全国2018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.重写句子（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.The Irish ambassador bid us farewell when the party ended. ( simple sentence)
2. We don’t dare to eat these vegetables. They are serious ly polluted by insecticides. (compound
sentence)
3. The cloud gets longer and gets closer to the ground. It begins to pull up dirt from the ground.
（complex sentence）
4. I have a new digital camera, but I don’t know how to use it properly. (compound-complex
sentence)
5. It’s true whether you believe it or not. (periodic sentence)
6. Tiger Woods is the name of a young American golfer. He set a record i n the 1997 Master’s
Tournament. He surprised all the veterans. He was 22 at the time. (long sentence)
7. At the official launch (发布会) of Beatrix Porter’s Peter Rabbit, the invited children will
participate in the singing and dancing session. They will enjoy storytelling of the tales.
(parallel structure)
8. Mamoru Oshii’s Japanese animé(动画) Ghost in the Shell 2 made a hit among the Asian movies
that competed. (periodic sentence)
9. I sat in the front row, but I did not get his words. (compound-complex sentence)
10. China’s economic boom is sucking in commodities like soy beans and steel. Brazil is a major
exporter. (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. My brother’s house is on Alp Street. Which is getting new sewers next week.
12. Many large department stores issue credit cards to their customers can be used to make
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purchases at a particular store.
13. Born in New Zealand, it is natural to enjoy eating roast lamb.
14. She hoped, by doing lots of revision and studying, pass the exams.
15. The mayor was described as a round, squat (矮胖的) man with a droopy(下垂的)beard
weighing 60 kg.
Ⅲ.标出主题句（15 points, 5 points each）
16. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the choice in the blank.
A. As tourists, people are expected to learn the traffic rules in a foreign land.
B. As tourists, people are allowed to break the minor rules in a foreign land.
C. It’s hard to develop universal traffic rules.
D. There seems to be a growing need for all countries to adopt a set of international traffic rules. Answer:
17. Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.
Scientists have learned to supplement the sense of sight in numerous ways. In front of the tiny pupil of the eye they put, on Mount Palomar, a great monocle (单片眼镜) 200 inches in diameter, and with it see 2000 times farther into the depths of space. Or they look through a small pair of lenses arranged as a microscope (显微镜) into a drop of water or blood, and magnify (放大) by as much as 2000 diameters the living creatures there, many of which are among man’s most dangerous enemies. Or, if we want to see distant happenings on earth, they use some of the previously wasted electromagnetic (电磁的) waves to carry television images which they re-create as light by whipping tiny crystals on a screen with electrons (电子) in a vacuum. Or they can bring happenings of long ago and far away as colored motion pictures, by arranging silver atoms and color-absorbing molecules (分子、微粒) to force light waves into the patterns of original reality. Or if we want to see into the center of a steel casting or the chest of an injured child, they send the information on a beam of penetrating (穿透的) short-wave X rays, and then convert it back into images we can see on a screen or photograph.
Thus almost every type of electromagnetic radiation yet discovered has been used to extend our sense of sight in some way.
18. Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four
possible answers that follow the paragraph.
Topic Sentence:
Many Americans fear that foreign investors in this country want to take over the American economy from the inside. But in reality, things don’t work that way. Of the trillion dollars in foreign investments in this country, three-quarters are in bank deposits or securities—that is, in paper only. Foreign-owned businesses in the U.S., such as hamburger chains and hotels, generate jobs and new growth because they are totally dependent on the local population for
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