Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put aninsertion mark (^) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, Cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods (1). time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature (2). __/__
as a school subject are valid for^ study of television. (3).the ______
latest figures from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service show that well over one million immigrants are now arriving in America every year. This is highest number of 1. _________
newcomers to the United States since the mass migration of Europeans in 2. _________
the turn of the century. The new immigrants no longer come main from 3. _________
Europe. According to the official government estimate, the greatest source of immigrants to America is now Asia, followed by Latin America. Forty-two percents of the new immigrants come from Asia 4. _________
while 39 percent come from Latin America. Only 13 percent of the recent immigration to America is now from Europe. Although the United States now accepts twice as many foreigners as all other nations combined, but Congress is. studying several proposals to limit 5. _________
immigration, include a new ceiling of about 450,000 immigrants a year. 6. _________
It is little clear that Congress will do about the problem of illegal 7. _________
immigrants. As estimated 500,000 to one million persons enter the United States illegally every year. Several congressmen have introduced legislation that would make it legal for employers to knowingly hire an 8. _________
illegal alien. A company would face a heavy fine if convicted of hiring a person with proper papers. Many business groups and civil rights leaders 9. _________
oppose this proposal because they fear it would lead. to wholesale discrimination in Hispanics and other recent immigrants. 10. _________