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The passage contains 10 errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct ii in the following way.
For a wrong word underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the
blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word mark the position of the missing word with a " A " sign
and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank
provided at the end of the line.
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.
Critics continuously debate literature’s chief function. Tracing their 1.______
arguments towards Plato, many contend that literature’s primary function is 2.______
moral, its chief value being its usefulness of cultural or societal purposes. 3.______
But others, like Aristotle, hold that a work of arts can be analyzed and 4.______
broken down into its various parts, with a part contributing to the overall 5.______
enjoyment of the work itself. For these critics, the value of a text is found
under the text itself or is inseparably linked to the work itself. In its most 6.______
simple terms, the debate centers around two concerns: Is literature’s chief
function to teach or to entertain In the other words, can we read a text for 7.______
the just fun of it, or must we always be studying and learning from what we 8.______
read
Such questions and their various answers lead us directly to literary
theory, for literary theory concerned itself not only with ontological 9.______
questions ( whether a text really exists), but also with epistemological issues
(how we know or ways of knowing). When we ask, then, that literature’s 10.______
chief function is to entertain or to teach, we are really asking
epistemological questions. Whether we read a text to learn from it or to be
entertained, we can say that once we have read a text we "know" that text.

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The average man who uses a telephone could not explain how a telephone works. He takes for granted the telephone, the railway train, the linotype, the airplane, as our grandfathers took for granted the miracles of the gospels. He neither questions nor understands them. It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day’s work is regarded by most men as a gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate. We revel in speculations about anything at all-about life after death or about such questions as that which is said to have puzzled Aristotle, why sneezing from noon to midnight was good, but from night to noon unlucky. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take such a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. The great pleasure of ignorance is, after all, the, pleasure of asking questions. The man who has lost this pleasure or exchanged it for the, pleasure of dogma, which is the pleasure of answering, is already beginning to stiffen. One envies so inquisitive a man as Jewell, who sat down to the study of physiology in his sixties. Most of us have lost the sense of our ignorance long before that age. We even become vain of our squirrel’s hoard of knowledge and regard increasing age itself as a school of omniscience. We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.