全国2011年1月高等教育英语写作基础自考试题-第1篇.docx

    全国2011年1月高等教育英语写作基础自考试题    全国2011年1月高等教育自学考试英语写作基础试题课程代码：00597I.重写句子(20 points, 2 points each)Revise the following sentences according to the requirements.Example: The history of English words is the history of our civilization in many way s. ( periodic sentence)In many ways, the history of English words is the history of our civilization.1. Only thirty percent of the local people owned cars at that time. ( periodic sentence)2. He came too late, so he did not see the first part of the play. ( simple sentence)3. They are true sisters. It is clear from the facial resemblance between them. ( sente nce with a subject clause)4. He left the room and hummed a tune. (sentence with a verb-ing phrase)5. The girl cried sadly as she was locked outside. (sentence with a verb-ed phrase)6. The professor came into the classroom. He had two books in his hand. (prepositio nal phrase)7. He knocked the door again and again. There was no answer. (compound sentence)8. I wrote this letter yesterday. I forgot to post it. (complex sentence)9. I had planned to go to Australia last summer. It was too expensive. I went to Vie tnam instead. ( compound-complex sentence)10. The boy can sing very well. He can also dance very well. (sentence with parallel structure)II.改写病句(15 points, 3 points each)Correct the errors in the following sentences.Example: Made by his mother, Tony ate up the cake.Tony ate up the cake made by his mother.11. Small businesses often grow into large ones. Adding to the economy vitality.12. Failure turns out to be a valuable learning experience for those. Who may be suc cessful the second or third time.13. Americans buy many things on credit, stocks are no exception.14. Having got the land, the laws were changed by the farmers.15. Their requests include railroad regulations, tax deductions and to make education cheaper.III.标出主题句(15 points, 5 points each)16. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below by writing A, B, C or D.A. There are different types of social worker careers.B. A social worker can help a child find a home.C. A mental health social worker helps people deal with depression.D. A medical social worker helps people with diseases.Answer:_________________________17. Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.The central role of women in horticultural (农耕) societies tends to have political and s ociological consequences. It is the women who own and manage their garden plots and pa ss them on to the next generation. It is the women who decide when their soil is deplete d and where the village should move to clear more fertile ground. One of the more intere sting aspects of horticultural societies is that it is often women who exercise political pow er and authority in their society. Anthropologists (人类学家) and travellers alike call attent ion to the special standing and respect that women enjoy in Austronesian cultures generall y and the Philippines in particular. The honored position of women in Austronesian and P hilippine society, more than likely, remains a legacy (遗产) from their, not so distant, hort icultural prehistory.18. Read the following paragraph carefully and choose the best topic sentence from t he four possible answers that follow the paragraph by writing A, B, C or D.Since there are more than 80 million current and former smokers in the United States, a widespread CT scanning program of at-risk individuals would De enormously costly. L ow-dose CT scans also expose patients to considerably more radiation than standard chestX-rays do, and little is known about how the cumulative risks of years of such scans wo uld balance out with the benefits of the information they provide. Also, more scans would also mean more false positive results, leading to more additional tests and surgical proce dures performed on people who do not turn out to have any disease, further complicating the picture.A. CT scans should be improved in more than one way.B. CT scans can be very costly in the United States.C. CT scans may not present clear picture for patients and doctors.D. There are disadvantages in using CT scans to fight diseases.Topic sentence : _________________________IV. 重新组合段落( 10 points, 2 points each)Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.19. Imitative words are words that sound like the thing or action they stand for.20. The other one fifth is made up partly of borrowed words and partly of three oth er kinds of words: words from the names of peoples and places; imitative words; and inv ented words.21. But there are probably more.22. The old words which were born centuries ago in the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and French languages make up four fifths of the English language.23. Scholars guess that English has about 600, 000 words.24. There is no need to say anything。