Paper Two
Part I Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to add a word, cross out a word, or change a word. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you cross out a word, put a slash ( / ) in the blank. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. Many of the arguments having used for the study of litera?ture as a school subject are valid for∧study of television.
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Within the nineteenth century, the mechanization of farming and the fencing of range land opened the agricultural heart of North America to intensive development. For the natural geographic center of this region, Chicago became the crossroads of vast transportation network. The great waterway systems of the Mississippi valley and the Great Lakes was linked in Chicago in 1847, which the Illinois?Michigan Canal was opened to traffic. Within the next year, rail lines began to operate trains to and from the city. The raise of agricultural activity demanded facilities for the storage and milling of grain, the slaughtering of cattle, and the processing and shipment of meat. The manufacture of farm machinery branched out into the basic metal?fabricating and woodworking industries. Which soon attracted banks and another financial institutions. Four years after the end of the Civil War, Chicago was already established as the focal point of the largest system of inland waterways in the world and the hub of a rail network where extended to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. Productive potential of the city was unparalleled, and the pace of its industrial expansion reached explosive proportions.
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