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Part Ⅳ Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In the passage there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark(∧)in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash(/)in the blank.
Today we take for granted that the mail will be delivered daily at our door. But many years ago it might have been placed in a tree trunk and underneath a rock. In the early days of the mail no one could be sure about where…or when…it will arrive.
At the southern tip of Africa there was once a post office under a rock. At the old days the route from England to India was around the Cape of GOod Hope. The journey was stormy and danger. It took six long months. Sailors often wished to send mail home, but they seldom met ships bound back to England. So at the cape the sailors would go on ashore. They headed for a certain large stone. On the stone scratched the words “Look hereunder for letters.” They would leave their letters there, knowing that the next homeward ship would stop and pick it up.
There was another post office like this at the southern tip of South America. During the golden rush days, boats sailed around Cape Horn to California. At Cape Horn was a key(小桶) nailed to a post. Boats coming from the east coast would send some sailors to this post office. They picked up any letters in the key. At the same time they mailed letters home that boats sail east could pick up.
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答案与详解
61. take for granted