南京邮电大学 2011 /2012 学年第 二 学期
《高级写作》辅修期末试卷（A）
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院(系) 班级 学号 姓名 PART I Sentence Improvement (15X2=30 points)
Directions: The Following ntences are faulty. Write your improved versions on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. As we all know, anything ridiculous can be done when one is drunk.
2. The story was written by the first person pronoun.
3. Maybe, abortion does do some physical harm to pregnant mothers.
4. I could not understand the teacher’s meanings.
5. Our host entertained us with many interesting stories of adventure, he had been a member of an exploration team working in the Arctic.
6. We thought she was charming, intelligent, and a woman we could rely on.
赤手空拳7. On hearing the news, tears of joy welled up in her eyes.
8. The cau of the patient’s death was due to a heart attack.
9. We haven’t met since we graduated from college.
10. Back in college, Michael and I were buddies and shared the same room.
11. Listening attentively, a faulty sound was heard.
12. Liu always did his homework a little better than his classmates, that was why he was appreciated faster than others. 婚礼答谢
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14. My parents promid to be nice to my friends and that they would not interfere with our summer plans.
15. He enrolled in an advanced calculus class, but he found it too difficult, so he dropped it.
PART II Rewriting Sentences (5X2=10 points)
Directions: Rewrite the following ntences into more complex ones. Write your ntences on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Xu comes from a working-class family. He enrolled in college last fall.
2. He heard that his father was ill. He was anxious to go home to e him. He went to the station immediately to buy a ticket.
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3. He returned to his hometown. He had been away for twelve years. He looked in vain for familiar landmarks.
4. The new workers are young and inexperienced. They are eager to learn from the veteran workers
5. It was a poor quarter. There were a lot of small huts. They had mud walls and straw roofs. They dotted a hillside.
PART III Identifying Figures of Speech (10X1=10 points)
Directions: Identify the figures of speech employed in the following ntences. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. The new boss tried to hammer his ideas of doing business into the employees’ minds. .
2. Young people should have more respect for gray hairs.
3. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year.
4. She was so worried about her son that she spent veral sleepless nights.
5. The shoes are killing me.
6. He has plundered our as, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
7. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the curity of justice.
8. He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
9. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.政治掮客苏洪波
五个关键词10. The coach had to be cruel to be kind to his trainees.
PART IV Sentence Writing (10X2=20 points)
Directions: Create 10 ntences using at least 3 of the following types of figures of speech: personification, metaphor, overstatement, metonymy, parallelism, and Oxymoron (each figure of speech can be ud in no more than 5 ntences). Write your ntences on the ANSWER SHEET.
PART V Passage Writing (1X30=30 points)
Directions: In this part, you are required to write a speech of at least 250 words for your campaign for president of the Student Union of the English Department. U a variety of figures of speech as well as ntence types in your speech.
