looks reckless: the results ---- by a second laboratory long before any public announcement was made.

A) must have been verified B) needn't have been verified C) didn't have to be verified D) should have been verified E) can't have been verified

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

35. 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 · Future Tenses

36. 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 · Types of Pronouns

37. The two anonymous referees to ---- the manuscript had been sent in the first round both recommended outright rejection, yet the editor chose to invite a substantially revised version.

A) who B) which C) that D) whom E) whose

YDT İngilizce · Present Perfect Tense & Present Perfect Continuous Tense

38. The number of undergraduates choosing to major in classical philology ---- by almost half since the faculty merged the department with linguistics.

A) fell B) have fallen C) has been falling D) has fallen E) had fallen

YDT İngilizce · Simple Present & Present Continuous Tense

39. Nowadays even the most cautious geologists ---- the theory of plate tectonics to be beyond serious dispute, although the idea was dismissed as fantasy for the best part of half a century.

A) are considering B) considers C) is considering D) consider E) don't consider

YDT İngilizce · Past Simple Tense & Past Continuous Tense

40. 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

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