英语写作2 课后答案

英语写作2 课后答案

Unit 1

3.

1) A person can look for a job in several ways.

2) Penguins resemble human beings in many respects.

3) One’s personality plays an important role in foreign language learning.

4) Living in a place where the weather is always warm has many advantages.

4.

Paragraph 1: All inventions are either basic inventions or improvements on earlier inventions. Paragraph 2: There was a serious accident in the chemistry lab yesterday.

Paragraph 3: Nutritional deficiency is a major problem of the elderly.

5.

1) topic sentences

Paragraph 1: The world had enjoyed many benefits from the invention of the telephone. Paragraph 2: I had a terrible morning today.

2)sentences that do not support the topic sentence in the paragraph

Paragraph 1: Many people do not like writing letters to each other. And nowadays, the Internet has brought us more convenience.

Paragraph 2: I heard that he was also very strict with his own children.

6.

Topic sentence: 5) Generally speaking, there are many attractions of living in a city.

Logical sequence of the sentences: 5, 7, 4, 1, 6, 9, 8, 3, 2.

7.

(1) First of all

(2) Secondly

(3) By and by

(4) In addition

(5) In short

8.

1) repetition of key words : junk food, students

2) use of transitional signals: for one reason, also, as a result, however

3) use of pronouns: they, their, this

Part III Follow-up Exercises

3.

Topic sentence: When I was a child, we never varied our Christmas Eve ritual.

1) , when 2) 3) As soon as 4) , 5) 6) Meanwhile, 7) Finally, 8) After 9), 10) and 11) Ad 12) , 13) Then 14) 15)

4.

Logical sequence of the sentences:

4, 10, 5, 12, 3, 7, 15, 9, 14, 2, 11, 8, 13, 6, 1

Topic sentence: My family spent two fun-filled days at Disney World last year.

Concluding sentence: Although we were very tired at midnight, we agreed that our two-day vacation at Disney World was one of the best we had ever had.

5.

(1) Then (2) morning (3) afternoon (4) Then

(5) After that (6) when (7) already (8) after

6.

The New Year celebration was so unforgettable for me when I was a child. Weeks before the New Year’s Day, my mother would let me help her send out New Year’s cards and go shopping with her. In the crowded markets, I bought firecrackers, like all the other kids. Then, beginning on New Year’s Eve, the sound of exploding firecrackers was everywhere, day and night. On New Year’s Day, I watched huge parades go by in the middle of the streets. People wearing costumes danced past us. Some o f them were playing instruments, some were having lion dances, and dragon dances.Afterwards, we worshiped our ancestors in a temple and visited friends and relatives to wish them happy.

3.

logical sequence of the sentence: 3, 6, 1, 4, 7, 5, 2

Relationship: Primarily, the organization of the paragraph represents movement in geographical space.

4.

1) in above in front of under through behind

2) The central focus is “a shocking experience.” To support the main idea, the writer uses a lot of descriptions and organizes these details according to the space relationship, and thus coherence is achieved.

5.

(1) into

(2) crosses

(3) In the center of

(4) Outside

(5) inside

(6) On the front

(7) over

(8) down

(9) lined with

(10) At the rear

6.

This paragraph is developed in a circular order, i.e. from east to north, and then to south

3.

1) Pattern: description with supplementary explanations.

2) the table

Steps of the process

Step 1 Wooden casks are first interconnected and then stacked in tiers.

Step 2 Young sherries are poured into the casks at the top wheras the mature sherries are drawn out of the casks at the bottom.

Step 3 Different sherries are constantly mixed up.

Result of the effort

Step 1 no

Step 2 One third of the content is drawn out of one cask in any one year.

Step 3 Special characteristics of the different sherries are maintained year after year.

4.

(1) with

(2) while

(3) slowly

(4) Gradually

(5) with

(6) By this time

(7) Suddenly

8) final

(9) ending

(10) applause

5.

Task One

Procedures of celebrating the festival:

Step 1: Prepare and lay out food; make the special lanterns.

Step 2: Keep dancing and singing overnight.

Step 3: Throw the food and lanterns into a river or sea.

Step 4: Watch the lanterns drifting way.

Linking words and phrases that connect these procedures:

Firstly, also, afterward, then, signals the end

Task Two

A Festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan. This festival is a cheerful occasion, for on this day, the dead are said to return to their homes and they are welcomed by the living. As they are expected to be hungry after their long journey, food is firstly prepared and laid out for them. Also prepared and specially made are the lanterns, which are hung outside each house to help

the dead to find their way. Afterward people keep dancing and singing all night long till the early morning. Then the food that had been laid out for the dead is thrown into a river or into the sea as it is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it. In towns that are near the sea, the tiny lanterns, which had been hung in the streets the night before, are placed into the water. This signals the end of the festival. Thousands of lanterns then slowly drift out to sea guiding the dead on their return journey to the other world. This is a moving spectacle, for crowds of people stand on the shore watching the lanterns drifting away until they can be seen no more.

6.

According to the Chinese Lunar calendar, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the day for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the day usually falls on one of the days in the latter half of Septem ber. For this occasion people need to buy moon cakes in advance. And when that evening comes with a full moon rising, Chinese families begin to have a big dinner together. The family members enjoy many delicacies, including sweet or salty moon cakes as well as some special food like taros and young soy beans. For those who are absent from the family, moon cakes have already been s ent to them days before. When the family enjoy all of these, they will look up at the full moon, ch atting or missing their faraway relatives or friends. For them, the full moon symbolizes “reunion.”Such feelings and scenes are fully expressed by a Chinese saying: the moon at home is exceptiona lly brighter.

3.

1) Paragraph A follows Pattern 2, which uses one extended example to illustrate the controlling idea. Paragraph B follows Pattern 1, which uses several examples to illustrate the topic sentence.

2)The outline for paragraph B:

Topic sentence: Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.

Examples:

1. First of all, the work was physically hard.

Specific details:

1) For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer.

2) Each carton contained twelve 32-ounce cans or bottles of apple juice, and they were heavy.

2. The second bad feature of the job was the pay.

Specific details:

I was getting the minimum wage at that time, $1.25 an hour, plus a minimum of a nickel extra for working the night shift.

3. The worst feature of the apple plant job was the working conditions.

Specific details:

1) During work we were limited to two 10-minute breaks and an unpaid half-hour for lunch.

2) The steel floors of the trucks were like ice; the quickly penetrating cold made my feet feel like stone.

Concluding sentence: I felt humiliated by the poverty that forced me to do such a bitter job.

4.

Logical sequence of the sentences:

3, 6, 1, 8, 2, 4, 7, 5,

Pattern: It follows Patten 1 and uses many examples to illustrate the controlling idea.

5.

(1) For example (2) Furthermore (3) In still another instance

(4) Even (5) his (6) these (7) contemporary

6.

Examples 2, 3 and 5 are relevant and specific. They are effective examples that can be used. Examples 1 and 7 are not specific, though relevant.

Examples 4 and 6 are completely irrelevant. They don’t refer to a Massac husetts law.

7.

1) Topic sentence: I’ve never seen a girl as lazy as Arena.

2) Topic sentence: English teachers are applying different means to teach English language.

3) Topic sentence: Americans have been decreasing their working hours since the early 1900s.

4) Topic sentence: My father has been a generous man to his children.

3.

Subject: Republic

Class: a form of government

Characteristics: in which power resides in the people (the electorate)

Subject: Wolf

Class: a large, dog-like carnivorous mammal

Characteristics: with yellowish or brownish gray and coarse fur, erect pointed ears, and a bushy tail

Subject: Jazz

Class: a style of music

Characteristics: that features improvisation and performance

Subject: persistence

Class: a kind of quality

Characteristics: not giving up even during rough times

4.

1), 2) The expression “is where” and “is when” should not be used to begin the main part of a definition. The linking verb “is” should be followed by a noun, a pronoun or an adjective. Improved: 1) A stadium is a structure or building in which sports spectaculars are held.

2) Socialism is a theory or system of community organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production, capital, land and so forth, in the community as a whole.

3) This is a circular definition, a practice of defining a term with the term itself.

Improved: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants use the energy of light to produce compounds, such as sugar and starch, from a number of substances including water and carbon dioxide.

4) The subject is defined in a language equally or more complex than the original.

Improved: Surreptitious means “secret.”

5) Exemplification is mistaken for definition; the examples are good for clarification, but they do not define.

Improved: Political conservatives are people who are dedicated to preserving the existing conditions, such as William F. Buckley, Jr., and Pat Robertson.

6) It is a generalization rather than a precise definition, for the concept is defined with characteristics without being first put under a class or category.

Improved: Hearing aids are a kind of device which enables deaf people to hear sounds such as normal speech.

5.

Task One

Logical sequence of the sentences: 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6,

Task Three

-- The purpose of the paragraph is to explain a Spanish word which has no exact English equivalent.

-- The two main characteristics of machismo are courageous behavior and earthy sexuality.

-- “Also” is the transitional word that leads you from the first characteristic to the second one.

6.

a) Members of all social classes and people of all ages consider rude behaviors to be socially unacceptable, but the standard has changed over the years. For my grandmother, who was born before the turn of the century, it was rude to start eating before everyone else was served. It was also very rude for children or younger people to interrupt older people when they were speaking. For my dad, who grew up during the Depression and the Second World war, it was rude not to say hello to a clerk in the store, and he thought my brothers and I were rude when we made unfavorable remarks about him.

b) Today, rudeness is not just a matter of forgetting small courtesies. Rudeness is also being impatient and pushy. When people cut into my lane when I am driving or shove in front of me in line, I get very angry.

3.

1) pattern: single effect and multiple causes.

2) causes

(1) got drunk at the party

(2) had taken the drug of Accutane

(3) adolescent depression

Effect:

Bart Jr’s suicide

4.

Logical sequence of the sentences:

2, 4, 1, 3, 6, 5,

Pattern of cause and effect:

single effect and multiple causes.

5.

Task one.

Topic: Society itself may be producing the distortions of personality, mental illness, and emotional instability.

Causes

1) society’s compartmentalizing

2) society’s competitive demands

3) inability to rebel

Effect

Distortions of personality, etc.

3..

1) Topic: University Students’ Entertainment

Topic sentence: University students’ entertainment can be divided into three categories according to where it takes place.

Division:

a) entertainment at home

b) entertainment on campus

c) entertainment elsewhere

2) Topic: Roles of Young Married Women in Society

Topic sentence: The average young married woman in today’s society has her life divided into three different roles.

Division:

a) the role of life

b) the role of mother

c) the role of self

3) Topic: Neighbors

Topic sentence: Neighbors fall into three categories according to their different attitudes towards you.

Division:

a) those who are friendly

b) those who are indifferent

c) those who hate you

4.

1) Out: firm, single basis: size

2) Out: fatigue, single basis: field

3) Out: Baptism, single basis: branch

4) Out: seashore, single basis: time

5..

Logical sequence of the sentences:

7, 3, 10, 9, 1, 5, 8 ,4, 2 ,11, 6,

Subject: Christmas gifts

Topic sentence: Christmas gifts can be divided into three groups, according to their after-Christmas fate.

Division:

a) those that are welcomed and put into use very soon

b) those that are halfway between being hated and loved

c) those that you banish as soon as possible.

Concluding sentence: By New Year’s Day, you have either used, stored or disposed of each of your Christmas gifts.

6.

(1) types (2) Though (3) Finally (4) however (5) Even though (6) Before (7) third (8) If

(9) Then (10) these

3.

Pattern: point-by-point

Subject 1: Western Homes

Point:

Room function: Each room has its own function.

Table: Each home has several tables for different functions. Door: Western homes have fixed, hinged doors.

Subject 2: Japanese Homes

Point:

Room function: One room serves all the functions.

Table: One low table serves all the purposes.

Door: Japanese homes have lightweight sliding doors.

4.

Logical sequence of the sentences:

5, 3, 6, 2, 4, 8, 7, 1

Pattern of comparison and contrast: subject by subject

5. Put the following words in the blanks; some can be used twice. (1) similar (2) although (3) difference (4) identical (5) again (6) while (7) But (8) difference (9) consistency (10) completely

6.

3.

General Statement: The enormous importance of television news had started the process of change in the printed press.

4.

Paragraph one:

At present, there has been profound change in mass media. In the magazine industry, for example, mass magazines have routinely been replaced by magazines aimed at very specific audience. Suburban, community, and neighborhood newspapers have boomed, while many large metropolitan newspapers have declined. Movies have gone after particular audiences and tastes. Mini-theaters attract small audiences. Network radio has been superseded by AM and FM stations aimed at very specific audiences. The CB radio boom is an example of the success of an extremely personal form of communication. Television is headed in the same direction. That can mean something for everyone—and an endless string of choices. In brief, each medium is moving toward more and more specialization.

Paragraph Two:

How have advertisements affected people’s lives?Radio commercials get millions of teenagers to shop for the products made “exclusively” for them. Similarly, magazine, advertisements, showing gorgeous models dressed in the latest style, convince women that they must buy a new wardrobe in order to remain fashionable. And newspapers, too, are filled with ads which stress the need to “buy now at bargain prices” everything form pills to major household appliances. Finally, TV programs, also, are interrupted every five minutes with commercials urging people to try a new detergent, to compare their brand of cigarettes with another, or to drink a different kind of beer. Thus, mass media advertising serves mass production by getting people to buy, buy and buy.

5.

A. Programs on TV tend to have a high level of maturity.

(1) fostering maturity at early age or hindering maturity

(2) misleading children to imitating scenes on TV

B. TV serials or dramas may oversimplify complex social and psychological problems.

(1) enjoying simple-minded soap operas and stereotyped characters

(2) giving a false picture of reality

C. Informative and cultural programs are frequently interrupted by vulgar advertising.

(1) too many commercials

(2) an insult even to the intelligence of a moron

Generalization: In brief, it is harmful and damaging for children to watch too much television.

6.

(1) Thus (2) When (3) also (4) however

(5) Moreover (6) indeed (7) also (8) Yet

(9) and (10) Thus

3.

The description centers on one trait of personality: Uncle Amo’s being ordinary and average in life.

4.

There are obviously three methods used: comparison (1), generalization (2, 4), and cause-effect

3.

4.

1) For example, some people don’t like to stay at home after work.

2) I once stopped drinking for a while.

3) The world we live in is changing every day.

4) And the price of tobacco has been going up on the international market.

5) A lot of people have successfully given up smoking now.

5.

1) The thesis statement is “there are minor differences between them in three areas.” It is the second sentence in the first paragraph.

3)

By repetition of key words: difference, British English, American English.

By using transitional words and phrases: in terms of, in addition to, second, third, generally speaking.

6.

Task One

(1) usually (2) often (3) Since (4) on the other hand

(5) also (6) but (7) Although

Task Two

3.

Sentences that tell: 1, 3, 6 Sentences that show: 2, 4, 5

5.

Logical sequence of the sentences: 8, 3, 7, 1, 5, 9, 13, 2, 6, 12, 4, 11, 10

6.

(1) While

(2) in the morning

(3) in the evening

(4) While

(5) until

(6) while

(7) before

(8) at six o’clock

(9) As soon as

(10) Unfortunately

(11) What’s more

(12) After

(13) the next morning

(14) later

(15) Luckily

(16) until

(17) at last

3. Conclusion

4.

We used to go sled riding down in curving garden paths.

Once my father wanted to buy the house and fix it up.

In nice weather, we played pirates and outlaws in the lilac bushes.

It was the favorite place to play in our neighborhood.

5. 3, 2, 7, 1, 8, 5, 6, 4

6.

1) cozy 2) soft 3) On one side of

4) Next to 5) muted 6)On the other side of

7) nap 8) orange 9) lighted 10)sizzling

7.

1) The writer employs the spatial order in his description.

The opening sentence presents an image of both ends of the table, with the rest of the description organized from these points in space. Sentence 2 shows the progression of objects from the ends of the table to the center. Sentence 3 focuses on the objects in the middle of the table. Thus the reader can visualize the scene very vividly.

2) The prepositional phrases of location and direction are:

at one end of the table, at the other end of the table, on a bed of creased paper, round its shin, beside this, between these rival ends, on which lay bunches of purple raisins, on which lay a solid rectangle of Smyrna figs, in which stood some tall celery stalks, in the center of the table

3) The verbs used are primarily static verbs, like “to be,” “lay,” and “stood,” which reinforce the spatial pattern and contribute to the central impression. They are effective for the purpose as the point of view is that of an observer who is close to the scene being described.

3. Thesis statement : If blind people can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are

affected by colors unconsciously.

Organizational structure

Paragraph 1: Introduction/Thesis statement

Paragraph 2: Supporting paragraph

Topic: discoveries of manufacturers

Examples: sugar, foods and cosmetics

Paragraph 3: Supporting paragraph

Topic: discoveries of experiments

Examples: red, blue, yellow

Paragraph 4: Conclusion: result of the discoveries

4.

1) The thesis statement is “Bones can provide archaeologists with a valuable method of

measuring time.” It is the first sentence in the first paragraph.

2) The purpose is to inform.

Methods of development :

a) process of calcium collection in bones over long times;

b) scientific deduction from the change in bones;

c) example to support the thesis.

3) Unity: by introducing the thesis ( information ) in the first paragraph, and explaining the key

points involved in the information ( i.e. what calcium and calcium-9 in bones are and how they come into being ) and how scientists can make use of them in the second paragraph, and finally citing an example to confirm the truth of the information.

Coherence:

a) by repetition of key words: bones, method, calcium, calcium,

calcium-9, archaeologists

b) by use of transitional words and phrases: while, when, because, in comparison

to , actually, little by little

5.

1) confirmed 2) findings 3) than 4) Whereas 5) as

6) if 7) together 8) lead to 9) where 10) adults

6.

Purpose: to inform drivers that they should keep the four-second rule instead of the two-second rule on highways in order to avoid collision or pileups.

Topic 1

1) Most multiple-car pileups occur at speeds over 55 miles per hour.

2) Their drivers may observe the famous two-second rule.

3) This rule means to keep two seconds of traveling time behind the vehicle ahead. Topic 2 ( also thesis ): On highways drivers should use the four-second rule, not the two-second

rule.

1) The distance needed to stop a car should vary with the square of its speed.

2) If the driver accelerates, the stopping distance needs to increase accordingly.

Topic 3(also restatement): … use the two-second rule for city driving and the four-second rule for highways.

1)Most the slowing occurs over the last half of the stopping distance.

2)Some practical examples are given.

3)For greater details the reader may refer to the attached table to determine the right

time allowed to avoid accidents.

Sample Essays

On Student Lovers’ Living Togethe r

?According to official statistics, the number of college student lovers living together off

campus in Beijing has increased by four times between 1997 and 2001. This is undeniably true of many other places in China. Although many students do not strongly object to it, I don’t think it is advisable for college student lovers to live together away from campus.

?Some lovers say that living together can relieve their loneliness and pressure, but it is not

really the best choice. On the one hand, the real reason for their loneliness is that they are not focusing their mind on study. Study, the most important task for university students, can prove to be fascinating if you really focus on it./ On the other hand, even if their loneliness is real, there are many better ways to deal with it./ For instance, they can find friends to take part in sports or other entertaining activities. By staying away from other classmates, living together can be a source of rather than solution to loneliness.

?Other lovers argue that they mean to get married after graduation, and this experience can help them test each other to see if they are suitable for married life. But this mentality does not hold water. The two lovers may really love each other, but living together can actually spoil a good relationship, because it enters into weakness rather strength, doubt rather than conviction. / A follow-up study shows that few couples living together really end in marriage.