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.
A lot of people believe that television has a harmful effect on
children. A few years ago, the same criticisms were made of the cinema. But
despite child psychologists have spent a (1)
______ great deal of time studying this problem, there is not many evidence
(2) ______ that television brings up juvenile delinquency.
(3)
______ Few people in the modern world share the views of parents a hundred
years ago. In those days, writers for children carefully avoided any
reference on sex in their books but had (4)
______ no inhibitions abut including scenes of violence. These days
children are often brought up to think freely about sex but violence is
discouraged. Nevertheless, television companies receive a large amount of
letters every week (5)
______ complaining about programs with adult themes being shown at times
which a few young children may be awake. Strangely
(6) ______ enough, the parents who complain about these programs
see no harm in cartoon films for children in which the villain,
usually either an animal or a monster, but in some cases a human being,
suffers one cruel punishment after the other.
(7)______ The fact is that, which every parent
knows, different
(8) ______ things frighten different children. One child can read a
ghost story without having bad dreams while another can not bear to have
the book in his bedroom. In the same way, there is little consistency about
the things that terrify adults. Almost everyone has a irrational private fear
but while some of us (9) ______ can
not stand the sight of spiders, for example, others are frightened from
snakes or rats.
(10)______