英语写作基础自考题-12_真题-无答案

英语写作基础自考题-12
(总分90,考试时间90分钟)
Ⅰ.重写句子
Revise the following sentences according to the requirement.
1. Summer is the most enjoyable season for many people. (periodic sentence)
2. When he saw the thief, he called the police. (loose sentence)
3. He invented the paint roller. It was truly remarkable. (simple sentence)
4. The children started arguing. I made them turn off the TV. (compound sentence)
5. He stumbled into his bed after his long walk, tired and sleepy. (periodic sentence)
6. The steel mill closed last week. Now two hundred people are out of work. (compound sentence)
7. Benjamin Franklin invented several things. One of them was bifocal glasses. (simple sentence)
8. Eating breakfast, she began to feel sick. (complex sentence)
9. The film projector broke for a second time in the cinema. Some people in the audience hissed, and others made catcalls. (**plex sentence)
10. He hated evening self-study classes. The road to school was long. There were no lights lining the road. (**plex sentence)
Ⅱ.改写病句
Correct the errors in the following sentences.
1. Roy found the missing wheel, it had rolled under the bed
2. Then she went on nervously with her work. Knitting.
3. In the evening we would swim in the lake and dancing afterward.
4. Learning to spell English words, spelling rules must be memorized.
5. He talked for fifty minutes without taking his eyes off his notes. Apparently not noticing that half the class was asleep.
Ⅲ.标出主题句
1. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the letter of your choice in the blank provided. A. Today many women go out to work. B. Today a woman can do any job a man can do, providing it does not require brute strength. C. Women are supposed to stay at home.
D. Most working women in business are doing lower management jobs. Answer: ______
2. Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence. Most people think that being a department store salesperson is not a difficult job, but from my experience I know that it takes time, effort, and patience to be successful. Once you have helped the customers, you have to ring
up and bag the merchandise, then be sure to thank them. You also have to help with displaying the merchandise attractively, with putting out new lines, with taking inventory, with keeping stock organized, and with keeping the counter area clean and tidy. You have to know what is in stock and what needs to be put out. Then, too, a salesperson must be courteous when a customer is unreasonable and demanding. As you can see, a salesperson does more than just stand around and ring up others.
3. Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph. Write the letter of your choice in the blank provided. Topic Sentence: ______ At the turn of the century we're faced with many problems, social and economical, of which environmental pollution might be the most critical and vital. Every day when we look up, the sky is sadly gray. The moment we walk on the pavement or ride a bike in the street, we will smell the strongly thick gas emitted out of cars and trucks, along with much terrible noise. Each time we turn on TV, a couple of bad news about global warmth and acid rains will flow into our ears. Our earth, as a single homeland we are able to count on now, is sufficiently eroded by air and land pollution. A. We're faced with many serious problems. B. It is high time for us human beings to protect our own homeland, the earth. C. Air pollution is becoming increasingly serious. D. We must protect our land from erosion.
Ⅳ.重新组合段落
Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
1. Next, it greatly boosts the morale of our people.
20. Strong sense of patriotism sweeps China with the force of an avalanche.
21. Why couldn't she be a modernized China soon? What's more, the success has laid a firm foundation for Beijing to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
22. The successful stories of the Olympic Medallists fuel nationalism.
23. Through TV, people all over the world know more about New China, especially the dramatic progress made in the past two decades.
24. China, a weak nation in sports in the past, has rapidly risen up and become one of the sports giants.
25. Billions of Chinese witnessed how the former ugly ducklings became beautiful swans, **mon kids became national heroes.
26. Our success in the 27th Olympic Games is far beyond sports. First, the glory greatly enhances the international prestige of China. 25 20 22
Ⅴ.标出与段落内容无关的句子
Read the following paragraph and cross out the TWO irrelevant sentences.
1. Packaging is an important form of advertising. A package can sometimes motivate someone to buy a product. Advertising plays an important role in sales promotion. For example, a small child might ask for a breakfast food **es in a box with a picture of a TV character. The child is more interested in the picture than in breakfast food. Pictures for children to colour or cut out, games
printed on a package, or small gifts inside a box also motivate many children to buy products—or to ask their parents for them. Children are fond of beautiful pictures.
Ⅵ.写信
1. Your name is Wang Ping. You are a student of Henan University, doing a survey of technical firms that specialize in designing new products. Write a letter to Product Development Division, Tractor Plant in Luoyang, asking them to provide information about their ways of encouraging creativity and motivation in the research teams that develop consumer product lines. (150～200 words)。