B. PRACTISING
YOUR SPELLING SKILLS
Proofread the passage. Mind the italicized words:
People
enter the United States
Research
had found that many people react to a knew
place and culture in match the
same way. Generally speaking, newcomers are excited about the new place and are
vary interested in everything.
Now do the same with the following passages.
Replace the wrongly spelt words with the correct ones.
1.
But the
first think my tutor deed with me was too work at foreign languages, especially
French, in witch I, like most of the boys, was very week; end in three months I
could reed eat fluently and understand any French book. Words and grammar and
conversations I learn in the ordinary course at school; bat at home I learn
nothing buy heart: my tutor took a book and maid me read and translate allowed.
At first I was completely puzzled, and this method seamed two me absurd and
wearisome; but my teacher stack to it, and I was soon delighted by it’s
success. I made a separate least off words I did not know; then I wrote out a
literal translation of the French, a rough copy and then a fare copy. I had the
active memory of youth, and I was always able to repeat next morning, without
having learnt them the friends original, my Russian translation, and the
separate list of words. (19 mistakes)
2.
Polak and
I had often vary heated discussions about the desirability or otherwise off
giving the children an English education. It has always bean my conviction that
Indian parents who train their children to thing and talk in English from there
infancy betray they’re children and they’re country. They deprive them of the
spiritual and social heritage of the nation, and render them to that extend
unfit four the service of the country. Having this convictions, I made a point
of always talking to my children in Gujerati. Polak never liked this. He
thought I was spoiling they’re future. He contended, with all the vigour and
love at he’s command, that if children where to learn a universal language like
English from they’re infancy, they wood easily gain considerable advantage over
other’s in the rays of life. He failed to convince me. I do not now remember
weather I convinced him of the correctness of my attitude, or weather he gave
me up us to obstinate. (21 mistakes)
3.
Some
individuals have very little rage in their voices when giving a speech. There
voices sound flat and uninteresting. Strive for vocal variety, knot a monotone
voice. You can avoid attention-killing monotony bye raising and lowering the
peach of you’re voice. The singing voice has a range of peach from soprano to
bass. Similarly, you can very you’re speaking voice by moving up and down the
vocal rage from high sounds and buck.
Monotony
can also bee avoided buy varying the loudness or softness of your voice. A
raised voice signals intense, passionate fillings. It will punctuate portions
of you’re presentation match us an exclamation point punctuates a written
sentence. Using vocal volume to gain attention, however, can be overdone. As
Mark Twain noted, “Noise proofs nothing. Often a hen witch has merely led an
egg cackles us if eat led an asteroid.” (22 mistakes)
4.
Unlike a
conventional diet, which stresses guilt and abstention, particularly with
regard two fats and protein, the Atkins diet encourages fisting on such
delights us eggs, bacon, stake, and cream while avoiding carbohydrates, such as
bread, potatoes end pasta. Coupled with celebrity endorsements from the likes
of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Aniston, the promise of munching threw saw
many ones forbidden thinks to loose wait fast has maid the diet enormously
successful- especially in America, were nearly too-thirds off the population
are overwait. When the Atkins diet begun to take of rapidly in America
5.
For all
the complains about modern farming, agriculture is one of the great success
stories off the post-war period: the world produces twice as much grain as it
did in 1960, on only a third more land- enough too provide 2,700 calories a day
four every person on the planet. Yet, more than 800m people are steal
chronically malnourished , most of them in the developing world. As “Ending
Hunger in Our Lifetime” argues to say
that hunger is strictly a distribution problem is like saying that if the rein
fell evenly over the earth there wood bee know droughts; the origins of, and
solutions too, this mismatch between food and hungry mouths are rather more
complex.
Many of
the hungry people in pour plaices are farmers themselves. They’re failure to
grow- and earn- enough stems from a variety of reasons, from a luck off access
too modern farming tools two environmental constraints to pour roads witch
prevent them from reaching markets. (19
mistakes)