Exercise 9: Read the text below and look carefully at each line. In most lines, there is either a spelling or a punctuation error. For each line write the correctly spelled word or show the correct punctuation. Some of the lines are correct - indicate these lines with a tick (). The exercise begins with three examples (0), (00), and (000). 0. Lucky numbers are certainly not unniversal. While 00. seven is the lucky number for most people in 000. the West it is either eight or nine Asia and 1. the Pacific. The luckyest date in the last century was 2. considerred to be August 8 1988 or 8 / 8/ 88, it was 3. the date when the largest number of chinese were 4. married. In Asia many people would do anything 5. to get car scense plate numbers or street adresses 6. that add up to nine, or better yet are all nines. Asian 7. calendars indicate that life is divided into twelve year 8. cicles, with each year being represented by an 9. animal. The most important birthday the 60th 10. marking the end of the fivth of these. Although 11. there is no comon unlucky number for Asians, 12. four seems to be regarded negatively by many, 13. especially in Northeast Asia. In Japan it is asociated with 14. death and houshold items - chopsticks, teacups, and so on 15. - usually come in a set of five to avoid the dreaded four. 0. universal 00. 000. West, it 6. 1. 2. 3. 5. 11. 4. 7. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 14. 15. * Exercise 10: The words in the box have been taken from the text. Tick the lines that are correct and, where a word is missing, write the correct word at the end of the line. 0. Schools are different nowadays. They used to be much worse. 00. When I went to school we weren't allowed wear our own clothes, 1. we had to wear a uniform. And our skirts to be long enough to 2. cover our knees. Our teacher would make us kneel down and 3. check that our skirts touched the floor. We had wear dark, flat 4. shoes, with no heels, and we weren't to wear make-up. This was a 5. boarding school, so we stayed at the school for the whole term, 6. but we allowed to go into town twice a week. I always went with a 7. friend. We go to the shops to buy sweets and drinks, or to the library, 8. but we go to the cinema until we were in the final year. I used to 9.love the summer holidays, when I could go home, and I didn't to 10. follow rules all day long. 00. (allowed) to (wear) 0. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 9. 10.