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 fallowing 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.
In the early 1450s cultural change in Europe fueled a growing
need for the rapid and cheap production of written documents. Before
this time, scribal monks hand-copied sacred texts for centuries. But for the
secular world began to develop and
(1) ______ distribute new forms of sacred texts, the scribes could not
keep up the demand. Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and businessman
(2) ______ from southern Germany, foresees
the profit-making potential for a (3) ______ printing
press that used movable metal type, and borrowed money to develop that we
know now as the modern printing press. He
(4) ______ developed his press by combing features of existed
technologies: (5) ______ textile, papermaking and
wine presses. Perhaps his most significant innovation,
therefore, was the (6) ______ efficient
molding and casting of movable metal type. Gutenberg designed a Latin print
Bible which became his most famous work. Despite of the dramatic success of
his printing press, (7)
______ Gutenberg managed to default on a loan and lost his whole printing
establishment. His techniques were made publicly and his creditor
(8) ______ won the rights to the proceeds from the Gutenberg
Bibles. In 1476, William Caxton set up England’s first printing
press. Caxton had been a prolific translator and found the printing
press to be a marvelousway to expand his mission of promoting unpopular
literature, the innovation of the printing press ultimately (9)
______ influenced art, literature, philosophy and politics. Today, print
is thought of as one of the markers of key historical shifts in (10)
______ communication, creating a social and intellectual transform.