大学英语六级短文写作精讲 5

　　exercise 5

　　capitalize and punctuate the following passages:

　　1.london fire

　　at one o’clock on september 2 1666 the great fire of london started in side a bakers shop in pudding lane it lasted five days and nearly 80%of all the buildings within the london wall were razed according to the official report l3200 houses 87 parish churches over 400 streets and the enormous old st pauls cathedral one of the wonders of the medieval world were in ruins out of londons 450 acres only 75 remained untouched.

　　robert hubert a french watchmaker from rouen was accused of the fire the sentence said he had deliberately started the fire after he was hanged it was conclusively proved that he had not even arrived in london until two days after the fire broke out

　　2.mountain-climbing and sight-seeing

　　mr jones was very fond of climbing mountains so one year he went to switzerland for his holidays after he had climbed some easy mountains he decided one day to climb a more difficult one but he did not want to go up it alone so he found a good swiss guide who had often climbed that mountain

　　at first it was not a difficult climb but then they came to a place which was not so easy the guide stopped turned round and warned mr jones be careful here he said this is a dangerous place you can easily fall and if you do you will fall straight down a very long way but he continued calmly if you do fall here don’t forget to look to the right while you are going down there is a quite extraordinarily beautiful view there much more beautiful than the one you can see from here

　　3.the road to happiness

　　it is the simple things that really matter if a man delights in his wife and children has success in work and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night spring and autumn he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be if on the other hand he finds his wife hateful his childrens noise

　　unendurable and the Office a nightmare if in the daytime he longs for night and at night he sighs for the light of day then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new pattern of life a different diet or more exercise man is an animal and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think unhappy business men i am convinced would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy

　　七、句型写作练习

　　(一) 并列句

　　两个或两个以上的简单句用等立连词或用分号、冒号、逗号等连在一起构成的句子叫并列句。常用的等立连词有and, or, but, so, for, neither, nor, while, whereas等。

　　用括号中的连接词连接下面各组句子。

　　1) it was a cold snowy day.

　　he had no money left for food. (and)

　　2) hurry up.

　　you’ll be late. (or)

　　3) it rained heavily last night.

　　i went to the show anyway. (but)

　　4) i enjoy classical music.

　　she enjoys classical music, too. (so)

　　5) he must be ill.

　　he is absent today. (for)

　　6) some people waste food.

　　others haven’t enough. (while)

　　7) she is fat.

　　her husband is thin. (whereas)

　　8) she cannot read.

　　she cannot write, either. (neither)

　　(二) 复合句

　　由一个主句和一个或一个以上的从句所构成的句子结构叫做复合句，也叫主从复合句。从句由关联词引导，关联词将从句与主句联系在一起。根据其在复合句中的作用，从句可以分为主语从句、宾语从句、表语从句、定语从句、状语从句和同位语从句。

　　ø 名词从句

　　主语从句、宾语从句、表语从句和同位语从句在句子中的作用相当于名词通常在句中所起的作用，因此统称为名词从句。

　　引导名词从句的关联词，主要有三类：

　　1. 主从连词：that(无词义)，whether(是否)，if(是否)

　　2. 连接代词：who(谁)，whom(谁)，whose(谁的)，what(什么)，which(哪一个，哪一些)

　　3. 连接副词：when(什么时候)，where(什么地方)，why(为什么)，how(怎样)

　　主从连词只起连接作用;连接代词和连接副词除了起连接作用外，还充当句中某一个成分。