句子练习_Exercises

Exercises

I.

Read the following and say what kind of sentence each is (loose, periodic, or

balanced):

1.

It is a pleasure to read good books.

2.

She missed the step and sprained her ankle.

3.

Badly frightened by the explosion, the boy rushed out the laboratory.

4.

The

Wangs

must

have

gone

away

for

the

summer

holiday,

for

we

have

not

seen them for two or three weeks.

5.

There were the translators in their booths, and the girl secretaries at the doors,

and the reporters grumbling and scribbling in their seats.

6.

Out friends, who had started before us, promised that they would meet us, but

when we arrived at the bus stop, they were nowhere to be seen.

7.

The new thing that happened to me in the town was that I was thrown into

experiences

that

finally

seemed

to

cut

my

ties

to

the

walled- world

of

my

childhood.

8.

In

the

speeches

of

politicians

towards

the

close

of

1919

and

the

spring

of

1920,

there

was

manifest

an

increasing

recognition

of

the

fact

that

what

is

called

the

capitalist

system---the

private

ownership

system

that

is,

in

which

private profit is the working incentive

—

was on trial.

9.

It will not be done by the Government; it cannot be done by Parliament.

10.

There are still two widely different methods of getting what you want. One is

to make yourself so useful that others are glad to pay you, or give you what

1

you

want,

in

return

for

your

service

or

your

product;

the

other

is

to

make

yourself so dangerous that others will be afraid to refuse what

you demand.

The one appeals to good will; the other to fear. The one is constructive; the

other is destructive. The one is the method of civilized men; the other is the

method of savages.

Ⅱ

Read the following, point out the mistakes and make necessary corrections:

1.

Our host entertained us with many interesting stories of adventure; he had been a

member of an exploration team working in the Arctic.

2.

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.

3.

Liu always did his work a little better than his fellow workers, that was why he

got higher pay than others.

4.

No

student

could

answer

that

question,

even

Yao,

who

was

usually

quick

in

answering questions, was silent.

5.

Lin looks like Li; however, they are not related.

6.

The old man hunched forward. His head titled at an angle. His eyes half closed,

looking very sleepy.

7.

Their work was well planned; everybody worked with great enthusiasm, thus, they

over fulfilled their quota.

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8.

Mark

Twain,

a

well- known

American

writer,

whose

experience

as

a

pilot

on

a

steamboat was no doubt an important factor that helped him to become a famous

writer.

III. Rewrite the following by putting the short sentences into compound or complex

sentences, or sentences with participial, prepositional, or other phrases:

1.

Xu comes from a working-class family. He enrolled in college last fall.

2.

The dean issued a bulletin. It said the library would remain open on weekends.

3.

Last night was a wild night. The thunder roared. The wind blew a gale. The rain

fell in torrents.

4.

There

are

icicles

on

the

trees.

The

temperature

must

have

fallen

considerably

during the night.

5.

He returned to his hometown. He had been away for twelve years. He looked in

vain for the familiar landmarks.

6.

We have made some progress. We still have a long way to go.

7.

The sky was cloudless. The sun was shining brightly.

8.

There were over two hundred passengers on board the plane. About one third of

them were foreigners.

9.

The girl began to learn to play the piano when she was a child. Her mother was a

famous pianist.

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10.

Napoleon

was

born

in

1769.

At

that

time

Corsica

had

just

been

acquired

by

France.

11.

She appeared on the stage. A stormy applause broke forth.

12.

The gypsies are really a nomadic people from India. They migrated into Europe.

Once they were thought to be Egyptians.

13.

The new workers are young and inexperienced. They are eager to learn from the

veteran workers.

14.

It was a poor quarter. There were a lot of small hurts. They had mud walls and

straw roofs. They dotted a hillside.

15.

He heard that his father was ill. He was anxious to go home to see him. He went to

the station early in the morning to buy a ticket.

Ⅳ

.The following sentences are not unified or coherent. Try to improve them:

1.

She began to speak very fast at the meeting at ten o’clock.

2.

Bernard Shaw was one of the best-known playwrights.

3.

The houses were mere shanties, and rags were stuffed in the cracks and holes.

4.

I read the novel on the train, which did not interest me at all.

5.

A well-dressed man admitted us to the house, and we later learned that he was t

thief.

6.

I lost some important documents and found them three days later. The police had

helped me.

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