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Passage 1:
Identify 15 mistakes in the passage below and correct them.

In an age where literature is increasingly going digital, books hold a curious role in some people’s
homes. There are few purchases, which, once using, are placed on proud display and carted round
as families move from place to place. And yet that’s precisely what sometimes happens with books,
despite the existence of a digital equal. After all, both the music industry and other aspects of the
printed media have felt the heat of visual competition – why not books? Part of the explanation for
this may rest in the fact that, when it comes to the crunch, nosing in someone’s bookshelves is
interesting. ‘You can tell a lot about someone by their collection of books,’ says Doug Jeffers,
owner of a London bookstore.

It’s not just the quality of titles on display, however, that speaks volume; generation, occupation,
political leanings, leisure pursuits (even where they go on holiday) – clues to all of these abound, if
you care to analyse the contents of someone’s bookshelves, and even casual visitors aren’t slow to
do judgements. Evidence of this manifested them when the President of the USA made an informal
call on the English Prime minister at home recently, and for some reason the pair posed for photos
in the kitchen. One of the snapshots was subsequent released to the press, and widely published.
There then ensued much speculation so to how the complete work of Shakespeare had ended up
on the shelf in the background other than a cookery book.

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Passage 2:
Identify 10 mistakes in the passage below and correct them :

Jazz, from its early roots in slave spirits and the marching bands of New Orleans, had developed
into the predominantly American musical style by the 1930s. In the era, jazz musicians played a
lush, orchestrated style known as swing. Played in large assembles, also called big bands, swing
filled the dance halls and nightclubs. Jazz, once considered risqué, was made more accessible to
masses with vibrant, swinging sounds of these big bands. Then came bebop in the mid-1940s, jazz
musicians strayed away from the swing style and developed a more improvisational method of
playing known as bebop. Jazz was transformed from popular music to elite art form.

The soloists in the big bands improvised from the melody. The young musicians who ushered in
bebop, notable trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker, expanding on the
improvisational elements of the big bands. They played with advanced harmonies, changed chord
structures, and made chord substitutes. These young musicians got their starts with the leading big

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bands of the day, but during World War II - as older musicians were drafted and dance halls made
cutback - they started to play together in smaller groups.

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