Additional Practice Exercises of Proofreading (Form 7 AS UE Jan/ Feb)

Exercise 1 Difficulty: 4/5

Speaking the unconscious, it is necessary to begin with

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Sigmund Freud. He was the first person who to study the

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topic extensively and he laid out with some important, albeit

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controversy ideas regarding this mysterious phenomenon.

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Born into a Jewish family, Sigmund Freud first trained to

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a physiologist and practiced in Vienna. Around 1880, he and

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his partner treated a patient with false name, Anna O, who

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exhibited a variety of physical problem. The most puzzling

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symptom of all was her proclaim inability to move and feel

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her right arm. Many to Freuds surprise, he realized that once

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Anna had gave vent to her deeply suppressed emotions, her

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symptoms eventually had disappeared. This unusual phenomenon

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then sparked Freuds interest in studying the effect of repressed

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thoughts and emotions engendered humans.

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Exercise 2 Difficulty: 3/5

Most of us aware by now that broadcast stations are

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constantly try to publicise their news anchors as celebrities

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- providing them with full makeover, including glamorous

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attires, exotic hair styles, customized images and wide media

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exposure all design to boost the stations audience ratings.

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But is the beauty the key element in distinguishing a good

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anchor to a poor one? Recently, one group of secondary

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student got the chance to visit a television studio to try to find

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answer for themselves by becoming anchors for one day.

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Answers:

Exercise 1
1. speak of the (mention)
2. delete who
3. delete with
4. controversy controversial
5. to be // to as
6. TICK
7. with a/the false (name is a countable noun)
8. problem problems
9. proclaim proclaimed
10. many much
11. gave given
12. delete had
13. TICK
14. engendered by/in humans
Exercise 2
1. us are aware (aware is an adjective)
2. try trying
3. with a full// makeover makeovers (makeover is a countable noun)
4. attires attire (attire is an uncount noun) (clothes and accessories)
5. design designed
6. delete the
7. to from
8. student students
9. the answer
Question (5*) (agreement and countability of nouns)
It is an objective, quantifiable ways to show our determination and

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our wish for an abolition of functional constituencies.

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Haiti
Darlene Etienne was said to be happy but dehydrate. Rescuers said
she had survived by drinking water from bath.

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Her rescue comes five days after Haitian government officially

ended search and rescue operation.

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As many as 200,000 people die in the 12 January earthquake. More 5.

than 130 people have pulled alive from the rubble.
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