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 seriously 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 in 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
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 staffing and customers. Americans are the ones who must be sought after as workers, renters, tourists, and patrons. Throughout its history, the U.S. has relied on foreign capital to finance a great deal of its development, but this has never stood in the way of our democracy.
A. Foreign-owned businesses in America need Americans.
B. There’s no need for Americans to fear foreign influence in this country.
C. Most of the foreign investment in this country is on paper, not in cash.
D. Americans are in constant fear that foreign investors might stand in the way of American democracy.
Ⅳ.重新组合段落（5 points, 1 point each）
Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
19. One was a St. Bernard dog named Barry, who worked in the Alps in the early 1800’s, when St. Bernards were still used to rescue people caught in snowdrifts or avalanches (雪崩).
20. Then there was Chips, the first war dog to be shipped overseas during World War Ⅱ.
21. Yet another animal hero was a canary named Bibs, the pet of an elderly woman, Tess, who lived alone in Tennessee and whose niece lived nearby.
22. Bibs died after alerting the niece.
23. Among the numerous heroes of history are animals.
24. He saved more than forty lives.
25. One night Chips pulled away from his handler and attacked a German weapons position, seizing one man and forcing the surrender of four others.
26. One day the niece heard a tapping at her window and discovered Bibs, so the niece quickly went to her aunt’s house and found Tess had struck her head on something and fallen over.
