Directions: This part consists of one passage. In each passage there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change word, add a word or delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out and write 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.?
Few football grounds boast a more prestigious ?
address than the Bernabeu, lies as it does on the 1. ?____??
Castellana,the three?lining highway that runs through 2.____??
the heart of Madrid. ?
As Real date back to 1902, when the Sociedad 3. ?____
??
Madrid Football Club was formed, it was not until ?
1920 when the club was granted permission to use the 4. ____??
Real (royal) prefix. Work began on the current?
stadium in October 1944. The land had been purchased?
on three million pesetas; construction costs totalled a 5. ?____?
further 38 million, a staggered sum for the time. The 6. ?____?
cost of the new stadium led to claims, never proving, 7. ?_____??
that Real had received financial aid from General?
Franco’s government. Under Bernabeu’s patronage,?
Real Madrid became the greatest club side ever, won 8. ?____??
the European Champions Cup a record five times in a?
row between 1956 and 1960, a remarkable feat that?
is unlikely to be challenged. ?
Madrid lies, quite literally, at the heart of?
Spain.This is no small coincidence that the capital’s 9. ?____??
leading football club is seen like a symbol of all 10. ?____?
things Spanish, just as FC Barcelona is a beacon for?
the independent Catalan spirit. |
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