Ⅱ．改寫病句(15 points, 3 points each)

    Correct the errors in the following sentences.

Example: Made by his mother, Tony ate up the cake.

         Tony ate up the cake made by his mother.

11. Brokers（經(jīng)紀(jì)人）dealers, even the stock exchanges must register with SEC.

12. Unsuccessful attempt to start a business can help sort out the market.  According to small business experts.

13. The corporation safeguards its owners.  Because it has legal standing.

14. The Inquisition（宗教迫害）resulted in twenty-five hundred being killed, forty thousand being imprisoned and sent two hundred thousand into exile（流放）．

15. Aiming at high profits, unfair rates were charged by the American railroad companies.

Ⅲ．標(biāo)出主題句(15 points, 5 points each)

16. Choose the best topic sentence from the group below by writing A, B, C or D.

A. Alcohol numbs（使麻木）the areas of the brain responsible for mood control.

B. Alcohol often triggers（引起）feelings of confusion, sadness and so on.

C. There is indeed a relationship between alcohol and depression.

D. Many alcoholics have a difficult time living on their own.

17. Read the following paragraph and write the topic sentence on the Answer Sheet.

       Crying has also served other social purposes. Rousseau wrote in his “Confessions” that while he considered tears the most eloquent testimony（有力證據(jù)）of love, he also just liked to cry over nothing.  As the story of the wrapped onion suggests, crying can be used to manipulate（影響）the emotions of others.  Notions of manipulative crying endure（持續(xù)）to this ay. “When a woman cries,” a writer named Angela Epstein declared in September, in an article in The Daily Mail, “she’s on her way to getting what she wants.”

18. Read the following paragraph carefully and choose the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph by writing A, B, C or D.

         Data from both Russia and the United States show Arctic sea ice extended to about     4.2 million square miles in June, the lowest ice coverage recorded for that month in the satellite data record, which began in 1979.  If the melting trend continues, sea ice levels could fall by September to less than l. 6 million square miles, the lowest recorded in 2007. The fast pace of the melting could mean that the North Pole could be ice-free during the summer within just a few decades, far sooner than previously estimated.  Arctic waterways（航道）typically choked（堵塞）with ice are now opening up.

A. Sea ice in the Arctic is in rapid retreat（消退）．

B. Melting ice may clear new waterways in the Arctic.

C. Scientists from Russia and the U. S. work together in the Arctic.

D. Rapid retreat of ice in the Arctic is harmful.