2009年1月甘肃自考00603英语写作真题试卷

全国2009年1月高等教育自学考试

英语写作试题

课程代码：00603

I. Supply the missing paragraph. (20 points)

The following passage is incomplete with the conclusion missing. Study the passage carefully and write the paragraph in no more than 100 words. Make sure your tone and the vocabulary you use are in unity with the passage provided.

Violence on TV

Nowadays TV has become an important part in our daily life. We watch it everyday for information, for knowledge and in particular for entertainment. After a day of strenuous work, many of us would like to relax ourselves by watching TV. However, to our great disappointment, more and more entertainment programs are filled with violence. Violence actually aggravates the tension we feel on our jobs. It makes us feel more nervous and destroys our sense of security.

On the mainland China, violent TV plays first appeared in the1980s. The film Shaolin Temple was the first popular film about Chinese marshal art. It ushered us into an era when violence ran supreme on TV shows. The number of such shows rapidly increased. This kind of film usually features a boy whose parents are killed by their personal enemy when the boy is born. The boy is miraculously saved by a kind man with unbeatable Gongfu. In due time, the boy grows up and learns from his master all the skills of Gongfu. With years of persistent and painstaking training, the boy excels in the field, meeting no equals. He now learns his real identity and seeks his enemy for revenge.He and his enemy wage bloody battles, flourishing swords or spears; or they fight bare-handed. Blood stains everywhere and the sound of desperate cries fills the air. The brutal acts bring us into a world of vicious killing.

In the past ten years, TV plays made in Hong Kong and Taiwan have flooded into mainland China. Violence dominates these shows. Characteristically, two gangs which belong to the underworld fight with each other frequently and fiercely. The gang leaders are the most violent ones and because they are known for their ruthlessness, they are much feared. They give orders to kill freely the ones who disobey them. In Shanghai Tan and other plays about the old Shanghai, survival and prestige almost entirely depend on the ability to exercise might. Xu Wenqiang, who is portrayed as one seeking and maintaining justice by violence, is created to justify the use of force. This kind of show conveys the message that the more ruthless you are, the more powerful you are. It seems that life is full of fight, risk and violence. “Be violent, or you’ll be treaded down by others,” they tell us.

Now and then in TV shows, a man is beheaded or a woman is mutilated; a person’s face is burned with sulfuric acid and his deformed appearance abhors us viewers and makes us shudder.

Ⅱ.Write an outline. (20 points)

Read the following passage carefully and compose a “sentence outline” for it.

My First Job

While I was waiting to enter university, I saw in a local newspaper a teaching post advertised at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful, I applied, fearing as I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim.

However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a tenminute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter of a mile. As a result I arrived on a hot June morning too depressed to feel nervous.

The school was a dreary, gabled Victorian houses of red brick house and with big staring sash-colored windows. The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main road.

It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. He was short and rotund. He had a sandycolored moustache, a wrinkled forehead and hardly any hair. He was wearing a tweed suit-one felt somehow he had always worn it and across his ample stomach was looped a silver watch-chain.

He looked at me with an air of surprised disapproval, as a colonel might look at a private whose bootlaces were undone. ‘Ah yes,’ he grunted. ‘You’d better come inside.’ The narrow, sunless hall smelled unpleasantly of stale cabbage; the creamprinted walls had gone a dingy margarine color, except where they were scarred ink marks; it was all silent. His study, judging by the crumbs on the carpet, was also his dining room. ‘You’d better sit down,’he said, and proceeded to ask me a number of questions: what subjects had I taken in my General School Certificate; how old was I; what games did I play; then fixing me suddenly with his bloodshot eyes, he asked me whether I thought games were a vital part of a boy’s education. I mumbled something about not attaching too much importance to them. He grunted. I had said the wrong thing. The headmaster and I obviously had singularly little in common.

The school, he said, consisted of one class of twentyfour boys, ranging in age from seven to thirteen. I should have to teach all subjects except art, which he taught himself. Football and cricket were played in the Park, a mile away on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.

The teaching set-up appalled me. I should have to split the class into three groups and teach them in turn at three different levels; and I was dismayed at the thought of teaching algebra and geometry-two subjects at which I had been completely incompetent at school. Worse perhaps was the idea of Saturday afternoon cricket. It was not so much having to tramp a mile along the dusty streets of Croydon, followed by a crocodile of small boys that I minded, but the fact that most of my friends would be enjoying leisure at that time.

I said diffidently, ‘What would my salary be?’ ‘Twelve pounds a week plus lunch.’Before I could protest he got to his feet. ‘Now,’ he said, ‘you’d better meet my wife. She’s the one who really runs this school.’

This was the last straw. I was very young: the prospect of working under a woman constituted the ultimate indignity.

Ⅲ.Compose an essay. (60 points)

Some people believe that all students should be admitted to a college or university; others believe that only good students can go to college. Which view do you agree with and why? Write an essay (about 300 words) by using specific reasons and details to support your view.