英语写作基础

浙江广播电视大学

英语专业(开放专科)

《英语写作基础》期末复习

本课程的考核采取两种形式：形成性考核和课程终结考试。课程总成绩以百分制计。形成性考核占30%，课程终结考试占70%。

1. 形成性考核：满分100分，占课程总成绩的30%。形成性考核是对学生学习过程和阶段性学习效果的综合评价，包括学生参与各项教学活动和自主学习活动的情况以及阶段性的学习进展情况。本课程的形成性考核内容和方式严格按照“形成性考核册及学习档案”的具体要求执行。

2. 课程终结考试形式为笔试，闭卷。由中央电大统一命题，在同一时间全国统一考试，考试时间为90分钟。试卷分为三部分，卷面分值为100分：第一、二部分为应用文写作，占30分，主要考查学生用英语写“应用文”的能力；第三部分为短文写作，占70分，主要考查学生用英语写作叙述、说明性的短文的能力。

试卷结构

英语写作基础考试样题

一、Write a notice according to the following facts: （10分）

寒假期间，工会将举办一个春节旅游团，去北京旅游3天。游览的地方包括天安门广场、长城、故宫和颐和园，有兴趣者请速到工会报名。报名地点：行政大楼112房间；报名电话：66778800。

二、 Write a note based on the given facts: （20分）：

时间：1月10日星期五

对象：张老师

内容：由于临时出差去外地，所以无法及时交本周的作业册。非常抱歉。保证将在回来时交作业。

留言者：3班学生李玉

三、 Write an essay of no fewer than 200 words: （70分）

Title: Travel Helps Me Gain More Knowledge

Aids:

(1) Your point of view towards traveling.

(2) Examples to support your view.

(3) Conclusion

英语写作基础形考册部分练习题参考答案

Part II

Learning Activity 1

Key to Task 1(p 7)

Choose the best connecting word or phrase from the box below to complete the following sentences.

1. No sooner had Jane left college than offers of work came in.

2. The moment Jack left college, he set off round the world.

3. Hardly had Mary left college when she realized she was expecting their first child.

4. The Director looked very pale at the meeting, as though he had just received some very bad news.

5. I have been promised a job as a trainee manager in my uncle’s hotel, provided (on the condition that) I pass all my final-year school examinations.

6. Her parents encouraged her to do a secretary course in case she could not find work as an actress.

7. I had some coaching in maths before the exam in order to increase my chances of passing.

8. John was not offered the job despite the fact he was the best applicant.

Key to Task 2 (p8)

There are ten mistakes in the following passage, find the out and correct them:

One might wonder why, after the Norman Conquest, French did not become the national language, replacing English entirely. The reason is that the Conquest was not a national migration, as the earlier Anglo-Saxon invasion had been. Great numbers of Normans came to England , but they came as rulers and landlords. French became the language of the court, the language of ？nobility, the language of polite society, the language of literature. But it did not replace English as the language of the people. There must always have been hundreds of towns and villages in which French was never heard except when visitors of high station passed through.

Key to Task 3 (p8)

Here is a short story from which some verbs have been omitted. Fill the blanks with verbs which you find appropriate in the context.

The post war era witnessed the birth perhaps the most powerful medium of mass communication

in history: television. Experiments in broadcasting pictures (along with sound) over the airwaves had begun as early as the 1920s, but commercial television did not come into existence until shortly after World War II. It experienced a phenomenally rapid growth. In 1946, there were only 17000 sets in the entire country (the United States); by 1953, two thirds of all American homes had television sets; and by 1957, there were 40 million television sets in use—almost as many sets as there were families. More people had television sets, according to one report, than had refrigerators……

The impact of television on American life was rapid, pervasive, and profound. Television news had by the end of the 1950s replaced newspapers, magazines and radios a s the nation’s most important vehicle of information. Television advertising exposed the entire nation to new fashions and products. Television entertainment programming, almost all of it controlled by the three national networks (the National Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the American Broadcasting Company) created a common image of American life –an image that was predominantly white, middle-class, and suburban. Televised sports events gradually made professional sports one of the important sources of entertainment (and one of the biggest businesses) in America.

Part II