全国2009年10月高等教育自学考试英语写作基础试题
课程代码:00597

I. 重写名子 (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. Alice likes to listen to classical music, and Jessica likes to listen to classical music too. (simple sentence)
2. The shutters are closed tightly to keep cool. It is burning heat outside. (compound sentence)
3. Susanna was eating the fish. She began to feel sick. (complex sentence)
4. He hated evening self-study classes. The road to school was long. There were no lights lining the road. (compound-complex sentence)
5. The community college is making it easier for older students to attend college in a number of ways. (periodic sentence)
6. I spent almost two hours on the phone yesterday. I tried to find a garage to repair my car. (sentence with "to opener")
7. Lakey is the most beautiful one of the group of girls. She is also the most intelligent and the most resourceful one of them. (sentence with parallel structure)
8. Jim bought his wife a Christmas gift. He didn’t tell her beforehand. (sentence with a modifying phrase)
9. The next day, Mrs. Harris got up and sat on the edge of her bed. Her head began to swim. She lay down again. (compound-complex sentence)
10. His investment had been lost in the stock market crash. Smith became another person. (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. There is a very beautiful garden on campus, that is my favorite spot.
12. She closed her eyes. Thinking back through the years of being mother, wife, friend, daughter, and sister.
13. Wading through the stream, a rock cut one of my bare feet.
14. His grades are not as satisfactory as Jim.
15. The teacher assigned the homework to the students that was too difficult.

III.标出主题句 ( 15 points, 5 points each )
16. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the letter of your choice in the blank provided.
A. As a freshman I felt all the difficulties of managing money.
B. Most college students are economically dependent on their parents.
C. Doing a part-time job can increase the sense of financial responsibility for college students.
D. Manipulating money wisely is an absolute necessity for everyone, especially for college students.
Answer:_____________
17. Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.
The most vital difference between Muslims in America and their brothers in Europe is the U.S. enduring emphasis on religious liberty. Religion is given far more respect in the U.S. than in Europe. Think about it. The U.S. is in the midst of a resentful debate over immigration in which many Americans reject "hyphenated (带连字符的) identifies" like Mexican-American as a threat to national unity. Yet while Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Americans may disagree strongly among themselves, the religious basis of their identity is not seriously questioned by anyone. If Muslim Americans are not so readily accepted today, it is not because they are believers. In Europe, by contrast, Muslims are resented and marginalized precisely because their religion threatens strong secular (世俗的) values.
18. Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph. Write the letter of your choice in the blank provided. Topic Sentence: _____________
These memories of mine have been collected slowly, over a period of years. Some readers, finding them in a magazine, have taken them for stories. The assumption that I have "made them up" is surprisingly prevalent (流行的), even among people who know me. I do not understand the reason for these doubts. Can it be that the public takes for granted that anything written by a professional writer is necessarily untrue? The professional writer is looked on perhaps as a "story-teller", like a child who has fallen into that habit and is mechanically scolded by his parents even when he protests that this time he is telling the truth.
A. I am essentially a story-teller.
B. I am often accused of telling lies.
C. The fact that I am a professional writer is often doubted by my readers.
D. The memories of mine are often taken as stories by some of my readers.

IV. 重新组合段落 ( 5 points, 1 point each )
Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will be read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
19. The reason was never explained to us.
20. My father had taught me, on his lap, before I started school - A Child’s, Garden of Verses, and Eugene Field, his favorite poet.
21. I remember a storybook, which soon disappeared, about some Belgian children along a canal escaping from Germans.
22. At any rate, these are all the books I recall from my childhood household.
23. From an early time, I had been a great reader.
24. A few volumes had come with us, I think, from Seattle to Minneapolis, but they were for looking at the pictures on the living-room floor while a grown-up watched, not for reading.
25. But after our parents’ death, almost no books were permitted.
26. Was it to save electricity, or because books could give "ideas" that would make us too big for our boots?

V. 标出与段落内容无关的句子 ( 10 points)
Read the following paragraph and cross out the TWO irrelevant sentences.
It was mid-June the morning we graduated, and I fainted in the huge hall for the Commencement (毕业典礼) from the heat. Afterwards Frani’s parents took several of us to lunch at the Silver Swan. My grandparents had not come for the occasion, but sent me a check for a trip to Europe — that was a graduation present, and a wedding present as well, he wrote. Yes, the decision of marriage had eventually been made. We had already had an interview with the curate (牧师助理), and it was exactly one week after the Commencement and my twenty-first birthday when we "stood up" together in the chapel. John told me that I would never become a good actress. We had a one-night honeymoon at an inn in Briarcliff, and there all of a sudden I had an attack of panic. As we climbed into the big bed, I knew, too late, that I had done the wrong thing. To marry a man without loving him, which was what I had just done, not really perceiving it, was a wicked action, I saw. Stiff with remorse and terror, I lay under the thin blanket through a good part of the night.

VI. 写信 (40 points)
Write a letter according to the following situation: you came across a piece of news from China Daily that Zhaoyang High School in Gansu Province is recruiting English teachers. You (Li Ming), an English major going to graduate next summer, decide to apply for it. In the letter, make sure to include your devotion to education, your enthusiasm to work in the Northwest of our country, and your qualifications for the job. Don’t forget to leave your phone number (555-5555) for further contact. (150-200 words)