大学英语六级考试短文写作精讲－15

　　3. rewrite the following passage by adding connective words where necessary. many structures will have to be changed and you will probably not keep the same number of sentences. here are some of the connective words you may find useful: 　　then however the only result 　　and but although 　　when yet so 　　that’s how instead 　　television was invented by john logie baird. when he was young he built an aeroplane. he tried to fly in it. it crashed down below. baird was fortunate not to be killed. it did not discourage him. when he was older he tried to make diamonds from coal. there was an enormous explosion. he was not injured. he became a businessman. his business failed. he thought of working at television. his family advised him not to. he did not listen to them. he rented an attic. he bought the apparatus he needed. he started working. he worked for a long time. he was not successful. one day he saw a picture on his screen. he rushed out to get someone he could “televise”. he found an office boy. he took him back to his room. no image of the boy appeared on his screen. the boy, terrified, had put his head down. he put it up again. his picture appeared on the screen. television had been discovered. 　　4. combining sentences with subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns 　　in the united stated there is a belief. it goes that people are rewarded for working, producing, and achieving. many people believe that there is equality of opportunity. it allows anyone to become successful. this belief is illustrated by stories written by a nineteenth-century american novelist, horatio alger. he wrote about the “american dream”. in his stories he described poor people. they became rich because of their hard work, honesty, and luck. the stories reinforced the idea. the idea is that all individuals, no matter how poor, were capable of becoming wealthy as long as they were honest and hard-working. for many americans, however, horatio alger’s “rags-to-riches” stories do not represent the reality of opportunity. many poor immigrants were able to become rich. they came to the united states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. today, however, the poor generally do not rise to the middle and upper classes. that is why the “american dream” is now described as a myth. 　　5. rewrite the passage to make it book more natural. this will mean adding or removing words and putting some of the sentences together. 　　1. there were once a dog and a cat sitting by a kitchen door. the cook came out and threw several pieces of meat to them. they both sprang to get the meat. the dog was the stronger. he ate it all himself. 　　2. this was selfishness. by this i mean that the dog cared only for himself. was this wrong? no, the dog knew no better. 　　3. men are different from dogs. they follow a different rule of conduct. how miserable we should all be! every person were to care only for himself. we ought to be thankful. we have a higher nature than that of beasts. we are able to see and feel the duty of being kind and affectionate to one another. we can see and feel this duty. we ought to be very careful always to observe it. 　　九、历年六级写作真题(1990.1-2004.6) 　　2004年6月 　　directions: for this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter to the editor of a newspaper complaining about the poor service of a bookstore. you should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 　　设想你买了一本英文字典，发现有这样那样的质量问题，书店的服务态度又不好，因此给报社编辑写信。信中必须包含以下内容： 　　1. 事情的起因 　　2. 与书店交涉的经过 　　3. 呼吁服务行业必须提高服务质量 　　2003年12月 　　directions: for this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a short essay entitled reduce waste on campus. you should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 　　1. 有些大学校园浪费的现象日益严重 　　2. 浪费的危害 　　3. 杜绝浪费，从我做起 　　2003年9月