Tìm lỗi sai trong đoạn văn và sửa

Ôn thi vào lớp 10 chuyên Anh và thi Học sinh giỏi môn tiếng anh Chuyên đề: Tìm lỗi sai trong đoạn văn và sửa Exercise 1:The passage below contains TEN mistakes.. Identify the mistakes

Ôn thi vào lớp 10 chuyên Anh và thi Học sinh giỏi môn tiếng anh

Chuyên đề: Tìm lỗi sai trong đoạn văn và sửa

Exercise 1:The passage below contains TEN mistakes Identify the mistakes and provide the corrections in the spaces below

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One of the most amazing marathon races in the world is the Marathon of the Sands It takes places every April in the Sahara Desert in the south of Morocco, a part of the world when temperatures can reach fifty degrees centigrade The standard length of the marathon is 42.5 kilometers but this one is 240 kilometers long and spends seven days to complete It began in 1986 and now attracts about two hundred runners, the majority of their ages range from seventeen to forty-seven About half of them come from France and the rest to all over the world From Britain, it costs 2,500 pounds to enter, this includes return air fares The race is rapidly getting more and more popular despite, and perhaps because of, the harsh conditions that runners must endure They have to carry food and something else they need for seven days in a rucksack weighing no more than twelve kilograms In addition to this, they are given a liter and a half of water every ten kilometers Incredibly, near all the runners finish the course One man, Ibrahim EI Joual, took part in every race from 1986 to 2004 Runners do suffer terrible physical hardships Sometimes they lose toenails and skin peels on their foot However, doctors are always

on hand to deal with minor injuries and to make sure that runners do not push themselves too far

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Đáp án:

1 Line 1 places  place

2 Line 2 when  where

3 Line 4 spends  takes

4 Line 5 their  whose

5 Line 6 to  from

6 Line 7 this  which

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8 Line 9 something  anything

9 Line 11 near  nearly

10 Line 13 foot  feet Exercise 2:The passage below contains TEN mistakes Underline the mistakes and provide the corrections in the spaces below

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Plastics are among the most ubiquitous materials in our economy, our lives, and our environment They are also among the most pervasive and persistent pollution on Earth

In recent years, stark images of beaches, waterways and wildlife filling with plastic have spurred demands on action to address plastic pollution These calls are coupled with grown concern that plastic and its toxic additives pose serious risks to human health at every stages of the plastic lifecycle Far more attention has been paid to the impacts of this same lifecycle on the Earth’s climate This is a dangerous oversight From catastrophic wildfires in California to searing heat waves and record drought in India, the scale and growing severe of the climate crisis are undeniable The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that humanity must limit warming below 1.5C or face far greater and potential irreversible climate chaos Achieving this, we must cut global emissions 45% in 2030 and reach zero net emissions by 2050

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1 Line 3: pollution-> pollutants 6 Line 7: more - > less

Exercise 3: There are 10 mistakes in the following passage Write them down and give the

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Of the many unexplained phenomenon which continue to puzzle scientists and laymen like, the corn circles of Southern England remain one of the most mysterious These perfect-formed circles, which, when they see from the air appear to have been inscribed with an enormous carving tool, seem to be a part of significant message; so far, however, nobody managed to decipher it, and it is doubtful if anyone will ever be able to But the main question – how the circles came to be there – are just as far from being solved Although several people have come forward claiming to have made the circles ourselves, scientists declare that it would be impossible for even a large group to create shapes of such precision

on so a large scale These circles have become one of the strongest arguments in support

of the existing of intelligent extra-terrestrial life forms

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Đáp án:

4 5 significant message a significant message

Exercise 4: The passage below contains TEN mistakes Underline the mistakes and

provide the corrections in the spaces below

Crime preventing is as crucial in the workplace as it is in the home or neighbourhood Reducing

crime is as much a part of good management as prompt delivery, good staff relations, and other

acceptable management functions Losses from shops through shoplifting are extremely high

and utimately, those losses are payment for by all of us in high prices There are many

opportunities for shopkeepers themselves to reduce shoplifting As with all types of criminal,

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prevention is better than cure The best deterrent is the present of staff properly trained in how

to identify potential shoplifters There are also many secure devices now available Video

camera surveillance is a popular system, even with quite small retailers In clothes shopping,

magnetic tag marking systems that set off an alarm if they are taken out of the shop have proved

their worthless However, there are many simpler measures that retailers should consider Better

lighting and ceiling-hung mirrors can help staff to watch all parts of the display area Similarly,

simply arrangement shelves and display units to allow clear fields of visible is a good deterrent

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1 preventing->prevention 6 secure -> security

2 acceptable-> accepted 7 shopping -> shops

4 criminal -> crime 9 arrangement -> arranging

5 present - > presence 10 visible ->vision/visibility

Exercise 5: The passage below contains 10 mistakes IDENTIFY and CORRECT them Write your answers in the space provided in the column

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Leonardo Dicaprio is one of the hotter young film stars around at the moment His face has been on the covers of all the top movies and young magazines over the last few months and he has been the subject of countless articles, rumours and showbiz gossip Leonardo doesn’t like reading about him because “I read things about me that I’ve never said in my life and never did”

Leonardo Dicaprio was born in Los Angeles on 11 November, 1974 He’s

a Scorpio His full name is Leonardo Wilhelm Dicaprio His mother is Germany and his father Italian-American They called him Leonardo because when his mother was still pregnant, he started kicking while she was stood in front of a painting by Leonardo De Vinci His friends call him

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Leo He has a scar from when he was stinging by a Portuguese man-of-war His parents separated before he was born, so his mother moved to a poor neighborhood of Hollywood there Leo grew up At school he was very good

at imitating people, especially Michael Jackson This made him very popularly His childhood hero was Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea After appearance in TV commercials and episodes of Roseanne, he played the cast of Roseanne, the TV sitcom starring Kirk Cameron Leonard played the part of Luke, a homeless boy Lately, he played the part of Jim Carroll

in The Basketball Diaries But he has really become famous since he acted

in the film Titanic

Your answers: Ex: Line 1: hotter =>hottest

Đáp án:

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Exercise 6: The passage below contains 10 mistakes Identify and correct the mistakes

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Source: FCE successful practice tests

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The Thames Barrier is a major part of the flood defending scheme for protecting

London against rise water levels The defenses also include raised river embankments and additional flood gates at strategic points, including the Barking Barrier The unique structure that are the Barrier spans the 520-metre wide Woolwich reach and consist of

10 separate movable gates, each pivoting and supported between concrete structures which house the operating machinery When raising, the four main gates each stands

as high as a five-storey building and as wide as the opening of Tower Bridge Each weights 3700 tonnes During the first twelve years of operation, the Barrier has closed twenty-nine times to protect London View the Barrier from the comfortable cafeteria Picnic at the riverside embankment Enjoy beautiful views from the riverside walk Visit the shop stocks a large selection

of souvenirs, books and Barrier information There is a children play area suitable for 4-to-12-year olds, located adjacent near the riverside walk A visit to the spectacular Thames Barrier is a memorable experience

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Exercise 7: There are ten mistakes in the text below Underline the mistakes and correct them in the space provided

Although speech is the most advance form of communication, there are many ways

of communication without using speech Signals, signs, symbols and gestures may be

find in every known culture The basic function of a signal is to impinging on the environment in such way that it attracts attention as the dots and the dashes of a telegraph circuit Coding to refer to speech, the potential for communication is very great Less adaptable to the codification of words, signs also contain meaning in and of themselves A stop sign or a barber pole conveys meaning quickly and conveniently Symbols are more difficult to describe than signals and signs because of its relationship with the receiver's cultural perceptions In some cultures, applauding in a theatre provides performances with

an auditory symbol of approval Gestures such as waving and handshaking also communicate some certain cultural message Although signals, signs, symbols and gestures are very useful, they do have a major disadvantage They usually do not allow ideas to share without the sender being directly adjacent to the receiver

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Exercise 8: There are ten mistakes in the following passage Find and correct them

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Skiing is one of the most popular sports in the world According to recent estimation, about one hundred millions of people ski regularly or occasionally

Sliding across the snow on skis is also one of the most ancient methods

of transport known to the man It has demonstrated that men were already travelling across the snow by means of primitive skis before the invention of the wheel In the Asiatic region of Altai and in Scandinavia, for example , the remains of skis have been found which dated back to 4,000 BC Further evidence is supplied by ancient cave paintings which depict people skiing, and a Norway saga which tells the story of an invasion of its territory 8,000 years ago by a tribe of skiers who came from the north

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Nowadays, skiing, apart from a sport, has become a big industry and a notable feature of leisure culture Ski resorts and all the activity that they generate is the main source of wealth in many mountain regions, which were previously remote and accessible And far from its once elitist image, skiing is now enjoyed by an increasingly broader spectra of society

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1 estimation - Line: 2 estimates

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Exercise 9: The passage below contains TEN mistakes Underline the mistakes and provide

the corrections in the spaces below

Human memory happens in many parts of the brain in once, and some

types of memories stick around longer than other It was formally

believed to be rather inefficient, however, it is really more sophisticated

than that of a computer Researchers approached the problem from a

variety of point of view have all concluded that there is a great deal

more store in our minds than has been generally supposed Dr Wilder

Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, proved that by stimulating their

brains electrically he could elicit the total recall of specific events in his

subjects’ life The memory trace is the term for whatever is the internal

representation of the specific information about the event stored in the

memory Assumed to have been done by structural changes in the brain,

the memory trace is not subject for direct observation but is rather a

theoretical construct that we use to speculate about how information

presented at a later time Almost theories include the strength of the

memory trace as a variable in the degree of learning, retention, and

retrieval possible for a memory One theory is that it is the result of an

limited combination of interconnections between brain information

that support recall Or, to put it other way, improved performance is the

result of strengthening the chemical bond in the memory

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1 line 2 formally => formerly 6 line 10 for => to

2 line 3 approached => approaching 7 line 11 almost => most/ almost all

3 line 4 store => stored 8 line 13 limited => unlimited

4 line 7 life => lives 9 line 14 other => another

5 line 9 done => made 10 line 15 bond => bonds

Exercise 10: The passage below contains 10 mistakes Find out and correct them

Even before the turn of the century, movies began to develop in two major directions: the realistic and the formalistic Realism and formalism are merely general, rather than absolute, terms When using to suggest a tendency toward either polarity, such labels can be helpful, but at the end they are still just labels Few films are exclusive formalist in style, and fewer yet are completely realist There is also an important difference between realism and reality, although this distinct is often forgotten Realism is a particular style, where physical reality is the source of all the raw materials of film, both realistic and formalistic Virtually all movie directors go to the photographable world for their subject matter, but what they do with this material - what they shape and manipulate it - determines their stylistic emphasis

Generally speaking, realistic films attempt to reproduce the surface of concrete reality with a minimum of distortion In photographing objects and events, the filmmaker tries to suggest the copiousness of life himself Both realist and formalist film directors must select (and hence emphasize) certain details from the chaotic sprawl of reality But the element of selectivity in realistic films is less obvious Realists, in short, try to preserve the illusion that their film world

is unmanipulated, an objective mirror of the actual world Formalists, on the other hand, make no such pretense They deliberately stylize and distort their crude materials so that only the very naive should mistake a manipulated image

of an object or event to the real thing

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1 using -> used 6 what -> how

2 at -> in 7 himself -> itself