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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.
For a wrong word
underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For a missing word
mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.
For an unnecessary word
cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.
When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1)
it
buys things in finished form and hangs (2)
them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an
exhibition
, it must often build it.(3)
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I know that when I grew I should be a writer.Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four (1)____ I tried to abandon this idea,but I did so with the conscience that I (2)____ was outraging my true nature and that soon or later I should have to (3)____ settle down and write books.
I was the child of three, but there was a gap of five years on the either side (4)____ and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeing mannerisms which (5)____ made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginative persons, and (6)____ I think from the very start my literal ambitions were mixed up with the (7)____ feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with word and a power of facing in unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created (8)____ a sort of private world which I could get my own back for my failure in (9)____ everyday life. Therefore, the volume of serious—i.e. seriously intended—writing (10)____ which I produced all through my childhood and boyhood would not amount of half a dozen pages. I wrote my first poem at the age of five,my mother taking it down to dictation.