VI. Each line in the following passage contains one mistake. Write down the mistake and your corrections in the       spaces provided on the right. The first one has been done for you as an example. (10 pts)

Language is considered a significant means for communication in                                                                                                                  (0) ____ for_____  _____of _____

international relations. People in modern world have not longer been kept                                                                                                                  (1) ____________  ____________

to their own countries. Moreover, in older to keep pace with rapid scientific                                                                                                                  (2) ____________  ____________

developments nowadays, they must widen them cooperative relations with                                                                                                                  (3) ____________  ____________

those highly developing nations in other parts of the world. Due to the fact                                                                                                                  (4) ____________  ____________

that no one is unable to communicate with any natives in the world, it is                                                                                                                  (5) ____________  ____________

necessary for people to choose to learn a foreign language like a worldwide  (6)____________  ____________

common means of communication. That is why English has being chosen                                                                                                                  (7) ____________  ____________

by almost people to be a foreign language to master. More and more people                                                                                                                  (8) ____________  ___________

use English and the number of those who learns English as a foreign                                                                                                                  (9) ____________  ____________

language has been increasing so fast and that it is the highest nowadays.     (10) ____________  ____

Part III. There is one mistake in each line of the following passage. Find, underline and correct them.  (20 points)

The world is getting warmest and the oceans are rising. Why is this happening? One answer is that it could simple be part of a natural process. After all, there has been ice ages and long periods of warmth, so we could just be experiencing other warming trend. This kind of answer had less supporters a few years ago. What scientists now believe is that human activity is the cause. For more than two hundreds years, human had been gradually changed the atmosphere, mainly as a result of industrial pollution. We have created a atmosphere around the earth that, like a giant glass container, lets hot from the sun through and then holds them in. Will the temperatures and sea levels keep rising? The general answer is fortunately yes. 0. warmer

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There is one mistake in each line of the following passage. Find, underline and correct them. 

The world is getting (0) warmest and the oceans are rising. Why is this happening? One answer is that it could simple be part of a natural process. After all, there has been ice ages and long periods of warmth, so we could just be experiencing other warming trend. This kind of answer had less supporters a few years ago. What scientists now believe is that human activity is the cause. For more than two hundreds years, human had been gradually changed the atmosphere, mainly as a result of industrial pollution. We have created a atmosphere around the earth that, like a giant glass container, lets hot from the sun through and then holds them in. Will the temperatures and sea levels keep rising? The general answer is fortunately yes.

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Each line in the passage below has ONE mistake. FIND and CORRECT them. Write the answers in the numbered blanks provided.

Your answers:

Each line has a mistake . Find and correct them

It has been saying that the bristish and American are " two peoples

separate by a common language: however , the differences among

British and American English are comparatively small . Despite

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it is television , films , and pop music that they help to bring him

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compression are probably many fewer than 40 or 50 years ago

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1. Each of these sentences contains a mistake. Cross out the mistake and write the correct word or words at the end of the sentence. 1 Living in the countryside is having manyadvantages. Is having  has 2 I’m feeling that cities are dirty, noisy andexpensive places. 3 Winters in my city are hard because it’ssnowing a lot. 4 City life becoming more and more expensive. 5 I’m study English at a language school in myhome town. 6 People generally are believing that country lifeis healthier than city life. 7 The city council is build lots of new apartmentblocks in the suburbs. 8 I’m not liking small towns because there’snothing to do. 2. Complete the passage with the correct form of the verbs in the box (present simple or present continuous). be (x3) become have (x2) like live look meet play rise sit stay think watch I 1……in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.I 2……a small flat in the suburbs, but at themoment I 3……with my parents in the citycentre because my mother 4……ill and I5…….after her until she gets better.I 6 …….that Buenos Aires is a really lively andexciting city, and I 7……..it here a lot. Citylife in general 8……..lots of advantages. There9……….always so many things to see and do.One of the things I enjoy the most is something called ‘people watching’. So right now I 10……onmy parents’ balcony and 11…….people in thestreet below.In theevenings I 12…….my friends for ameal, or sometimes we 13……..volleyball inone of the city parks. Of course, there 14……bad sides to the city as well. It 15 ……..moreand more crowded, for example, and the crime rate16……..because there are a lot of people out ofwork. 

VI. There is one mistake in each sentence. Identify the mistake and write your answer in the space provided. (1.0 point)

1. Pele, from Brazil, is considered one of the greatest football player of all time.

                A                          B                               C                      D

2. Is it important that the secretary finishes the typing today?

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3. It was such a rotten meat that it had to be thrown away

                     A                B        C                      D

4. Conservationists are alarmed by the rate at which tropical rainforest are destroyed

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5. When a tiger gets hungry, its manner changes and it becomes threatened

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Part II: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable sentence from the list A - H  for each gap from 1 - 5. There are two extra sentences that you do not need to use. Write your answer in the space provided. (0) has been done as an example. (2,5 points)
      The Sahara’s meager resources are being plundered right to the present day. This is shown most clearly in the dramatic fall in the region’s precious water reserves. The rock is of a type which hinders easy underground storage so the water supply depends on rainfall. (0)        B      . However, the seriousness of the situation goes far beyond mere seasonal changes.
There’s one district where observations go back at least 125 years. Here it is known that wells of the balance beam type were once used in cultivated areas. This way of drawing water is intended for the irrigation of gardens and small plots and works only if there’s water not more than about five metres below the surface.
(1) ______. They have all been replaced by wells from which the water has to be raised by draught animals, because it is now 25 metres down. (2) ______.
In a classic example of a vicious circle, shortage of water has led to the digging of more wells to save the flocks and birds. As these have been deepened the water supply has been further depleted. (3) ______.
The Air region was once regarded as the Switzerland of Africa because of its temperate climate. (4) ______. Nowadays, though, there are only a third of the palms which existed there at the turn of the century. The amount of wildlife has shown a proportionate fall. (5) ______. This is highly dangerous in a world where the overall population is growing rapidly. We cannot afford to lose fertile land.
A. So, too, has the number of human beings who can now survive in the area.
B. This being so, it is easy to understand why it varies.
C. Today, though, not one well of this type exists.
D. This has resulted in soil erosion which then dries out the land still further.
E. Here, then, the water level has evidently dropped by 20 metres in little over a century.
F. It was criss-crossed by valleys filled with palm trees and was thronged with wildlife.
G. Such are conditions in the Sahara Desert in recent times.