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Error Analysis 4 Special Practice for TOEFL PBT

1. The plover's most famous stratagem is the broken-wing display, actually a

continuum of injury-mimicking behaviors span the range from slight disability to

near-complete helplessness.

2. Then as industrialization became increasing complicated, the craft techniques of

preindustrial society gradually gave way to a technology based on the systematic

application of scientific knowledge and scientific methods.

3. These writers, called naturalists, often focused on economic hardship, studying

people struggling with poverty, and other aspects of urban and industrial life.

4. A number of circumstances contributed the meteoric rise of Los Angeles.

5. By the mid-1870's, however, the best glass fibers were finer than silk and could be

woven into fabrics or assembled into imitation ostrich feather to decorate hats..

6. The bird appears to attempting escape along an irregular route that indicates

panic.

7. Until late in nineteenth century, only a few industries could use scientific

techniques or cared about using them.

8. Theodore Dreiser, the foremost naturalist writer, in novels such as Sister Carrie,

grimly portrayed a dark world which human beings were tossed about by forces

beyond their understanding or control.

9. By 1930, the city founders had the vision and dating to obtain it by constructing

a 225-mile aqueduct, completing in 1913, to tap the water of the Owens River.

10. Needless say, each short run between "flight attempts" is directed away from the

nest.

11. Notwithstanding preening and constant care, the marvelous intricate structure of a

birds feather inevitably wears out.

12. The philosophy of the movement combined realism, ethnic consciousness, and

American.

13. Ethology concerned with the study of adaptive, or survival, value of behavior and

itsEvolutionary history.

14. Many of our information about climate in the more recent periods of geologic

history comes from the fossil record, because we have a reasonably good understanding

of the types of environment in which many fossil organisms flourished.

15. People who lived in the cities and were not directly involved in trade often

participating in small cottage industries making handcrafted goods.

16. All adult birds molt their feathers least once a year, and upon close observation,

one can recognize the frayed, ragged appearance of feathers that are nearing the end of

their useful life.

17. Their attitudes toward their changed and, to some extent, other segments of

American society began to change their attitudes toward them.

18. Ethological theory began to apply to research on children in the 1960s but has

become even more influential today.

19. Others cured meats, silversmiths, candle or otherwise producing needed goods and

commodities.

20. The scarce fossils of the Proterozoic, mostly single-celled bacterium, provide little

evidence in this regard.

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