London Bridge is falling down

Romans invaded Britain in AD 43 and, chasing ancient Britons along Thames, they came to first place where it was easy to cross. They built garrison there – and London was born. They also erected bridge over river. Garrison became major trading post. Later, bridge suffered neglect and whole area was raided by Vikings. In AD 886 Alfred Great drove out raiders, bridge was repaired and city prospered again. Hundred years later, Vikings returned but King Ethelred sailed up Thames, attached ropes to London Bridge, headed downriver and pulled it down.

Exercise 4. In the following fragments correct all the mistakes.

a) Lara walked along Michigan Avenue and State Street and La Salle, strolled along Lake Shore Drive and wandered through the Lincoln Park with its zoo and golf course and lagoon. She visited Merchandise Mart, and went to the Kroch-Brentano's and bought the books about Chicago. She read about famous who had made Chicago their home: Carl Sandburg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Saul Bellow. She read about pioneer families of Chicago; John Bairds and Gaylord Donnelleys, Marshall Fields and Potter Palmers and Walgreens, and she passed by their homes on the Lake Shore Drive and their huge estates in suburban the Lake Forest. Lara visited the southside and she felt at home there because of all ethnic groups: Swedes, Poles, Irish, Lithu­anians. It reminded her of the Glace Bay. (S. Sheldon)

b) Sir Alexander had been exact from an early age, as became only son of general. But unlike his father, he chose to serve his Queen in the diplomatic service, another exacting calling. He progressed from a shared desk at Foreign Office in the Whitehall to third secretary in Calcutta, to second secretary in Vienna, to first secretary in Rome, to the Deputy Ambassador in Washington, and finally to the minister in Peking. He was delighted when Mr. Gladstone invited him to represent government in China as he had for some considerable time taken more than an amateur interest in art of Ming dynasty. (J. Archer)

c) To outward appearances, I suppose, I was still walking down Strand, fat and forty-five, with false teeth and bowler hat, but inside me I was George Bowling, aged seven, a younger son of Samuel Bowling, the corn and seed merchant, of the 57 High Street, Lower Binfield. And it was a Sunday morning, and I could smell the church. How I could smell it! You know smell churches have, peculiar, dank, dusty, decaying, sweetish sort of smell. (G. Orwell)

d) “I wanted Louisa to sell the house in Chicago when he passed over,’ Elliot went on, ‘but she had a sentiment about it. It had been in Bradley family for quite a long while. Bradleys are one of the oldest families in Illinois… Bradley who settled here was what I suppose you might call farmer. I am not sure whether you know, but about middle of last century, when Middle West began to be opened up, quite a number of Virginians, younger sons of good family, you know, were tempted by lure of unknown to leave the fleshpots of their native state. My brother-in-law’s father, Chester Bradley, saw that Chicago had future and entered law office here.” (W.S. Maugham)