The passage contains TEN 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 it 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"
∧ "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. One of the strangest things about dispute over
advertising is that the greater the fuss the much of a mystery the
industry itself seems to become. Advertising is a passionate area. It
seems to affect those who attack it and those who defend it in remarkable
similar ways. Before long both are exhibiting (1)
______ the same compulsive urge to overstate their case to that it is
difficult to believe that the critics and the defenders (2) ______ of
advertising are even arguing for the same thing. But just as it seemed
sensible for us to regard advertising without go (3)
______ to either extreme, so it also seemed logical to try and find
as cold-bloodedly as if we could, what advertising in the Britain
(4) ______ of the sixties really was. We knew that they
consumed around ＄ 950 million a
(5) ______ year, or roughly 2 percent of the national
income. We knew that it employed something over 200,000 individuals,
the majority of which were paid salaries considerably above the
(6) ______ national average. And we knew that it was
supposedly run in accordance certain rather vague and often complex rules and
(7) ______ professional
orders. Therefore once we tried finding out exactly what all this
(8) ______ money went on, what these highly
paid individuals did for it (and with it) ,and how the rules and orders
influenced them, a curious thing happened. This strange animal called
advertising, so disliked by its supporters and so beloved by its defenders,
(9) ______ began to disappear. In its place were
advertising men and advertising agencies—all working in different ways and
to different rules and all showed quite startling differences (10)
______ of competence, taste and effectiveness.