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Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes) 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 literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. /___________ As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________
Thomas Malthus published his "Essay on the Principle of Population" almost 200 years ago. Ever since then, forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1. _____ just around the next corner. The fast-growing population's demand for food, they warned, would soon exceed their S2. _____ supply, leading to widespread food shortages and starvation. But in reality, the world's total grain harvest has risen steadily over the years. Except for relative isolated trouble S3. _____ spots like present-day Somalia, and occasional years of good harvests, the world's food crisis has remained just S4. _____ around the corner. Most experts believe this can continue even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century, S5. _____ although feeding I0 billion people will not be easy for politics, economic and environmental reasons. Optimists S6. _____ point to concrete examples of continued improvements in yield. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more S7. _____ fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than double corn and wheat yields in an experiment. Elsewhere, S8. _____ rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9. _____ stems and more seeds. There is no guarantee that plant breeders can continue to develop new, higher-yielding crop, but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10. _____ for hope.
Part V Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Reduce Waste on Campus You should write at least 120 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
Reduce Waste on Campus 1. 有些大学校园浪费现象日益严重 2. 浪费的危害 3. 杜绝浪费,从我做起
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