MISTAKE CORRECTION PRACTICE

The followin passage contains 10 errors. Identify and correct them.

Passage 1:

No education medium better serves as a means of spatial communication than the atlas. Atlases deal with as
invaluable information as population distribution and density. One of the best, Pennycooke's Wolf Atlas, had been
widely accepted as a standard owing to the quality of their maps and photographs, which not only show various
settlements but also potray them in a variety of scales. In fact, the very first map in atlas is cleverly designed
population cartogram that projects the size of each country if the geographical size is proportional for population.
Following the proportional outlay, a sequence of smaller maps shows the world''s population desnsity, each
country's birth and death rates, population increase or decrease, industrialization, urbanizarion, gross national
products in terms of per captial income, the quality of medical care, literacy, and language. Giving readers a
perspective on how their own country fits in with the global view, additive projections depict the world's patterns in
nutrition, calorie and protein consumption, health care, number of physicians per unit of population, and the life
expectancy by region. Population density maps on a subcontinental scale, as well as political maps, convey the
diversely demographic phenomena of the world in a broad array of scales.

Passage 2:

All at once it was a night. The track was grassy and even in daylight showed up hard at all against the moor, so it is
difficult to keep on it now. If only I had been a smoker with match always to hand, or if my torch had been in my
pocket instead of in the suitcase, I would have walked with more assurance. As it was, I was terrifyling of hurling
over the edge in the cliff to the rock below. When I did stray, however, they was towards the hills. I felt my feet
squelching and sticking in somthing soggy. There was no bog to my knowledge near the track, so I must have
wandered the long way off my course. I extricated myself with difficulty and very cautious edged myself towards the
sound of the sea. Then I bumped in a little clump of tress that suddenly loomed up behind me.

Passage 3:

The notion that there are two species of African elephant first emerged about a decade ago. The animals are very
different in size; the savannah or bush elephants stand about a meter taller, and weigh twice as many as their
forest-dwelling cousins. But whether it means they are truly different species hasn't been clear. Now a team of
researchers from the UK, Germany and the US, say they've resolved the issue. Written in the journal Public library
of Science Biology, they say their analysis proves the subistence of two distinctive species. This has been a hotly-
disputed question, and it is entirely possible that other researchers challenge the claim. If it is confirmed. there may
be important implications for conservation. Forest's elephants are mainly found in Central and Western Africa, the
areas where poaching and ivory smuggling are most serious. There, populations are declined. Further south, in the
domain of the savannah elephants, the animals are thriving. Conservatives say proving the species split could help
concentrate attention, where it's most needed, in nations that have done little to crack out on proachers and
smugglers.

Passage 4:

The big majority of students who make well in the Cambridge Proficiency Examination have learnt to use a good
monolingual dictionary effectively. Such dictionaries provide informations, not just about the meanings for words but
about their pronunciation and grammar as well. A student who studies how to use a dictionary effectively will be
able to work independently for much of the time, and will gain considerable insight to the workings of the English
language. He or she will be able to confirm to the meanings of words in a text where contextual clues are
insufficient, pronounce words accurately by studying the phonological transcriptions and use words accurately both
when speaking and writing. Make sure you make the room for at least one good monolingual dictionary on your
bookshelf-and the make sure you use it at a regular basis!

Passage 5:

Normal houses are full of hazardous waste . The most important hazardous wast in the homes is batteries. If you
throw them out with your other garbage, they are open at the landfill. The poison inside moves through rain water
and other liquids to the bottom of the landfill. Then they can pollute the natural water in the ground. We should use
rechargeable batteries.

Other hazardous water in homes is motor oil. Don't throw old motor oil in the ground and throw it on the garbage. It
poisons the environment. We should recycle motor oil.

Painting is another kind of hazardous waste in homes. Some cities have "Paint Exchange Day". If you bring in open,
unused blue paind and want red, they give you red, sometimes they mix the paint together into strange colours. If
you paint walls with them, you help save the environment.