05年10月高教自学考试英语写作基础试题

Ⅰ.重写句子（15 points, 1.5 points each）
　　Revise the following sentences according to the requirement.
　　Example: The history of English words is the history of our civilization in many ways. (periodic sentence )
　　In many ways, the history of English words is the history of our civilization.
　　1.The Irish ambassador bid us farewell when the party ended. ( simple sentence)
　　2. We don’t dare to eat these vegetables. They are seriously polluted by insecticides. (compound sentence)
　　3. The cloud gets longer and gets closer to the ground. It begins to pull up dirt from the ground.（complex sentence）
　　4. I have a new digital camera, but I don’t know how to use it properly. (compound-complex sentence)
　　5. It’s true whether you believe it or not. (periodic sentence)
　　6. Tiger Woods is the name of a young American golfer. He set a record in the 1997 Master’s Tournament. He surprised all the veterans. He was 22 at the time. (long sentence)
　　7. At the official launch (发布会) of Beatrix Porter’s Peter Rabbit, the invited children will participate in the singing and dancing session. They will enjoy storytelling of the tales. (parallel structure)
　　8. Mamoru Oshii’s Japanese animé(动画) Ghost in the Shell 2 made a hit among the Asian movies that competed. (periodic sentence)
　　9. I sat in the front row, but I did not get his words. (compound-complex sentence)
　　10. China’s economic boom is sucking in commodities like soy beans and steel. Brazil is a major exporter. (complex sentence)
　　Ⅱ.改写病句（15 points, 3 points each）
　　Correct the errors in the following sentences
　　Example: After seeing an offensive mouthwash ad on television. I resolved never to buy that
　　brand again.
　　 After seeing an offensive mouthwash ad on television, I resolved never to buy that
　　brand again.
　　11. My brother’s house is on Alp Street. Which is getting new sewers next week.
　　12. Many large department stores issue credit cards to their customers can be used to make
　　purchases at a particular store.
　　13. Born in New Zealand, it is natural to enjoy eating roast lamb.
　　14. She hoped, by doing lots of revision and studying, pass the exams.
　　15. The mayor was described as a round, squat (矮胖的) man with a droopy(下垂的)beard
　　weighing 60 kg.
　　Ⅲ.标出主题句（15 points, 5 points each）
　　16. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the choice in the blank.
　　A. As tourists, people are expected to learn the traffic rules in a foreign land.
　　B. As tourists, people are allowed to break the minor rules in a foreign land.
　　C. It’s hard to develop universal traffic rules.
　　D. There seems to be a growing need for all countries to adopt a set of international traffic rules.
　　Answer:
　　17. Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.
　　Scientists have learned to supplement the sense of sight in numerous ways. In front of the tiny pupil of the eye they put, on Mount Palomar, a great monocle (单片眼镜) 200 inches in diameter, and with it see 2000 times farther into the depths of space. Or they look through a small pair of lenses arranged as a microscope (显微镜) into a drop of water or blood, and magnify (放大) by as much as 2000 diameters the living creatures there, many of which are among man’s most dangerous enemies. Or, if we want to see distant happenings on earth, they use some of the previously wasted electromagnetic (电磁的) waves to carry television images which they re-create as light by whipping tiny crystals on a screen with electrons (电子) in a vacuum. Or they can bring happenings of long ago and far away as colored motion pictures, by arranging silver atoms and color-absorbing molecules (分子、微粒) to force light waves into the patterns of original reality. Or if we want to see into the center of a steel casting or the chest of an injured child, they send the information on a beam of penetrating (穿透的) short-wave X rays, and then convert it back into images we can see on a screen or photograph. Thus almost every type of electromagnetic radiation yet discovered has been used to extend our sense of sight in some way.
　　18. Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph.
　　Topic Sentence:
　　Many Americans fear that foreign investors in this country want to take over the American economy from the inside. But in reality, things don’t work that way. Of the trillion dollars in foreign investments in this country, three-quarters are in bank deposits or securities―that is, in paper only. Foreign-owned businesses in the U.S., such as hamburger chains and hotels, generate jobs and new growth because they are totally dependent on the local population for staffing and customers. Americans are the ones who must be sought after as workers, renters, tourists, and patrons. Throughout its history, the U.S. has relied on foreign capital to finance a great deal of its development, but this has never stood in the way of our democracy.
　　A. Foreign-owned businesses in America need Americans.
　　B. There’s no need for Americans to fear foreign influence in this country.
　　C. Most of the foreign investment in this country is on paper, not in cash.
　　D. Americans are in constant fear that foreign investors might stand in the way of American democracy.
　　Ⅳ.重新组合段落（5 points, 1 point each）
　　Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
　　19. One was a St. Bernard dog named Barry, who worked in the Alps in the early 1800’s, when St. Bernards were still used to rescue people caught in snowdrifts or avalanches (雪崩).
　　20. Then there was Chips, the first war dog to be shipped overseas during World War Ⅱ.
　　21. Yet another animal hero was a canary named Bibs, the pet of an elderly woman, Tess, who lived alone in Tennessee and whose niece lived nearby.
　　22. Bibs died after alerting the niece.
　　23. Among the numerous heroes of history are animals.
　　24. He saved more than forty lives.
　　25. One night Chips pulled away from his handler and attacked a German weapons position, seizing one man and forcing the surrender of four others.
　　26. One day the niece heard a tapping at her window and discovered Bibs, so the niece quickly went to her aunt’s house and found Tess had struck her head on something and fallen over.
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　　Ⅴ.标出与段落内容无关的句子（10 points）
　　Read the following paragraphs and cross out the irrelevant sentences.
　　 City dwellers are becoming so numerous that fewer and fewer people can imagine what it is like to live near to nature, to be regulated by natural events, to be surrounded by the mysteries of the seasons and feel the pulse of time. It is far from enough to read about nature, to camp occasionally, to travel around by car. Life in the country as farmers live is as distinct as can be from life in towns and cities.
　　 Of course, everyone can see this sociologically. There are so many different ways of being entertained in a city outside office or factory hours. People entertain themselves at their homes. There are few distractions on a farm and the hours of work are as long as daylight.
　　 Still, the main differences lie somewhere else. Country life is demanding and calls for many skills. One has to be a jack-of-all-trades to cope with numerous emergencies and with the varying needs of the moment for, except on the largest farms, it is not easy to enlist the help of a specialist for each breakdown in machinery, plumbing or electricity. It is not possible to put off jobs on the land if the weather is going to change. Services of various kinds in the city still leave room for improvement.
　　Ⅵ.写信（40 points）
　　You (Liu Dan) received a present of some money from a relative. Write a letter to thank him or her for the present and say what you intend to do with it, such as paying the registration fee for new courses and rents, and buying textbooks and reference books. Promise that you will keep him or her informed of your life and study at school. (150-200 words)