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    The document provides two passages with grammatical errors to correct. The first passage is about life paradoxes at a Tanzanian fish farm, where locals who rear the fish starve while privileged families eat fish exported abroad. The second passage describes the ill-fated 1986 space shuttle Challenger mission, which exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing its seven-member crew including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Students are tasked with identifying and correcting one grammatical error in each of the 10 lines for both passages.

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    The document provides two passages with grammatical errors to correct. The first passage is about life paradoxes at a Tanzanian fish farm, where locals who rear the fish starve while privileged families eat fish exported abroad. The second passage describes the ill-fated 1986 space shuttle Challenger mission, which exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing its seven-member crew including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Students are tasked with identifying and correcting one grammatical error in each of the 10 lines for both passages.

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    Weekly Editing Practice Term 1 Week 7: Name: Class: Date

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    The document provides two passages with grammatical errors to correct. The first passage is about life paradoxes at a Tanzanian fish farm, where locals who rear the fish starve while privileged families eat fish exported abroad. The second passage describes the ill-fated 1986 space shuttle Challenger mission, which exploded 73 seconds after launch, killing its seven-member crew including teacher Christa McAuliffe. Students are tasked with identifying and correcting one grammatical error in each of the 10 lines for both passages.

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    Weekly Editing Practice Term 1 Week 7

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    Section A [10 marks]

    Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines about the paradox of life. The first and last lines are
    correct. For the remaining ten lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.

    Circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided.
    The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence.

    Example:

    I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. at

    It is a sunny day at the fish farm. A woman picks up a fish carcass from the

    maggot-infested ground and lay it back on a wooden rack which is swarming with 1 ………………...

    flies to dry. Some distance away, the men are perspiring more than usual, but 2 ………………...

    they load the daily catch into the back of an old cargo plane bound to the 3 ………………...

    European market. There is enough fish here to feed an entire village, yet 4 ………………...

    Tanzania is a land of paradox: locals whose rear the fish starve to their 5 ………………...

    bones while privileged families feast on fillets flying halfway across the world. 6 ………………...

    Across the continent of Africa, a same story is repeated: in Sierra Leone, 7 ………………...

    the paradox has to do with diamonds; in Honduras, bananas; and in Libya, crude oils. 8 ………………...

    Globalisation has allowed a vicious cycle of economic exploit and social 9 ………………...

    strife to flourish to the great detriment of poorer nation, thus raising more calls 10 ...………………

    for richer nations to do their parts to alleviate this situation.

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    Section A [10 marks]

    Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines about the ill-fated space shuttle, Challenger. The first and
    last lines are correct. For the remaining ten lines, there is one grammatical error in each line.

    Circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided.
    The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence.

    Example:

    I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. at

    Challenger, NASA’s second space shuttle to enter service, was scheduled to launch on

    January 22nd, carrying a seven-member crews that included Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year- 1 ………………...

    old high school social studies instructor from New Hampshire who had earn a 2 ………………...

    spot at the mission through NASA's Teacher in Space Programme. After 3 ………………...

    undergoing month of training, she was set to become the first ordinary 4 ………………...

    American citizen to travel into space. The mission's launch at Kennedy 5 ………………...

    Space Centre, was delayed for six days due to weather and technicality 6 ………………...

    problems. The morning of January 28th was unusually cold, and engineers warn 7 ………………...

    his superiors that certain components - particularly the rubber O-rings that 8 ………………...

    sealed the joints of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters - was vulnerable to failure 9 ………………...

    at low temperatures. However, this warnings went unheeded, and Challenger lifted off. 10 ...………………

    73 seconds later, the shuttle exploded, broke apart and plunged into the ocean, killing its

    entire crew.

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