标点符号用法讲练
　　EXERCISE 1
　　1. The…identity: Lt, Henry Bedell, Company D, 11th Vermont Volunteers…old.
　　2. It…that Dad…already-farming 80 acres…job.
　　3. Now I’m…point-but what …there?
　　4. Rain, snow, sleet, fog…world.
　　5. During…tourists; during the winter…beach.
　　6. To…extent, mankind…earth.
　　7. Like…wild life,…reproduce, grow…fall.
　　8. The…Jim Thorpe, the greatest American…times.
　　9. The…enormous, juicy…appetizing.
　　10. I…kids-educated…the West…movies-would be disappointed.
　　11. I…statue. Its soul, so to speak, is…beauty.
　　12. The…students, teachers, doctors, businessmen, factory workers-people…life.
　　13. Is…underground-in new…caves?
　　14. I…-by correspondence-that I…her at Beijing Hotel…Thursday.
　　15. Passengers…beverages: coffee, tea, milk or soda.
　　16. Present…Mr. Ho, Chairman…English Department; Mr. Brown, a visiting…Denmark; and…us.
　　17. The…patients; it…of “defensive medicine”.
　　18. His…with them-he had…once made…help.
　　EXERCISE 2
　　1….work, for…
　　2….down; as a result, we…
　　3….note; it…
　　4….watch, yet…
　　5…..tired, so…
　　6. …booming; consequently, the company…
　　7. …in it, and it was…
　　8. … looking; the food, however, is…
　　9….compulsory; the students… choice, therefore
　　10…coffee; others…
　　11…costly; nevertheless, we…
　　12…weightlessness; moreover, they…
　　EXERCISE 3
　　1. … death; …
　　2. …sunlight. We…/…sunlight; we…
　　3. …May, yet/but snow…
　　4. …years; for example, …
　　5. …quiet; …
　　6. …night; I…/….night, and/so I…
　　7. …punished; in fact…/…punished. In fact…
　　8. …food, and so…./food; therefore, I….
　　9. …very; what…./…vary. What…
　　10. …TV; Marie…/…TV, and Marie…
　　EXERCISE 4
　　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. C
　　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. C
　　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
　　1. At one o’clock on September 2, 1666, the Great Fire of London started inside a baker’s 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, 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, over 400 streets, and the enormous old St. Paul’s Cathedral-one of the wonders of the medieval world-were in ruins. Out of London’s 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. 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. 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 children’s 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.

　　句型写作练习
　　(一)并列句
　　1) It was a cold snowy day and he had no money left for food.
　　2) Hurry up or you’ll be late.
　　3) It rained heavily last night but I went to the show anyway.
　　4) I enjoy classical music, so does she.
　　5) He must be ill, for he is absent today.
　　6) Some people waste food while others haven’t enough.
　　7) She is fat whereas her husband is thin.
　　8) She cannot read, neither can she write.
　　(二)复合句
　　1.
　　1) It is quite obvious that they need more help in English.
　　2) It is good news that she is still alive.
　　3) It doesn’t seem likely that she will come here.
　　4) What the children like the best in the zoo are the pandas.
　　5) What we are badly in need of is raw material.
　　2.
　　1) It’s a pity that he did not come earlier.
　　2) It is a well-known fact that smoking can cause lung cancer.
　　3) It is true that I encouraged him, but I didn’t actually help him.
　　4) It didn’t seem likely that they would ever keep their promise.
　　5) It was hard to understand why Prof. Hardy had singled out Mary for criticism.
　　3.
　　1) Can you tell me what kind of show they are putting on?
　　2) I’m wondering if the letter is overweight.
　　3) I am thinking how we can improve our study habits.
　　4) We are still uncertain whether Henry is the right person for the job.
　　5) Peter has always been in good health except that he has a slight headache sometimes.
　　6) He suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to take his notebook with him.
　　4.
　　1) I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.
　　2) We all thought it a pity that you were unable to attend our meeting.
　　3) We consider it important that you should mind your manners.
　　4) He didn't want it known that he was too ill to go on working.
　　5) I regard it important that every one of you should finish your homework on time.
　　6) He took it for granted that his father would come to his help if he got into trouble.
　　7) We thought it highly probable that he might change his mind at the last minute.
　　8) I think it likely that the train will be delayed by the dense fog.
　　9) The doctor thinks it advisable that you should stop smoking.
　　5.
　　1) Could you show me what you have written?
　　2) This is what we should always keep in mind.
　　3) What they saw in China made a deep impression on them.
　　4) We must not put off till tomorrow what we can do today.
　　6.
　　1) Nothing could hide the fact that he is growing old.
　　2) The fact that he works hard does not necessarily mean that he is a competent leader.
　　3) I have a complacent feeling that I’m highly intelligent.
　　4) The explanation that he didn’t see the notice is unsatisfactory./ The explanation is unsatisfactory that he didn’t see the notice.
　　5) Most of us don’t agree with his view that there is no advantage in introducing the new method.
　　6) The news soon spread throughout the country that he won the first gold medal at the 23rd Olympic Games.
　　7) His suggestion that intelligence is a relative matter is not universally accepted./His suggestion is not universally accepted that intelligence is a relative matter.
　　8) He seconded my motion that the vote be postponed.
　　9) The fear that he might not be able to finish the work disturbed him greatly./ The fear disturbed him greatly that he might not be able to finish the work.
　　10) We expressed a hope that Mr. and Mrs. Morrison would come and visit China again.
　　11) I’ve come from Mr. Lin with a message that he won’t be able to see you this afternoon.
　　12) There can be no doubt that Suzy is the right person for the job.
　　定语从句
　　1) I went to visit the American author who wrote a number of books about China.
　　2) I ate the soup my aunt prepared.
　　3) I have an arrangement with my bank, by which they let me use their money and repay them next month.
　　4) He sent her a letter, in which he said that he was sorry for what he had done to her.
　　5) Mr. Brown, who just came from Britain yesterday, will teach us accounting this term.
　　6) She is going to spend the winter holidays in Hainan, where she has some relatives.
　　7) The United States is known for its supermarkets, where huge quantities of all kinds of food and household articles are sold.
　　8) The story happened in late 19th century, when China is suffering from the invasion of western powers.
　　状语从句
　　1) Now that you’ve bought a new car, what are you going to do with the old one?
　　2) We’d better take the telescope with us in case it is needed.
　　3) We must hurry off, lest we should miss the bus.
　　4) The problem so very complicated that it took us nearly two weeks to solve it.
　　5) The aircraft was flying at such a high altitude that we could hardly see it.
　　6) I’ll lend you my computer on condition that you keep it in good shape.
　　7) You can go out as long as you promise to be back before 11 at night.
　　8) I remember the whole thing as if it happened yesterday.
　　9) However hard he tried, he could not do the job satisfactorily.
　　10) Whether it takes an hour or even a whole day, I shall find out the answer.