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KPDS KELİME SORULARI 1992-2007

KPDS KELİME SORULARI 1992-2007


1992 MAYIS KPDS 1992 KASIM KPDS

1- As regards the proposals for the treaty on 7- At the meeting, even though he spoke
economic co-operation, my government well, he was unable to ---- the other
has certain ---- concerning them. members.

A) complications A) compete
B) reservations B) persuade
C) disturbances C) reinterpret
D) restrictions D) agree
E) reductions E) dispute

2- Surely no one on the Council would dare 8- It was felt that the EC had ---- on a
to dispute the ---- of his dismissal. program of economic change that the
member states could not sustain.
A) recurrence
B) promotion A) surpassed
C) legitimacy B) relieved
D) adoption C) embarked
E) inference D) specified
E) retired
3- The accounting of the proceedings given
by their legal adviser was perfectly ---- but 9- One major aim of the new constitution is
not at all complimentary. to prevent the ---- of power by any
majority.
A) restrictive
B) compulsive A) misuse
C) innocent B) compromise
D) sensitive C) completion
E) accurate D) issue
E) existence
4- He was absolutely ---- in his refusal to
allow any more workers to be made 10- When they called Bronson to head office
redundant. I’m quite sure it was not their ---- to
promote him to branch manager.
A) determined
B) decadent A) avidity
C) disturbed B) impression
D) shy C) prediction
E) diffident D) disposition
E) intention
5- If he feels he’s being criticised he’ll
sometimes make ---- dogmatic 11- To be a leader it is not enough to be hard
statements. working and knowledgeable; one must
also be able to inspire ---- .
A) suggestively
B) functionally A) denial
C) seldom B) restraint
D) incredibly C) discretion
E) safely D) confidence
E) reservation
6- So long as they continue to ---- the
resolutions of the Security Council, they 12- People who are constantly in the public
will face growing international pressure. eye must learn to remain ---- in the face of
criticism.
A) provide
B) admit A) composed
C) defy B) resultant
D) undertake C) appreciated
E) describe D) outrageous
E) restored

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13- As the conditions of the expedition are 19- The insurance company immediately sent
likely to be severe, you had better take a team of specialists to ---- the damage
necessary ---- caused by the floods.

A) trials A) undermine
B) precautions B) assess
C) efforts C) undertake
D) objections D) anticipate
E) attempts E) safeguard

14- He has behaved ---- on many occasions, 20- The surgeon was ---- embarrassed to learn
so this instance of impoliteness is hardly that a piece of bandage had been left
surprising. inside the abdomen.

A) shyly A) outstandingly
B) endearingly B) nervously
C) sensitively C) sensitively
D) readily D) loosely
E) inconsiderately E) extremely

1993 MAYIS KPDS 21- The Chief of the Intelligence Service told
me ---- that there would soon be several
15- The ---- concerning total disarmament important changes made in the
have broken down without leading any organisation.
fruitful results.
A) crucially
A) intentions B) skilfully
B) complaints C) confidentially
C) negotiations D) laterally
D) commitments E) considerably
E) involvements
22- The special committee has been called to
16- He’s nearly 80 years old but still works for discuss in detail the ---- in higher
a couple of firms in an ---- capacity. education.

A) inessential A) retention
B) irrelevant B) references
C) elective C) apologies
D) advisory D) reliance
E) injudicious E) innovations

17- It is only too obvious that the majority of 23- The executive committee was of the
children in the developing countries aren’t opinion that the motion must be passed
receiving ---- nourishment. ---- .

A) adequate A) in truth
B) consistent B) at all costs
C) successive C) by heart
D) collective D) in connection
E) respectable E) at all

18- The judge warned the prosecutor that he 1993 KASIM KPDS
must ---- from ridiculing the accused.
24- The topics included in the conference
A) refrain programme are not as ---- as one might
B) prevent have hoped.
C) derive
D) conclude A) obsessed
E) withdraw B) illuminated
C) preoccupied
D) varied
E) disposed

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25- At the opening of the new production of 31- Unfortunately, few children behave in
Aida, the guest soprano gave a superb, a such a ---- manner towards the old and
truly ---- performance. infirm.

A) dazzling A) ridiculous
B) declining B) considerate
C) disappointing C) restricted
D) recalling D) fragile
E) degrading E) progressive

26- Diplomatic relations between the two 32- The development of the experimental
countries, which were ---- during the war, method to verify the theories had the ----
have not yet been restored. effect and there was a rapid increase in
scientific knowledge.
A) defeated
B) established A) adverse
C) severed B) reluctant
D) determined C) appropriate
E) featured D) erroneous
E) partial
27- If the situation in Somalia improves, a
significant part of the allied forces will be 33- We will have to hire more workers soon;
----. we can’t put it off ---- .

A) enclosed A) plainly
B) withdrawn B) supremely
C) encouraged C) emphatically
D) recruited D) intensely
E) sustained E) indefinitely

28- They raised no ---- to his prolonged leave 34- A well organised company that knows its
of absence since they didn’t want to lose products are of a high standard does not
him altogether. fear ---- .

A) refutation A) conversion
B) refusal B) concentration
C) objection C) competition
D) refund D) departure
E) compulsion E) pretension

29- The criticism he made concerning the 35- When births outnumber deaths, the
annual fiscal report was ---- to the point. population increases; when the ---- is true,
then it falls.
A) remarkably
B) immediately A) opposite
C) incessantly B) growth
D) preferably C) proportion
E) incompetently D) rate
E) decreases
1994 KASIM KPDS
36- In the past, too, people relied on plant
30- They have had to agree to provide free substances to ---- a wide range of
lunches, but obviously they have had illnesses.
done so ---- .
A) recover
A) faultlessly B) cure
B) precisely C) infect
C) exceedingly D) undermine
D) reluctantly E) restrain
E) extraordinarily

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37- Industry is slowly realising that the 43- I don’t approve of the methods he is
manner in which waste products are using, but his ---- aim, as regards the
being ---- of is of vital importance to the project, is admirable.
environment.
A) conclusive
A) forwarded B) ultimate
B) exposed C) controversial
C) composed D) convenient
D) disposed E) deplorable
E) restored
44- I have looked through the report, but I
1995 MAYIS KPDS must admit, only ---- .

38- On the third day of the shipwreck, they A) carefully


gave up all hope of finding any ---- . B) thoroughly
C) superficially
A) deserters D) seriously
B) survivors E) experimentally
C) conclusions
D) suppliers 45- The allocation made by the budget
E) discrepancies committee can be used ---- to finance
work on child health.
39- Since the firm has been found negligent
by the court, his claim for ---- for the A) plainly
accident hasn’t been accepted. B) excessively
C) extremely
A) compensation D) remarkably
B) reduction E) solely
C) employment
D) relevance 1995 KASIM KPDS
E) cooperation
46- Many of the critics clearly regarded
40- As he has adamantly withstood all kinds several of the paintings on ---- as of poor
of political pressure on this issue for so quality.
long, it is unlikely that he would ---- at this
stage. A) discovery
B) display
A) reinforce C) occasion
B) relent D) approval
C) pursue E) account
D) compete
E) dispose 47- The report issued by the National Health
Council draws attention to the hazards of
41- The British entry into the European ---- to X rays.
Community has ---- a new line of policy.
A) resistance
A) negotiated B) involvement
B) confined C) confinement
C) resented D) exposure
D) constituted E) implication
E) refunded
48- He’s clever, and he seems to know by
42- The argument he has put forward is instinct where someone is ---- and strikes
hardly ---- with the information we have so there.
far received on the case.
A) conceited
A) reflective B) sufficient
B) representative C) vulnerable
C) arbitrary D) informative
D) resistant E) critical
E) compatible

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49- It was decided at the board meeting that 54- It now appears that while US leaders are
more funds should be allocated to getting still willing for the nation to exert itself
the firm’s products ---- more widely. abroad and give large amounts of foreign
assistance, the American public is ---- to
A) publicized go along with these policies.
B) priced
C) curtailed A) spontaneous
D) expanded B) precarious
E) confirmed C) competitive
D) reluctant
50- There’s nothing very brilliant about the E) deliberate
report, but he has ---- collected all the data
needed. 55- It is ---- surprising that the art of ancient
America remains the most mysterious and
A) infectiously the least accessible.
B) recklessly
C) considerably A) urgently
D) restrictively B) notably
E) conscientiously C) indifferently
D) elaborately
51- What really surprised everybody was that E) hardly
he saved the company from bankruptcy
quite ---- . 56- Bartok was influenced as much by the
musical innovations of Debuasy and
A) extremely Starvinsky as by East European, ----
B) relatively Hungarian, folk music.
C) dependently
D) single-handedly A) exceedingly
E) responsively B) notably
C) appropriately
1996 MAYIS KPDS D) vehemently
E) adequately
52- Among the problems facing bridge
engineers, the most serious ones are 1996 KASIM KPDS
those of ---- and repair.
57- The rise in energy ---- has led to a reduction
A) improvement of fossil fuels that the world must use.
B) reassessment
C) determination A) redundancy
D) distinction B) efficiency
E) maintenance C) consumption
D) suitability
53- The two major political parties in Britain E) conformity
have currently ---- to extreme and radically
different approaches to the solution of 58- We must find some way to give them fairly
Britain’s economic problems. complete and realistic picture of the
situation, but without ---- them too much.
A) referred
B) obsessed A) depressing
C) committed B) intimidating
D) implied C) restricting
E) meant D) complementing
E) embittering

59- Any child left to its own devices for too


long is likely to ---- on some dangerous
enterprise.

A) assert
B) entice
C) embark
D) reproach
E) reduce

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60- One defect seems inherent in a purely 66- He devised an ---- scheme whereby the
classical education – namely, a too ---- rate of unemployment in the country
emphasis on the past. could be brought down sharply.

A) recurrent A) irrelevant
B) repressive B) unstable
C) coherent C) ingenious
D) exclusive D) untamed
E) deceptive E) illegible

61- Industry as a whole was badly affected by 67- I was greatly impressed by the way the
the restrictions, but it was the high judge conducted the trial, ---- when it
technology sector that suffered most ---- . came to summing up the case.

A) blatantly A) particularly
B) randomly B) completely
C) reasonably C) sufficiently
D) tightly D) effectively
E) acutely E) respectively

1997 MAYIS KPDS 1997 KASIM KPDS

62- As a result of continuing economic 68- The ---- was not a happy one at the time,
recession, a huge ---- in the budget seems but looking back on it, I suppose I’m glad
inevitable. it occurred.

A) redundancy A) improvement
B) improvement B) regression
C) profit C) encounter
D) distinction D) intention
E) deficit E) compromise

63- The recent economic figures ---- that the 69- Locke, Hobbes and Rousseau were
country is slowly coming out of the crisis. concerned in their writings with the
question of a proper ---- between the
A) commit public good and the right of individuals to
B) imply exercise free will.
C) incur
D) evolve A) balance
E) invoke B) demonstration
C) responsibility
64- When the rate of exchange began to rise D) interest
again, he felt ---- to call a meeting of the E) solidarity
financial staff.
70- Questions of race, ethnicity, and religion
A) obliged have been a ---- source of conflict in
B) blamed American education.
C) consumed
D) omitted A) previous
E) rewarded B) perennial
C) vulnerable
65- As far as we are concerned, the evidence D) naughty
put before the court was not ---- enough to E) casual
convict the man.
71- The United States has long prided itself
A) subsequent on being a melting pot of culturally ----
B) conclusive peoples.
C) adamant
D) earnest A) diverse
E) consecutive B) redundant
C) incoherent
D) entire
E) substantial

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72- The contemporary world economy differs 77- When an unknown but gifted artist is
---- from what the traditional economic finally recognised, his paintings can
theorists of the 1930s envisaged. become valuable ---- in the future.

A) primarily A) rates
B) likely B) accounts
C) conversely C) sales
D) profoundly D) interests
E) intimately E) assets

73- In recent years ---- complex and persistent 78- It is ---- ten years since AIDS caught the
problems in economic and social fields world’s attention.
have led people to wonder why once
comfortable answers no longer seem A) formidably
adequate to today’s questions. B) generously
C) pertinently
A) generously D) roughly
B) inadvertently E) inevitably
C) increasingly
D) ingeniously 79- The new ceramics, which have little in
E) leisurely common with the chinaware we use in our
kitchens everyday, are being used ---- in
74- Since the 1950s, modern dance in Europe engines and electronics.
and America has ---- a vigorous process
of creativity. A) depressingly
B) seemingly
A) cast C) increasingly
B) explored D) discouragingly
C) constituted E) obligingly
D) relaxed
E) followed 80- I am horrified at the turn things have
taken and am convinced that he is ---- of
75- The assassination by terrorists of Signor much better treatment than that which he
Aldo Moro, five times Prime Minister of is receiving.
Italy, in May 1978 was ---- by everyone as
an act of barbarism. A) rebutting
B) deserving
A) applauded C) defending
B) appealed D) safeguarding
C) reiterated E) indulging
D) condemned
E) restrained 81- Progress in materials research is ---- to
overcoming such problems as the
1998 MAYIS KPDS finiteness of the world’s resources and
possible shortages of strategic materials.
76- If we are serious about suppressing
terrorism we shall have to ---- stronger A) crucial
measures than those currently in practice. B) inexpensive
C) adamant
A) require D) subversive
B) revise E) subsequent
C) adopt
D) abduct 1998 KASIM KPDS
E) suspend
82- Asthma is a common ---- in which the
airways lining the lung become inflamed.

A) diagnosis
B) disease
C) fury
D) patient
E) recovery

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83- From the report released today, it appears 89- Nearly half of the world’s countries have
that oil tankers suffer their major ---- on ---- capital punishment in law or in
their return journeys. practice, and some two dozen of them
have done so formally since 1985.
A) spills
B) costs A) accused
C) repairs B) abolished
D) drills C) executed
E) crews D) entailed
E) frustrated
84- People curious to get some idea of what it
is like to be black in a country ---- by 90- The objective of this project is to increase
whites need look no further than Dennis the depth of awareness and
Williams’s new novel Crossover. understanding in the world, about the
causes and consequences of the HIV
A) tempted epidemic through ---- policies and
B) undermined programmes.
C) perpetrated
D) run A) innovative
E) deemed B) decadent
C) meagre
85- It is plain that the United Nations will not D) ambiguous
lift the sanctions unless the Iraqi E) poignant
government fully ---- with the Security
Council resolutions. 1999 KASIM KPDS

A) matches 91- The 1990s have been a general ---- in aid


B) elaborates to poor countries, largely because of
C) complies fiscal pressures in many rich countries.
D) resumes
E) accomplishes A) consumption
B) decline
86- When the chairman tried to explain his C) contingency
views to the shareholders at the ---- D) conviction
general meeting, he was shouted down by E) expenditure
them with cries of “Resign!”.
92- The whole business of having meals at
A) annual fixed ---- is nothing but a social
B) minimal convention and, in modern life, a matter of
C) essential convenience.
D) ultimate
E) recurrent A) approaches
B) substances
87- Because of their high toxic contents, none C) intervals
of these chemicals can ---- be permitted D) requirements
for export to any country. E) proportions
A) fruitfully 93- Space research is largely a branch of pure
B) adequately science, independent of any applications
C) presently which ---- from it.
D) notoriously
E) equivocally A) enforce
B) insure
88- Physically speaking, the Pacific Basin C) reduce
includes not only all those countries D) restore
bordering on the Pacific coast but also E) stem
the Pacific island nations ---- across the
ocean.

A) adopted
B) based
C) grafted
D) scattered
E) expanded

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94- The current social security system is ---- 99- Anti-lock brakes (ABS) help you to
popular, partly because its universal and maintain steering control of your car even
partly because retirement benefits are while braking on ---- roads.
related to contributions, so most people
think the system is fair. A) lonesome
B) fast
A) extremely C) reckless
B) likely D) slippery
C) eventually E) stagnant
D) indispensably
E) favourably 100- ---- populated, rural Northumberland is
one of the most unspoiled countries in
95- She is the oldest person in the village, to England.
be precise, 92 years old and has a ----
word of advice for everyone. A) Sparsely
B) Nearly
A) fanciful C) Primarily
B) faithful D) Suitably
C) credible E) Efficiently
D) futile
E) kindly 101- Today a very wide spectrum of biological
scientists are needed, both to develop the
1999 KASIM KPDS biotechnology of the next millennium and
to ensure the ---- of life in our planet.
96- Our challenge is to ---- our clients with the
best possible advice and support, A) explanation
enabling them to take the right direction B) process
at both strategic and operational levels. C) exhaustion
D) duration
A) expand E) conservation
B) consult
C) improve 2000 KASIM KPDS
D) provide
E) respect 102- If you want that post you'd better apply
quickly; the last day for ---- applications is
97- It is a book rich in ideas and beauty, a Friday.
book that ---- and tries to answer great
fundamental questions and demands the A) reversing
most active reading one is capable of. B) withholding
C) enforcing
A) raises D) submitting
B) attains E) committing
C) casts
D) alludes 103- In this paper, I would like to report some
E) accomplishes of the results of an ---- study of two
hundred London families.
2000 MAYIS KPDS
A) extreme
98- The river Danube rises in Germany and B) intrinsic
---- through central Europe and into the C) intensive
Black Sea. D) emphatic
E) apparent
A) cruises
B) spreads 104- Recent studies have shown that smokers
C) flows are more ---- to common colds and flu
D) conducts than non-smokers.
E) covers
A) feasible
B) susceptible
C) applicable
D) reliable
E) responsible

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105- For the present, the party is expected to 111- The distinction between a language and a
put its differences aside and campaign ---- dialect is a ---- difficult one.
for a victory at the forthcoming elections.
A) precisely
A) vigorously B) notoriously
B) awkwardly C) compulsively
C) precisely D) suitably
D) distinctly E) flexibly
E) reluctantly
112- Japan is often ---- as an example of a
106- Industry has developed rapidly in certain country that has managed to keep its
countries as raw materials are ---- national defence orientated industries
available there. entirely separate from foreign-owned
companies.
A) repeatedly
B) scarcely A) deduced
C) consequently B) delayed
D) abundantly C) deceived
E) indefinitely D) withdrawn
E) cited
107- I wasn't at all impressed by the ---- he
gave me. 113- The general feeling in the court was that
several of the witnesses were ----
A) distribution information that could have a direct
B) explanation bearing upon the case.
C) determination
D) complication A) expressing
E) negotiation B) withholding
C) avoiding
2002 MAYIS KPDS D) disrupting
E) declining
108- Now that formal ---- has been given by the
government, the project team can be 2002 KASIM KPDS
recruited.
114- Acid rain only became a ---- environmental
A) reference issue in the 1980s following
B) apprehension groundbreaking studies in the 1970s.
C) approval
D) expression A) previous
E) determination B) deceitful
C) reckless
109- Certain new findings suggest that young D) destructive
calves may be more ---- than older cows E) prominent
to bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE). 115- Using the dam to generate power would
not ---- the treaty with the neighboring
A) reluctant country, but diverting water out of the
B) hazardous river would.
C) intimate
D) susceptible A) intimidate
E) relative B) betray
C) violate
110- Champions of the green movement regard D) convert
the internal combustion machine as one E) fetch
of the biggest ---- in history.

A) disasters
B) rejections
C) admissions
D) denials
E) illusions

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116- The ---- that terrorists use to move money 121- The discovery of a ---- cancer-causing
from regions that finance them to their chemical in foods like crisps, chips and
target country are often identical to those cereals caused shock waves around the
used by criminal gangs. world when it hit the headlines earlier this
year.
A) regulations
B) methods A) potentially
C) provisions B) remarkably
D) laws C) concisely
E) admissions D) memorably
E) controversially
117- In the wake of yet another financial
scandal, the chief accountant handed in 122- Each year, large amounts of carbon
his ---- to the director. monoxide are ---- into the atmosphere by
automobiles and factories.
A) retirement
B) redundancy A) absorbed
C) promotion B) emitted
D) resignation C) exchanged
E) vacancy D) repulsed
E) compelled
118- The American constitution, with its
various constraints ---- to protect citizens, 2003 KASIM KPDS
can actually shield criminals.
123- A fresh look at the final months of the
A) discovered presidency of John F. Kennedy ---- that a
B) complained second Kennedy term might have
C) persuaded produced a rapprochement with Cuba.
D) designed
E) displayed A) promises
B) describes
2003 MAYIS KPDS C) inflicts
D) indicates
119- As the new field-worker will be working in E) involves
close ---- with several others, make sure
you select someone with an agreeable 124- Sometimes a seemingly modest business
personality. deal can change the whole ---- of an
industry.
A) uniformity
B) suspicion A) expansion
C) collaboration B) expression
D) discretion C) course
E) productivity D) relapse
E) vitality
120- Sponsorship is being increasingly
allowed in schools provided it is regarded 125- He admitted that he was resigning from
as being ---- with educational curricula. the post because he felt it did not make
sufficient call on the combative and ----
A) considerate elements of his nature.
B) predictable
C) decisive A) introverted
D) compatible B) self-assertive
E) provocative C) reserved
D) self-contained
E) submissive

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126- If he wants the contract, he must let us 131- In the past 30 years, our knowledge of the
know by Tuesday; we can't keep the offer ancient Maya civilization has increased ----
open ----. as a result of the decipherment of a newly
discovered script.
A) infinitely
B) decisively A) significantly
C) conclusively B) alternatively
D) reluctantly C) suspiciously
E) indefinitely D) persuasively
E) conditionally
127- Many African governments are ----
financial collapse and survive only on the 132- ---- providing luxury on every imaginable
strength of aid and donations from level, a five-star hotel should also have
international organizations. the ability to take you by surprise.

A) in line with A) With a view to


B) in the case of B) In excess of
C) in excess of C) Consequent on
D) on the verge of D) In need of
E) in place of E) In addition to

2004 MAYIS KPDS 133- Ancient Peruvian textiles have survived in


an excellent state of preservation ---- the
128- Their Prime Minister has been able to act dry conditions of much of the country.
more aggressively in the past year
because he has ---- his power within the A) with regard to
government. B) in comparison with
C) in case of
A) recommended D) owing to
B) reduced E) in opposition to
C) compelled
D) consolidated 2004 KASIM KPDS
E) impaired
134- These novels illustrate the author's ---- for
129- The auroras are caused by the ---- of solar the struggles of young people and the
winds with gases in the Earth's proper help that should be given.
atmosphere.
A) deceit
A) intersection B) obligation
B) completion C) alteration
C) interaction D) disturbance
D) perception E) concern
E) distraction
135- The quartet's rendering of Mozart is ----
130- It seems strange to us now that miners good, but l have mixed feelings about the
and others employed in dangerous work Schubert collection.
should not have demanded the provision
of ---- headgear. A) exceptionally
B) sensitively
A) forceful C) preferably
B) obstructive D) impulsively
C) relentless E) impartially
D) protective
E) intensive 136- The book is surprisingly lucid and
manages to make the controversial field
of evolutionary psychology ---- to the
average intelligent reader.

A) susceptible
B) conducive
C) available
D) indulgent
E) exclusive

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137- America's subsidies to its cotton farmers 2005 KASIM KPDS


have long been a noteworthy example of
the harm that rich countries' subsidies ---- 142- In an aircraft, the cabin lights are dimmed
on the poor. during take-off and landing to help
passengers to ---- themselves to darkness
A) enforce in the event of an emergency.
B) provide
C) exceed A) modify
D) inflict B) accustom
E) employ C) resume
D) associate
2005 MAYIS KPDS E) relate

138- Unless you use your computer ----, you 143- A fair proportion of the workforce now
can't expect it to function well. work from their homes, a ---- that has
been made possible by computers.
A) surely
B) particularly A) disturbance
C) recently B) destination
D) properly C) circumstance
E) soundly D) support
E) denial
139- It's worth remembering that his ---- of the
downward trends in output over recent 144- North Korea is ---- to abandon its nuclear
years is not the only one. programme without specific security
guarantees from America and promises of
A) interpretation lots of aid.
B) departure
C) compliance A) sincere
D) discretion B) nasty
E) intention C) boastful
D) unlikely
140- In the case of opera, the benefits of being E) provisional
able to experience the whole production
from the comfort of your armchair are 145- Pharmaceutical firms are wary of devoting
very ----. money to new antibiotics whose sales can
be ---- limited by the development of
A) subtle resistance in the target microbes.
B) demonstrative
C) deliberate A) accurately
D) excessive B) adequately
E) attractive C) severely
D) complacently
141- For the control of the deadly brain disease E) confidently
in cows (BSE), surveillance is being
stepped up in Canada, but the US claims 2006 MAYIS KPDS
to be testing enough cattle already to ----
the risk. 146- The laws concerning the breeding of
animals for research could turn out to be
A) assert to the ---- of medical research.
B) assess
C) consult A) admission
D) exceed B) detriment
E) discourage C) exclusion
D) preference
E) cohesion

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147- At present, interest rates are 152- Latin American countries on average
comparatively ----; let’s hope they remain export only about 10 per cent of their
that way. products to other Latin American
countries but ---- 20 per cent of them to
A) frequent the US.
B) uneasy
C) consecutive A) almost
D) comprehensive B) fairly
E) steady C) respectively
D) initially
148- In some parts of Western Europe, ---- in E) extensively
France, Denmark and Sweden,
cohabitation has become almost as 153- Until the sixteenth century, when the first
common as marriage. international postal agreement was ----,
there was no postal system as we know it
A) completely today.
B) deceptively
C) notably A) assigned
D) voluntarily B) maintained
E) relatively C) enacted
D) seized
149- What are some of the things that E) conducted
differentially affect siblings and help ----
their success or failure? 2007 MAYIS KPDS

A) pursue 154- Volcanoes are built by the ---- of their own


B) recognize eruptive products, which are lava, ash
C) recreate flows, airborne ash and dust.
D) determine
E) reinstate A) accumulation
B) destruction
2006 KASIM KPDS C) explosion
D) instability
150- A strong ---- exists between a country’s E) growth
wealth and the freedom afforded its
citizens. 155- China and India serve as models for
Africa because their experiences hold
A) coincidence lessons for developing countries on how
B) correlation to manage ---- economic and political
C) consideration transformation.
D) determination
E) interpretation A) deceitful
B) persuasive
151- Satellite television transmission now C) accessible
makes it ---- for us to watch events as they D) irregular
unfold in other countries. E) gradual

A) worldwide 156- In the largely closed economies of the


B) substantial Gulf, private as well as public funds have
C) aware ---- turned to real estate and equity
D) commonplace markets, fuelling a dangerous speculative
E) liable boom.

A) unlikely
B) nominally
C) rapidly
D) still
E) tightly

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157- Certain nations have ---- the use of


prenatal diagnostic techniques to select
the sex of an unborn child; but, bribery
and human ingenuity have made it easy
for prospective parents to by-pass the
statute.

A) removed
B) outlawed
C) explored
D) sustained
E) retained

2007 KASIM KPDS

158- Anthony Powell, the contemporary British


novelist, shows in his writing great
familiarity with the work of Proust while
avoiding much direct ---- to him.

A) interest
B) dependence
C) quotation
D) reference
E) obsession

159- Despite its small population and ----


remoteness, Australia occupies a
powerful position in global science in
general and life science in particular.

A) ultimate
B) sizeable
C) relative
D) extensive
E) recurrent

160- The Allied bombing campaign against


Germany in World War II exacted terrible
damage on the country’s factories,
transportation network, population, and
---- very limited fuel-production capacity.

A) already
B) solely
C) immediately
D) inadequately
E) rightly

161- Soccer’s many creative possibilities ---- in


part from its being played on such a large
field.

A) entail
B) consist
C) conclude
D) claim
E) derive

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