Part V Error Detection (10 minutes, 5 points, 0.5 for each)
Directions: In this part, there are 10 sentences. Each sentence has 4 underlined words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct. Mark the corresponding letter with a single bar across the square brackets on your machine-scoring ANSWER SHEET.
71.During the dinner we had agreeable conversation — nothing extraordinary — but catching up
A B C
on recent events of each other’s life.
D
72.Because of the injured people laying on the ground below the windows, fire fighters were
A B
unable to place ground ladders up to the windows on the northeast side of the building.
C D
73.You’d better hurry up if you want to buy something because there’s hardly nothing left.
A B C D
74.A professional wine taster relies on sight, smell and tasting to determine the quality of a wine.
A B C D
75.Sam used to live in Oklahoma, but his company had him transfer to a better position in
A B C D
Georgia.
76.Not too many years ago, it was an excited experience to travel 25 or 50 miles away from
A B C D
home.
77.It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that we shall soon be trusting our health, wealth,
A B
and happiness to elements with whom very name the general public are unfamiliar.
C D
78.China has established three nature reserves to protect the rare species, covering a total of
A B C
more than 600,000 sq km, an area 40 times of the size of Beijing.
D
79.It aims to establish a minimum list of standards that ought to include in all codes of conduct A B C
covering labor practices.
D
80.I saw that the last update was made in January of 2002, so I wondered that the webmaster
A B C
had abandoned the site.
D
