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Lies, damn lies?

Statistics (be) 1 ___ a branch of economics, but it is often said that there (be) 2 ___ lies, damn lies and statistics. Recent statistics of British life (show) 3 ___ that the family (be) 4 ___ happier than it used to be. The youth of today (be) 5 ___ likely to live longer than the previous generation. People (own) 6 ___ more things than they used to, but more police (be) 7 ___ employed to fight crime. Mathematics (be) 8 ___ a subject which is studied more by boys than by girls, as (be) 9 ___ physics. The earnings of working women (be) 10 ___ getting higher all the time and many women earn more than their husbands. Good manners (be) 11 ___ declining. The public (spend) 12 ___ more on clothes, and clothes (be) 13 ___ becoming more and more expensive. Glasses (be) 14 ___ worn be more people, but only a minority (favour) 15 ___ contact lenses. Statistics (make) 16 ___ us want to grind our teeth and can probably tell us if we have any teeth left to grind!

Exercise 59. Read the paragraph and correct the mistakes where necessary in the underlined words.

The government (1) have agreed to review the research budget after it was revealed that only about 15 per cent (2) are spent in industry. The majority of the money (3) go to fund research in universities.

Measles (4) are killing a rising number of children in the Nagola region. Neither aid organisations nor the government (5) seem able to stem the spread of the disease, although they claim that everything possible (6) are being done.

The police (7) has said that none of the gold taken in last month's robbery from Heathrow Airport (8) has yet been recovered. A spokesperson admitted: 'Whoever committed the crime (9) have probably left the country by now.'

Maureen's politics (10) has become more right-wing as she has got older. What surprises me (11) are her liberal view on immigration when a number of her other opinions (12) are very extreme.

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