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TERRORIST ATTACKS IN WASHINGTON
In a series of suicide attacks on the morning of September 11, 2001 the USA suffered the
most devastating loss of life and property in peacetime since the attack on the Pearl Harbour
naval base in 1941. Four passenger airliners were hijacked and two of those aircraft were
deliberately flown by the hijackers into the twin towers of the 110-storey World Trade Centre
in the financial district of New York city, resulting in huge explosions which ultimately led
to the complete collapse of the towers in less than two hours. A third hijacked passenger
aircraft struck the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defence, just outside
the capital, Washington DC, and a fourth hijacked aircraft, apparently heading for another
target in the Washington area, crashed in Pennsylvania.
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, in which initial estimates suggested some
6,500 people were killed in New York alone, US forces around the world were put on
maximum alert and all US airspace and land borders were closed. Fighter aircraft were
scrambled over the north-eastern area of the country with orders to shoot down airliners that
did not respond to instructions to divert or land, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
ceased trading. Senior government officials and members of Congress were rushed to
underground bunkers and President George W. Bush, who was in Sarasota, Florida, at the
time of the attacks, was prevented from returning to Washington DC by the secret service
until early evening due to fears that the White House or Air Force One (the President's official
aircraft) could be the target of a further attack.
Although no credible organisation had claimed responsibility for the attacks, their
sophisticated nature led to immediate speculation that they had been perpetrated by
individuals associated with al-Qaida (The Base), a network of fundamentalist Islamic
militants financed by Osama bin Laden, a Saudi-born Islamic militant based in Afghanistan.
The organisation was strongly suspected of having financed and organised previous terrorist
attacks against US interests including, most notably, the bombing of two US embassies in
east Africa in August 1998, the suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000, and
a previous bomb attack on the World Trade Centre in February 1993. Although the al-Qaida
network was considered by intelligence experts to be the most likely culprit, the involvement
of foreign intelligence services in the planning stages of the attack was not ruled out.
Following the attacks, the US government, supported principally by the UK, committed itself
to waging a war against terrorism. Accordingly, US and UK military forces were
dispatched to Central Asia in preparation for retaliatory action against al-Qaida and, in the
event that it was unwilling to surrender bin Laden to face US justice, against the government
of Afghanistan. By the end of the month, military action appeared imminent.
YDS READERS 108.PARA

100. You can conclude from the passage that ----.

A) the United States did not experience a serious attack for about 60 years after the one on the Pearl

Harbour
B) the towers collapsing took two hours
C) the death toll in New York was 6,500, but the exact number in the other states was not certain
D) it was certain that the next target was the President's official aircraft

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E) the US government was not backed up by the UK as it had expected

Aadaki sorularda, cmlede bo braklan yerlere uygun den szck ya da ifadeyi

bulunuz.
1.

Few would ---- that corporations, especially the multinational ones, are enormously powerful.
A) involve

B) resume
D) disdain

2.

Reflex behaviour is ----; it arises automatically in response to an appropriate stimulus.

A) insignificant
D) involuntary

3.

B) invalid

B) agreeing
D) holding

B) reliable
D) reluctant

B) made up
E) found out

B) put up with
D) make out

C) clear out
E) take after

Those emigrants who return are finding that even ---- good jobs they are less ---- ease in their
homeland than they expected.
A) with / at

B) in / by
D) under / in

8.

C) looked through

In his fiction William Faulkner uses a complex literary style that seems to ---- his intricate themes of
good and evil.
A) fit in with

7.

C) convenient
E) indifferent

The Judge quickly ---- his notes before sentencing the accused.
A) took over
D) put off

6.

C) replacing
E) seeking

Quartz is one of the most abundant rock-forming minerals and the most ---- to weathering.
A) resistant

5.

C) insufficient
E) inadequate

To increase its exports, the company is ---- highly motivated professionals with experience in
international trade.
A) applying

4.

C) promise
E) deny

C) through / for
E) on / over

Thesiger's writings show an increasing admiration ---- and understanding ---- tribal customs.
A) from / over
D) through / for

B) to / in

C) for / of
E) at / into

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Aadaki kutularda birinci stunda verilen kelimeleri ikinci stundaki e anlamllar ile
eletiriniz.

1. [__] graceful
2. [__] gratitude
3. [__] grave
4. [__] greedy
5. [__] grief
6. [__] grievance
7. [__] grim
8. [__] groundless
9. [__] grumble
10. [__] guilt

a. baseless
b. crucial
c. sorrow
d. gloomy
e. crime, fault
f. appreciation
g. complaint
h. insatiable
i. attractive
j. complain

1. [__] hamper
2. [__] handle
3. [__] hazard
4. [__] haphazard
5. [__] happen to
6. [__] harass
7. [__] hardly
8. [__] harsh
9. [__] hasty
10. [__] heritage

a. danger
b. barely
c. hinder
d. legacy
e. do sth by chance
f. hurried
g. deal with
h. bother
i. random
j. severe

1. [__] hinder
2. [__] hitherto
3. [__] holy
4. [__] horizontal
5. [__] hostile
6. [__] humble
7. [__] humid
8. [__] humiliate
9. [__] humor
10. [__] hurricane

a. unfriendly
b. joking
c. damp
d. hamper
e. storm
f. sacred
g. modest
h. parallel
i. degrade
j. up till now

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

a. deception
b. overlook
c. unable to read and write
d. approaching
e. unoccupied
f. clarify
g. explain
h. cannot be read

[__] identical
[__] idle
[__] ignore
[__] illegible
[__] illicit
[__] illiterate
[__] illuminate
[__] illusion

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9. [__] illustrate
10. [__] imminent

i. same
j. illegal