Answer Sheet
I . Rewrite the following titles according to general rules:
A. Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.
1. 2. 1.
2. 3. 4.
5.
II. Identify the figures of speech employed in each of the following sentences
1. 2.
3. 4.
5. 6.
7. 8.
9. 10.
III. Sentence identification
3.
4. 5.
B. Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced:
1. 2. 3.
4. 5.
IV. Rewrite the following according to the requirements listed in the brackets:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
V. Read the following, identify the mistakes and rewrite the sentences:
expressions and put them in the blanks in the paragraphs.
1. 1. 2. 2.
3.
4.
5.
VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these sentences into a coherent paragraph by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order.
The correct order:
VII. Choose the most suitable topic sentence for each paragraph.
1. 2. 3.
VIII. Choose from the following transitional
3.
4.
IX. Writing
I. Rewrite the following titles according to general rules. (5 points, 1 point for each)
1. approaches to teaching english as a foreign
language 2. what can the artist do in the world of today 3. hit-and-run accidents
4. best ways to say I love you
5. where i lived, and what i lived for II. Identify the figures of speech employed in
each of the following sentences and choose the
matching one listed as follows. (10 points, 1 point for each)
simile, metaphor, personification, metonymy, synecdoche, euphemism, irony, overstatement or understatement, transferred epithet, 8. Sword and cross in hand, the European
conquers fell upon the Americans.
oxymoron, alliteration
1. The leaves are trembling in the cold wind
2. That man can’t be trusted. He’s as
slippery as an eel.
3. M: “I was been told that two children had
left us in that terrible school bus accident.” W: “Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that.”
4. His friends praised his daughter’s
performances to the skies.
5. This diligent student seldom reads more
than an hour per month.
6. During the national liberation movement,
the government was faced with the choice between the ballot and the bullet.
7. The lovely girl has a rosy cheek. 9. She was so worried about her son that she
spent several sleepless nights.
10. When the news of the failure came, all his
friends said that it was a victorious defeat.
III. Sentence identification (10 points, 1 point for each)
(I) Identify sentences as simple, compound, complex or compound-complex. (5 points, 1 point for each)
1. Smith favored the new plan, but he agreed that the cost was too high.
2. Her report stresses the need for regional medical center in Poderosa, a mining town.
3. Mickey sang a song, and Marvin played his guitar.
4. Lost in thought, she did not hear the thunder.
5. When I bought the Acer Computer, I thought it was the solution that we had long needed.
that finally seemed to cut my ties to the walled world of my childhood.
IV. Rewrite the following according to the requirements listed in the brackets. (10 points, 2 (II) Identify sentences as loose, periodic, or balanced. (5 points, 1 point for each)
1. Badly frightened by the explosion, the boy rushed out of the laboratory.
2. The Whites must have been gone away for the summer holidays, for we have not seen them for two or three weeks.
3. Our friends, who had started before us, promised that they would must us, but when we reporters grumbling and scribbling in their seats.
4. The politician is concerned with successful elections, whereas the statesman is interested in the future of his people.
5. The new thing that happened to me in the town was that I was thrown into experiences
point for each)
1. I always take my raincoat whenever I go out these days. (periodic)
2. In spite of the interruption, he was able to finish all his exercises before the class was over. (loose)
3. He thought the painting was of little value. He let me have it for only ten pounds. (compound)
4. The girl began to learn to play the piano when she was a child. Her mother was a famous pianist. (complex)
5. They were on holiday. Their house was broken into. Some valuable paintings were stolen. (compound-complex)
V. Read the following, identify the mistakes and rewrite the sentences. (10 points, 2 point for each)
1. Liu always did his work a little better than his fellow workers, that was why he got higher pay than others.
2. Our host, entertained us with many interesting stories of adventure, he had been a member of an exploration team working in the Arctic.
3. When I woke up I saw him asleep in bed, I had not heard him when he came back. Because I had been sleeping soundly.
4. No student could answer that question, even Yao, who was usually quick in answering questions, was silent.
5. Their work was well planned, everybody worked with great enthusiasm, thus, they over fulfilled their quota.
VI. The following sentences are given in a wrong order. You are required to reorganize these sentences into a coherent paragraph by putting the numbers of these sentences into their correct order. (3 points)
① I stopped the car abruptly as if the announcer’s voice had demanded it.
② “Martin Luther King, Jr., has just been fatally wounded in Memphis, Tennessee!”
③ I was just pulling into actor Marlon Brando’s yard in the Hollywood hills when the news came over my car radio.
④ It was a terrible moment, without sound, without motion, without reason
⑤ “My God, my God,” I said, over and over to myself. It was a bottomless moment.
⑥ The voice I had loved so much had been stilled.
VII. Choose the most suitable sentence as the
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