【真题】2024年4月自考00597英语写作基础试题

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2024年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一考试

英语写作基础

(课程代码00597)

注意事项:
1.应考者必须按试题顺序在答题卡(纸)指定位置上作答，答在试卷上无效。
2.涂写部分必须使用 2B 铅笔，书写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔。

一、重写句子:本大题共 10 小题，每小题1.5分，共15分。根据每小题后括号内的要求改写下列句子。
Example: The history of English words is the history of our civilization in many ways.
(periodic sentence)

In many ways, the history of English words is the history of our civilization.

1.There are many exercises to do if you want to build a muscular body, (periodic sentence.
2. We are watering the trees. We don’t have any rain for a month. (compound sentence)
3. The children started arguing. I made them turn off the TV, (compound sentence)
4. The house had been burglarized,Smith couldn’t sleep soundly for several months.(complex sentence)
5. The muffler shop advertised same-day service, but my car wasn’t ready for three days.
(complex sentence)
6. Diana wedged her handbag tightly under her arm, for she was afraid of muggers.(complex sentence)
7. The two screws were missing from the assembly kit, The two screws held the bicycle frametogether.(complex sentence)
8.Jack dialed the police emergency number, He received a busy signal, He dropped the phone and ran, He didn’t bave time to call back, (compound-complex sentence)
9. The rain hit the hot pavement, Plumes of steam rose from the blacktop. Cars slowed to acrawl. The fog obscured the driver’s vision. (compound-complex sentences)
10. The pipes had frozen, The heat had gone off, We phoned the plumber. He couldn’t come for two days. He had been swamped with emergency calls.(compound-comple,sentences)

二、修改病句:本大题共5小题，每小题3分，共 15 分。修改下列句子中的错误。
Example: After seeing an offensive mouthwash ad on television. I resolved never to buy that brand again.

After seeing an offensive mouthwash ad on television, I resolved never to buy thatbrand again.

11. I always have bad luck with cotton jeans they shrink so much they end up around myankles.
12. All the chocolate candies bad a purplish tinge as a result, she was afraid to eat any.
13. Margie has worked on the crossword puzzle all day, All the while, mumbling each clue
out loud. I hope she finishes soon.
14.Tim and Rita decided to send their daughter to college on the day she was born.
15. Clyde sawa three-car accident going to work.

三、辨认主题句:本大题共3小题，每小题5分，共15 分。
16.从下列4个选项中选出最恰当的主题句，并将其代码写在答题卡相应的位置上。
A.Jack shouldn’t have taken the gymnastics course
B. In September, Jack fell of the uneven bars and got a concussion.
C. In January, Jack broke his thumb when he caught it on the bar of the pommel horse.
D. Jack sprained his ankle, after a bad landing off the balance beam.

17.阅读下面短文，并在答题卡相应位置上用下划线标出主题句。
Mary has a plan for doing well in her classes this semester, She is not going to miss any classes, and she is going to take notes of all the lectures. She has blocked out three hours a day on weekdays to study as well as Saturday and Sunday afteroons, She has also formed a study group with her classmates. Finally, Mary has declared her own “dead weeks,” two weeks prior to finals for intensive studying since her poor finals preparation last semester hurt her grades badly.

18.阅读下列短文，在给出的4个选项中选出该短文最恰当的主题句，并将其代码写在答题卡相应的位置上。
At English Bay, the half-moon curve of beach is backed by high rises in pale tones of beige, blue, and ice-cream pink, Turn-of-the-century houses frown upward at the glitter of office towers, Yet any urban glare is quickly softened by folds of green lawns, flowers,fountains, and trees that in a seeminglyy unplanned fashion link Vancouver to near ultimate treasure of greenness-thousand-acre Stanley Park,And alwavs it is the surrounding stretches of water that dominate, with their image-evoking names like false Creek and Lost Lagoon and pleasure craft skim blithely across Burard Inlet, while out in English Bay foreign freighters await their tur to take on cargoes of grain.
A. Vancouver is the major urban centre of western Canada and the focus of one of the country’s most populous metropolitan regions
B. Vancouver’s Chinatown is overshadowed on the Pacific coast only by San Francisco’s,but since the 1990s it has lost a great deal of business to Chinese establishments in Richmond.
C. Vancouver’s lively arts scene and rich festival tradition are hallmarks of the city’s cultural identity.
D.Surrounded by water on three sides and ringed to the northeast by the snow-crowned Coast Mountains, Vancouver has a floating quality of natural loveliness.

四、重新组合段落:本大题共1小题，每小题5分，共5分。重新排列下列句子使其更有逻辑性，并将排列顺序写在答题卡相应的位置上。一些句子的位置已经给出。

19. A. Even garbage is seen as a potential source ofenergy.
B. Solar heating systems, which use the sun’s radiation as a source of energy, are promising alternative energy source.
C. Coal is once again becoming an acceptable fuel as the nation searches for solutions to the energy shortage.
D. Govemment and private industry are even investing the possibility of capturing the power of ocean waves and tides for conversion into usable energy.
E.Alternative energy sourcesare becoming increasingly attractive as the energy crisi becomes more severe.
F. In some communities, garbage is burned to heat buildings and light city streets.
G. Nuclear power plants are already in operation in several parts of the country.

五、划掉与段落内容无关的两个句子:本大题共1小题，每小题10分，共10分。阅读下列短文，划掉与段落内容无关的两个句子。
20. 0rdinary People is a movie about the problems faced by a family. Before the film opens,one of the teenage sons has drowned in a boating accident. The other son attempted suicide and was hospitalized. Those who attempt suicide and survive often require significant support afterward, and should seek mental healthcare if they are able. Unable to forget her dead son, the mother has diffculty communicating with her surviving child.This lack of communication eventually leads to the break of the family, The US Coast Guard offers courses in boating safety that help to prevent accidents.

六、写信:本大题共1小题，每小题40分，共40分。根据下列英文材料写一封信，字数在 150~200 词左右。
21. Directions:
Write an email to all international experts on campus, inviting them to attend the graduation ceremony,In this email, you should include time, place and other relevant information about the ceremony.
you should write about 150-200 words.

Do not use your own name at the end ofthe email. Use “Li Fei” instead.
Do not write the address.