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113.Most deserts get less than 12 inches of rain
111 - 120. sorularda, boş bırakılan yere each year. The rains are not regular, and there
parçada anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için is no rain at all in some years. ---- Because the
getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz. ground is often hot, when it rains, some of the
rain turns into vapour and returns to the air
111.The Aral Sea has undergone terrible changes immediately.
during the last 50 years. Water levels have
dropped 14 meters and salinity has nearly A) Some of the rainwater is lost by evaporation.
tripled. ---- This has brought the fishing
industry, which at one time gave employment B) Countries with large deserts need to develop
to 60.000 people, to an end. and manage them.
C) Farmers can grow enough cotton to sell
A) Strong winds carry large amounts of salt because of hot weather.
inland, which is spoiling fields and pastures.
D) Deserts, however, usually do not have many
B) Salt stretches for 60 miles inland. plants that people can eat.
C) Now that its size is reduced, this sea no E) The temperature is lowered, and the amount
longer exerts a moderating influence on the of water in the air is increased.
climate.
D) New irrigation systems are being set up.
E) Even more serious is the fact that twenty
species of fish have been killed off.

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112.“Futurism” was an avant-garde movement 114.The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized test
founded in 1909 that celebrated the dynamism for college admissions in the United States.
of the modern world. It was chiefly an Italian The SAT is administered by the public College
movement and was mainly expressed Board in the United States and is developed,
in painting. ---- Therefore, futurism had published, and scored by the Educational
extensive influence outside Italy, particularly Testing Service. ---- The test has possible
in Russia. In Italy, the movement virtually died scores from “1600” to “2400” combining test
during World War I, but in Russia, it continued results from three 800-point sections – math,
to flourish into the 1920s. critical reading, and writing – along with other
subsections scored separately.
A) By the late 1930s Salvador Dali had
developed a more conventional style. A) In the early 2010s, a movement began among
small liberal arts colleges to make the SAT
B) For instance, Stravinsky’s music aroused a optional for admission to college.
great deal of controversy in the 1910s for its
rhythms and harmonies. B) The current “SAT Reasoning Test” is
administered in about 5 hours and costs
C) Picasso was one of the most inventive and $41.50.
prolific talents in 20th century art.
C) There are differences in funding, curricula,
D) However, it also embraced other arts, grading, and difficulty among U.S. secondary
including literature and music. schools.
E) On the other hand, the surrealists were D) In 2015, the test was changed again, largely
inspired by the thoughts and visions of the in response to criticism by the University of
subconscious mind. California system.

E) This was because universities wanted a firm
ground upon choosing incoming students.

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