I. Directions: Revise the following sentences according to the requirement.Write your version in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 15%
　　
　　l. John Milton is one of his favorite poets. (periodic sentence)
　　
　　2. Steve approached the dean's office. He walked at a slow pace.(simple sentence with-ing phrase)
　　
　　3. After she was introduced by her assistant, the mayor began with an opening statement. (simple sentence with-ed phrase)
　　
　　4. Jones has been without work for six months. He is having trouble paying his bills. (simple sentence beginning with prepositional phrase)
　　
　　5. The rescuers were careful as they handled the rope. They lowered the frightened climber from the ledge. (simple sentence with by-phrase beginning with carefully)
　　
　　6. The old woman sat in her rocking chair on the porch. She watched her grandchildren race by on their bikes. (simple sentence with-ing phrase)
　　
　　7. Michael wanted to go swimming. Jane decided to go shopping.(compound sentence)
　　
　　8. Montesquieu popularized the English system of checks and balances among the branches of government. This ideal was adopted as a model by the writers ofthe American constitution. (compound sentence)
　　
　　9. The gardener waters tbe flower beds regularly. Or the flowers droop and die.(complex sentence beginning with Unless)
　　
　　10. When they arrived home, they unpacked their suitcases, took showers, andthen they went to sleep after eating their lunch. (parallel structure)
　　
　　II. Directions: Correct the errors in the following sentences and write downthe correct sentences in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 10%
　　
　　1. Mike decided to stop smoking he didn't want to die of lung cancer.
　　
　　2. She tries to call home once a week. To stay in touch with her family.
　　
　　3. My movie idol is not only tall hut also is handsome.
　　
　　4. They played while I was reading with the new pups in the basket.
　　
　　5. Having almost no money, my survival depended on my parents.
　　
　　III. Choose the topic sentence:
　　
　　(I)Directions: Choose the best topic sentence from each group below. Writethe letter of tbe answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 8%
　　
　　1. A. University students can get scholarship if they are top students.
　　
　　B. University students are now enjoying better conditions than ever before.
　　
　　C. In the past university students couldn't get a loan from the government.
　　
　　D. In some universities students don't need to pay for their accommodation.
　　
　　2. A. The common housefly is very dangerous.
　　
　　B. The common housefly is found in many parts of the world.
　　
　　C. The common housefly carries germs everywhere it goes.
　　
　　D. The common housefly leaves thousands of germs on the food.
　　
　　3. A. The clock was once battered by bombs.
　　
　　B. It was built more than a hundred years ago.
　　
　　C. Big Ben is considered the world's most famous clock.
　　
　　D. People in London like to check their clocks by Big Ben.
　　
　　4. A In addition to the natural materials, modern man now has cloth which is made synthetically.
　　
　　B. For example, he may have worn the skins of animals to celebrate hisvictories over them.
　　
　　C. Modern man wears clothing for three purposes: for protection,for decoration, and for modesty.
　　
　　D. Not until recently was it possible to use only natural materials of various kinds for the making of clothing.
　　
　　(II) Directions: Read the following paragraphs and spot the topic sentence of each paragraph. Write the number of the topic sentence in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 6%
　　
　　1. (1)Progress is gradually being made in the fight against cancer. (2)In the early 1900s, few cancer patients had any hope of long-term survival (3)In the 1930s less than one in five victims lived more than five years. (4)In the 1950s, the ratio was one in four, and in the 1960s, it was one in three. (5)Currently, four of ten patients who get cancer this year will be alive five years from now.(6)The gain from one in four to four in ten represents about 69,000 lives saved each year.
　　
　　2. (1)Crime in the country, of course, is somewhat different from city crime. (2)Who was ever attacked while walking along the village street in Middleton? (3)The things that John Pooley has to watch for are people stealing tools and equipment from farm vehicles, or wood from the surrounding forests. (4)There are natural dangers too: he is so worried about the fire risk in forests that he has turned his bedroom window into a look-post.
　　
　　3. (1)Powerful computers capable of translating documents from one language into another have been recently developed in Japan. (2)The process of machine translation is complex. (3)To translate a document from English into Japanese, for example, the computer first analyzes an English sentence, determining its grammatical structure and identifying the subject,verb,objects,andmodfier. (4)Next, the words are translated by an English-Japanese dictionary.(5)After that, another part of the computer program analyzes the resulting
　　
　　awkward jumble of words and meanings and produces an intelligible sentence based on the rules of Japanese syntax and the macbine's understanding of what the original English sentence meant. (6)Finally, the computer produced translation is polished by a human bilingual editor.
　　
　　(III) Directions: Read the following paragraphs carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow each paragraph. Write the letter of the answer you
　　
　　have chosen in the corresponding space on your answer sheet.6%
　　
　　1. Topic sentence__________________________________________
　　
　　In the past, teachers made children sit still for hours. They made themmemorise all sorts of things. In other words, the children had to go onrepeating things until they knew them "by heart". Today, many teachers wonderif it is possible to make children learn at all. They say you can only help them learn. They say you must let children learn and discover things for
　　
　　themselves.
　　
　　A) Educating a child is by no means an easy job.
　　
　　B) A teacher's job is to make children learn.
　　
　　C) Education for children is to be emphasized.
　　
　　D) Children's education is changing very rapidly.
　　
　　2. Topic sentence________________________________
　　
　　To the tourists, it is a city of hurrying crowds, horn-blowing traffic jams, dirty streets and smelly subways - all in sharp contrast to such international symbols as Wall Street and the United Nations Building. But to most local inhabitants and commuters, it is simply an enormous and busy working field associated with business activities and goods manufacturing - a Place to leave as soon as possible in the evening for the more peaceful atmosphere of the suburban areas. Meanwhile, New York remains to be the most populous, flourishing and prosperous metropolitan city in tbe Western Hemisphere.
　　
　　A) New York is one of the largest cities in the world.
　　
　　B) New York is,in the tourist's mind, a metropolitan city full of charm and excitement.
　　
　　C) New York is, depending on one's point of view, any one of the two cities.
　　
　　D) New York is, to most local inhahitants. a business and financial center.
　　
　　3. Topic sentence___________________________________
　　
　　The service line is frequenly so long that a student gives up the idea of eating altogether. If she is patient enough to wait for food, she is lucky if she can find a place to eat. If she is particularly agile, she may work Once way through the masses to a spot where she can eat it before it's cold.Once seated, however, she is likely to find the atmosphere so choked with
　　
　　other bodies,noise,and dead air, that she loses her appetite. Sbe can not easily slip away at that point, either. Wedging her way out of the cafeteria,she discovers, is as miserable a matter as working her way in.
　　
　　A) The university is one of the biggest tourist attractions in town.
　　
　　B) The university cafeteria is one of the most crowded places on campus.
　　
　　C) The dining-hall is ugly and dirty and makes the students lose appetite.
　　
　　D) The City College always accepts more students than it can actually commodate.
　　
　　IV. Directions: Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put tbe numbers in proper sequence in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 5%
　　
　　1. Clearly, in agriculture and in industry, the progress of a country dependson the busy hands of its working people.
　　
　　2. Manual labour is one of the principal development resources in any industralising country, as the following examples demonstrate.
　　
　　3. And of course the manufacture as well as the maintenance of machine of all kinds needs a large number of trained mechanics and technicians.
　　
　　4. To begin with, ploughing fields, planting and harvesting crops, and raising livestock are important to development and all require people who work with their hands.
　　
　　5. Secondly, mining natural resources, building roads and bridges, and constructing dams for irrigation and electrical power are also important todevelopment and also require people who know how to use their hands skillfully.
　　
　　6. Finally, the establishment of efficient transportation and communication systems, essential services in a modernising economy, relies heavily on a labour force of expert craftsmen who take pride in their manual skills.
　　
　　V. Directions: Read the following paragraphs and write down the numbers of the four irrelevant sentences in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 10%
　　
　　A. (1)For hundreds of years, man has made use of the talents of monkeys. (2)Egyptian paintings of 2000B.C. show baboons gathering fruit for their masters.(3)Even in 1879, in Abyssina, monkeys were still being used as torchbearers at feasts. (4)The monkeys would sit in a row on a bench and hold the lights until the guests went home. (5)Then the monkeys would eat. (6)Most of the world's zoos contain a variety of monkeys for people to watch.
　　
　　B. (1)Pearls are gathered by men known as pearl divers. (2)Actually, thesemen do not dive. (3)They are lowered by a rope to the bottom of the sea.(4)But sky-divers jump from the planes. (5)Many tourists to Japan enjoy shopping for cultured pearls. (6)Pearl gatherers work in pairs, with one remaining at the surface to help the other return from his dive. (7)An experienced pearl diver can stay down about a minute and a half and can often make as
　　
　　many as thirty dives in one day.
　　
　　VI. Directions: Write a note according to the situation described. Write your version in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 15%
　　
　　You are Wang Lan. You need to write a note to make an appointment. You would like to discuss some problems in translation with your teacher and ask him/her to arrange a suitable time for the meeting if he/she finds the time you have suggested inconvenient for him/her and let you know about the arrangement. Make sure to include at least the following points: purpose,
　　
　　time, data, place. (40-70 words)
　　
　　VII. directions: Write a letter using the information given below. Write yourversion in the corresponding space on your answer sheet. 25%
　　
　　You are Li Nan, chairman of the History Department. You want to invite Professor Herb Jason, a well-known scholar of Chinese history, to come to your university to attend an international conference on Chinese history. The conference will be held from July 23-26. You'll cover his travel expenses.(120-170 works)
　　
　　Your letter should cover the following points:
　　
　　1) make some compliments about him;
　　
　　2) the pupose of the invitation;
　　
　　3) the time and place of the conference;
　　
　　4) ask him to tell you his time of arrival;
　　
　　5) ask him a favor of presenting a lecture to your students during his stay;
　　
　　6) promise to meet him at the airport