The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated lie 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.
Begun in the late 1960s by Pentagon weapons researchers as a
system for easing communication between computers in disparate electric
networks, the Internet has (1)
______ evolved into a popular vehicle for scientific research, communication,
entertainment, and more. It links together thousands of computer networks
such as those belonging (2) ______ to
corporations, commercial services, universities, and research centers, joining
them as branches on a tree to larger networks known as backbones. Once a
computer is on-line, that is, connected by modem or networking equipment of
the Internet, the user can search (3) ______ through data banks for
documents, chat with other computer users, or instant send
(4) ______ opinions and observations to the likes of President
Bill Clinton, film critic Roger Ebert, or rocker Billy Idol (just to name a
few). No central governing body runs the Internet, and nobody has an exact
census of users. But estimates of the number already range
(5) ______ from around 10 million to as high as 5 million. Well over
10,000 separated computer (6) ______ networks are
connected by the Internet, and total traffic was expected to double
during 1993. Today, the Internet is free resources and commercial services
that provide databases and computer files with a fee. Publishers are seeking
to make books and (7) ______ periodicals
available on the Internet as a profit-making adventure. Meanwhile, works
(8) ______ in the public domain have begun appearing on the
Internet for users to "upload" to their (9) ______ computers virtually
free of charge. With electronic access to data from all over the world,
scholarly research that in the past would have required months of travel could
(10) ______ now be done at one’s desk.