大学英语专业《英语写作》试卷

VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these sentences into a coherent paragraph by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order.

The correct order:

VII. Choose the most suitable topic sentence for each paragraph.

1. 2. 3.

VIII. Choose from the following transitional expressions and put them in the blanks in the paragraphs. 1. 2. 3.

4.

IX. Writing

I. Rewrite the following titles according to general rules. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1.approaches to teaching english as a foreign language

2.what can the artist do in the world of today

3.hit-and-run accidents

4.best ways to say I love you

5.where i lived, and what i lived for

II. Identify the figures of speech employed in each of the following sentences and choose the matching one listed as follows. (10 points, 1 point for each)

simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, euphemism, irony, overstatement or understatement, transferred epithet, oxymoron, alliteration

1.The leaves are trembling in the cold wind

2.That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel.

3.M: “I was been told that two children had left us in that terrible school bus accident.”

W: “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that.”

4.His friends praised his daughter’s performances to the skies.

5.This diligent student seldom reads more than an hour per month.

6.During the national liberation movement, the government was faced with the choice between the ballot and

the bullet.

7.The lovely girl has a rosy cheek.

8.Sword and cross in hand, the European conquers fell upon the Americans.

9.She was so worried about her son that she spent several sleepless nights.

10.When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that it was a victorious defeat.

III. Sentence identification (10 points, 1 point for each)

(I) Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1. Smith favored the new plan, but he agreed that the cost was too high.

2. Her report stresses the need for regional medical center in Poderosa, a mining town.

3. Mickey sang a song, and Marvin played his guitar.

4. Lost in thought, she did not hear the thunder.

5. When I bought the Acer Computer, I thought it was the solution that we had long needed.

(II) Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1. Badly frightened by the explosion, the boy rushed out of the laboratory.

2. The Whites must have been gone away for the summer holidays, for we have not seen them for two or three weeks.

3. Our friends, who had started before us, promised that they would must us, but when we reporters grumbling and scribbling in their seats.

4. The politician is concerned with successful elections, whereas the statesman is interested in the future of his people.

5. The new thing that happened to me in the town was that I was thrown into experiences that finally seemed to