英语写作考试卷

and to try out new, more adult experiences. (4)Unfortunately, my family seemed to get in the way.

(5)My little brother, for instance, turned into my enemy. (6)We are close now, though. (7)In fact, Eddie recently painted my new apartment for me. (8)Eddie used to barge into my room, listen to my phone conversations, and read my secret letters. (9)I would threaten to tie him up and leave him in a garbage dumpster. (10)He would scream, my mother would yell, and all hell would break loose. (11)My parents, too, were enemies. (12)They wouldn't let me stay out late, wear the clothes I wanted to wear, or hang around with the friends I liked. (13)So I tried to get revenge on them by being miserable, sulky, and sarcastic at home.

Paragraph 2:

(1)Football fans wear their official team T-shirts and warm-up jackets to the mall, the supermarket, the classroom, and even — if they can get away with it — to work. (2)Some workplaces allow their staff to wear whatever they like, but some do not. (3)If the team offers a giveaway item, the fans rush to the stadium to claim the hat or sports bag or water bottle that is being handed out that day. (4)Baseball fans go similarly nuts when their favorite teams give away some attractive freebie. (5)Football fans just plain behave insanely. (6)Even the fact that fans spend the coldest months of the year huddling on icy metal benches in places like Chicago proves it. (7)In addition, football fans decorate their houses with football-related items of every kind.

(8)To them, team bumper stickers belong not only on car bumpers, but also on fireplace mantels and front doors. (9)When they go to a game, which they do as often as possible, they also decorate their bodies. (10)True football fans not only put on their team jackets and grab their pennants but also paint their heads to look like helmets or wear glow-in-the-dark cheeseheads. (11)At the game, these fans devote enormous energy to trying to get a "wave" going.

Part IV. The box below summarizes the six kinds of introduction and three kinds of conclusions. Read the following introductions and conclusions and write the letter of the kind of introduction or conclusion in each paragraph. (10%)

Introductions:

Paragraph 1:

Shortly before Easter, our local elementary school sponsored a fund-raising event at which classroom pets and their babies—hamsters, guinea pigs, and chicks—were available for adoption.

Afterward, as I was driving home, I saw a hand drop a baby hamster out of the car ahead of me. I couldn't avoid running over the tiny creature. One of the parents had taken the pet, regretted the decision, and decided to get rid of it. Such people have never stopped to consider the several real obligations involved in owning a pet.

Paragraph 2:

“Few things are harder to put up with,” said Mark Twain, “than the annoyance of a good example.” Twain obviously knew the problems faced by siblings cursed with older brothers or sisters who are models of perfection. All our lives, my older sister Shelley and I have been compared. Unfortunately, in competition with my sister’s virtues, my looks, talents, and accomplishments always ended up on the losing side.

Paragraph 3:

Many people who have grown up in multichild families think that being an only child is the best of all possible worlds. They point to such benefits as the only child's annual new wardrobe and the lack of competition for parental love. But single-child status isn't as good as people say it is. Instead of having everything they want, only children are sometimes denied certain basic human needs.

Conclusions:

Paragraph 1:

Although I always lost in the sibling contests of looks, talents, and accomplishments, Shelley and I have somehow managed not to turn into deadly enemies. Feeling like the "dud" of the family, in fact, helped me to develop a drive to succeed and a sense of humor. In our sibling rivalry, we both managed to win.

Paragraph 2:

Therefore, the next time you see TV viewers, shoppers, or Internet surfers with eyes as glazed and empty as polished doorknobs, you'll know these people are in a protective altered state. Be gentle with them. They are merely trying to cope with the mind-numbing inventions of modern life.

Part V. The following essay has no indentations starting new paragraphs. Read it carefully and then write the numbers of the thesis statement and the topic sentence of each of the three supporting paragraphs and the first sentence of the conclusion. (10%)

Reactions to Disappointment

(1)Ben Franklin said that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. (2)He left something out, however: disappointment. (3)No one gets through life without experiencing many