II. PROOF-READING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 points)
The following passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:
Example
When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an__
it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) _never_
them on the wall. When a natural history
museum wants an exhibition, it must often (3) exhibit
build it.
Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the
general public and to sociologists that modern society has
changed people's natural relations, loosed their responsibilities(1)_______
to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place (2)_______
for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances.(3)_______
However, in recent years a growing body of research has
revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are
a city resident, you typically know a smaller proportion of your
neighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. (4) _______
But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant (5) _______
consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few
of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within
small, private social, worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of
meaningful relationships do not differ from more and less (6) _______
urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin
than do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by (7) _______
developing friendships with people who share similar interests
and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,
but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Or (8) _______
are residents of large communities any likely to display (9) _______
psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than are
residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do
worry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of (10) ______
strangers.
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