Part II
Each of the following 20 sentences contains an error. And the error involves oniy one word You are required to identify the error and correct it Instructions on haw to write your answers are given on the Answer Sheet For each correction you make, you will get one point
21. A Spanish history of the "Indies," read with eager curiosity (and later paraphrased) by the English entrepreneur Sir Waiter Raleigh, told to the court splendors of a supposed ancestor of the * emperor of Guiana."
22. Elizabethan merchants and ministers were second for none in their lively concern for treasure, but the real success of Great Britain as a colonizing power was eventually to rest
23. The faith was sustained for the newcomers not only by the promises before but by the horrors left behind, across the Atlantic.
24. In a sense, the seventeenth century saw the emergence of those institutions that are characteristic in the modem world: centralized and wholly sovereign nation-states; capitalism; individualism, secularism, and heroic grandeur in the arts.
25. What was more, warfare, both civil and international, erupted epidemically in massive dislocations of power.
26. No history of the American people — a title after which, after all, the Indians have the most legitimate claim — can omit the red men and women's role.
27. Even before Europe hung suspended between the rise of Roman Imperial order and the emergence of feudalism, in the so-called Dark Ages, some North American Indiana had developed what anthropologists call the Hopewellian Culture.
28. At first they called the chiefs they met after names both familiar and curious — princes, — emperors, caciques, and werowances.
29. He pointed out that one of the first signs of adaptation to the new environment as a European's part was to strip off the garments of civilization, with their class and social connotations, and wear the undifferentiated skin garments of the Indian.
30. The story began, then, with interaction among the continent's new and old inhabitants — the Indian "garrison" and the colonized immigrants.
31. They learned to sing hymns, to pray, even to participate in the Mass, and to hold their new beliefs by a grip that survived the vicissitudes of many years of battle between white warriors and red.
32. After an unsuccessful attempt to get the Dutch to plant a new settlement on the Delaware, he traveled to Swede.
33. Despite the political weaknesses of the Dutch, they set an impress on the life of Americans as unborn.
34. Tradesmen went home, entered through brick-faced doorways and ascended to cozy rooms where, below tiled roofs, windows with tiny panes illuminated polished delftware.
35. The Church of England, for example, though firmly established, did not command the loyalties of great Catholic families on the one hand, or on the other, of the Puritans who hoped to purge it into "Romish idolatry."
36. With chronic misgivings about the future, no wonder that some men were tempted by the prospects of secure estates and freedom of harassment across what seemed an infinity of ocean.
37. Huddled into the city, the poor were helpless before the plagues that swept devastatingly into their slums and then undiscriminatingly went on to lay down the proud and wealthy as well.
38. Imperiled by pestilence and starvation, many of the able-bodied men among the poor might have looked at impressment as an opportunity at least to eat and to be clothed.
39. And nothing short for a spectacular peice of luck or royal preferment seemed likely to improve the situation.
40. Farther from the social scale, the yeoman might also try to enhance the value of his lands or the prospects of his children by taking fliers in New World ventures such as fishing and trading companies.
Part III (30')
In this part you will be asked to read five passages, each followed by six questions. Read the passages carefully and then asnwer all the questions by choosing the correct options marked A, B, C, and D. Answer one question correctly, and you will get one point.
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