Correct the mis-collocations in these sentences.

1. I can’t come out. I’m studying. I’m passing an examination tomorrow.

2. Congratulations! I hear you succeeded your examination!

3. You can study a lot of different careers at this university.

4. I got some good notes in my continuous assessment this term.

5. She’s a professor in a primary school.

6. He gave an interesting 45-minute conference on Goethe.

7. She got a degree in personnel management from a private college.

8. When I was 12, we started having French seminars at school, and I fell in love with the language.

George Crum was a cook at a hotel in the small town of Saratoga Springs, New York. One day in 1853 a customer complained because his fried potatoes were too thick. Crum got angry. In fact, he got so angry that he decided to cut some potatoes very, very thin. When the waiter took the thin slices to the customer, Crum thought that the customer would be angry. However, much to Crum's surprise, the stubborn customer liked the thin potato slices. These new thin slices caught on quickly and soon developed into a whole new business. Today Americans eat millions of dollars worth of potato chips every year.

When the first settlers decided to build their homes in an area of California about 150 years ago, they found that there were four different tribes of Native Americans living nearby. The leader of the white settlers, the mayor, asked the chiefs of the four tribes what they called the place. All four tribes had a different name for the region -and the names were all very long. The mayor listened to all four names and wrote down the first syllable of each name: pa-, sa-, de-, na... and called the new town Pasadena!