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66. Which statement is true about famine?
65. - 67. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre
cevaplayınız. A) It occurs when people cannot get the required
food
Famine occurs when the food supply breaks
down. Widespread, long-term starvation leads B) It rarely leads to starvation
to physical weakness, disease and death. In the C) It often hits the hot and dry regions of Africa
modern world, it tends to occur in areas of poor
land, where farmers are barely managing to D) It occurs despite the availability of food
produce enough food for everyone even in good E) It is only the result of poor governments
years. One or two poor harvests, drought and a
rising population can cause a crisis, leading to
widespread hunger. This is often made worse by
poor governments, which fail to take appropriate
action. International aid organisations try to help
by shipping in food from abroad.

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65. The main idea of the passage is to ----. 67. As it is stated in the passage, one of the
A) give information about the rising population of reasons leading to hunger is that ----.
poor lands A) farmers often hire professional teams of
B) explain the threat of hunger in areas of poor harvesters
land B) there is hardly any drought
C) show the readers the death of children is due C) farmers are trying to produce enough food
to starvation D) the number of people is rising
D) make the readers see the lack of good
governments E) governments are taking appropriate action
E) show the efforts of international aid
organizations

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