PART A: EDITING Skillsvalue: 11 Marks (One Mark Per Question) Suggested Time: 11 Minutes

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PART A: EDITING SKILLS

Value: 11 marks (one mark per question) Suggested Time: 11 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: The following passage has been broken into numbered sentences which may contain problems in grammar, usage, word choice, and punctuation. Some sentences are correct. No sentence contains more than one error. If you find an error, select the underlined part that must be changed in order to make the sentence correct. Using an HB pencil, completely fill in the circle that corresponds to your choice. If there is no error, completely fill in circle D (no error).

Adapted from Commentary for the Film Clash of the Titans (1981)

1. The 1981 summer block-buster epic, starring Lord Lawrence Olivier as (A) (B) Zeus and handsome hunk Harry Hamlin as Perseus is good video but (C) ersatz myth. (D) no error.

2. Take the heros mighty steed, the winged horse Pegasus, recognizable (A) (B) to most Baby-boomers as the Mobil gas-station logo. (C) (D) no error.

3. Those of you skeptical of the intellectual content of most Hollywood (A) flicks will probably not be real surprised to learn that Pegasus has al- (B) most nothing to do with the ancient Greek legend of Perseus and the (C) Gorgons. (D) no error.

4. As a young man at Corinth, Bellerophon aspired to break in the im- (A) mortal winged horse Pegasus, sprung from the blood which had fallen (B) from Medusa's severed neck when she was slain by Perseus. (C) (D) no error.

5. As she was pregnant by the sea-god, Poseidon, it was said that the steed (A) owed its paternity to that god; certainly it's name suggests such an origin, (B) (C) for the Greek pege means a spring of water‹there are at least two

springs in Greece that are attributed to the stamp of that horse's hoof. (D) no error.

6. How has the Pegasus legend been utilized in the film? (A) (B) (C) (D) no error.

7. Instead of using winged sandals that Hermes and Athena give him, as (A) in the original myth, Harry-Perseus must prove his courage and endur- (B) ance by outwitting, taming, and then to ride the previously-unmastered (C) stallion (shades of Black Beauty and numerous other horse stories?). (D) no error.

8. Then what about the Gorgon, Medusa‹she's in the Perseus legend, (A) (B) isnt she? (C) (D) no error.

9. Actually, according to greek legend, there were three gorgons‹ (A) (B) Stheno (Strength), Euryale (Wide-Leaping), and Medusa (Ruler)‹who

lived in the far west by the shore of Ocean's stream. (C) (D) no error. 10. In ancient art, they are depicted with hideous faces, serpentine hair, (A) boar's tusks, terrible grins, snub noses, beards, lolling tongues, staring

eyes, hands of brass, and sometimes they have the hindquarters of a (B) (C) mare. (D) no error.

11. However, none of the legends mention her snake-like mode of (A) propulsion or her ability as an archer; after all, she didn't need to (B) defend herself against intruders: one look, and the temple-violator (C) was turned to stone. (D) no error.