Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as
instructed. The following passage contains TEN
errors. Each 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. The right to pursue happiness is
issued to Americans with their birth cer- tificates, but no one seems quite
sure which way it ran. It may be we are issued a hunting license but offering
no game. Jonathan Swift seemed to think so
1 ______ when he attacked the idea of happiness as "the
possession of being well-de- ceived", the felicity of being "a fool among
knaves". For Swift saw the society 2
______ as Vanity Fair, the land of false goals. It is, of course,
un-American to think as 3 ______ terms of fools and
knaves. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the ide- a of buying our way
to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough. And
at the same time the forces of American commercialism are hugely dedicated to
make us deliberately unhappy. Ad-
4 ______ vertising is one of our major industry, and
advertising exists not to satisfy de- 5
______ sires also to create them — and to create them faster than any
man’s budget 6 ______ can
satisfy it. For that matter, our whole economy is based on a dedicated
7 ______ insatiability. We
are taught that to possess is to be happy, and then we are made to want. We
are even told it is our duty to want. It was only a few years ago, to cite a
single example, which car dealers across the country were flying
8 ______ banners that read" You Auto Buy Now". They were
calling upon Americans, as 9
______ act approaching patriotism, to buy at once, with money they did
not have, au- tomobiles they did not really need, and which they would be
required to grow tired by the time the next year’s models were
released.
10 ______