Question I.The following passage contains ten mistakes. Identify and correct them. (10pts)

If there is one characteristic of British work in the arts that seems to stand out is its shortage of identification with wide intellectual trends. Playwrights and directors can be left-wing in their political lout-out, but the plays they produce rarely convey a straightforward message. The same is largely true of British novelists and poets. Their writing is naturalistic and is not connected to particular intellectual movements. The theatre had always been very strong in Britain, especially in London. The country’s most successful playwrights are those who explore the darker side of the personality and of personal relationships. In contrast, the cinema in Britain is often regarded as not quite part of the arts in all, it is simply entertainment. Britain is unique between the large European countries in giving mostly no financial help to their film industry. Classical music is also a minority interest. British seem disinterested in high education, they watch lots of television, but are enthusiastic readers. The vast minority of books reading in Britain are not classified as serious literature.

Question II:The following passage contains ten mistakes. Identify and correct them. (10pts)

I have a briefcase full of papers which describes cases Sherlock Homes has investigated. Some are failures since there were some final explanations for the mysteries in question. A problem without a solution may interest the specialist, but will offer little to the general reader. Among these finishing stories is that of the yacht Alicia, which one morning sailed into the mist and disappeared forever; the vessel along the crew were never seen again. Then there was the case of the well-known journalist Luigi Persano, who found completely mad with a jar in front of him. A jar contained a remarkable worm, unknown by science up to that point. Apart from these mysterious cases to which Holmes did not find solution, there are those which various influence people would rather no see on print and those which might affect the reputation of Holmes himself, for whom I have more respectness than for any man alive

There are ten errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, then underline and correct them. Write your answers in the numbered spaces.

          There are have about 3,000 living languages in the world today, but only six of them ones are major languages of the world. Two upper thirds of the world's population speak those languages. More over than 400 million people speak English as their first or native language. Another than 400 million speak it as a second language. Nobody can knows exactly how many do people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese is the only language with more speakers than the English. This is that because of the huge population of Chinese. It is true that English is the best most widespread language on the Earth. It must is the language of business, technology, sport and    

aviation.

*THE WRONG PREPOSITIONS HAVE BEEN PUT WITH EXPRESSION OF TIME. UNDERLINE AND CORRECT THEM

The shortest day for winter in England is called the winter solstice, and it has been celebrated since hundreds of years; the day falls in December 21st. At that day, peole used to make lanterns from paper. They carried the lanterns out a parade through their town to the evening. In the end of the evening, the lanterns were burned; this was a way of saying goodbye for the past, getting ready of the future.

(*Note: There are 10 errors all wrong)

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There are ten errors in the following passage. Identify the errors, then underline and correct them. Write your answers in the numbered spaces.

          There are have about 3,000 living languages in the world           0. ______have                                                                                   ______

today, but only six of them ones are major languages of the                                                                                                116. _________________

world. Two upper thirds of the world's population speak those                                                                                       117. _________________

languages. More over than 400 million people speak English                                                                                   118. _________________

as their first or native language. Another than 400 million                                                                                    119. _________________

speak it as a second language. Nobody can knows exactly                                                                                    120. _________________

how many do people speak it as a foreign language. Chinese                                                                                   121. _________________

is the only language with more speakers than the English.                                                                                  122. _________________

This is that because of the huge population of Chinese. It is                                                                                            123. _________________

true that English is the best most widespread language on the                                                                                          124. _________________

Earth. It must is the language of business, technology, sport and                                                                                         125. _________________

aviation.

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Part 2: Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them, (0) has been done as an example. 

(20 pts) 

Part 2: Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them, (0) has been done as an example.

(20 pts)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50

   In the exploration of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master foreign language, especially in phonology - hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often "fossilizes" into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can do. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances.

   Many explanations have been advanced for children's superiority: they exploit Motherless (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors oneself- consciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age.

   Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elisa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese-born students at the University of Illinois who had spent at least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were given a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical errors. The immigrants who came to the United States between the ages of 3 and 7 performed identically to American bom students. Those who arrived between the ages of 8 and 15 did worse the later they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to their age of arrival.

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "huge" in the passage?

A. wide

B. strong

C. weak

D. small

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 43 to 50

   In the exploration of the linguistic life cycle, it is apparent that it is much more difficult to learn a second language in adulthood than a first language in childhood. Most adults never completely master foreign language, especially in phonology - hence the ubiquitous foreign accent. Their development often "fossilizes" into permanent error patterns that no teaching or correction can do. Of course, there are great individual differences, which depend on effort, attitudes, amount of exposure, quality of teaching and plain talent, but there seems to be a cap for the best adults in the best circumstances.

   Many explanations have been advanced for children's superiority: they exploit Motherless (the simplified, repetitive conversation between parents and children), make errors oneself- consciously, are more motivated to communicate, like to conform, are not set in their ways, and have no first language to interfere. But some of these accounts are unlikely, based on what is known about how language acquisition works. Recent evidence is calling these social and motivation explanations into doubt. Holding every other factor constant, a key factor stands out: sheer age.

   Systematic evidence comes from the psychologist Elisa Newport and her colleagues. They tested Korean and Chinese-born students at the University of Illinois who had spent at least ten years in the United States. The immigrants were given a list of 276 simple English sentences, half of them containing some grammatical errors. The immigrants who came to the United States between the ages of 3 and 7 performed identically to American bom students. Those who arrived between the ages of 8 and 15 did worse the later they arrived, and those who arrived between 17 and 39 did the worst of all, and showed huge variability unrelated to their age of arrival.

Which of the following is TRUE about the research mentioned in the passage?

A. The participants spoke English as their first language.

B. The participants had just started living in the United States.

C. It was done by a group of people.

D. All items in the test were erroneous.

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I.Look carefully at each line. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word which should not be there. Tick each correct line. If a line has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space