STUDY FOR CAE: ENGLISH IN USE
PART 3: ERROR CORRECTION
Some of the following lines are correct. Most are not. Where needed, give the correct form. Tick the lines that have no error. In the Advanced Certificate, the time for this exercise would be 15 minutes.
ED MURROW
01. Ed Murrow was one of the fewer genuine giants in the history of broadcasting. In Britain,
02. he is remembered for broadcasts which bring home to the American people the horror
03. of the London Blitz. In the United States, his reputation rests upon a series of document-
04. aries, not the less of which was the one in which he destroyed Senator McCarthy. It
05. was a hatchet-job from whom McCarthyism never recovered. Murrow's bravery, physical
06. as well as moral, was unquestioned. Colleagues would refuse to be driving by him. He
07. was a best-rate poker player. He was offered the job of Director-General of the
08. BBC. What happened to Murrow? By 1958, he seemed to see which television was
09. going, and where it would take him. It is, he said, "being used to distract, delude,
10. amuse and insulate us. This could be a most exciting and fruitful method of communic-
11. ation still devised, but it is in the hands of timid and avaricious men and the public
22. appeared incredibly apathetic "
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