2005年10月高等教育自学考试英语写作试题及答案

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3. It is not just personal preference.

4. It is not a fact, not something that can be verified in a record book.

5. It is specific enough that you can make a good case for it. Statements

with words such as always and never are too broad to support.

III. Read the passage and answer the questions. （每句4分，共20分）

1. The thesis statement is the last sentence of the opening paragraph: After I

attended college, however, I discovered the opposite of what I had expected.

The central idea of this essay is: Americans are friendly to strangers.

2. Three; The first and the last ones are explained adequately, but the second one is inadequately.

3. The third example is relevant, but the first and the second examples are not so relevant. The main idea of the essay is“Americans are friendly to strangers,”so the examples should be about how Americans treat strangers, but instead, the writer cites examples about how he treats Americans. For another, the theme of Paragraph 2 is“having close friends with some Americans,”but the second example does not serve this purpose.

4. Some of the paragraphs are not coherent and unified. For example, in the

opening paragraph the information provided by Sentences 2, 3 and 4 are

irrelevant to the thesis, and the writer fails to make it clear how, according

to his friends, the Americans treat strangers. The example is not relevant

to the topic of the second paragraph. Instead of further emphasizing the

thesis, the closing paragraph introduces some new topics. In addition, the

phrase“from my experience”is repeated twice in the essay, but the

writer fails to relate relevant experience.

5. The paragraphs are organized in a General-Particular Pattern, that is , each

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paragraph starts with a topic sentence, which gives general information,

and then specific examples are provided to clarify the theme stated in the

topic sentence.

IV. Describe a person that you familiar with. （15分）

VI. Write an essay of about 100 words. The title is “The Problem of

Unemployment in My Hometown.”（30分）

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