Question 5: a/ Read the following passage and look carefully at each line. If a line is correct, put a tick (√ ). If a line has a word which should not be there, underline the word and write it in the space provided.
A recent investigation carry by scientists at the U.S. Geological survey shows | 1 |
that strange animal behavior might help predict future earthquakes. | 2 |
Investigators found such a occurrences in a ten-kilometer radius of the epicenter | 3 |
of a fairly recent quake. Some birds were screeched and flew about wildly, dogs | 4 |
yelped and ran around uncontrollably. Scientists believe that animals can be | 5 |
perceive these environmental changes as early as several days before the mishap. | 6 |
In 1976, after observing animal behavior, the Chinese were able to | 7 |
predict a devastating quake. Although many hundreds of thousands of people | 8 |
were killed, the government was able to evacuate millions of an other | 9 |
people and thus keep the death toll at a little lower level. | 10 |
Question 5: a/ Read the following passage and look carefully at each line. If a line is correct, put a tick (√ ). If a line has a word which should not be there, underline the word and write it in the space provided.
A recent investigation carry by scientists at the U.S. Geological survey shows | 1 |
that strange animal behavior might help predict future earthquakes. | 2 |
Investigators found such a occurrences in a ten-kilometer radius of the epicenter | 3 |
of a fairly recent quake. Some birds were screeched and flew about wildly, dogs | 4 |
yelped and ran around uncontrollably. Scientists believe that animals can be | 5 |
perceive these environmental changes as early as several days before the mishap. | 6 |
In 1976, after observing animal behavior, the Chinese were able to | 7 |
predict a devastating quake. Although many hundreds of thousands of people | 8 |
were killed, the government was able to evacuate millions of an other | 9 |
people and thus keep the death toll at a little lower level. | 10 |
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.
Watching television and go for a walk are the most popular | 0. going |
leisure activities in Britain. But although longer holidays and | 00. P |
shorter working hours have gave people more free time, women | 1. ................. |
generally have little free time than men, because they spend time | 2 ................. |
on domestic work, shopping and childcare. | 3 ................. |
Surveys showed that more men read newspapers than | 4 ................. |
woman, and a slightly higher proportion of adults read Sunday | 5 ................. |
newspapers than read day morning national newspapers. | 6 ................. |
More people are take holidays abroad nowadays. By 1971, only | 7 ................. |
36 per cent of adults in Britain had been abroad in holiday but, | 8 ................. |
by 1983 this proportion had risen to 62 per cent, nearly | 9 ................. |
fifteen millions people. | 10 ................. |