HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE TURNED __________ IN THE RAIN TO SEE THEIR FAVO...

10. Hundreds of people turned __________ in the rain to see their favorite pop star.IV. ERROR IDENTIFICATION Identify 10 errors in the following passage and correct them (10 pts)THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVEThis week we celebrated Valentine’s Day or rather incurable romances and those of us who area bit soft in the head did! The fourteenth of February always gives everyone who’s anyone achance to cast a few pearls of wisdom before their fellow sufferers about the nature of ‘theuniversal migraine’ – love. Francis Farnsworth is the case in point. I’m sure the poor old fellowhas a heart of gold but he really does talk a load of rubbish sometimes! His appearance last nighton BBC 1’s ‘Let’s Talk It Over’ was not exception. He started out by having what I will politelycall a difference of opinion with Tania Di Monte, author of ‘Tell me the Truth about love’. Ms.Di Monte always expresses the most extraordinary views without any apparent fear ofcontradiction. Last night she was boldly set out her rules for a perfect relationship when poor oldFarnsworth accidentally called her Tina. Tina is of course the name of her ex-husband Darren’ssecond wife and we all know that any mention him – or her – is like a red rag to a bull to Tania.Farnsworth kept apologizing and saying that it had been a slip of the tongue brought about by amomentary loss of concentration, but it took all presenter Greg Lazarre’s skills to calm ourTania down again. Francis then started calling her ‘darling’, which only succeeded in makingher even more furious. ‘Term of endearing’, he stammered as she glared at him. She had beenvehemently denying that there was even a grain of truth in rumors about her forthcomingengagement with football star Nick Pérez. Nevertheless, I’m sure it is only a question of timebefore we see Tania and Nick on the cover of ‘Hi There!’ celebrating ‘the wedding of thecentury’. If marrying someone like Tania is what happens to you if you’re incredibly successful,like Pérez undoubtedly is, I shudder thinking what the price of failure might be!V. OPEN CLOZE TEST Fill in each blank with one suitable word (10 pts)Can parrots communicate?Everyone knows that parrots can imitate human speech, but can these birds also understandmeaning? Two decades ago, researcher Irene Pepperberg started working with Alex, an Africangrey parrot, and ever since then, she has been building (1)

__________ data on him.

Pepperberg,

whose

recently published book The Alex Studies makes fascinating reading,

claims Alex doesn’t copy speech but intentionally uses words to get

(2)

__________ it is

that he wants.

In actual

(3)

__________, some of his cognitive skills are identical to those of a five-

year-old child.

(4)

__________ a child’s, Alex’s learning has been a steady progression.

Early on, he

(5)

__________ vocalize whether two things were the same or different.

Now, he carries

out

more complex tasks. Presented

(6)

__________ different-coloured

balls and blocks and asked the number of the red blocks, he’ll answer correctly. He

requests things as well.

(7)

__________ he ask to sit on your shoulder and you put him

(8)

__________ else, he’ll complain: “Wanna go shoulder.”

A few experts remain skeptical, seeing very

(9)

__________ in Alex’s performance

beyond learning by association, by

means

of intensive training. Yet Alex appears to

have

mastered simple two-way communication. As parrots live for 60 years or more, Alex may

surprise

(10)

__________ all further.

VI. SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION  Rewrite each of the following sentences in such a way that it means exactly the same as the one given. (10 pts)