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MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BASIC ENGLISH CONTENTS Foreword xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 MARY 1 2 HANAKO 1 3 LONGLEAT HOUSE 2 4 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 3 5 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 3 6 JIM 4 7 KATE 5 8 THE OLD ENGLAND RESTAURANT & THE STATUE OF LIBERTY 7 9 TOMIKO 8 10 TOMIKO, KING AND ...

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MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BASIC ENGLISH

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

Foreword xi Acknowledgements xiii MARY 1 HANAKO 1 2 LONGLEAT HOUSE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY 3 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 3 4 JIM KATE 5 THE OLD ENGLAND RESTAURANT & THE STATUE OF LIBERTY 7 TOMIKO 8 TOMIKO, KING AND TED 9 THE GARSTON FAMILY 10 11 CINEMAS 12 PLAZA SHOPPING CENTRE THE INTERNATIONAL HOTEL 13 JOB ADVERTISEMENTS 15 YOUNG LOVE 16 VARIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS 17 SAN FRANCISCO 18 LETTER FROM HALIMA AND AHMED 20 DEREK 22 ROLAND-EVI-DELLA •23 LETTER FROM PAM 24 JOAN 26 MAHATMA GANDHI 27 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 28 ALFRED HITCHCOCK 29 CHARLIE CHAPLIN 30 SUPER TANKER DISASTER 31 SELTON'S SECOND SHOPPING CENTRE 32 LEBRATS VISIT 33 THE BUZZ SURVEY 34 D.H. LAWRENCE 35 THE FUNNIEST FILM 35 V

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TOM'S DIARY ELVIS PRESLEY GOING TO BRITAIN TRANSPORTATION IN TURKEY AMY'S RESTAURANT SMALL CARS HOME SWEfeT HOME A MEETING LAURA LETTER FROM WENDY EDUCATION AT HOME (1) EDUCATION AT HOME (2) JOHN LENNON GUIDE TO GOOD EATING RADIO TIMES READER HOLIDAYS SEAFORD SCHOOL & BEDGEBURY SCHOOL LETTER FROM GEORGE NOTTINGHAM & BANGOR A LANGUAGE TEACHER'S PERSONAL OPINION THE WORLDS OF WALT DISNEY LETTER FROM FAMILY FRIENDS AGENCY LETTER FROM KATHY SINGLE FATHERS' CLUB PLANE CRASH IN PERU INVERNESS LACROSSE THE BARASANA THE MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY THE OSTRICH RUDYARD KIPLING VIDEO CLIPS DREAMS ORANGES THE POSTAGE STAMP VOLCANOES CONTAINERS LUMINOUS AND NON-LUMINOUS BODIES COAL vi

37 38 39 41 42 43 43 45 46 48 49 50 51 53 54 55 56 58 59 60 62 64 66 67 69 71 73 74 75 76 77 79 81 83 85 86 89 91

72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108

CARS OF THE FUTURE USING ELECTRICITY POLYMER BA'iTERIES FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES EFFECTS OF CIGARETTE SMOKING MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS ROLLER-SKATING TAKES OFF LEARNING ABOUT MARS PIRATES GEOTHERMAL ENERGY BALI LIFE IN SPACE NICE NOT EASY THE OLYMPIC MARATHON THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION MANCHESTER 'SEN' OR SİZ? VIVE LA DIFFERENCE! TORNADOES INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE AND SAFETY LEARNING ABOUT COMPUTERS SEAT BELTS JAMES DEAN SKYSCRAPERS TEMPERATE CLIMATES THE PEN POPULAR vs. QUALITY NEWSPAPERS ACID RAIN (1) ACID RAIN (2) THE KON-TIKI VOYAGE, 1947 U.S. CITIES: PAST AND PRESENT SPAS: GOOD OR BAD? ARTS OR SCIENCE? OUR FIRST WORDS YOUR DIET DANGER FOR THE FUN OF IT LOSING FERTILE LAND MONEY vii

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MONEY THEN AND NOW THE CASHLESS SOCIETY DAMS MOTHERHOOD IN A CHANGING WORLD: WOMEN IN GHANA ORDINARY ASPIRIN IS TRULY A WONDER DRUG SOLAR ENERGY DESALINATION METHODS RENEWABLE AND NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES BOOKWORMS WHAT A GOOD IDEA! A LOAD OF RUBBISH WORK AT HOME WOMAN PILOT SAVES GANGSTER FROM PRISON INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION AROUND THE WORLD IN A PAPER PLANE! FOOD RURAL MIGRATION OUTWARD BOUND A PLAIN MAN'S GUIDE TO INVESTMENT THE SAMARITANS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS? THE ELEPHANTS' GRAVEYARD A NATION OF PET-LOVERS BUSINESS GOES GREEN! A GREENER WORLD A 90-DAY STRETCH GLENN CURTIS FLYING GRANDMOTHER PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS VEGETARIANISM THE OZONE LAYER A HOLIDAY BROCHURE THE CONSUMER SOCIETY THE ELIZABETHAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL viii

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ONE WOMAN'S RACE ACROSS ALASKA PHOBIAS THE HAUNTED HOUSE WHITE LIES THE DIRTY OLD MAN OF EUROPE FOOD ADDITIVES HOLIDAYS BODY LANGUAGE COMPUTERS IN THE MODERN WORLD THE COMPUTER A NATIONAL DISEASE GETTING THE U.S. TO GO METRIC THE CASH MACHINE FAIR PLAY FOR WOMEN'S FOOTBALL WHAT IS NEWS? TV OR NOT TV; THAT'S THE PROBLEM THE EARTH'S SPREADING DESERTS MR. JONES FIRST TO SKI CROSS CONTINENT INFLATION HOME-SCHOOLING EXPLORERS OF AMERICA A ROSE-RED CITY A SURVEY ON EDUCATION THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE

FOR THE BLIND 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179

HOW TO SEE' A CITY STUNTPEOPLE COMPUTER EDUCATION RUNNING AWAY FROM TROUBLES FRIENDSHIP AMERICAN CITIES CULTURE SHOCK! COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE FREE TRADE TWO STRANGERS ON A TRAIN VILLAGE VOICE WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE? ix

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WHO'S CRAZY? BRITISH UNIVERSITIES LESS EQUALITY IN EDUCATION, MORE QUALITY WELCOME TO PRESTEL WHERE ARE WE GOING? ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE WEATHER? AUTOMATION AUTOMATION IS CREATING CONFLICT AMONG WORKERS ASH FROM A VOLCANO: IT MAY REMAIN ALOFT ADVERTISING ARE YOU REALLY A NON-SMOKER? SCHOOL INSPECTORS PAIN TYPHOONS WHAT DOES THE CHIP MEAN TO YOU? THE OCEAN FLOOR MOTORWAYS CONSUMER PRESSURE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF MATTER: EVERYTHING MUST GO SOMEWHERE THE PALEOLITHIC AGE TRENDS NUCLEAR POWER - A SAFE SOLUTION? HOW TO STOP COMPUTER ABUSE THE MIND AND THE BODY

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INDEX OF TITLES

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FOREWORD This book is a collection of the reading sections of the exam papers prepared in the Department of Basic English in the last ten years. It is intended to provide students with supplementary material for EFL reading practice and exam preparation as it is believed that the reading material in the main textbooks is not always sufficient for this purpose. In their English-medium academic mainstream, reading will be of utmost importance for our students; therefore, we believe that they should be encouraged to read as much as possible outside class and we hope that this book will equip both the students and the teachers with enough means to emphasize reading comprehension and vocabulary development. The material in this book has been graded according to text difficulty and the level of the exercises so that it will serve the needs of our students - from the beginner level to intermediate - in the first semester. There are 204 passages in the book, which will enable each student to read extensively at his own level and to move on to the more advanced texts for challenge. In selecting the passages, an attempt has been made to include a variety of topics and text types so as to promote reading for pleasure as well. Finally, the material has been edited to maintain a reasonable level of consistency in the exercise types throughout the book. Although it is prepared with the students of the Department of Basic English in mind, we believe that this book will help any enthusiastic student of English as a foreign language. If the book proves to be beneficial, we will consider ourselves useful. Bülent KANDİLLER Aysun VELÎOĞLU Ankara, 1995

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The greatest contribution to the compilation of this book has of course come from our testers. We owe many thanks to: Gülsima BAYKAL Hale BİNAY Fügen GÜLSEN Demet KOKSAL Sibel TÜZEL KÖYMEN Asuman SAYINER Zuhal SAYMAN Gaye TOLUNGÜÇ Serap YÜCEL We must express our gratitude to Şebnem Avcıoğlu, Naz Dino and Afife Tünay, who prepared Reading Comprehension, which has certainly been a bestseller over the years, for 29 of the passages in this book. We hope that we will be forgiven for not having been able to mention here the names of all the testers who produced the original forms of the material in Reading Comprehension, to whom we are especially grateful. The successful completion of the book owes much to the support of many of our colleagues. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Hale BİNAY, Demet KOKSAL, Gülsima BAYKAL, Serper TÜMER, Erday BÎLSOY, Anita AKKAŞ, Tahir ONUR and, especially, Ayfer TOPPARE, for their invaluable cooperation in the proofreading of this material. We would also like to thank Ayşen YILMAZER, Ayşen KARABAĞ, Pınar ŞAKMAN and Ardan YARDIM for putting in time and effort to help us revise this book. Our thanks are extended to Abdullah CAN of the METU Printing Office for preparing the cover of the book. Finally, we thank Naz DÎNO, Head of the Department of Basic English, who helped and encouraged us throughout the project. B.K., A.V.

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3 LONGLEAT HOUSE

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Longleat House is 140 kilometres west of London, between the cities of Salisbury and Bath. The house is the home of Lord Bath. & is about 400 years old. Visitors can walk through and look at the beautiful rooms and they can see the antique furniture in the rooms. There is also a Safari Park at Longleat House. Visitors can drive through the park and see many animals there. Longleat House is open every day from 10 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock in the evening. The Safari Park is open only in the summer.

1. Where is Longleat House?

2. Who owns the house?

3. What can visitors see inside the house?

4. What can visitors do in Safari Park?

5. When is Longleat House open?

6. When is the Safari Park open?

7. Line 2, "If means _ 8. Line 4, 'they' means

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4 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York University is in Greenwich Village. Students can get almost everything they need near the university campus. There is a post office on 9 th Street. There is a bank on 5*h Avenue, and there are two on 8^h Street. The restaurants and coffee shops in Greenwhich Village are very popular. 1. Where is New York University? 2. What 's there on 9th Street? 3. How many banks are there near the university?

5 UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The University of London is in Bloomsbury. It was founded in 1836. There are many other famous buildings in Bloomsbury. The British Museum, which is near the university, is one of these buildings. There are also many restaurants and coffee shops, where you can buy things to eat. The restaurants are not always very cheap, but the coffee shops are excellent for the price. 1. Where is the University of London? 2. Which building is near the university? 3. Where can you eat in Bloomsbury?

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JIM Jim Chapman, a famous cameraman, is the new assistant director of Video Sound, a large film company. It has fifty-two offices all over the world. Mr. Chapman is the first American to work at the company's Paris office in its thirty-year history. Mr. Chapman is not married. He's got a sister - Mary. She lives with her friend Paul in London. She goes to the Faculty of Arts at the University of London. There are also the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Medicine and Music there.

1. What is Video Sound?

2. In which city does Mr. Chapman work?

3. Who does Mary live with?

4. What does Mary do?

5. How many faculties are there in the university?

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7 KATE My name is Catherine, but I'm called 'Kate' by my friends. I live near Leeds, in the north-east of England. I'm a dental nurse. I work for a young Australian dentist. He's very nice and he's a very good dentist, but I don't like my job very much. My sister is called Bianca. She's married with two children, a girl and a boy, and lives in a house near London, in a town called Enfield. She's a teacher. She teaches in a big school in the north of London. She likes her job very much. My brother's name is George. He doesn't have a job. He's unemployed.

1. What is Catherine called by her friends?

2. Where does she live?

3. Does she live with her sister?

4. What does she do?

5. Does she like her job?

6. Where is the dentist from?

7. Does Catherine like him?

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8. What is her sister's name?

9. Is she married?

10. What does she do?

11. Where does she work?

12. Does she like her job?

13. Does she live in London?

14. Does she live in a flat or a house?

15. What does Catherine's brother do?

16. What's his name?

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8 THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

THE OLD ENGLAND RESTAURANT Nailsca, near Bristol

Tel: 148952

Come lo ihc Old England Restaurant in Nailsca for lunch and dinner! Enjoy our excellent international food from China, India, and Italy. We have wonderful steaks, fish and chicken. Sit in our lovely garden and try our Italian spaghetti and tomato soup. Our restaurant is clean. Our meals arc fantastic. They arc never cold and always delicious. Come and have a good lime with your friends at our nightclub. Listen to music and dance from 11 pm to 3 am. We serve interesting drinks from different countries. Do you want lo book a table? Phone NOW! We are very busy at lunch-times! Remember - The Old England Restaurant is the restaurant for all occasions: birthdays, business lunches and evening meals, all at reasonable prices. Open for lunch: 12:00 - 2:00 pm. Open for dinner: from 6:30 until midnight.

Many tourists visit this famous statue* every year. It was a present from the French to the Americans. The statue is on Liberty Island. There are ferryboats from Battery Park to Liberty Island. The trip to the Statue of Liberty takes 15 minutes. Tickets for the boat trip are $6 for adults, $3 for children 3-7 years old and free for children under 3 years old. Boats leave Battery Park seven days a week, every half hour from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. The statue is open until 5 pm. The last boat returns at 5:00 pm. 'statue: heykel

A. Mark the statements as True (T) or False (F). 1. You can get to the Statue of Liberty by car. 2. You can visit the statue every day. 3. The Statue of Liberty closes at 3:30 in the afternoon. 4. There is a garden at the Old England Restaurant. 5. Many people have lunch at the Old England Restaurant. B. 1. Why ar* the meals at the Old England Restaurant fantastic?

2. What can you do at the nightclub? (Write two things.)

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8. Does Tomiko have a lot of friends in London? 9. Where does her boyfriend work? 10. Why is Ted afraid to go to Tomiko's apartment?

11 THE ĞARSTON FAMILY

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Mr. and Mrs. Garston live in a small village near London. They've got two dogs. Their names are Bruce and Spot. The dogs eat meat, biscuits and special dog food. Mr. Garston buys their food in London because the shops in their village don't sell dog food. The Garstons have got neighbours, too, but they don't like Bruce and Spot because they've got a cat. The postman doesn't like the dogs, either. Mr. Garston goes to London every day because he works there. He comes home at six. The dogs always wait for him. They stand near the door and bark. They are happy because they go for a long walk in the evening with Mr. Garston.

1. Do Mr. and Mrs. Garston live in London? 2. What do the dogs eat? 3. Why does Mr. Garston buy dog food in London? 4.Why don't the neighbours like the dogs? 5.When does Mr. Garston come home every day? 6.Why do the dogs always wait for Mr. Garston? 7. Line 5, 'they' refers to 8. Line 7, 'there 'refers to 9. Line 9, 'They' refers to

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12 Cinema 1

Cinema 2 - Tomorrow!

Another provocative and striking film by the most applauded film maker in the world! Claude Lclouch. 3.00 5.00 7.00 9.00

A Bcrtrand Blicr film:

LONG LIVE LIFE

Minimum age: 14 years

Minimum age: 14 years Starring Charlotte Rampling Michel Piccoli

2.00 4.00 6.00 8.00 10.00 Starring

SEPARATE ROOMS

Alain Delon Nathalie Baye

Today: a great critical and public success at Cinema West

Today at Cinema Rkün Sissy Spacek in

THE COLOR PURPLE

MRRIE

A moving romance by Alice Walker Pulitzer prizewinner It's about life.

R true story directed by Roger Donaldson 3.00 5.10 7.20 9.30 Minimum age : 14 years

3.45 6.30 9.15

1. You are going to the cinema with your 12-year-old brother. Which films can you see?

2. How many times can you see Marie in one day?

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13 PLAZA SHOPPING CENTRE A SHOPPING EXPERIENCE WITHOUT EQUAL To begin with, think of the location. What other shopping centre can equal it? Plaza Shopping is in the centre of Harlow, next to the South Coach station. Easy to reach by bus, train or car. It's on your daily route. Free parking. 3 floors with 35,000 square metres of space. Space for 12,000 cars. To make access even easier, there are two independent ramps for entrances and exits. Plaza Shopping exists to make life easier. There is no need to go into London for shopping any longer. Opening hours are 10 am to 10 pm, Monday to Saturday. The PICNIC department is open on Sundays, too and so is the car park. Come to Plaza Shopping. You will find everything you want. Come and see!

Mark the statements as True (T) or False (F). 1. The Plaza Shopping Centre is in London. 2. You can go to the Plaza Shopping Centre by car only. 3. The Plaza Shopping Centre has a big car park. 4. You can shop at the Plaza Shopping Centre 24 hours a day. 5. The Picnic department is open seven days a week.

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CONFERENCE EXCHANGE BUREAU ROOMB

First Floor

MANAGER'S OFFICE

CONFERENCE ROOM A

SWIMMING POOL

GIFT SHOP

BOUTIQUE

Ground Floor

INTERNATIONAL FRESTAURANT

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MEN'S CHANGING ROOM

CAR PARK

WOMEN'S CHANGING ROOM

THE

HAIR SALON

FLOWER SHOP

RECEPTION DESK

MAIN ENTRANCE

Basement

OFFICES

SAUNA

COFFEE SHOP

INTERNATIONAL BAR

Second Floor

KITCHEN

INTERNATIONAL HOTEL At your service. . .

Boutique. High quality clothes for men and women. Car Park. Park your car in safety, in the hotel car park.

Exchange Bureau. You can change your foreign currency and traveller's cheques in this hotel. Closed on Sunday.

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Coffee Shop. Snacks or meals from 8 am to midnight every day. Flower Shop. Flowers delivered. Open 9 am - 5.30 pm. Closed on Sunday. Gift Shop. Gift items, newspapers, magazines, books, pens, stamps. Max's Halrdressing and Beauty Salon. Have your hair done by Max. Open to men and women.

The International Bar Open 11 am -1 am. The International Restaurant Open 7 - 1 1 am for breakfast. 12.30 pm - 2.30 pm for lunch. 6.30 pm - 10.30 pm for dinner. Sauna. Free to residents. Swimming pool. Open 7 am - 9 pm.

We hope you enjoy your stay. 1. How many days a week is the Exchange Bureau open?

2. What is there opposite the Coffee Shop?

3. Where does Max work in the hotel?

4. What time does the dinner service start?

5. You want to buy a stamp. Which floor do you go to?

6. It is 3 pm and you are very hungry. Where can you eat in the hotel?

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