English: Error Spotting for Upcoming Exam – Set 167

Directions(1-10): In each of the following questions there are sentences. There is error in one of the parts. Mark the option which contains error parts as your answer. If no part contains error mark option E as your answer.

1. (A) Raheem Sterling is busy. He is busy being a world-class forward for Manchester City and England and he is busy as a parent. /(B) It is therefore confusing as to why, on top of these considerable responsibilities, /(C) he is now apparently expected to educate Britain – including a cluster of journalists who claim to know no better – /(D) about the media’s role in the racism he experiences both in and on the way to his place of work.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option A
   as = being

    

2. (A) The Christmas ghost story used to be a family occasion; Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw and Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black /(B) both begin with the telling of fearful tales along the fire on Christmas Eve, /(C) a reminder that as we gather with loved ones around the warmth and lights of the hearth, /(D) the dark and the wild are still outside the windows, remnants of our pagan past – frightening and far from cosy.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option B
   along = around

    

3. (A) Early in Jimmy McGovern’s BBC drama Care, broadcast on Sunday, an occupational therapist takes Mary, /(B) a character recently diagnosed with vascular dementia after a stroke, /(C) to a test kitchen in the hospital and asks her to make herself a cup of tea by first placing a teabag in a cup. /(D) Her daughters, seated behind her, dismiss the exercise as a farce: Mary has lost the ability to communicate verbally, is permanently panicked and aggressive.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option E
   

    

4. (A) The public has been understandably shocked by stories such as mine and others whose human rights have been /(B) abused by these undercover deployments. /(C) But up until now the public interest has been focused on a relatively few core participants, currently 210. /(D) This latest set of legal wrangling draw into play the interests of a far wider public. It’s going to make this story personal for many more people.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   draw = draws

    

5. (A) I’ll never forget the moment I found out that a group of people had blocked a charter deportation flight leaving Stansted airport /(B) on 28 March 2017, because I was one of the people which had a seat on the plane /(C) and was about to be removed from Britain against my will. While most of those sitting with me were whooping with joy when they heard the news, I was angry. /(D) After months in detention, the thought of facing even just one more day in that purgatory filled me with terror.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option B
   which = that

    

6. (A) The differences between the two shows could not be starker. The UN summit in Katowice, Poland, is a challenge for civilisation, /(B) for the benefit of the common good, an existential thriller for 7.5 billion people and all of /(C) nature which is being played out in relative calm. In contrast, in Westminster we are /(D) witnessing the culmination of a long-running political schism that is of much less consequence for the planet.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   for = to

    

7. (A) The new documents filed for Michael Cohen’s sentencing were clearly terrible news for the president. /(B) We already knew from Cohen’s earlier guilty plea that Individual 1 (AKA Trump) was up to his eyeballs /(C) in the plan to pay hush money to two women who said they had sex with him. The prosecutors’ court filings on Friday were important because they show Cohen told them that it was /(D) Donald Trump himself who had directed him to make the payments, which were illegal because campaign money was used.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   omit had

    

8. (A) Loneliness is an epidemic. It makes us ill, physically and mentally. It makes us age prematurely. It causes huge harm to the /(B) mental health of young people who often feel lonely at a time when they should be making /(C) the best of everything. And then there is Christmas, which is surely the biggest “trigger” for anyone whose life is not bloody well perfect. /(D) And, yes, I do take it personally: every poxy advert features nuclear families and hilarity about socks or something.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option E
   

    

9. (A) May needs to show that she is finally listening to MPs’ concerns and that the troublesome issue of the Irish backstop /(B) can be worked on. So far, the signs are not great. May herself appeared to admit /(C) that she would not be looking to reopen the legally binding part of the deal. /(D) Meanwhile, EU leaders had been quick to say there will be no renegotiation – only a few clarifications.
   A
   B
   C
   D
   NE
   Option D
   had been = have been

    

10. (A) The gilets jaunes believe, fantastically, that they can bring down representative government in France and replace it /(B) with a bottom-up government of the people. Such apocalyptic /(C) ambitions are normal enough for the gangs of young men of the ultra-left and ultra-right who wreaked most of the damage in a third weekend of rioting in Paris and other French cities on Saturday. /(D) They are bizarre and dangerous aims for the mainstream revolutionaries – garage mechanics, retired building contractors, home carers, small entrepreneurs – who make up the bulk of the officially leaderless yellow vest movement.
    A
    B
    C
    D
    NE
    Option E