Part V Error Correction
Directions:This part consists of a short passage. Into this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, 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 an insertion 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.
Part V Error Correction
The National Endowment for the Arts recently released the results of its Reading at Risk survey, which described the movement of the American public away from books and literature and toward television and electronic media. According to the survey. reading is on the decline on every region, 62 within every ethnic1 group, and at every educational level.
The day the NEA report released, 63 the U.S. House, in a tie vote, upheld the governments right to obtain bookstore and library records under a provision of the USA Patriot2 Act. The House proposal would have barred the federal government from demand library records, 64 reading lists, book customer lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations3.
These two events are completely unrelated to, 65 yet they echo each other in the message they send about the place of books and reading in American culture. At the heart of the NEA survey is the belief in our democraticsystem depends on leaders who can think critically, 66 analyze4texts and writing clearly. 67 All of these are skills promoted by reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our country are unconsciously sending the message that reading may be connected to desirable activities that mightundermine our system of government rather than helping5 democracy flourish. 68
Our cultures decline in reading begin well before the existence of the Patriot Act. 69 During the 1980s culture wars, school systems across the country pulled some books from library shelves because its content was deemed by parents and teachers to be inappropriate. 70 Now what started in schools across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the American public. 71
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