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11. - 13. soruları, aşağıdaki parçaya göre 14. - 18. soruları, aşağıdaki parçaya göre
cevaplayınız. cevaplayınız.

The first postage stamps, the ‘Penny Black’ and the Port Glasgow is a town in Scotland. It stands on the
‘Two penny Blue’ were issued in Britain in 1840. River Clyde about 20 miles from the city of Glasgow.
Both have a picture of Queen Victoria. Before that (14) It is a small industrial town with a shipyard
time, either the sender or receiver paid the charge and other industries. The town is divided into two
for handling a letter. The charge for a short distance parts because some of the town is beside the river
was usually ten cents. The post offices in England and some of (15) it is on the hills above the river.
and in the USA were losing money with this system. Most of the men work in the shipyard and most of
An Englishman, Rowland Hill, said that a lower the women work in clothing factories. But there are
price for handling letters would encourage more still unemployed people in the city because there
people to send them. He wanted postage stamps isn’t enough work in the shipyard or in the factories.
to save time and trouble. Today people are sending Some of (16) them have to leave the town and find
e-mails instead of letters, but there are still people work in other cities. If young people want to study
collecting stamps. at a college or at university, (17) they also have to
travel outside Port Glasgow because there is no
higher education there. Life is easy for older people
11. It is stated in the passage that the ‘Penny because (18) they can go for a walk on the hills or
Black’ and the ‘Two Penny Blue’ were ----. sit in the park beside the river and enjoy themselves.

A) issued by Queen Victoria
B) the names of the Queen’s daughters What do the underlined words refer to?
C) the first postage stamps
D) living in Britain in 1840 14.
E) the two portraits of Queen Victoria A) Glasgow
B) River Clyde
C) shipyard
ydspublishing 15. E) Scotland
D) Port Glasgow

A) hills
B) river
12. We can learn from the passage that either C) town
the sender or the receiver ----. D) clothing factory
E) industries
A) issued the postage stamps
B) lost money
C) paid the charge of handling a letter 16.
D) suggested a lower price A) other cities
E) stopped handling letters B) most of the men
C) the city
D) most of the women
E) the unemployed people

17.
A) young people
B) older people
C) college
13. According to the passage, Rowland Hill ----. D) university
E) outside
A) was working in a post office
B) encouraged more people to work in post
offices 18.
C) would become a businessman A) young people
D) thought postage stamps were waste of B) parks
money C) life
E) suggested that postage stamps save time D) older people
and trouble E) higher education

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