作文：Writing：Read carefully the following excerpt and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 WORDS, in which you should: 1)summarize the main message of the excerpt,and then 2)Comment on whether o

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Read the statement below and decide whether it is true or false. When writing about a

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Learning how to write is like taking a course in public speaking. I' d ask whether a

nyone in class had ever taken such a course. Invariably a few hands would go up.

"What did you learn in that course？" I'd ask.

"Well, the main thing was learning how to face an audience ... not to be inhibited(拘谨 )... not to be nervous Exactly, when you take a course in public speaking nowadays, you don' t hear much about grammar and vocabulary. Instead, you' re taught how not to be afraid or embarrassed, how to speak without a prepared script, how to read out to the live audience before you. Public speaking is a matter of overcoming your long-standing nervous inhibitions.

The same is true of writing. The point of the whole thing is to overcome your nervous inhibitions, to break through the invisible barrier that separates you from the person who' ll read what you wrote. You must learn to sit in front of your typewriter or dictating machine and read out to the person at the other end of the line.

Of course, in public speaking, with the audience right in front of you, the problem is easier. You can look at them and talk to them directly. In writing, you' re alone. It needs an effort of your experience or imagination to take hold of that other person and talk to him or her. But that effort is necessary -- or at least it' s necessary until you've reached the point when you quite naturally and unconsciously "talk on paper.

1.In the opinion of the author, public speaking is much easier than writing because（）.

A、public speaking requires less effort than writing

B、it' s unnecessary for you to write a lot for speech and you can say anything as you like

C、you face the audience directly in public speaking; while writing is otherwise

D、in public speaking, the audience have to listen to you whether they like it or not

2.The topic of the passage is（）.

A、how to be a good writer

B、how to be a good speaker

C、how to express yourself with your words

D、how to get rid of nervousness in public speaking

3.The public speech course mainly teaches students（）.

A、how to make an attractive speech using perfect grammar and vocabulary

B、how to express themselves exactly and vividly

C、how to collect data needed and organize it

D、how to get over their nervousness when making a speech

4.The similarity between making a public speech and writing is that（）.

A、you have to do a lot of preparation work beforehand

B、you should get over your nervous inhibitions

C、you should know grammar and vocabulary well to accomplish them

D、both of them have audience

5.The author of this passage probably is a （）.

A、boss

B、politician

C、writer

D、professor

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If you are writing or studying,it makes very much difference where the light comes from. P

eople who use books and pens every day have to be especially careful about the way the light shines on their work.

Every house gets its light either from daylight through the windows—which is the best to use—or from lamps or electricity;but whichever kind of light it is, the way it shines toward our book or work is a matter of great importance to the eyes.

Take a book，sit with your back toward the window，and try to read. Your shadow(影子)falls all over the page and makes it almost as bad for your eyes as if you were in a dark room.

Now turn around and face the window. The page is in the shadow again,while the bright light is in your eyes.

Try sitting with your right side toward the window. This is very well for reading, but if you were writing,the shadow of your hand would fall across the page and bother(打撹)you a little.

There is just one other way：sit with your left side to the window. Now everything is perfect for reading and for writing,too.

Whatever kind of light is in the room,the rule about the right to sit is always the same.

Which of the following is true？

A.How the light shines on our work is of much importance

B.The way the light shines on your work makes no difference

C.We needn’t care about where the light comes from

D.People can write or study under a light that comes from any direction

When you sit with your face towards the window,____.A.your shadow falls on your book

B.your book is in a shadow

C.the light is still dark

D.the light is on your page

The best way both for reading and for writing is to_____.A.sit facing the light

B.let the light shine from your back

C.sit with your right side towards the light

D.have the light come ffrom your left

请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析，谢谢！

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完成下列各题 A If you are writing or studyin9，it make

s very much difference where the light comes from．People who use books and pens every day have to be especially careful about the way the light shines on their work． Every house gets i ts light either from daylight through the windows--which is the very best to use--or from lamps or electricity：but whichever kind of light it is，the way it shines toward our book or work is a matter of great importance to the eyes． Take a book．sit with your back toward the window，and try to read．Your shadow(影子) falls all over the page and makes it almost as bad for your eyes as if you were in a dark room． Now turn around and face the window．The page is in the shadow again，while the bright light is in your eyes． Try sitting with you fight side toward the window．This is very well for reading，but if you were writing．the shadow of your hand would fall across the page and bother(打搅)you a little． There is just one other way：sit with your left side to the window．Now everything is perfect for reading and for writing，too． Whatever kind oi light is in the room，the rule about the right to sit is always the same． Which of the following is true？

A.How the light shines on our work is of much importance．

B.The way the light shines on your work makes no difference．

C.We needn't care about where the light comes from．

D.People can write or study under a light that comes from any direction．

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One friend once said to me, "Do you know that most college students can't even put semi-co

lons(分号) in the right place？" Emphatic voices like his have recently made writing courses popular, strangely popular because of their hard-nosed attitude toward correct writing. Most administrators and teachers extend this medicinal metaphor (隐喻), they agree that students are suffering from a serious disease. Many tests identify increasing numbers of student writers as skills cripples (跛子), and they need treatment. Remedial courses are given everywhere. More writing labs are appearing and expanding.

Many students are willing to believe that there is really something wrong with them. More students than ever before tell me and my colleagues that they are indeed bad writers and need lots of help with grammar and punctuation. I feel like a doctor, my job is to diagnose (诊断) the disease and prescribe cures whenever I read student writing, It would be easy enough for me to circle spelling errors, cross out unnecessary commas, line out wordy sentences. And knowing that this sort of marking can sting, I would of course write, onto the end of the paper, something about how I know the student really tried hard, something about his rich imagination or his clear potential for doing well.

But I wonder whether all these well-intentioned scrawls (潦草写几句话) would do little more than confirm my student’s fears about how crippled he is.

According to the passage, a "skills cripple" is someone who ______. ()

A．is seriously ill

B．has a rich imagination

C．is a bad writer

D．has a serious injury to the leg

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Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the fou

r possible answers that follow the paragraph.

Literary persons, even the greatest, are seldom spectacular.Those who lead lives of heroic action have neither the time nor usually the desire, even if they have the ability, to express themselves in writing.Those who gallop down valleys of death do not sing about that experience; they leave it to gentle poets living comfortably in country retreats.Moreover, to be a great writer one must spend more of one's time at a table in the laborious and wholly prosaic act of writing.Few writers attract a Boswell, and unless the details of their lives, their sayings, and their oddities happen to be preserved in writing, they soon become little more than a name.Even with all the elaborate apparatus of modern publicity, few readers could without notice write more of the biography of any living writer than could be contained on a postcard.The word is always so much greater than the man.()

A.Most literary men would prefer to lead lives of action

B.What writers write is more significant than what they do

C.The man of action is often a poor writer

D.Most readers are uniformed about the lives of writers

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Students want to find the best way to put information into their long-term memories. They

want to be able to remember the information later when they take a test. What is the best way to learn information so that they can remember it when they want to？

When you study, you should read the whole lesson first. This gives you the whole picture in which to put the ideas. New information that fits into the whole picture is easier to remember than separate facts. You also learn faster if you look at headings, introductions, important words, summaries, conclusions, and anything else that help to organize the material. Organized material is easier to understand.

After you read a whole lesson, the next step is to study the parts. Think about how they fit into the whole picture. If you have a lot to study, don't try to do the whole job at once. Learning should be spread out and spaced. This gives the information time to "sink in". You should study grammar three times, a half hour each time. That is better than studying for an hour and a half all at one time. Even shorter study periods are better for vocabulary lists and other difficult material. To learn the most in a two-hour study session, study different kinds of material; a half hour on grammar, 15 minutes on vocabulary, 20 minutes on writing, and so on. The change will help to keep you interested.

You forget most quickly right after you read or hear something new. You should review right away so you won't forget, and if possible, explain it to someone else. When you review and test yourself on the material, you are being active; active learning is better than just reading or listening. You remember more and save time in the end if you spend at least one-third of your time on active review.

Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？

A．Long-term Memories

B．Short-term Memories

C．Organized Material

D．Study to Remember

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根据下列文章，回答41～45题。 Directions：In the following article, some sentences have been

根据下列文章，回答41～45题。

Directions：In the following article, some sentences have been removed. For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable one from the list A-G to fit into each of the numbered blanks. There are two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. （10 points）The time for sharpening pencils, arranging your desk, and doing almost anything else instead of writing has ended. The first draft will appear on the page only if you stop avoiding the inevitable and sit, stand up, or lie down to write. ______（41）________

Be flexible. Your outline should smoothly conduct you from one point to the next, but do not permit it to railroad you. If a relevant and important idea occurs to you now, work it into the draft. ______（42）________Grammar, punctuation, and spelling can wait until you revise. Concentrate on what you are saying. Good writing most often occurs when you are in hot pursuit of an idea rather than in a nervous search for errors.

______（43）________Your pages will be easier to keep track of that way, and, if you have to clip a paragraph to place it elsewhere, you will nit lose any writing on the other side.

If you are working on a word processor, you can take advantage of its capacity to make additions and deletions as well as move entire paragraph by making just a few simple keyboard commands. Some software programs can also check spelling and certain grammatical elements in your writing.______（44）________These printouts are also easier to read than the screen when you work on revision.

Once you have a first draft on paper, you can delete material that in unrelated to your thesis and add material necessary to illustrate your points and make your paper convincing. The student who wrote： The A &P as a State of Mind wisely dropped a paragraph that questioned whether Sammy displays chauvinistic attitudes toward women.

______（45）________Remember that your initial draft is only that. You should go through the paper many times-and then again- working to substantiate and clarify your ideas. You may even end up with several entire versions of the paper. Rewrite. The sentences within each paragraph should be related to a single topic. Transitions should connect one paragraph to the next so that there are no abrupt or confusing shifts. Awkward or wordy phrasing or unclear sentences and paragraphs should be mercilessly poked and prodded into shape.

A．To make revising easier, leave wide margins and extra space between lines so that you can easily add words, sentences, and corrections. Write on only one side of the paper.

B．After you have clearly and adequately developed the body of your paper, pay particular attention to the introductory and concluding paragraphs. It''s probably best to write the introduction last, after you know precisely what you are introducing. Concluding paragraphs demand equal attention because they leave the reader with a final impression.

C．It's worth remembering, however, that though a clean copy fresh off a printer may look terrific, it will read only as well as the thinking and writing that have gone into it. Many writers prudently store their data on disks and print their pages each time they finish a draft to avoid losing any material because of power failures or other problems.

D．It makes no difference how you write, just so you do. Now that you have developed a topic into a tentative thesis, you can assemble your notes and begin to flesh out whatever outline you have made.

E．Although this is an interesting issue, it has nothing to do with the thesis, which explains how the setting influences Sammy's decision to quit his job. Instead of including that paragraph, she added one that described Lengel’s crabbed response to the girls so that she could lead up to the A&P policy he enforces.

F．In the final

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Large lecture classes are frequently regarded as a necessary evil. Such classes have to be

【56】in many colleges and universities to meet high student【57】with limited faculty resources, 【58】teaching a large lecture class can be a【59】task. Lecture halls are【60】large, barren, and foreboding. It is difficult to get to know students. Students may seem【61】in the impersonal environment and may【62】read newspapers or even leave class in the middle of a lecture. Written work by the students seems out of the【63】.Although the challenges of teaching a large lecture class are strong, they are possible to get over. The【64】is to develop innovative methods of classroom instruction that can【65】, if not eliminate, many of the difficulties【66】in the mass class. In fact, we have【67】at Kent State University teaching techniques which help make a large lecture class more like a small【68】.

An【69】but important benefit of teaching the course【70】this manner has involved the activities of the teaching【71】who help us mark students' written work. The faculty instructor originally decided to ask the TAs for help【72】this was the only practical way to【73】that all the papers could be evaluated. Now those【74】report enjoying their new status as junior professors, "gaining a very different【75】on college education by being on" the other side of the desk, "learning a great deal about the subject matter, and improving their own writing as a direct result of grading other students" paper.

(56)

A．made

B．taken

C．selected

D．offered

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Most Americans believe that good education is quite necessary to democracy and social

progress.Even during their colonial time the settlers attached great importance to setting up schools for their children, because these puritans(清教徒) were firm believers in education.

They tried hard to establish enough schools for their children.The schools were not only to teach children how to read, write and calculate but also to train clergymen(牧师) .The first college, Harvard, was set up in Massachusetts in 1636.Soon after, the colonial government passed a law requiring every town of more than 40 families to have a school and school master.By the mid-eighteenth century several well-known colleges were founded, including Columbia in New York and Princeton in New Jersey.They were used to train young people.Education did not develop very fast in the South where big plantation(农场) owners did not want to build schools for the children of the poor workers and slaves.Children from rich families usually went to England for higher education.This was one of the reasons why the South developed more slowly than the North.

Colonial schools laid the foundation for American educational system in which all the American schools were left to the care of communities or local authority.Compulsory education has been carried out and primary and secondary education has been open to American children free of charge for many years.

21.Education in most Americans'eyes is().

A.quite necessary for social development and democracy

B.important only for the earliest settlers

C.good as they have many famous universities

D.the basis of working hard

22.Which of the following was not a task of school？ ()

A.To train clergymen.

B.To teach children how to read and write.

C.To teach children maths.

D.To send children to British universities.

23.The South America developed slowly because().

A.children in the South went to England for higher education

B.there were not many rich people in the South

C.not all rich children in the South had chances to go to school in England

D.education developed quite slowly in the South

24.American educational system was built().

A.on the basis of colonial educational system

B.after some famous colleges were founded

C.by churches as they hoped to train more clergymen

D.when many children from rich families went to England

25.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage？ ()

A.Princeton University was founded around 1750s.

B.Colombia University was built in 1636.

C.Harvard University was founded by the American government.

D.A law was passed by the American government that a school should be built in every town.

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When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see

perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.

People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes.' Everything else is not so clear. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing, reading and sewing, become near sighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant (远处的) things clearly.

People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm's length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.

Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people's eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them."

Having two good eyes is important for judging distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle (角度). To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of the other eye. You will find the object's relation to the background (背景) and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different eye views helps us to judge how far away an object is. People who have only one eye cannot judge distance as people with two eyes.

We should take good care of our eyes ______.

A．only when we cannot see perfectly

B．only when we can see well

C．even if we can see well

D．only when we realize how important our eyes are

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