大学英语专业《英语写作》试卷

考试课程： 写 作 班级： 10

商务英语 姓名：

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Answer Sheet

I . Rewrite the following titles according to general rules: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

II. Identify the figures of speech employed in each of the following sentences 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

III. Sentence identification

A. Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex. 1. 2. 3.

4. 5.

B. Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

IV . Rewrite the following according to the requirements listed in the brackets: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

V . Read the following, identify the mistakes and rewrite the sentences: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

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VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these sentences into

a coherent paragraph by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order.

The correct order:

VII. Choose the most suitable topic sentence for each paragraph.

1. 2. 3.

VIII. Choose from the following transitional expressions and put them in the blanks in the paragraphs.

1. 2. 3.

4.

IX. Writing

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I. Rewrite the following titles according to general rules. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1.approaches to teaching english as a foreign language

2.what can the artist do in the world of today

3.hit-and-run accidents

4.best ways to say I love you

5.where i lived, and what i lived for

II. Identify the figures of speech employed in each of the following sentences and choose the matching one listed as follows. (10 points, 1 point for each)

simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, euphemism, irony, overstatement or understatement, transferred epithet, oxymoron, alliteration

1.The leaves are trembling in the cold wind

2.That man can’t be trusted. He’s as slippery as an eel.

3.M: “I was been told that two children had left us in that terrible school bus accident.”

W: “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that.”

4.His friends praised his daughter’s performances to the skies.

5.This diligent student seldom reads more than an hour per month.

6.During the national liberation movement, the government was faced with the choice between the ballot and

the bullet.

7.The lovely girl has a rosy cheek.

8.Sword and cross in hand, the European conquers fell upon the Americans.

9.She was so worried about her son that she spent several sleepless nights.

10.When the news of the failure came, all his friends said that it was a victorious defeat. III. Sentence identification (10 points, 1 point for each)

(I) Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1. Smith favored the new plan, but he agreed that the cost was too high.

2. Her report stresses the need for regional medical center in Poderosa, a mining town.

3. Mickey sang a song, and Marvin played his guitar.

4. Lost in thought, she did not hear the thunder.

5. When I bought the Acer Computer, I thought it was the solution that we had long needed.

(II) Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced. (5 points, 1 point for each)

1. Badly frightened by the explosion, the boy rushed out of the laboratory.

2. The Whites must have been gone away for the summer holidays, for we have not seen them for two or three weeks.

3. Our friends, who had started before us, promised that they would must us, but when we reporters grumbling and scribbling in their seats.

4. The politician is concerned with successful elections, whereas the statesman is interested in the future of his people.

5. The new thing that happened to me in the town was that I was thrown into experiences that finally seemed to cut my ties to the walled world of my childhood.

IV. Rewrite the following according to the requirements listed in the brackets. (10 points, 2 point for each)

1. I always take my raincoat whenever I go out these days. (periodic)

2. In spite of the interruption, he was able to finish all his exercises before the class was over. (loose)

3. He thought the painting was of little value. He let me have it for only ten pounds. (compound)

4. The girl began to learn to play the piano when she was a child. Her mother was a famous pianist. (complex)

5. They were on holiday. Their house was broken into. Some valuable paintings were stolen.

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(compound-complex)

V. Read the following, identify the mistakes and rewrite the sentences. (10 points, 2 point for each)

1. Liu always did his work a little better than his fellow workers, that was why he got higher pay than others.

2. Our host, entertained us with many interesting stories of adventure, he had been a member of an exploration team working in the Arctic.

3. When I woke up I saw him asleep in bed, I had not heard him when he came back. Because I had been sleeping soundly.

4. No student could answer that question, even Yao, who was usually quick in answering questions, was silent.

5. Their work was well planned, everybody worked with great enthusiasm, thus, they over fulfilled their quota.

VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these sentences into

a coherent paragraph by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order. (3 points)

①I stopped the car abruptly as if the announcer’s voice had demanded it.

②“Martin Luther King, Jr., has just been fatally wounded in Memphis, Tennessee!”

③I was just pulling into actor Marlon Brando’s yard in the Hollywood hills when the news came over my car radio.

④It was a terrible moment, without sound, without motion, without reason

⑤“My God, my God,” I said, over and over to myself. It was a bottomless moment.

⑥The voice I had loved so much had been stilled.

VII. Choose the most suitable sentence as the topic sentence in each paragraph. (3 points, 1 point for each)

1. (A) Smoking cigarettes is harmful to your health. (B) Experiments show that cigarette smoking can cause cancer. (C) Besides the most serious and terrible disease (illness) ---- cancer, cigarette smoking can also cause other health problems. (D) For example, it can give one a “smoker’s cough”. (E) Finally, studies have shown it is easy for cigarette smokers to catch colds. (F) Whether you get an unimportant cold or terrible killer, cancer, smoking is harmful. Is it worth it?

2. (A) Often no one looks more guilty than the innocent. (B) On the other hand, nobody may look more innocent than a professional criminal. (C) And the man who knows “everything” may really only be trying to hide his own weakness. (D) So, it is foolish to try to judge a person only by his appearance.

3. (A) Every bride wants her wedding to be the most wonderful day of her life. (B) But perfect weddings require careful planning, (C) whether the bride and bridegroom are planning a traditional wedding or just a registry office ceremony. (D) Paying for the wedding, which is always a problem, will partly decide the choice.

VIII. Choose from the following transitional expressions and put them in the blanks in the paragraphs. (4 points, 1 point for each)

in addition, for example, in fact, furthermore

Teachers of foreign language should be extremely well-qualified in order to carry out their duties properly.

1 , a teacher should possess a minimum of a graduate degree from a certified education school or institute of he is to teach high school or below. Besides the academic degree, teachers should not consider teaching only as an occupation for earning money; they should also be interested in teaching.

2 , it was necessary that teachers be knowledgeable in their major fields. They should be skillful as well.

3 , the language teacher must know the target language well enough to be imitated by his students. Proficiency in the target language includes for skills: understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. A teacher should know the linguistic facts of the language of the students in order to understand the problems they will have in learning the target language.

4 , the teacher must be familiar with audio-lingual techniques. Knowing all this will help the students to learn correctly and quickly.

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IX. Writing (40 points)

Directions: For this part, you are required to write a composition about 350 words on the following topic:

Some people say that learning is mainly from books, while others say that learning is from experience. Write

your opinion and prove your idea.

In the first part you should state your view, and in the second part your should support your view with

appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness.

10商务英语写作试卷（B）答案

I . Rewrite the following titles according to general rules:

6.Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

7.What Can the Artist Do in the World of Today?

8.Hit-and-Run Accidents

9.Best Ways to S ay “I Love Y ou”

10.Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

II. Identify the figures of speech employed in each of the following

sentences

1.personification

2.simile

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3.euphemism

4.overstatement

5.irony

6.alliteration

7.metaphor

8.metonymy

9.transferred epithet

10. oxymoron

III. Sentence identification

A. Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.

1. Compound-complex

2. Simple

3. Compound

4. Simple

5. Complex

B. Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced:

1. periodic

2. loose

3. loose

4. balanced 5 periodic

IV. Rewrite the following according to the requirements listed in the brackets:

1. Whenever I go out these days, I always take my raincoat.

2. He was able to finish all his exercises before the class was over in spite of the interruption.

3. He thought the painting was of little value, so he let me have it for only ten pounds. /

He thought the painting was of little value; he let me have it for only ten pounds. /

He thought the painting was of little value and he let me have it for only ten pounds.

4. The girl, whose mother was a famous pianist, began to learn to play the piano when she was a child.

5. When they were on holiday, their house was broken into and some valuable paintings were stolen.

V. Read the following, identify the mistakes and rewrite the sentences:

1. Liu always did his work a little better than his fellow workers, and that was why he got higher pay than others.

2. Our host, who had been a member of an exploration team working in the Arctic, entertained us with many interesting stories of adventure.

3. When I woke up, I saw him asleep in bed. I had not heard him when he came back, because I had been sleeping soundly.

4. No student could answer that question. Even Yao, who was usually quick in answering questions, was silent.

考试课程：写作班级： 10商务英语姓名：5. Their work was well planned, and everybody worked with great

enthusiasm. As a result, they over fulfilled their quota.

VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are

required to reorganize these sentences into a coherent paragraph

by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order.

3/2/1/5/6/4

VII. Choose the most suitable topic sentence for each paragraph.

1. A

2. D

3. B

VIII. Choose from the following transitional expressions and put

them in the blanks in the paragraphs.

1. In fact

2. also

3. Further more

4. For example

5. In addition