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- PASSAGE 1 contains 11 mistakes. Identify and correct them.
- PASSAGE 2 contains 10 mistakes. Identify and correct them.
Source: The two passages are adapted from The Guardian.

PASSAGE 1:

Get impregnated by a World Cup player, win free Whoppers, says Burger
King

Burger King’s Russian division has apologized for a social media campaign offering
free burgers for life to women who get pregnant by football stars.

Burger King has apologized for a poorly-taste ad campaign posted on its official
Russian social media account.

On Tuesday the burger chain announced a promotion on VK, the Russian equal of
Facebook, offering women 3 million Russian roubles ($47,000) and a lifetime
supply of Whoppers if they get impregnated by football players competed in the
World Cup.

Shortly before announcing the campaign they pulled it due to backlash. Burger
King posted a statement on VK apologizing and said it had removed all materials
related to the promotion. Therefore, evidence of the stunt lives on in screenshots.

Burger King’s Russia division has a history of horrific publicity-biting stunts. Last
year it made fun about a teenage rape victim in an online marketing campaign.
The fast-food company used the likeliness of Diana Shurygina, who was raped
when she was 16 at a house party, being part of a buy one get one free burger
offer.

And it’s not just Russia; Burger King has a global track record of misogynistic
marketing. In Singapore the company advertised a seven-inch burger with overtly
sexual imaginings and a tagline saying “It’ll blow your mind away.” The model
featured in the 2009 advertising campaign later came torward to say she had no
idea her image was going to be used in that way.

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The “twilight zone” of Hawaii’s deep coral reefs are home of vast algae meadows
and support the highest rates of species found nowhere else in Earth seas,
scientists have discovered.

A 20 years study of the archipelago’s poorly-explored mesophotic – middle light –

coral zone also found the deep-reef habitats are home to many unique and
distinguishable species not found on shallow reefs with vast areas of 100% coral
cover.

While many is known about shallow, tropical coral habitats, the richness, diversity
and ecological importance of these deep sea ecosystems, found at depths of 30-
150 metres, has only recently been understood.

In one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of its kind, published on
Tuesday in the journal PeerJ, the entire 2,590km Hawaiian archipelago was
covered over two decades using a combination of submersibles, remote-operating
vehicles, drop cameras, data recorders and advanced diving techniques.

A major focus of the study was to document extensive areas of 100% coral cover
at depths of 90m (300 feet) or more off the islands of Maui and Kauai. Vast
expansion of continuous coral cover were found extending for tens of square
kilometres, dominated by stony, reef-building corals in the genus Leptoseris, a
plate-like coral adapted for deepwater environments.

“These are some of the most extensive and dense populated coral reefs in
Hawaii,” said Anthony Montgomery, a US Fish and Wildlife biologist and co-author
of the study. “It’s amazing to find such rich coral communities down so deep.”

The study identified more than 70 species of macroalgae in extensive meadows

that support unique communions of fish and invertebrates. Both corals and algae
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depend on sunlight for photosynthesis, and the study contributed the existence of
many of the deep reef habitats to exceptionally clear water.

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