Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. 1. _times/time/period_
Many of the arguments having used for the study of 2. _/_
literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. _the_
When we consider the comfortable circumstances of a
working family today, the life of the working man in 1882
seems miserable indeed. But earlier it had been even hard. 51. ____
At the beginning of the nineteenth century working hours
were from sunrise to sunset, pay was awful, and working
conditions being poor and dangerous. 52. ____
The working man had little schooling beyond his craft,
and there was little hope that their children would have
nothing better. There were no public schools, and besides, 53. ____
the few pennies which the children could earn needed to 54. ____
help support the family. If he was present because of 55. ____
sickness, there was often no job for him when he returned.
Since there were always plenty of other workers to make 56. ____
his job, he was likely to be hired if he asked for more pay. 57. ____
Viewed against today’s standards, the attitude of the
nineteenth-century factory owners seems incredible. They 58. ____
believed that was good business to hire men, women and 59. ____
children as cheaply as possible, make them work as hard
as they could and, when they became inefficient, worn out,
or unable to work for any reason, charge them. 60. ____
