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51.She held all through lunch on a variety of subjJects.
52. Working in the slums brought her the realities of poverty.
53. Their defeat redounds the glory of those whom they attacked.
54. They chipped the power of the government.
55. She gave him the bad news preambile.
Part 3: The passage below contains 10 errors. For questions 56-65, underline the errors and
write the corrections ỉn the corresponding numbered boxes.
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In order to round out my study of wolf family life, I needed to know what
the den was like inside — how deep it was, the diametcr of the path, the presence
(if any) of a nest ỷz the end of the burrow, and such related information. For
obvious reasons, I had not been able to make the investigation while the den was
5 occupied, and since that time I had been too busy with other work to get around
to ït. Later on, with time running out, I was in a hurTy. |
J trotted across country toward the den, and I was within half a mile ofiit
¡ where there was a thunderous roar behind me. It was so loud and unexpected
¡ that I involuntarily lung myself on the moss. The Norseman came over at about
.10 ¡ Bñy feet. As it roared past, the plane waggled its wings gaily in salution, then
| ¡ HRed to skim the crest of the wolf eskery, sending a blast of sand down the
!slope with its propeller wash. I picked up and quieted my thumping heart, |
¡ thinking black thoughts about the humorist ¡n the rapidly vanishing aireraft. |
| The den ridge was, as I had expected, wolfless. Reaching the entrance to
15 the burrow, I shed my heavy trousers, tunic and sweater, and taking a flashlight
(whose batteries were very nearly dead) and measuring tape from my pack, Ĩ
began the difficult task of wiggling down the entrance tunnel. |
The flashlight was so dim (that) it shone only an orange glow — barely.
| sufficient to enable me to read the marks on the measuring tape. I squirmed on,
20 descending at a 45-degree angle, for about eight feet. My mouth and eyes were
¡ soon full of sand and I was beginning to suffer from claustrophobia, for the
| tunnel was Just big enough to admit me.
At the eight-foot mark the tunnel took a sharp upward bend and swung to .
the left. J pointed the torch In the new direction and pressed the switch. |
125 | Four green lights in the murks ahcad reflected back the dim torch beam.
In this case green was not my signal to advance. I foze where I was, while my
¡ startled brain tried to digest the information that at least two wolves were with
| me in the den.
Despite my close familiarity vwith the wolf family, this was the kind of
30 situaưon where irrational but decply Ingrained prejudices completely
| OVermastered reason and experience. To be honest, Ĩ was so frightened that.
paralysis grasped me. I had no weapon of any sort, and in my awkward posture,
I could barely have gotten one hand free to ward off an attack. It secmed
Inevitable that the wolves would attack me...
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