PART IV
PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION [15 MIN]

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.

Example

When ∧ art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) it buys things in ifnished form and hangs (2) them on the wall. When a natural history museum wants an exhibition , it must often build it. (3)

The central problem of translating has always been whether to translate literally or freely.The argument has been going since at least the first (1)____ century B.C. Up to the beginning of the 19th century, many writers favoured certain kind of “free” translation: the spirit, not the letter; the (2)____ sense not the word; the message rather the form; the matter not (3)____ the manner. This is the often revolutionary slogan of writers who (4)____ wanted the truth to be read and understood. Then in the turn of the 19th (5)____ century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that the linguistic barriers were insuperable (7)____ and that the language (6)____ was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible gained some currency, and with it that, if was attempted at all, it must be as (8)____ literal as possible. This view culminated the statement of the (9)____ extreme “literalists” Walter Benjamin and Vladimir Nobokov.

The argument was theoretical: the purpose of the translation, the nature of the readership, the type of the text, was not discussed. Too often, writer, translator and reader were implicitly identified with each other. Now, the context has changed, and the basic problem remains.(10)____ 6kHSq+UtPzXAlp1lJlFq2/hRaxvxyU2p+VHI239qObodiQMpMDFAe3QkljT5xzoo