推荐:大学英语六级考试短文写作教材(六)

2014-5-9 16:50:24 [英语六级作文]

4) 引语句子在句末
引语句子位于句末,其标点即为全句标点。例如:
All he can say in English is “How do you do?”
Did you see the words “Are you happy?”
上面两句不能写成:
* All he can say in English is “How do you do?”.
* Did you see the words “Are you happy?”?

EXERCISE 4
Correct the punctuation mistakes in the following sentences. If a sentence is correct as it stands, write C at its end:
1.“On Friday” the teacher announced: “we’ll take up a new lesson.’’
2.“What?” he asked? “do we have to prepare for the camping trip”?
3.“How was your day?” I enquired. “Great!” I enthused.
4.He greets everyone with “Hi”.
5.“You may think I have a lot of garbage in these bags.” One shopping-bag lady volunteered in a church soup kitchen. “but it’s everything I need.”
6.Who wrote “You fools!” on the blackboard?
7.“It pains me,” I said. “To find that you both have been panhandling so long that it no longer embarrasses you.’’
8.Retirement often brings many problems surrounding the “What do I do with myself” question? even though there may be no financial worries.

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 u