Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there
are altogether i0 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a
word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections
in the blank provided If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct
word in the
corresponding blank If you and a word put an insertion mark (A) in the
right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word cross
it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Te1evision is rapidly becoming the literature 1. time/times/period of our
periods. Many of the arguments having for the study 2.
of literature as a school subject are valid for study 3. the
of television.
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties
which are nothing new in the history of cities, except
in their scale. Some cities have lost their original
purpose and have not found new one. And any large or rich S1.
city is going to attract poor immigrants, who flood in, S2.
filling with hopes of prosperity which are then often
disappointing. There are backward towns on the edge of S3.
Bombay or Brasilia, just as though there were on the edge of
seventeenth-century London or early nineteenth-century S4.
Paris. This is new is the scale.
Descriptions written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor S5.
of Mexico City, and the enormous contrasts that was to be found S6.
there, are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today -
the poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosperity, but
behind it lies two myths: the myth of the city as a promised land, S7.
that attracts immigrants from rural poverty and brings it flooding S8.
into city centers, and the myth of the country as a Garden of Eden, S9.
which, a few generations late, sends them flooding out again to S10.
the suburbs.
Part V Writing （30 minutes）
Directions：For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a
composition on the topic Student Use of Computers. You should write at least 150
words, and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:
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