年下半年全国高等自学考试英语写作基础试卷(1)

1、.1998年下半年全国高等自学考试英语写作基础试卷. Revise the following sentences according to the requirement. Write your version in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (15)1. Job Milton is one of his favorite poets. (periodic sentence)2. Steve approached the deans office. He walked at a slow pace. (simple sente

2、nce with ing phrase)3. After she was introduced by her assistant, the mayor began with an opening statement. (simple sentence with ed phrase)4. Jones has been without work for six months. He is having trouble paying his bills. (simple sentence beginning with prepositional phrase)5. The rescuers were

3、 careful as they handled the rope. They lowered the frightened climber from the ledge. (simple sentence with by phrase beginning with carefully)6. The old woman sat in her rocking chair on the porch. She watched her grandchildren race by on their bikes. (simple sentence with ing phrase)7. Michael wa

4、nted to go swimming, Jane decided to go shopping. (compound sentence)8. Montesquieu popularized the English system of checks and balances among the branches of government. This ideal was adopted as a model by the writers of the American constitution. (compound sentence)9. The gardener waters the flo

5、wer beds regularly. Or the flowers droop and die. (complex sentence beginning with unless)10. When they arrived home, they unpacked their suitcases, took showers, and then they went to sleep after eating their lunch. (parallel structure). Correct the errors I the following sentences and write down t

6、he correct sentences in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (10) 1. Mike decided to stop smoking he didnt want to die of lung cancer. 2. She tries to call home once a week. To stay in touch with her family. 3. My movie idol is not only tall but also is handsome. 4. They played while I was

7、reading with the new pups in the basket. 5. Having almost no money, my survival depended on my parents. Choose the topic sentence:() Choose the best topic sentence from each group below. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (8)1. A. Universi

8、ty students can get scholarship if they are top students.B. University students are now enjoying better conditions than ever before.C. In the past university students couldnt get a loan from the government.D. In some universities students dont need to pay for their accommodation.2. A. The common hou

9、sefly is very dangerous.B. The common housefly is found in many parts of the world.C. The common housefly carries germs everywhere it goes.D. The common housefly leaves thousands of germs on the food.3. A. The clock was once battered by bombs. B. It was built more than a hundred years ago. C. Big Be

10、n is considered the worlds most famous clock. D. People in London like to check their clocks by Big Ben.4. A. In addition to the natural materials, modern man now has cloth which is made synthetically. B. For example, he may have worn the skins of animals to celebrate his victories over them. C. Mod

11、ern man wears clothing for three purposes: for protection, for decoration, and for modesty. D. Not until recently was it possible to use only natural materials of various kinds for the making of clothing.() Read the following paragraphs and spot the topic sentence of each paragraph. Write the number

12、 of the topic sentence in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (6)1. (1) Progress is gradually being made in the fight against cancer. (2) In the early 1900s, few cancer patients had any hope of long-term survival. (3) In the 1930s, less than one in five cancer victims lived more than five

13、years. (4) In the 1950s, the ratio was one in four, and in the 1960s, it was one in three. (5) Currently, four of ten patients who get cancer this year will be alive five years from now. (6) The gain from one in four to four in ten represents about 69,000 lives saved each year. 2. (1) Crime in the c

14、ountry, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. (2) Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? (3) The things that John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the surrounding forests. (4) There are na

15、tural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a look-post.3. (1) Powerful computers capable of translating documents from one language into another have been recently developed in Japan. (2) The process of machine translation is complex

16、. (3) To translate a document from English into Japanese, for example, the computer first analyzes an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying the subject, verb, objects, and modifier. (4) Next, the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary. (5) After that

17、, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting awkward jumble of words and meanings and produces an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the machines understanding of what the original English sentence meant. (6) Finally, the computer produced translation is

18、 polished by a human bilingual editor.() Read the following paragraphs carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow each paragraph. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (6)1. Topic sentence: In the

19、past, teachers made children sit still for hours. They made them memorize all sorts of things. In other words, the children had to go on repeating things until they knew them “by heart”. Today, many teachers wonder if it is possible to make children learn at all. They say you can only help them lear

20、n. They say you must let children learn and discover things for themselves.A) Educating a child is by no means an easy job.B) A teachers job is to make children learn.C) Education for children is to be emphasized.D) Childrens education is changing very rapidly.2. Topic sentence: To the tourists, it

21、is a city of hurrying crowds, horn-blowing traffic jams, dirty streets and smelly subways all in sharp contrast to such international symbols as Wall Street and the United Nations Building. But to most local inhabitants and commuters, it is simply an enormous and busy working field associated with b

22、usiness activities and goods manufacturing a place to leave as soon as possible in the evening for the more peaceful atmosphere of the suburban areas. Meanwhile, New York remains to be the most populous, flourishing and prosperous metropolitan city in the western Hemisphere.A) New York is one of the

23、 largest cities in the world.B) New York is, in the tourists mind, a metropolitan city full of charm and excitement.C) New York is, depending on ones point of view, any one of the two cities.D) New York is, to most local inhabitants, a business and financial center.3. Topic sentence: The service lin

24、e is frequently so long that a student gives up the idea of eating altogether. If she is patient enough to wait for food, she is lucky if she can find a place to eat. If she is particularly agile, she may work her way through the masses to a spot where she can eat it before its cold. Once seated, ho

25、wever, she is likely to find the atmosphere so choked with other bodies, noise, and dead air, that she loses her appetite. She cannot easily slip away at that point, either. Wedging her way out of the cafeteria, she discovers, is as miserable a matter as working her way in.A) The university is one o

26、f the biggest tourist attractions in town.B) The university cafeteria is one of the most crowded places on campus.C) The dining-hall is ugly and dirty and makes the students lose appetite.D) The City College always accepts more students than it can actually accommodate. Rearrange the following numbe

27、red sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (5)1. Clearly, in agriculture and in industry, the progress of a country depends on the busy hands of its working people.2. Manual labor is one of the principal develop

28、ment resources in any industrializing country, as the following examples demonstrate.3. And of course the manufacture as well as the maintenance of machines of all kinds needs a large number of trained mechanics and technicians. 4. To begin with, ploughing fields, planting and harvesting crops, and

29、raising livestock are important to development and all require people who work with their hands.5. Secondly, mining natural resources, building roads and bridges, and constructing dams for irrigation and electrical power are also important to development and also require people who know how to use t

30、heir hands skillfully.6. Finally, the establishment of efficient transportation and communication systems, essential services in a modernizing economy, relies heavily on a labor force of expert craftsmen who take pride in their manual skills.3. Read the following paragraphs and write down the number

31、s of the four irrelevant sentences in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (10)A. (1) For hundreds of years, man has made use of the talents of monkeys. (2) Egyptian paintings of 2000 B.C. show baboons gathering fruit for their masters. (3) Even in 1879, in Abyssinia, monkeys were still bei

32、ng used as torchbearers at feasts. (4) The monkeys would sit in a row on a bench and hold the lights until the guests went home. (5) Then the monkeys would eat. (6) Most of the worlds zoos contain a variety of monkeys for people to watch.B. (1) Pearls are gathered by men known as pearl divers. (2) A

33、ctually, these men do not dive. (3) They are lowered by a rope to the bottom of the sea. (4) But sky-divers jump from the planes. (5) Many tourists to Japan enjoy shopping for cultured pearls. (6) Pearl gatherers work in pairs, with in remaining at the surface to help the other return from his dive. (7) An experienced pearl diver can stay down about a minute and a half and can often make as many as thirty dives in one day. Write a note according to the situation described. Write your version in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. (15)You are Wang Lan.