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Exercise 1. Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.

You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 When being constructed eco-friendly homes, builders attempt to

2 allocate
3 specific types of energy-efficient resources for specific areas of the
4 home.
5 For instance, it was common to attach single or double panels with the
6 tops of hot water heaters to absorb solar energy and provide a cost-
7 effective, renewable power resource. These mentioned types of hot
8 water heaters are inexpensive to install but unobtrusive to the eye. In the
9 case of wind power, it is obviously neither attractive nor particularly
10 efficient to erect a towering turbine next to a single home; rather, it is
11 built in an area where it can empower several homes at once.
12 Furthermore, how homebuilders position their homes influence their
13 energy efficiency. A home with south-facing windows will absorb the
14 natural radiation from the sun, thus heat the home without using some
15 energy-producing devices. And builders line homes with the best forms
of insulation so that any energy is used to heat a home, whether it is
natural or from electricity transmitted through the grid, will not easy
escape from it.

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Exercise 2: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 As more things are make to be sold and more people have services to
2 sell, advertising grows. Today it is one of the bigger businesses. Every
3 year people spend billion of dollars on advertising.
4 Advertising help sell more things to more people. This in turn makes it
5 possible produce more things to sell. Sometimes it even helps make
6 things costed less. In the beginning, for example, radios costed much
7 more than they do today so they were turned out slowly
8 and expensive by hand. Yet, advertising made more people want radios.
9 When manufacturer began making them by the thousands, they
10 found quickly and cheaper ways of doing the job. Because
11 advertising encourages us to buy and produce more things, it is
12 sometimes called the spark of the business world.

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Exercise 3: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Hardly a day goes by without a fresh demonstration of the ignorance of

2 America’s first video generation. Illiteracy is growing, and a new poll
3 shows what a quarter of university students have no idea when
4 Columbus reached America, leading pessimistic academics to prophesy
5 a new barbarism. Some institutions, at least, have from now been
6 presumed to be above the decay. It was imagined, for example, that they
7 were still reading books in the English faculty at Harvard. But that
8 illusion, too, has been shattered by Professor Sven Birkerts, aging 38,
9 who teaches Creative Writing to undergraduates there. “Mostly none of
10 my students reads independently”, he says in a powerful lament that has
11 just been published by Harvard Magazine. Every year, he says, he
12 conducts the survey among his students, and the responses are
13 heartbroken.
14 The Harvard undergraduates, who have enrolled to study the arts of
15 expository writing under Professor Birkerts are, to put it not higher,
16 reluctant readers.
17 “The printed page taxes and wearies them. They find few pleasure there.
18 What hope does a teacher have for getting them to write? Initially, I
19 confess, I always despair. I read through their first papers, so neatly
20 word-processed…but my heart sinks”, he writes, adding: The writing is
almost
always flatting, monotonous prose.

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Exercise 4: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Unlike many other species of turtle, the red-ear terrapin is not rare. In
2 fact, four to five million hatchings are exported annually from American
3 farms. About 200,000 are sold in the United Kingdom.
4 It is ranked that as many as 90 per cent of the young terrapins die in
5 their
6 first year because of the poor conditions in which they are kept. Those
7 which survive may live for 20 years and arrive the size of a dinner plate.
8 At this staging they require a large tank with heat and specialized
9 lightning.
10 Terrapins carry salmonella bacteria which can poison people. This is
11 why
12 the sale of terrapins was banished in the United States in 1975. They are
13 still, however, exported to the United Kingdom.
14 Modern turtles come from a very antique group of animals that lived
15 over
16 200 million years ago. At this time dinosaurs were just beginning to
17 establish them.
18 Different types of turtles have interesting features: some box turtles are
19 known to have lived for over 100 years, since other species of turtles
20 can remain underwater for more than 24 hours. And the green turtle is
the most prolific of all reptiles, lying as many as 28,000 eggs each year.
If unwanted pet turtles are unleased into the wild, many will die and
those
which survive will threaten the lives of native plants and animal.

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Exercise 5: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Vietnamese generally shake hands when getting and parting. Use both
2 hands shows respect as a slight bow of the head. In rural areas, elderly
3 people who do not extend their hand are greeted with bow. Women are
4 more certainly to bow than the head than to shake hands. Vietnamese
5 names begin with the family game and are chased by a given name.
6 People address one another by their given names, but add a title that
7 indicates their received relationship on the other person. These titles are
8 family relate rather than professional. Among colleagues, for example,
9 the young of the two might combine the given name with the given
10 name and title is Xin chao (hello). Classifiers for gender and familiarity
11 are also combined with the greeting. In formal meetings, business cards
12 are sometime changed on greeting. Vietnamese people have a strong
13 sense of hospitality and feel embarrassing if they cannot show their
14 guests full respect by preparing for their arrival. Therefore, it is
15 appropriate to visit someone without having been invited. Gifts are not
16 required, so are appreciated. Flowers, incense, or teat may be proper
17 gifts for the hosts. Hosts also appreciate a small gift for their children or
elderly parents.

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Exercise 6: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Simply be bilingual does not qualify anyone to interpreting. Interpreting

2 does not merely a mechanical process of converting one sentence in
3 language A into a same sentence in language B. Rather, it is a complex
4 art in that thoughts and idioms which have no obvious analogues from
5 tongue to tongue or words which have multiple meanings – must
6 quickly be transformed in many a way that the message is clearly and
7 accurately expressing to the listener.
8 There are two kinds of interpreters, simultaneous and consecutive, each
9 requires separate talents. The former, sitting in an isolated booth,
10 usually at a large multilingual conference, speaks to listeners wearing
11 headphones, interpreting that a foreign language speaker says as he says
12 it – actually a sentence afterwards. Consecutive interpreters are the one
13 most international negotiators use. They are mainly employed for
14 smaller meetings without sound booths, headphones, and another high-
tech gear.

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Exercise 7: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 People appear to bear to compute. The numerical skills of children

2 develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal
3 clock of mathematical mature guiding their growth. No long after
4 learning to walk and talk, they can set the table with impressive
5 accuracy – one plate, one knife, one spoon, one fork, for all of the five
6 chairs. Soon they are capable of nothing that they have placed five
7 knives, spoons, and forks on the table and, a bit later, that this amounts
8 to fifteen pieces of silverware. Having thus mastering addition, they
9 move on to subtraction. It seems most reasonable to expect that if a
10 child were secluded on a desert island in birth and retrieved seven years
11 later, he or she could enter a second-grade mathematics class without
12 some serious problems of intellectual adjustment.
13 Of course, the truth is not so simple. This century, the work of cognitive
14 psychologists has illuminated the subtle forms of daily learning on that
15 intellectual progress depends. Children were observed as they slow
16 grasped or, as the case might be, bumped into – concepts that adults take
17 for granted, as they refuse, for instance, to concede that quantity is
18 unchanged as water pours from a short stout glass into a tall thin one.

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Exercise 8: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Leonardo DiCaprio is one of the hottest young film stars around at the
2 moment. His face has been on the covers of all the top movies and young
3 magazines over the last few months and he has been the subject of countless
4 articles, rumours and showbiz gossip. Leonard doesn’t like reading about him
5 because “I read things about me that I’ve never said in my life and never
6 did" .
7 Leonardo DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles on 11 November, 1974. He’s a
8 Scorpio. His full name is Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. His mother is
9 Germany and his father Italian- American. They called him Leonardo because
10 when his mother was still pregnant, he started kicking while she was stood in
11 front of a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci. His friends call him Leo. He has a
12 scar from when he was stinging by a Portuguese man-of-war. His parents
13 separated before he was born, so his mother moved to a poor neighbourhood
14 of Hollywood there Leo grew up . At school he was very good at imitating
15 people, especially Michael Jackson. This made him very popularly. His
16 childhood hero was Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea.
17 After appearance in TV commercials and episodes of Roseanne, he played the
18 cast of Roseanne, the TV sitcom starring Kirk Cameron. Leonard played the
19 part of Luke, a homeless boy. Lately, he played the part of Jim Carroll in The
20 Basketball Diaries. But he has really become famous since he acted in the
film Titanic.

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Exercise 9: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Over the last century the world has become increasing smaller. Not
2 geographically, of course, but in the sense that media, technology and
3 the opening of borders has enable the world’s citizens to view, share and
4 gain access to a many wider range of cultures, societies and world
5 views. In this melting pot that the world has become, today’s child is
6 privy to facets of the human experience that his immediately
7 predecessors had no inkling even existed. It stands to reason that so
8 order to absorb, configure and finally form opinions about this
9 information-laden planet, children must be supplied with certain tools.
10 Including in this list of ‘tools’ are: education, social skills, cultural
11 awareness and the acquisition on languages, the most important of these
12 being the latter. Until recently, a child who had the able to speak more
13 than one language would have been considered a very rare entity. This
14 one-language phenomenon could be attributed to a combination of
15 factors. Firstly, the monolingual environment in which a child was
16 raised took a strong role, as did the limited, biased education of the past.
17 With regard to immigrants, the sad
18 fact was that non-native parents tended to withhold the teach of the
19 mother tongue so that the child would acquire the ‘more prestigious’
language of the adopted country.

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Exercise 10: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 First come the PC, then the internet and e-mail; now the e-book is upon
2 us, a hand-held device similarly in size and appearance to a video
3 cassette. The user simply rings off the website on their PC, selects the
4 desired books, downloads them onto their e-book machine and sits
5 down to read them. For turning a page, the user simply taps the screen.
6 E-book technology is evolving rapidly, and with some of the newest
7 handholds you will even get internet access. But why would one want
8 an e-book machine with reference to a book? Well, one selling point
9 companies emphasized, when these devices hit the market a few years
10 ago, which is the space they save when going on holiday. E-books
11 enlighten the load, literally. Ten large novels can be put onto a device
12 that weighs less than the average paperback. One can understand why
13 commercial interests seem to want us to change. After all, the whole
14 production process at first plan by author until delivery to the printer
15 had been doing electronically for a while now, so why not save a few
16 million trees and cut out the hard copy?

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Exercise 11: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 For many centuries, the question of how our minds work was left to
2 theologians and philosophers. But at the beginning of the twentieth
3 century, a new science, experimental psychology emerged, which the
4 speculative theories of the past were confirmed or disproved by the
5 scientific method. In the forefront of this research was J B Watson. His
6 area of interest was the origin of human emotions. Do we learn them, or
7 do we have them when we were born? In particular, Watson wanted to
8 study the fear, and was prepared to go to whichever lengths to study his
9 theory.
10 Watson’s subject was a 9 month old infant, Albert. During the
11 experiment, Watson presented the child with things which often
12 considered frightening – a rat, fire, a clown mask. At first, Albert was
13 unafraid of these things. But then Watson tormented the child with loud,
14 expected noises as he was playing with them. To be sure enough, Albert
15 learnt to associate these things with the unpleasant experience. Even if
16 the noises were stopped, Albert withdrew his body and puckered his
17 face when presenting once more with the rat and mask.

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Exercise 12: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Because different tree species adapting to different climates and soil

2 types have evolved over millennium, many kinds of forests occupy the
3 earth today. The primitive forests of several hundred million years ago
4 consisted of less kinds of trees. In fact, the earliest “ trees” which grew
5 nearly 500 million years ago, were like giant club mosses. They lack
6 true roots and consisted of a confused mass at specialized branches that
7 climbed at rocky ground. Fifty million years later came the dense forest
8 of tree ferns that prevailed on tropical climates of that era. The
9 forerunners of modern conifers-trees that bear cones- were on the 300
10 million years ago, when plant life abundant colonized marshy land,
11 building the tremendous coal and oil reserves so important today. By the
12 time the dinosaurs roamed the earth some 180 million years before, seed
13 bearing trees that shed their leaves in winter evolved:; from these have
14 sprung our present deciduous forests.

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Exercise 13: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 He gets almost everything wrong. But last weekend Donald Trump got
2 something right. By the horror of the other leaders of the rich world, he
3 defended democracy against its detractors. Perhaps predictably, he has been
4 universal condemned for it.
5 His crime was to insist that the North American Free Trade Agreement
6 (Nafta) should have a sunset clause. In other words, it should not remain
7 valuable indefinitely, but expire after five years, allowing its members neither
8 to renegotiate it or to walk away. To howls of execration from the world’s
9 media, his insist has torpedoed efforts to update the treaty.
10 In Rights of Man, publishing in 1791, Thomas Paine argued that: “Every age
11 and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and
12 generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing
13 beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.” This is
14 widely accepted – in theory if not on practice – as a basic democratic
15 principle.
16 Even if the people of the US, Canada and Mexico had explicitly consented to
17 Nafta in 1994, the idea that a decision made then should bind everyone in
18 North America for all time is repulsive. So the notion is, championed by the
19 Canadian and Mexican government, that some slightly modified version of
the deal agreed now should bind all future governments.

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Exercise 14: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 What is the media? What constitutes the media? The media consists of
2 all the ways that news and information is disseminated to the mass
3 audience. The media covers everything from hard news, which is
4 investigating reporting, to stories that are pure entertaining, such as
5 whether your favourite movie star was on the ‘Best Dressed/Worst
6 Dressed’ list. Whether from print or broadcast on TV, the stories are the
7 product of the reporting of many journalists who write the stories to, and
8 editors who give out the assignments, assess the quality of the writing
9 and research, but make the decisions about where and when the stories
10 run.
11 The news has an immediate impact. The Internet puts global news onto
12 the personal computer on your desk. All almost browsers have links to
13 up-to-the-minute new stories from various news services. You cannot
14 get constant news updates from a variety of sources via your personal
computer, provided you with the most up-to-date and in-depth coverage.

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Exercise 15: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them.
You should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 The Arctic fox is comparatively in size to the domestic cat. It

2 inhabits the so-call kingdom of the polar bear, the area midway
3 between Norway and North Pole. This canine predator adapts with
4 extreme weather conditions. During the winter months, it’s white
5 coat is ideal camouflage in these rough northern climates. The
6 Arctic fox can roam all winter without hibernate. Its fur is the
7 thickest of all Arctic mammals. Its insulation enables it survive
8 even though winter temperatures normally fall to -50 degrees
9 Celsius. When nutrition becomes scarce, the Arctic fox may follow
10 polar bears as it pursue seals on the perilous sea ice. This strategy
11 is hazard not only because of the possibility of falling into freezing
12 water, but also because polar bears will consume Arctic foxes if
they can catch it.

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Exercise 16: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Millions of people are using cellphones today. In many places, it is actually

2 considered unusual not to use one. In many countries, cellphones are very
3 popular by young people. They find that the phones are more than a means of
4 communication - having a mobile phone shows that they are cool and
5 connected. The explosion in mobile phone using around the world has made
6 some health professionals worried. Some doctors are concerned that in the
7 future many people may suffer health problems of the use of mobile phones.
8 In England, there has been the serious debate about this issue. Mobile phone
9 companies are worried about the negatively publicity of such ideas. They say
10 that there is no proof that mobile phones are bad for your health.
11 On the other hand, medical studies have shown changes in the brain cells of
12 some people who use mobile phones. Signs of change in the tissues of the
13 brain and head can be detected with modem scan equipment. In one case, a
14 traveling salesman had to retire at young age because serious memory loss.
15 He couldn't remember even simple tasks. He would often forget the name of
16 his own son. This man used to talk on his mobile phone for about six hours a
17 day, every day of his working week, for a couple of years. His family doctor
18 blamed his mobile phone use, so his employer's doctor didn't agree. What is it
19 that makes mobile phones potentially harm? The answer is radiation. High-
20 tech machines can detect very small amount of radiation from mobile phones.
21 Mobile phone companies agree that there is some radiation, but they say the
22 amount is too small to worry about.

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Exercise 17: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Sesame was one of the earliest herbs known to the world. There is some
2 disagreement among all authorities as to the exact place of origin of this
3 ancient herb; it may only have been Africa, Afghanistan or the East
4 Indies. It is then mentioned in Sanskrit literature and Egyptian scripts, as
5 well as in old Hebrew writings. Cleopatra is supposed to have been used
6 sesame oil as a skin beautifier. Sesame used to grow in the wild, but
7 recently has been grown up as an important crops in many parts of the
8 world. It grows to both three or four feet high and has white flowers that
9 are e followed by seeds which produces oil, high in protein and mineral
10 content. A product of sesame seeds is an edible cream known as tahini,
11 which has had the consistency of honey and is extremely popular in
12 Middle Eastern and Greek food. Tahini is the principal ingredient in a
13 popular sweet called halva. When chilled and cut into small blocks it
14 makes as an agreeable accompaniment to black coffee. Sesame seed and
15 honey bars are tasty sweets found out in cake shops and delicatessens.
16 Sesame meals, which is ground sesame seed, is obtained from health-
17 food shops and is increasingly found in some of bigger supermarkets.
18 As it is so high itself in protein, vegetarians use large quantities of it in
19 their daily diet. In fact, anything using sesame is nutritious as well as
delicious.

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Exercise 18: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 In the last twenty years, the country has made great technological
2 progress, culminating in our entering the space age earlier this year with
3 the launch of our first telecommunication satellite. From a health
4 perspective, there has been a major modern programme in public
5 hospitals. This has involved the purchase of the latest scanning and
6 diagnosis equipment, as well as the refurbishment of major operating
7 theatres with state-of-the-art surgical equipment. As far as the
8 superstructure of the country is concerned, several major projects are on
9 progress, included the construction of three major motorways, a
10 hydroelectric power station and a new international airport. All of these
11 public works are being carried out using the latest technology. With the
12 increasing use of computer technology, the future of our country looks
13 very bright indeed. It anticipates that, in the very near future, all
14 government offices will be computered and networked to central
15 mainframe computers in the capital. In the terms of economical
16 development, it seems probable that…

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Exercise 19: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Televisions lie at the heart of American culture, offer a combination of

2 news and amusement. It is not surprised, therefore, that daytime talk
3 shows, the ultimate blend of information and entertainment, are earning
4 top rate. Talk show producers and hosts claim that the purpose of air all
5 sorts of problems on national television are to benefit viewers. They say
6 they provide useful information and have helped to create a more
7 sensitive and educational public. Many of those who have appeared as
8 guests say do so changed their lives, and the shows can certainly take
9 the credit of giving a lot of people information they would not otherwise
10 have had. So do the shows provide a service by allowing people to work
11 through issues that would otherwise be swept under the carpet? Or is
12 there a danger that viewers will regard the self-centered and thoughtful
13 behavior they see in these programs as a model of how to live their own
14 lives?

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Exercise 20: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 The big majority of students who make well in the Cambridge

2 Proficiency Examination have learnt to use a good monolingual
3 dictionary effectively. Such dictionaries provide informations, not just
4 about the meanings for words but about their pronunciation and
5 grammar as well. A student who learns how to use a dictionary
6 effectively will be possible to work independently for much of the time,
7 and will gain considerable insight to the workings of the English
8 language. He or she will be able to confirm the meanings of the words
9 in a text which contextual clues are insufficient, pronounce words
10 accurately by studying the phonological transcriptions, and use words
11 accurately both when speaking or writing. Make sure you make the
12 room for at least one good monolingual dictionary on your bookshelf-
13 and then make sure you use it at a regular basis!

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Exercise 21: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 The market for tourism in remote areas is booming as ever before. Countries
2 all across the world are actively promoting their 'wilderness' region - such as
3 mountains, Arctic lands, deserts, small islands and wetlands - to highly
4 spending tourists. The attraction of these areas is obvious: by defining,
5 wilderness tourism requires little or no initial investment. But that does not
6 mean that there is no cost. As the 1992 United Nations Conference on
7 Environment and Development recognized, these regions are fragile (i.e.
8 highly vulnerable of abnormal pressures) not just in terms of their ecology,
9 but also in terms of the culture of their inhabitants. The three most significant
10 type of fragile environment in these respects, and also in terms of the
11 proportion of the Earth's surface they cover, are deserts, mountains and Arctic
12 areas. An important characteristic is their marked seasonality, with harsh
13 conditions prevailing for many months each year. Subsequently, most human
14 actions, including tourism, are limited to quite clearly defined parts of the
15 year.
16 Tourists are drawn to these regions by their natural landscape beauty and the
17 unique cultures of its indigenous people. And poor governments in these
18 isolated areas have welcomed the new breed of 'adventure tourist', grateful
19 with the hard currency they bring. For several years now, tourism has been
20 the prime source of foreign exchange in Nepal and Bhutan. Tourism is also a
21 key element in the economies of Arctic zones such as Lapland and Alaska
and in desert areas such as Ayers Rock in Australia and Arizona's Monument
Valley.

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Exercise 22: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Let us suppose that you are in the position of a parent. Would you allow your
2 children read any book they wanted to without first checking its content?
3 Would you take them to see any film without first finding whether it is
4 suitable with them? If your answer of these questions is yes, then you are
5 either extremely permissive, or just plain irresponsible. If your answer is not,
6 then you are exercising your right as a parent to protect your children from
7 what you consider to be desirable influences. In other words, by acting as a
8 censor yourself, you are admitting that there is a strong case for censorship.
9 Children need protection and it is the parents' responsible to provide it. But
10 what about adults? Aren't they enough old to decide that is good for them?
11 The answer is that many adults are, but don't make the mistake of thinking
12 that all adults are as yourself. Censorship is for the good of society as a
13 whole. Highly civilized people might find it possible to live together without
14 laws of any kind: they would just rely on good sense to solve their problems.
15 But imagine what chaos there would be if we lived in a society without laws!
16 Like the law, censorship contributes to the common good.

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Exercise 23: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Things started to go wrongly as soon as we got to the hotel. We were all

2 completely exhausting after our long journey and looking forward to a shower
3 and a rest. However, we found that our room was not ready, which was very
4 annoyed, although the manager was extremely apologising. While we were
5 waiting, we asked about the excursions to places of an interest which we have
6 read about in the brochure. Imagine how we felt when we were told they had
7 all been cancelled! Apparently, the person responsible of organizing them had
8 left suddenly and had not been replaced. Then Sally saw a notice pinning to
9 the door of the restaurant, said it was closed for redecoration, and Peter
10 discovered that the swimming pool was empty. When we eventually got to
11 our room we were horrified to find that it was at the back of the hotel, and we
12 had a view of a car park, that seemed to be used as a rubbish dump. We
13 seriously began to wonder whether or not to stay.

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Exercise 24: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 The global recording industry has launched its largest wave of legal activity
2 against people suspected of sharing music files on the internet. The latest
3 move by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)
4 targeted 2,100 alleged uploaders using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks in 16
5 nations including the UK, France, Germany and Italy. Thousand of people
6 have agreed to pay compensate since the campaign began. In the US, civil
7 lawsuits have been brought against more than 15,597 people since escalate
8 September 2003 and there have been 3,590 settlements. 'This is a significant
9 of our enforcement actions against people who are uploading and distributing
10 righted music on p2p networks,' said IFPI chief John Kennedy. 'Thousands of
11 people - most internet-savvy men with their 20s or 30s - have learnt to their
12 cost the legal and finance risks involved in file-sharing copyrighted music in
13 large quantities.' Individual cases are generally brought by the national
14 associations represented the recording industry, and in some cases by the
15 labels, as civil complaints. The UK record industry has so far brought 97
16 cases, with a further 65 covered by the latest action. More than 140,000 in
17 compensation has been paid to the British Phonographic Industry by 71
18 individuals. Those which fail to resolve cases face civil court action.

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Exercise 25: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 One of the main arguing against social networking sites is that people sometimes
2 reveal information on them that often should be kept privately. Recently, another
3 development has provided more support for this argument: College admissions
4 committees are now using social networking sites as part of the application process.
5 According with a survey by Kaplan Test Prep (2010), over 80 percent of college
6 admissions officers use social networking sites to communicate with students. The
7 claiming that many colleges make is that they use these sites to attract new students
8 or to stay in contact with former students. However, some colleges admit that they
9 are also using social networking as part of the admissions process. The main
10 argument for using social media is that it helps colleges evaluate candidates at a
11 time when these colleges are experiencing large numbers of applicants. Many
12 admissions officers believe that colleges need all the information they can get on
13 applicants in order to do decisions because the admissions process has become very
14 competitively. One college interviewer in a recent survey reported that if she has to
15 choose between two students who are equally qualified in terms to grades and test
16 scores, she looks at their online profiles to make the final decision. In additional,
17 applicants also use social networking sites against each other. Another admissions
18 officer revealed that his office often receives anonymous messages with links to
19 sites that have negative information on or pictures of other applicants. Many
20 colleges and universities have not had official policies yet on whether to use social
21 media as part of the application process. Until these policies will become clearer,
22 prospective college students should keep their social networking pages private or
23 remove anything that might make them look more attractive to admissions
committees.

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Exercise 26: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

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Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
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tornado and the large
cyclonic and
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anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
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whirlwind is more strict

applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
 atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
Whirlwind, any rotating air mass, includes the tornado and the large cyclonic and
anticyclonic storm (see Cyclone). In meteorology, the term whirlwind is more strict
applied to the smaller swirling atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as dust
devil or dust whirl, that occurs mostly over deserts and semiarid plains during hot,
calm days. The principal cause of whirlwinds is intense insolation, or incoming solar
radiation received by the earth, which produces an overheated air mass just above
the ground. This air mass rises, usually in the form of a cylindrical column, sucking
up loose surface material, such as dust, sand, and leaves. Whirlwinds vary in high
from 30 to 152 m (100 to 300 ft), but exceptionally vigorous dust devils may exceed
1524 m (5000 ft) in height. The vortices of whirlwinds range in size from a little
meters to several hundred meters and, depend on their force and size, dust devils
may disappear in seconds and last several hours. Brief whirlwinds are erratic in
motion, but the longer-lasting ones move slowly with the prevailing winds.
Water whirlwinds, common called waterspouts, are whirling columns of air and
watery mist. The mist is mainly fresh water, formed by condense in the atmosphere.
Water whirlwinds are frequent occurrences over oceans and lakes but are seldom
violent. Convective storms generate most waterspouts, and the rare tornadic spouts
are generated in thunderstorms, in association to tropical cyclones or cold frontal
squalls. Fire and smoke whirlwinds are caused by forest, oil, and incendiary-bomb
fires, and they may have large, violent vortices.

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Exercise 27: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

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2
3
4
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
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tornado and the large
cyclonic and
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anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
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whirlwind is more strict

applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
 known as dust devil or
Much women nowadays choose to have a baby without getting married. They are
usually well-off, single professionals who, in their thirty find that work is not
everything and so decide to have a baby. They don’t want to find a husband and
have a regular family but only want to be mothers. They find a partner to be the
father of their baby, but the man often doesn’t know that the baby will be his. The
women claim they don’t need a man to keep a family and bring up a child: they
prefer to do it on her own.
Psychologists say that a child can develop normally only in a complete family: with
a loving mother and a loving father. The child who grows without a father lacks his
love and guidance, and also the role-model that a father provides. This is especially
important in the case of boys. In some cases so children can even develop serious
psychological disorders.
Also, the social situation of a single mother and child whose father is neither
unknown or far away has to be taken into account. Despite the years when a single
mother would be ostracized are luckily gone, it still happens that children without
fathers can feel awkward at school, especially when their peers boast about their
own fathers.
The importance of a father in a child life is unquestionable. Even if the fighters for
the emancipation of women claim that mothers can take care of their sons by
themselves, the situation is a little bit different. Fathers are replaceable and their
love and affection has much to say in the well-being of children.
One in all single mothers are to be appreciated for their courage but at the same time
they should always think twice before taking this crucial decision in their lives.

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Exercise 28: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

1 Whirlwind, any rotating air mass, includes the tornado and the large
2 cyclonic and
3 anti-cyclonic storm. In meteorology, the term whirlwind is more strict
4 applied to
5 the smaller swirling atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as dust
6 devil or
7 Whirlwind, any rotating air mass, includes the tornado and the large
8 cyclonic and
9 anti-cyclonic storm. In meteorology, the term whirlwind is more strict
10 applied to
11 the smaller swirling atmospheric phenomenon commonly known as dust
12 devil or
13 A feminine is a person, usually a woman, who believes that women
14 should be regarded as equally to men. She, or he, deplores
15 discrimination against women in the home, place of work or anywhere,
and her principle enemy is the male chauvinist, who believes that men
are naturally super. Tired of being referred to as “the weaker sex”,
women are becoming more and more militancy and are winning the age-
old battle of the sexes. They are sick to death of sexy jokes which poke
fun at women. They are no longer content to be regarded as second-
class citizens in terms of economic, political and social status. They
criticize beauty contests and the use of glamour female models in
advertisements which they describe as the exploit of female beauty,
since women in these situations were represented as mere sex objects.
We no longer live in the male-dominate societies of the past. Let us
hope, moreover, that the revolution stops before we have a boring world
in which sex doesn’t make much difference. We already have unisex
hairdressers and fashions. What next?

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Exercise 29: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

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2
3
4
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
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6
7
8
9
10
11
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
 atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
There is a long-standing debate between users of “new media” and Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) about so-called “net neutrality” the idea that no-
one should control the Internet). Both sides claim to uphold what they call
"Internet freedom", but it appears they have diverging views of exactly which is
meant by freedom but it appears they have diverging views of exactly which is
meant by freedom in this context.
For supporters of neutral, Internet freedom means equal, affordable access for
whatever online applications and content they choose. In contrast, the ISPs say
a free Internet means that the industry should be unimpeded by government
oversight and that high- speed connections should be available for anyone who
can afford it.
The debate is over grown with so many technical jargon that it hasn't
attracted widespreading attention, but what's at stake are nothing less than the
future of the Internet. The issue, essential, is whether finance corporations
become gatekeepers of online content and traffic, or whether small
independent organisations can access the new technology without restrictions.
Whichever way it goes, the outcome is likely to change the whole of popular
culture.

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Exercise 30: Identify 10 mistakes in the following passage and correct them. You
should indicate in which line the mistake is.

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2
3
4
Whirlwind, any rotating
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6
7
air mass, includes the
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9
10
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
11
12
13
14
15
16 anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
known as dust devil or
Whirlwind, any rotating
air mass, includes the
tornado and the large
cyclonic and
anti-cyclonic storm. In
meteorology, the term
whirlwind is more strict
applied to
the smaller swirling
atmospheric
phenomenon commonly
 known as dust devil or
Instagram has had a democratic effect on fashion: there are plenty of small
brand that are built for the platform, or rather, Instagram built them. They can
swerve all the things you usually need to set up a shop (major finance,
infrastructure, bricks and mortar) and focus on a good targeted ad strategy.
Some have the authenticate tang of artisan fashion. Digital natives can
discriminate quiet easily among a genuine insurgent brand and my non-brand,
non-fashion items, partly by reading reviews, partly because they can read the
visual language. Paris Starn, creative director of Paris 99, a reputed Los
Angeles-based brand, tells me that “a way for designers to use Instagram
thoughtfully is to put the same creative they have into designing into
conceptual photographs”. Live your values, photograph your stuff in the same
spirit as you created it, in other words, and people will want it. Starn explains:
“Our SS19 lookbook shoot used friends of the brand to model and photograph
the clothing, and took place in a decades-old diner, reference the designer’s
love for Americana culture and baking.” You do not have to be a genius to
see the difference for that and a super-airbrushed studio shot of some
dungarees.

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