After seeing an offensive mouthwash ad on television, I resolved never to buy that
brand again.
11.In summer, Juanna didn’t love traveling in Rome she felt it was too hot there.
12.Shakespeare wrote comedies, tragedies, romances, and the plays which were based on historical events.
13.While driving on Blueberry Avenue yesterday afternoon, a tree fell toward Jack’s car.
14.One of Jenny’s greatest joys in life is eating desserts. Such as milkshake, cookies or strawberry cake.
15.Peter ordered the meal for his friends ranging from fried shrimp to chopped beef.
Ⅲ.标出主题句（15 points, 5 points each）
16.Choose the best topic sentence from the group below. Write the choice in the blank.
A. The most critical election happened in 1896.
B. The Great Depression produced conditions for 1932 election.
C. Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 and became the 16th American president.
D. America’s two-party system has experienced three critical elections, each of which affected the party balance in government.
Answer: ______________________________________________________
17.Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence.
A family group is a good example for illustrating norms, roles, status positions, and social structure. Charlie has certain expectations for Alice that have developed between them over time. Alice is his wife, and he expects her to have the primary responsibility for childrearing and for dealing with relatives. She is expected to listen to his complaints about his boss, to give him encouragement concerning his professional life, to be nice to his friends, to be patient with his impatience, and to spend the family funds carefully. Alice, on the other hand, expects Charlie, her husband, to share in housework, to prepare the meals, to play with the children, to listen to her complaints about her boss, to encourage her to pursue her professional growth, and to know what to do in a weather emergency or when the plumbing breaks down.
18.Read the following paragraph carefully and select the best topic sentence from the four possible answers that follow the paragraph. Write the choice in the blank.
Topic Sentence: ______________________________________________________
Until the early 1960s, most people reported getting more news from newspapers than from any other source By the mid-1960s, television nudged（轻推）out newspapers as the public’s major source of news. By the 1980s, about two-thirds of the public cited television as their news source, compared with less than one-half who named newspapers and less than one-fifth who relied on radio. Not only is television the public’s most important source of news now, but television news is also rated as more trustworthy than newspaper news—by a margin of more than 2 to 1.
A. Virtually all citizens rely on the mass media for news.
B. Only a very small number of the public relied on the radio for news.
C. The public got news mainly from newspapers before the early 1960s.
D. Television now has become the most popular and trustworthy source of news.
Ⅳ.重新组合段落（5 points, 1 point each）
Rearrange the following numbered sentences so that they will read logically. Put the numbers in proper sequence in the boxes provided below.
19.The house they put us in was ugly, with an ugly yard and a few ugly bushes.
20.Yet our guardians’ efforts to punish us were not always effective.
