Answer the question 1 according to the text below.

Avicenna (Ibn-i Sina) was born in Bukhara. He studied Greco-Roman

and Indian texts. Then he wrote almost 450 works on a wide range of

subjects like philosophy, astronomy, medicine, alchemy, etc. His famous

book “The Canon of Medicine” was a standard medical textbook at many

medieval universities in the world.

1) Which question is answered in the text?

A) How many books did he write about different subjects?

B) Where did he die?

C) Which universities did he study at?

D) How much time did he spend on writing “The Canon of Medicine”?

Answer the question 2 according to the dialogue below.

Alex : Who invented the electric light bulb?

Britney : Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. He also developed the phonograph and motion picture

camera.

Alex : What do you know about the Wright Brothers?

Britney : They successfully designed, built and flew the first powered aircraft. They showed that man could fly. Their

aircraft was one of most important inventions of the twentieth century.

2) Which picture does NOT show one of the inventions in the text?

A) B) C) D)

Answer the question 3 according to the text below.

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3D printers are quite useful today. People are making all kinds of things

with 3D printers. You can create hundreds of thousand different

objects in a very short time at a lower cost. Generating prototypes with

3D printers is much easier and cheaper than making molds. And interestingly,

these objects are always very durable.

3) What can be the best title for the text?

A) What’s 3D printing and how does it work?

B) The advantages of 3D printing technologies.

C) Possible concerns about 3D printing technologies in the future.

D) 3D printing technology in the past.

TEST 15UNIT 9 - SCIENCE

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Answer the question 4 according to the dialogue below.

Alan : Where were you on the weekend, Debbie?

Debbie : I was at a great exhibition. The name of it is

“The Human Body Exhibition”. You should definitely see it.

Alan : Should I? What did you see at the exhibition?

Debbie : Well, the exhibition features over 200 bodies and

individual organs. You really learn about the human anatomy.

Have you ever been to a great exhibition?

Alan : Yes, I have. Last year, my family and I went to the

“International Robot Olympiads”. We really had fun there.

Debbie : The International Robot Olympiads? What kind of organization is it?

Alan : Well, students from all over the world show their skills about robots.

Debbie : Were you one of the competitors?

Alan : No, I wasn’t. I was just a visitor. We registered online and it was free.

4) Which question is answered NOT in the text?

A) Where was Debbie on the weekend?

B) For what purposes did Alan go to the exhibition?

C) Who did Debbie go to the event with?

D) How did Alan register for the International Robot Olympiads?

Answer the question 5 according to the text below.

Aziz Sancar was born in Savur, Mardin in 1946. He is a renowned Turkish academician, biochemist, molecular biologist and scientist. He is doing some researches on cancer, too. His specialty is DNA repair, checkpoints and circadian clock. He is the first Turkish scientist who is selected to National Center for Science Education in the USA. Thanks to his researches of DNA repair, he got the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015. Now, he is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation to promote Turkish culture and to support Turkish students in the United States.

5) Why did Aziz Sancar get the Nobel Prize?

A) Because he has some special studies on DNA repair.

B) Because he is studying on cancer cells nowadays.

C) Because he is the first Turkish scientist who promotes Turkish culture in the USA.

D) Because he is the co-founder of the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation to support Turkish students abroad.

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Answer the question 6 according to the text below.

(I) İlayda Şamilgil was a 12th grade student when she got a prize with her project. (II) She graduated from a private high-school in İstanbul. (III) The name of the prize is “The first step to Nobel Prize in Pysics.” (IV) Her project outdistanced five thousand projects from seventy countries. (V) As a result of her success, she got an invitation from NASA for Mars project.

6) Read the text and find the odd sentence.

A) II

B) III

C) IV

D) V

Answer the question 7 according to the text below.

Felix Hofman, a 29-year-old chemist invented the drug aspirin in March 1899. He gave the first aspirin to his dad for his arthritis. By 1950, it was the best-selling painkiller in the world, and in 1969, the Apollo astronauts took it to the moon. The Spanish philosopher, José Ortega y Gasset, called the 20th century “The Age of Aspirin”. 7) According to the text, which of the following is NOT correct?

A) Felix Hoffman discovered the best-selling painkiller in the world. B) He gave the first aspirin to one of his family members for an illness. C) José Ortega y Gasset thought the drug aspirin was harmful for people. D) Astronauts took aspirin to the space fifty years ago.

Answer the question 8 according to the text below.

Prof. Dr. Oktay Sinanoğlu was born in 1935 in Italy where his father was a consular official. He became the youngest professor in the world when he was at the age of 28. He was internationally known as “The Turkish Einstein”. He developed a theory of the electronic structure of molecules. He had some studies on Turkish language, too. He was a scientist, a chemist, a molecular, a biophysicist and a biochemist. He died in 2015 in the USA.

8) What is he called all around the world?

A) He had some studies on Turkish language. B) He became the youngest professor in the world. C) He developed a theory of the electronic structure of molecules. D) He is internationally known as “The Turkish Einstein”.

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Answer the question 9 according to the text below.

Scientific achievements of the past century changed the world. For example, Archimedes invented the water screw. Researchers found some new fossils, and now they are working on them in the labs. Newton discovered the gravity of the matter and now scientists are exploring the solar gravity.

9) Which picture shows one of the achievements in the text?

A) B) C) D)

Answer the question 10 according to the text below.

“I, Robot” is a 2004 American science fiction and action film

directed by Alex Proyas. In the year 2035, robots are important

part of human life. Robots serve for humanity and help people for

good. They obey the rules and they never break the rules. People

count on robots, but the main character Detective Del Spooner

doesn’t rely on a robot who calls himself Sonny. Spooner thinks

that Sonny killed the inventor of the robots, Alfred Lanning. But

nobody believes in the detective. So, Spooner must discover

the truth before it’s too late.

10) According to the text, which of the following is CORRECT?

A) Detective Del Spooner depends on all the robots.

B) Alfred Lanning invented Sonny and the other robots.

C) The movie is about robots and humans in the 20th century.

D) Alex Proyas is the main character of the movie.

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YILMAZ TOT

English Language Teacher