Question

III. You are going to read a newspaper article about a young boy’s disappearance. In most lines of the text there is one unnecessary word. Write the unnecessary word in the space provided after each line. Some lines are correct. Indicate these lines with a tick (¥). There are two examples at the beginning (0).

Boy found ‘dinosaur-hunting’

A three-year-old boy who went missing at a remote beauty spot _________00

had spent the night was huddled under a bush, his rescuers said __________0

last weekend. Cameron Munro was found as safe and well by a __________1

rescue dog and his handler after about going missing for more than __________2

16 hours. He had disappeared at the Highland or beauty spot, the __________3

Falls of Shin, near by Dornoch, Sutherland, at around 4.30pm last __________4

Saturday, and was found the next few day about half a mile away. __________5

Flight Sergeant Al Sylvester, from among RAF Kinloss, one of 34 __________6

RAF rescuers who had spent the night searching for the boy, said: __________7

“He was perfectly fine. He wasn’t hurt or upset not at all. He was __________8

talking to himself about whole dinosaurs, and he had been looking __________9

for dinosaurs in the woods when he did went missing. __________10

Examples: 00. √ 0. was