Part 3 Practice

In mos t lines of the following three texts, there is O NE unnecessary

word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the
sense of the text. Cross out the word or tick the line as a correct one.

Coral reefs

1. Indonesia's coral reefs are in a trouble. Coral mining, industrial pollution and
2. toxic agricultural runoff all play a role in their destruction, but the fishermen
3. have been being the worst offenders. They not only bomb fish but also poison
4. them with cyanide, an equally destructive practice. Fishermen are also among
5. in the biggest potential victims of the devastation. Two thirds of Indonesia's 7,000
6. coastal villages are adjacent to coral reefs and thus are depend for their livelihood
7. on the harvest of reef fish and crustaceans. The disappearing reefs are already
8. leading back to a dramatic decline in the productivity of coastal fisheries and to
9. increasing turf wars among fishermen for the remaining of spoils. Indonesia's
10. reefs are vast - they cover for 51,000 square kilometres, surround 17,500
islands
11. and stretch 3,500 kilometres from Sumatra to Irian Jaya but they are not much
12. infinite. Many foreign experts and Indonesians fear it that the region's entire
13. marine environment could be seriously and irreversibly damaged if the reefs
keep dying at their present rate.

adapted from "Saving the Coral Reefs" in "Newsweek" Nov. 12, 2001

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 The new Robonaut

1. The new Robonaut, a collaborative effort with the Defense Advanced Research
2. Projects Agency, is also known as DARPA, has been under development at JSC
3. for the last in several years. Astronaut Nancy Currie stepped into an advanced
4. concept space suit to participate in the test as the squad leader. The task at his
5. hand was to assemble an aluminum truss of structure. Currie and her Robonaut
6. companions have assembled the truss several times, significantly cutting the
time
7. that required to complete the task on each run. After the structure was assembled,
8. the team installed electrical cable, with the Robonauts taking the cable out of its
9. package and by routing it around the truss to Currie, who connected it to the
truss
10. and using a standard EVA electrical connector and wire ties. To wrap up the test
11. series, they simulated what would happen if a hazardous chemical contaminated
12. Currie's space suit, with Currie using a special brush to remove off the
13. make-believe chemical one and then handing the brush to a Robonaut to clean
the places she couldn't.

excerpt from www.spacedaily.com "Humans. Robots Work Together To Test Spacewalk Squad"

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 Fizzy drinks and children

1. There was a time when children drank water or milk. That has been gone as surely
2. as short trousers for schoolboys and the rag and bone for man's horse and cart.
3. Wherever today's kids hang out - be it not in fast-food restaurants, in cinemas, at
4. home or at school - they are swigging cola and cans of fruit-flavoured fizz. Last
5. year more than 200 litres of the stuff bubbled down with each of their gullets.
6. And they are getting alarmingly fat. Could these facts be connected? It is
a suggestion
7. that makes the soft drinks industry be incandescent with rage, but the Geneva-
8. based World Health Organisation (WHO) has for the first time nailed it to
9. the agenda in a ground-breaking draft report on obesity and nutrition. The report
10. urges those governments to clamp down on TV ads pushing "sugar-rich items"
11. only to impressionable thirsty youngsters and to consider slapping heavier taxes
12. on them. It suggests that school vending machines should be turned down into
13. scrap metal. This is all-out war. The WHO, however concerned about the rising tide
of obesity
14. that is killing and debilitating millions in rich countries such as the United
15. States and Britain, and that is now edging into the poor countries to coexist
16. obscenely with malnutrition, means business. The soft drinks industry, which
17. appalled at this interference together with its global dominance, disputes not only
18. the scientific evidence but the WHO's right even to raise issues out of taxes and
advertising.

adapted from "Are fizzy drinks doing this to our childrerf?" in "The Guardian Weekly"

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 In mos t lines of the following two texts, there is either a spelling or
a punctuation error. In the space provided write the correctly-spelled
word or sh ow the correct punctuation. Indicate the correct lines with
a tick.

Scotland's islands

1. Scotland lays claim to 780 major islands. Two of Scotland's principial

2. island groups, Orkney and Shetland, lie of the north coast, and much
3. of their history and culture is routed in their ancient links with Norway
4. The Western Isles, or Outer Hebrides is the third important group,
5. while the Inner Hebrides, e.g. Skye and Mull, are magical, stepping
6. stones between the mainland and the outer isles. The east coast has
7. no inhabitated islands but some spectacular rocks in the Firth of
8. Forth. There are schedulled air services to Orkney, Shetland and
9. the Western Isles, as well as car and passanger ferry services whose
10. timetables change with the seasons. There are airstripes on some of
11. the Inner Hebrides, but unless you own or charter a light aircraft they
12. can only be reached in the best way possible: by sea.
13. 'Island-hopping with the ferries of Caledonian MacBrayne may be a
14. modest form of cruising but there are few seaways more gloriuos
15. The individual characters of the Inner Hebrides inspire loyality in
16. locals and visitors alike. Those who love Skye, will seldom be
17. persuaded that Mull has much to offer, while the passionatly insular
18. will despice both. The two largest islands lie close to the mainland
19. and have the most developed tourist-industries. But even at
20. the height of the tourist season both islands' offer plenty of
21. opportunity for solitude and repose; not to mention a strong,
sometimes intimidating sense of their essential wilderness.

adapted from "Scotland" by Julie Davidson

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 Death penalty

I.That the U.S. executes people is troubleing to death-penalty

2. opponents around the world. But nowhere, perhaps does it pose
3. such a problem as in the European countries that share Americas
4. democratic values and maintain close economic military and cultural
5. ties with their transatlantic partner. "Europeans are apalled at
6. the unabated pursuit of the application of the death penalty in
7. the U.S., says Bianca Jagger, an official of Amnesty International
8. U.S.A. They cannot understand how the U.S. can claim to be
9. the leading champion of democracy and continue to apply the death
10. penalty." Belgian novelist and essayst Pierre Mertens similarly
11. observes," It is a tragic paradox that the delux country among
12. the democracies resorts to this kind of barbarity" Concerning
13. the question of capital punishment, the U.S. and its allys stand on
14. opposite sides of a great divide. All members of the European
15. Union's have banned the death penalty, and the organization actively
16. promotes its abolition througout the world. Brussels has made
17. abolition a precondition to E.U. membership, as has the 41-member
18. Council Of Europe, thereby spurring most East and Central European
aspirants to do away with capital punishment.

adapted from "Life or Death

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