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[oneota]

If you or your supervisor is looking for a TOEIC book, avoid 토익급상승 2000 from Bansok publishers. I am required to use it, so I don't have a choice. I just got a copy and have begun looking at it. The first few pages are riddled with errors.

For example, the very first question is about a picture of a man wearing a tie (open-shirt style), leaning over a paper on what looks like a worktable, with a pen or pencil in one hand and some other tool in his other hand. In the background is a decorative chandelier.
This is a multiple choice question. The 'right' answer given under "LC Script Actural [sic] Test 01-05 is "He is working in the office." "He is wearing a tie" is one of the 'wrong' answers. While he he is definitely wearing a tie, he might be working in an [not the] office - but the chandelier makes this questionable.

Other errors are an apostrophe instead of a comma, an asterisk instead of something else (maybe the digit 80), semicolons instead of colons at the start of some lists, false content answers, questions with more than one correct answer, and phrasings such as "Enroll the Read More for Less club..." and "we serve a various selection...." All of these errors except for the wrong and multiple correct answers are on just two consecutive pages (34 and 35). Other errors abound on other pages.

[le-paul]

thanks.