. There are 10 mistakes in the following passage. Identify the mistakes and write the corrections in the corresponding numbered boxes. Write your answers in ‘Your answers’ part.

Your answers:

Question 6: Read the text below. Some of the lines are correct and some have a word which is incorrect. If a line is correct, put a tick (P). If the line has an incorrect word, underline  and correct it.

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

H. There are mistakes in five of these sentences. Find the mistakes
and write the five sentences correctly.


1. “Are you wanting an ice-cream?” “No, thanks”.


_____________________________________________.


2. Right now I do my homework.


_____________________________________________.


3. Tom and Peter are hating maths.


_____________________________________________.


4. I doesn’t believe in ghosts.


_____________________________________________.


5. I’m sometimes play the guitar in my bedroom.


_____________________________________________.

III. Find and correct the mistakes.

6.   He is the tallest of the two boys.

7.   There is an big eraser on the desk.

8.   We aren’t understand what you are saying.

Read the text carefully. Some of the lines are correct, and some have a word should not be there, if a line is correct, put a tick (˅), if there is a word shold not be write a word..

Mecca

1          Mecca is a city of about 200.000 inhabitants in the Saudi Arabia, and lies about 40 miles

2          east of Jeddah, which it is its port on the Red Sea. It is the birthplace of Muhaand the most

3          greatest place of pilgrimage in the Islamic world. It is estimated that each year more than

4          100,000 pilgrims go to Mecca, so that increasing its tourist industry. This also encourages

5          and the development of the numberous small industries and craftsmem’s workshops that

6          produce leather goods and silverware to bsell to the pilgrims. Mecca has always been an

7          important crossroads for trade and although too it was a religious centre before the rise of

8          Islam, both its religious and economic importance grew as if a result of the new faith. The

9          town is  impressively constructed and extends down the valley along roads which are

10        unusually wide for an Arab city. Its religious life is main centred in the Great Mosque.

Answer:

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

Computers cannot make mistakes. Stories have been heard sometimes about computers paying people too much money or sending them (1)_____ for things they didn’t buy. These mistakes ae made by the programs. Some years ago an American computer-controlled rocket went (2)____ and had to be destroyed. The accident has been caused by a small mistake in one line of the program, which (3)______ the USA 18 million dollars. Criminals have found that “computer (4)_____ are a lot easier than robbing a bank.” Hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen from businesses every year by people (8)______ the information in computers.

Question 2.

A. ahead of schedule

B. out of control

C. to some extent

D. How fast food trigger liver damage

Write a suitable word in each gap to complete the passage.

Today many people in the word are leaving their small villages in the country for big and noisy cities. This means that they are (1)_____ the peaceful hills, mountains, fields and rivers of the countryside for the busy word of streets, buildings, traffic and crowds. In many (2)_____ people come to live in towns and cities because they need word. After one or two factories have been built (3)_____ or near a town, people come to find word and soon an industrial area begins to grow. There is ususlly an erea nearby (4)_____ the factory workers live. The families of these workers need schools, hospitals and markets, so more and more people (5)_____ to live in the area to provide these services - and so a city grows.