大学英语应用写作期末考试试题(doc 9页)

大学英语应用写作期末考试试题(doc 9页)

《大学英语应用写作》期末试题

第一套

Part I Writing Basics (30%)

Directions:There are 30 incomplete statements in this part. For each statement there are four choices marked a, b, c and d. Choose the best ONE to complete the statement. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. (1x 30=30)

1. While collecting raw materials before writing, we usually use techniques of

__________.

1) brainstorming 2) freewriting 3) clustering 4) listing

a. 1), 2) and 4)

b. 1), 3) and 4)

c. 2), 3) and 4)

d. 1), 2), 3) and 4)

2. __________ does not contain in the principles of “choice of words”.

a. Exactness

b. Arbitrariness

c. Appropriateness

d. Conciseness

3. According to the rules of capitalization, “__________” is correct.

a. the Southern part of Pennsylvania

b. the fourth of July

c. The Last of the Mohicans

d. the war of Independence

4. __________ is one rule of the usage of comma.

a. Being used to separate items

b. Being used in a direct speech

c. Being used at the end of a sentence

d. Being used to show feeling

5. While making a good sentence, the principles do not contain __________.

a. variety

b. coherence

c. unity

d. duality

6. “__________” is a compound sentence.

a. Her mother would remind her.

b. The rain fell for a week; therefore, every street in the city was flooded.

c. Because the rain fell for a week, every street in the city was floode

d.

d. She wanted to make sure that her mother wasn’t watching.

7. Which of the following sentences have a dangling modifier? __________

a. Saying is easy, but doing is difficult.

b. After driving for more than 500 miles, John felt very tired.

b. Moving slowly, Bowie stalked the rabbits.

c. After eating the catfood, Bowie belche

d.

d. None of the abov

e.

18. Which choice can best describe this: “Although he had been an often decorated solider during World War II and had fought many battles for the losing cause of liberalism in Congress.”? __________

a. There is nothing wrong with the structure of this sentence.

b. Run-on: put a comma after World War II.

c. Run-on: put a semicolon after World War II.

d. Fragment: put a comma after Congress and add a main claus

e.

19. To catch the reader’s eyes, an introduction paragraph should __________.

a. give detailed information as much as possible.

b. start in an interesting way by offering some related information but not

too much.

c. avoid using anything difficult to understand

d. always tell the reader a joke

20. Which of the following would not be an effective technique to be used in a

concluding paragraph? __________

a. Calling on action.

b. Predicting an outcome.

c. Questioning different perspective.

d. Offering a warning.

21. When any non-human organ is transplanted into a person, the body

immediately recognizes it as __________.

a. novel

b. remote

c. distant

d. foreign

22. Because of its intimacy, radio is usually more than just a medium; it is

__________.

a. firm

b. company

c. corporation

d. enterprise

23. Greatly agitated, I rushed to the apartment and tried the door, __________ to

find it locked.

a. only

b. just

c. hence

d. thus

24. Anyone with half an eye on the unemployment figures knew that the assertion

about economic recovery __________ just around the corner was untrue.

a. would be

b. to be

c. was

d. being

25. These proposals sought to place greater restrictions on the use and copying of

digital information than __________ in traditional media.

a. exists

b. existing

c. exist

d. to exist

26. These causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the

__________ of higher education from the mid-1860’s to the mid-1880’s.

a. branch

b. domain

c. category

d. scope