ANSWER SHEET TWO3 L4 y% X' }2 e1 I, A
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS [2003]0 o, _" E5 m, l3 {! ~2 F, I
-GRADE EIGIHT-7 U. U* Y8 d$ @: g
PART II PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)6 x- k0 C1 k; ]6 B! ^9 d: N; F1 H
The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved You should proof, read the passage and correct it in the following way:
( i g# p w& [6 D+ C7 h( I For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank pro-vided at the end of the line.3 V |9 Q! |) {6 r0 i; |
For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "^" sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
, I) ?* ]" i# L% E0 c$ k' W3 u For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash "/" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.1 m F! {2 ~) e
EXAMPLE8 |& H* S% P% e1 F3 t
When ^ art museum wants a new exhibit, it never buys things in finished form and hangs them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition, it must often build it.
0 `% ?! @$ E5 R* t% D' |6 ] Demographic indicators show that Americans in the postwar
; @9 P; i" D) ~2 _- M2 c) Y period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly
- e) P% |8 F' \- b9 t5 j2 K& J brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought
6 M# a- o4 ]2 d- Q3 v the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred (1)__, y/ h* f: _# k( ^) W! D) b
years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” These young (2)__7 Q# \; [ f& L3 Z
adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
; u) d: ~/ y, N9 u6 z# G families that Went for more than two decades and caused a major (3)__
2 W" _. I& K" E) l+ B( } but temporary reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From
/ F( n) L7 f, ~% j the 1940S through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate (4)__
1 s' A0 P" Y1 u( |* i9 ]+ t, {: l and at a younger age than their Europe counterparts.(5)__
$ X6 g( q; B' H* P( p Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women on who (6)__
' `+ ^! i3 e3 S formed families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the (7)__
. b3 f a% I- V, d3 S. ]1 r# J3 L divorce rate after a postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to
2 u5 n. b- P' ?9 X' }7 ~3 @9 k a greater extent than did that of couples who married in earlier as well (8)__
0 e7 ~5 _: `+ N9 D as later decades. Since the United States maintained its dubious (9)__
" K6 B( J4 A$ Q y. d7 y distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the* @: ?- z, J0 g! _6 Q( x$ c
temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in (10)__
5 C. p" ~9 X% a Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and4 b7 Q' u. R! c/ c8 B, L" t$ A# b
homemaker was not abandoned.4 n2 Q+ O1 N$ C$ R) P
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2003)
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