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II. PROOF-READING & ERROR CORRECTION (20 points)

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:

Example

When ∧ 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 historymuseum wants an exhibition, it must often (3) exhibit build it. Not too many decades ago it seemed "obvious" both to the general public and to sociologists that modern society has changed people's natural relations, loosed their responsibilities(1)_______ to kins and neighbors, and substituted in their place (2)_______ for superficial relationships with passing acquaintances.(3)_______ However, in recent years a growing body of research has revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems that if you are a city resident, you typically know a smaller roportion of your neighbors than you if you are a resident of a smaller community. (4) _______ But, for the most part, this fact has a few significant (5) _______ consequences. It does not necessarily follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else. Even in very large cities, people maintain close social ties within small, private social, worlds. Indeed, the number and quality of meaningful relationships do not differ from more and less (6) _______ urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than do big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by (7) _______developing friendships with people who share similar interests and activities. Urbanism may produce a different style of life,but the quality of life does not differ between town and city. Or (8) _______ are residents of large communities any likely to display (9) _______ psychological symptoms of stress or alienation than are residents of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about crime, and which leads them to a distrust of (10) ______ strangers.