标点符号练习题

1. Most American people are fond of cats and/ or dogs. It is said that every year they spend about $5.4 billion on their pets, including $1.5 billion on pet food--- four times the amount of money they spend on baby food. Now there are about 100 million dogs and cats in the country; the number is still going up rapidly since 12， 500 puppies are born every hour.
2. It’s 7：45 on Tuesday morning and 26-year-old Steve Clarks is going to work. He puts on his jacket and picks up his cell phone, pager and laptop. As he leaves the house, he turns on his MP3 player and puts on his headphones. He is ready to go.
3. “What did he say?”
“He said many things, such as… such as… oh, yes, he said that he would resign from the committee.”
4. She was interested in history a few years ago; today her main interest is in anthropology.
5. Changes in the market, poor management, and miscalculated speculations— these caused the bankruptcy of the company.
6. She didn’t go with them to climb the mountain; otherwise, she would have been caught in the storm.
7. Among those who joined the discussion were Miss Wu, a well-known writer; Mr. Li, editor of the literary supplement of the local newspaper; Dr. Qian, a professor of literary cirticism; and Ms. Sun, a famous historian.
8. She enjoys reading Shakespeare’s plays and has read Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and The Verchant of Venice.
9. The Two Americans
There are two Americans. One is the American of Lincoln; the other is the American of Teddy Rooseelt and the modern superpatriots. One is generous and humane, the other narrowly egotistical; one is self-critical, the other self-righteous; one is sensible the other romantic; one is good humored, the other solemn; one is inquiring, the other pontificating; one is moderate, the other filled with passionate intensity; one is judicious and the other arrogant in the use of great power.
8. “…that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents.”
9. “Certainly,” said Alice.
10. “And only one for birthday presents, you know. There’s glory for you!”
11. “I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,” Alice said.
12. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t---
till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knockdown argument for you.’ ”
13. “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knockdown argument’,” Alice objected.
14. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful
tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean---neither more or less.”
15. “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean
so many different things.”
16. “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master---
that’s all.”

17. I dialed a number and the phone rang once, twice; then someone picked it up.
18. “You got the wrong number,” a husky male voice snapped befor

e the line went dead. Mystified, I dialed again.
19. “I said you got the wrong number,” came the voice once more. The phone clicked in my ear.
20. How could he possibly know I had a wrong number? At that time I worked for the New York City Police Department. A cop is trained to be curious and concerned, so I dialed a third time.
21. “Hey, come on,” the man said, “is this you again?”
22. “Yeah, it’s me,” I answered. “I was wondering how you knew I had the wrong number before I even said anything.”
23. “You figure it out!” the phone slammed down.
24. I sat there for a short time, the receiver hanging loosely in my fingers. I called the man back.
25. “So you have figured it out?” he asked.
26. “The only thing I can think of is—eh— nobody ever calls you.”
27. “You got it!” The phone went dead for the fourth time. Chuckling, I dialed the man back.
28. “What do you want now?” he asked.
29. “I thought I’d call just to say ‘hello’.”
30. “Hello? Why?”
31. “Well, if nobody ever calls you, I thought maybe I should.”
32. “Okay, hello. Who is this?”
33. At last I had gotten through. Now it was his turn to be curious. I told him who I was and asked who he was.
34. “My name’s Adolf Meth. I’m 88 years old, and I haven’t had this many wrong numbers in one day in 20 years!” We both laughed.
35. In this way we became phone friends.

1. married people live__ happily ever after__ in fairy tales__, but they do so less and less often in real life __.I__, like many of my friends__, got married_,_ divorced__ and remarried__. I suppose_,_ to some people__, I__’ m a failure__./; after all__, I broke my first solemn promise to _:_love and cherish until death us do part_,_ but I feel that I’ m finally a success_._ I learned from the mistakes I made in my first marriage__. this time around_,_ the ways my husband and I share our free time__, make decisions__ and deal with problems are very different__.