PART IV PROOFREADING & ERROR CORRECTION (15 MIN)

　　The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read 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 "L" 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 A art museum wants a new exhibit, (1) an

　　it never buys things in finished form and hangs (2) never

　　them on the wall. When a natural history museum

　　wants an exhibition, it must often build it. (3) exhibit

　　Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

　　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 19th (5) _______

　　century, when the study of cultural anthropology suggested that

　　the linguistic barriers were insuperable and that the language (6) _______

　　was entirely the product of culture, the view translation was impossible (7) _______

　　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) _____