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Klops2 Posted 15 years ago
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In each sentence there are four underlined words or phrases (marked A, B, C and D). One of the elements in each sentence is ìncorrect. Identify that element.

It may be [A] the business of lawyers to establish causalitv, yet they are [C] divided on why more and more students are [D] opting at careers in their profession.

“I can't claim I [A] set pulses jumping at a party when I announce I am a solicitor”, says one [C] trust lawyer in [D] a central London firm.

Rodney Austin, dean of University College London [A] with responsibility for admissions to the law faculty, agrees: “l think it’s fair to say that the tedium of much of [C] work of a lawyer escapes aspiring [D] legal students.

Some say it is [A] because of the money .they can expect to make, others say the burgeoning popularity of law degrees is related to the size of student loans, while many believe [C] the raise merely reflects the death of [D] youthful idealism.

[A] However the causes, the better universities, overwhelmed by eager law applicants bearing the promises of [C] straight-A grades in devalued A-levels, last year [D] introduced a new written test to identify the best candidates.

Meanwhile, teenagers - [A] egged on by parents panicking on the prospect of top-up fees and impoverished late middle-age - [C] are forsaking Gibbon and Aristotle and [D] getting down to a life of digesting E.U. directives and competition policy.

Any [A] self-respecting English or history undergraduate of the 1970s or ‘80s understood that law students are tragic and marginalized - too uncool to [C] dabble in theatre or drink too much, too busy even to be [D] hearty rowers or rugby players.

In our more [A] driving society, it is the lawyers and medics who feel sorry for the loafers in the English and sociology departments, those sad souls who will graduate with nothing [C] more tangible than [D] thousands of pounds of debt.

Mr Austin of UCL, who helped [A] draw up the new English aptitude test, reluctantly points to the Grisham effect: “ We've had years of LA Law and Ally McBeal; the law is now so [C] much more part of our culture, it [D] had become somehow a sexy profession.

Hard [A] economics also drives the popularity of law: more people are going to university and there is a clear [C] shift towards vocational degrees – such as law and medicine – as students fret out [D] mounted debts.
  

Top answer

Here are my suggestions. It may be the business of lawyers to establish causalitv, yet they are [C] divided on why more and more students are opting at careers in their profession. opting for "I can't claim I set pulses jumping at a party when I announce I am a solicitor ", says one [C] trust lawyer in a central London firm.

  • Here are my suggestions.
  • It may be the business of lawyers to establish causalitv, yet they are [C] divided on why more and more students are opting at careers in their profession.
  • opting for "I can't claim I set pulses jumping at a party when I announce I am a solicitor ", says one [C] trust lawyer in a central London firm.
  • ) Rodney Austin, dean of University College London with responsibility for admissions to the law faculty, agrees: "l think it's fair to say that the tedium of much of [C] work of a lawyer escapes aspiring legal students.
  • they can expect to make, others say the burgeoning popularity of law degrees is related to the size of student loans, while many believe [C] the raise merely reflects the death of youthful idealism.
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Here are my suggestions.

It may be Emotion: angel the business of lawyers to establish causalitv, yet they are [C] divided on
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Thank you Doctor D

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