全国2003年10月高等教育自学考试

英语写作基础试题

课程代码：00597

全部题目用英文作答。

I.重写句子(15 points,1.5points each)

Revise the following sentences according to the requirement.

Example: The history of English words in 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.I like roller-skating. I like ice-skating better.(compound sentence)

2.If you sit by the window facing the sun on a sunny winter day, you may feel nice and warm.(loose sentence)

3.Mary put the steak on the grill. The charcoal was burning evenly.(complex sentence)

4.His valuable papers were destroyed in the fire. Tom called the insurance company.(complex sentence)

5.I asked my friend if we should tip the driver when the bus tour ended.(periodic sentence)

6.Your uncle married my aunt. He is rich. She is poor.(simple sentence)

7.Jerry is smart. He should be able to handle eighteen credits this semester.(compound sentence)

8.I returned to school following a long illness. The math teacher gave me make-up work to do, but the history teacher made me drop her course.(compound-complex sentence)

9.Jack applied for a job. He went for an interview. He was hired.(parallel structure)

10.Meet me in the courtyard for dessert when you finish doing the dishes.(periodic sentence)

II.改写病句(15 points,3 points each)

Correct the errors in the following sentences.

11.The rain might last for a while, clouds covered the entire sky.

12.In the evening we would swim in the lake and dancing afterward.

13.That woman just bought her dog a milk shake in a red skirt.

14.To pass the course, your term paper must be handed in on time.

15.Harry wouldn’t make a good negotiator he doesn’t have the patience.

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.I eat a lot of homemade ice cream.

B. Homemade ice cream is my favorite.

C.I have a homemade ice cream maker.

D.I miss homemade ice cream a lot.

Answer:______________________________________

17.Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.

Tornados form under very special weather conditions, and these special weather conditions occur most often in inland areas, such as the central United States. A tornado forms when a layer of warm, dry air is on top of a layer of cooler, moist air. This combination of dry, warm air above wet, cool air creates a condition that causes the lower layer of air to lift up. As the lower air rises, both layers of air begin to rotate, to turn around and around. The air begins to rotate faster and faster because of centrifugal(离心的) force. The tornado has a center called an “eye” and the air rotates quickly around this eye.

18.Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph.

Topic Sentence:____________________________________

First, I have the whole week off from the stationery store because it’s going to be closed. My friends are all staying in town, so there will be plenty to do. We’ll go to Central Park during the day and rent movies or go downtown in the evenings. I’ve also saved enough money to visit my cousin in Buffalo for a couple of days, and we always have a good time together. This could be the best Easter week I would have had in a long time, especially because I don’t have to work.

A. I am going to have a very long vacation.

B. Easter is a very important holiday.

C. Easter week is going to be terrific.

D. I like wonderful holidays.

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.Wines must be drunk quickly once they are opened, otherwise bacteria will use the air to convert the alcohol to vinegar.

20.Red wine is made from dark grapes, and white wine from whiter grapes or from dark grapes whose skins have been removed from the wine press at an early stage.

21.Wine is the fermented juice of fresh grapes.

22.The bacteria are killed by a higher alcohol content than is found in wine and that is why sherry and port, the specialties of Spain and Portugal, are fortified by the addition of spirits to make them last longer.

23.Wine was made in England in the Middle Ages, but the climate is not really suitable for grapevines.

24.In wine-making, the grapes are crushed in a wine press and the yeast converts the sugar to alcohol, when there is no air present, by a process called fermentation.

25.The most famous wine-making countries are France, Germany and Italy.

26.The juice of the wine grape contains sugar, and growths of yeast form on the outside of the grape skins.

V.标出与段落内容无关的句子(10 points)

Read the following paragraph and cross out irrelevant sentences.

The chief reasons people wear masks are these: to have fun, to protect themselves, to disguise themselves, and to acquire a new identity. Masks are very useful. At Halloween, children wear masks for fun; they may, of course, also think they are disguising themselves, but chiefly their motive is to experience the joy of saying “boo” to someone. Soldiers wore masks for protection, in ancient times against swords and battle-axes, in more recent times against poison gas. Bank robbers wear masks to disguise themselves, and though of course this disguise is a sort of protection, a robber’s reason for wearing a mask is fairly distinct from a soldier’s. All of these reasons so far are easily understood, but we may have more trouble grasping the reason that primitive people use masks in religious rituals. Some ritual masks seem merely to be attempts to frighten away evil spirits, and some seem merely to be disguises so that the evil spirits will not know who the wearer is. The masks are usually made of paper. But most religious masks are worn with the idea that the wearer acquires, through a union with supernatural powers, a new identity, and thus in effect becomes—really becomes, not merely pretends to be—a new person.

VI.写信(40 points)

Write a letter to your friend according to the following situation: You(Weiping) haven’t heard from your friend(Zhijie) since the SARS outbreak. You tell him or her about yourself and the general situation in Beijing during that period. Since Beijing was taken off the list of SARS-infected areas, things have gradually come back to normal. You would encourage him or her to come for a visit in autumn, as it is the best season of the year.(150-200 words)

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2003年10月英语写作基础试题答案

英语写作基础考试试题