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I. There're ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
Japanese young today study English for six years at junior and senior high school, but very little
can speak it by the time they graduate. If the Japanese want to acquire practice oral skills, they
have to do a conscientious effort by themselves as going abroad or taking English conversation
classes in their private country. In Japan, grammar is emphasized too much at Japanese high
school, and there is no balance with the speaking language. People study English mainly for
passing exams. They're so tied to grammar teaching in the textbooks that they find spoken
English naturally very difficult. They should consider English more as a means of communication
than of a science.
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II. There're ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
Scientists have established that influenza viruses took from man can cause the disease in
animals. On addition, man can catch the disease from animals. In fact, a great number in wild
birds seem to carry the virus without show any evidences of illness. Some scientists conclude
that a large family of influenza viruses may have evolved in the bird kingdom, a group that has
been in the earth 100 million years and is able to carry the virus without contracting the disease.
There is even convincing evidence showing that virus strains are transmitted from place on place
and from continent to continent by migrating birds. It is known which two influenza viruses can
recombine when both are present in an animal at the same time. The result of such
recombination is a great vary of strains containing different H and N spikes. This raises the
possibility that a human influenza virus can recombine with an influenza virus from a lower
animal to produce an entirely new spike. Research is underway to determine if that is the way
that major new strains come into being. Other possibility is that two animals influenza strains
may recombine in a pig, for example, to produce a new strains which is transmitted to man.
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III. There're eighteen mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
English - The International Language
There are more than 3.000 languages on the world today, but only six are major languages of
the world. Two-thirds of the world’s population speak those six languages. More than
300.000.000 people speak English as their first and native language. Another 300.000.000 speak
it like a second language. No one knows how many people speak it as a foreign language.
Chinese is the only language with more speakers that English. This is because of the huge
population of China, more than one billion people. English is the native or official language on
one-five of the land area of the world. It is spoken in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and
New Zealand. In South Africa and India it is one of the office languages.
More people study English than any other language. In many countries, textbooks in universities
are of English. Many universities classes are taught in English even thought the native languages
is not English.
English is the language of international communication. It is the language in international
business, research, and science. More than three-fourths of the world’s radio station use English.
More than half of the scientific and research journals are in English. Most other language have
borrowed many English words. Why did English become the international language ? In the
middle of the nineteenth century, French is the international language. Then Britain became very
powerful in the world. England started colonies in North America and India in the nineteen
century. By 1990 England also had colonies in other parts of Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific.
The people in the colonies had to use English. Slowly it become more important than French
internationally. After the Second world War, the United States became very powerful, and even
more people began to learn English. Is English a good international language ? It has more word
than any other language. The grammar is simpler than in the other major languages. However,
English spelling is difficulty. Foreigners all have trouble spelling English. So do native speakers !
Since 1880, people have intented over fifty artifical language. No one speaks them as a native

language. However, none of them has ever become popular. Some people don’t want to study
English, but it is the international language. There is no way changing that now.
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IV. There're ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
The word laser was coined as an acronym to Light Amplification by the stimulated
Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously,
when atoms or molecules get rid of the excess energy by themselves, without any outside
intervention. Stimulated emission is difference because it occurs when an atom or molecule
holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper
published in 1917. However, for many years, physicists thought that atoms and molecules always
were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus always
would be much weak. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to
make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one atom or molecule could
stimulate many other to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New York.
Instead of working with light, however, he works with microwaves, which have a much longer
wavelength, and built a device he called a “maser”, for Microwave Amplification by the
Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser
was not completed until a couple of years laterly. Before long, many other physicists were
building masers and trying to discover to produce stimulated emission at even shorter

wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell
Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated
emission of visible light waves. At about a same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind of
Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a
series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical
Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application. Three decade later, people still argue about
who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser.
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V. There're twenty mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
Six year ago when I was a student, I was short for money. So once a week I had to go
home to see my parents and get a decent meal. Although I had a good relationship to my
mother, I never got in well with my father. I could never live up to him high expectations of
me. One day I did a very terrible thing. I stole some money of him. I asked him if he could lend
me ten pounds. He refused to say he had already give me enough and it was time I became
more responsible to money. You know what it is as being a student. I'd run out of money and
wanted to take a girl away. When he refused I accused him off being mean. And we have
had a terrible row. He left the house and I was so angrily that I stolen ten pounds from his
wallet.
When he found in that the money was gone, he knew who had done it and banned me
from the house. Since then I have returned but he has never really forgiven me and still looked
down on me for that I did. My mother is very upset and I really try to work towards creat a
happy relationship with my father for our own sakes. Half of me want to say: " Sorry, Dad"
while the others half still thinks he is ridiculous in having kept this attitude up for so long.
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VI. There're ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
At the age of sixty-five, Laura Ingalls Wilder began writing a sery of novels for young people
based in her early experiences on the American frontier. Born in the state of Wiscosin in 1867,
she or her family were rugged pioneers. Seeking better farm land, they went by covered wagon
to Missouri in 1869, then on to Kansas the next year, return to Wisconsin in 1871, and travelling
on to Minnesota and Lowa before settling permanently in South Dakota in 1879. Because off this
continuing moving, Wilder's early education took place sporadically in a succession of one-room
schools. From age thirteen to sixteen she attended a school more regularly although she never
graduated.
At the age of eighteen, she married Almanzo James Wilder. They bought the small farm in the
Ozarks, where they remained for the rest of their live. Their only daughter, Rose, who had
become a nationally known journalist, encouraged her mother to write. Serving like agent and
editor, Rose negotiated with Harper's to publish her mother's first book,
Little House on the Big
Woods.
Seven more books followed, each chronicling her early life on the plains. Written from
the perspective of a child, they have remained popular to young readers from many nations.
Twenty years after her death in 1957, more than 20 million copies had been sold, and they had
been translated into fourteen languages. In 1974, a weekly television series, "
Little House on

the Prairie
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MTV stands on Music Television. It's a television channel dedicated into pop music. It was born
on 1st August 1981 in the United States. Because of MTV's instant success on the US, the
company expanded into other areas. MTV Europe started operating on 1st August 1987. MTV
Europe broadcast 24 hours a day from its London studios. It can be seen in 33 countries and
reach an estimated audience of 110 million viewers.
People of 19 different nationalities work at London headquarters, and they try to offer a
mixture of music from all ever Europe. The channel broadcasts in English but Germany provides
the biggest number of viewers. Currently, one five of the music is by German artists.
Most of TV output is video and concerts, but there is also a programme called
Unplugged, where major artists play live and acoustic on front of a small studio audience.
In addition for music, the channel's programmes deal with new, movie information and
comedy. MTV has also broadcast special report on racism, immigration and unemployed
teenager.
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VIII. There're ten mistakes in this passage. Find them and correct them.
Regrets

Most of us are always forgetting important date, apart to the lucky few who are blessed
with a good memory or the ability to organize themselve so they don't forget importance