Question

【題目】

You must have written your research paper, your personal essay, your book review-----whatever your school class requires. You think you have provided good information in the needed number of words.【1】

But is it really done? Many teachers and professional writers believe that writing is revision.【2】

Revision of writing is a necessary skill for students. The classroom is a good place to practice patience, concentration and listening. There are rewards with spending time with your thoughts and really taking time to compose your ideas in an orderly and reasonable way. You should put away your paper after you have written a first version, or draft. Wait several hours, maybe overnight, before working on it more.【3】 Not only are you refreshed, but you’re looking at things through different eyes. That’s what revision literally means—to see again through different eyes.

Following a four-step process may help you with your paper. The first step in the process is invention. It includes forming many questions about your subject. It is called “question-storming”.【4】Then comes the revision period. Take your time to read what you’ve written, to think about it, and maybe to re-shape it based on what you see now, as a kind of new person looking at it with a reader’s eyeglasses rather than a writer’s. The fourth step is called “publication”.【5】In a sense, anytime you turn it over to another person, that’s publication.

Probably, the process takes away some of the tension of writing. And worry about the quality of your writing often disappears when you share that writing.

A. Perfect writing is not possible.

B. In the second step, you draft and compose a paper.

C. And you feel good because your work is finished.

D. This is just like returning to a job after a vacation.

E. This does not mean your writing is professional publication.

F. What is most important is getting your thoughts and ideas on paper.

G. In other words, writing well means making needed changes and rewriting.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】G

【3】D

【4】B

【5】E

【解析】本文主要介紹了寫作其實就是一個不斷修正的過程，許多老師和專業(yè)的作家都有此感受。作者還介紹了寫作的四個步驟。

【1】根據(jù)前一句“You think you have provided good information in the needed number of words.”你認為你已經(jīng)用所需的字數(shù)提供了很好的信息，也就是說寫好了。再根據(jù)下一段第一句“But is it really done?”但是真的寫完了嗎？可知此處是你覺得你完成了作業(yè)，而且感覺良好，故選C。

【2】根據(jù)“Many teachers and professional writers believe that writing is revision.”可知許多教師和專業(yè)作家都認為寫作是修訂，此句中的review和G選項中的changes and rewriting，改變和改寫，屬于同類的表達，而且G項中的in other words就是對前一句起到解釋說明的作用，故選G。

【3】根據(jù)后一句“Not only are you refreshed, but you’re looking at things through different eyes.”意為不僅讓您精神振作，而且會用不同的眼光看待事物。D項的意思是度假之后回來上班就會感覺精神滿滿，精神煥然，前后意思能很好的銜接起來，故選D。

【4】根據(jù)“Following a four-step process may help you with your paper. The first step…”可知第一步講完，緊接著就講第二步。故選B。

【5】根據(jù)前一句講的The fourth step is called “publication”，其中有關(guān)鍵詞“publication”選項中只有E項有此關(guān)鍵詞，故選E。