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写作A半期考试卷Number _NAME_SCORE_一: 1) Read the following paragraph, and determine the order in which the details are organized. Think why the order is effective for the paragraph.(18%)My missing friend should be easy to recognize. When I last saw Roger, he was wearing dark-blue jeans, a pair of dark-brown hunting boots with red laces, and a light-blue sweater with a turtleneck; he was carrying a red school-bag with black trim, filled with books. He stands about six feet four inches, slouching shoulders, and carries roughly 190 pounds on a medium frame. He walks in excessively long strides, like a cowboy. His hair is sandy blond, cut just below his ears and feathered back on the sides. He has deep purple eyes framed by dark-brown eyelashes and brows set into a clear tanned complexion. The bridge of his nose carries a half-inch scar in the shape of an inverted crescent. His right front tooth has a small chip in the left corner. Order: _ to _2) Here you have a jumbled paragraph. Re-organize the sentences so that they follow definite space order.1) As usual Madeline was overdressed. 2) Her hair stuck out from her head in a graying frizz, and black horn-rimmed glasses encircled her eyes. 3) Her white blouse was ruffled at the elbows, and her red dirndl skirt was embroidered with black and white flowers. 4)Every inch of her seemed to scream for attention. 5) Look, from her ears hung red pendant earrings which bobbled as she talked, and about her thick neck was a matching strand of red baubles. 6) On her feet were black patent high heeled sandals. Sentence Order: _Space Order: _二 .Arrange the sentences in logical order(28%)Paragraph 1A .The monks looked through the books of the monastery, and these revealed that there had been a Father Anselm there a hundred years before.B. The monk went back to the monastery and found there a doorkeeper whom he did not know and who did not know him.C. The monk had never heard a lark before, and he stood there entranced until the bird and its song had become part of the heavens.D Other monks came, and they were all strangers to the monk.E.A monk had wandered into the fields and a lark began to sing.F .The monk told other monks he was Father Anselm, but that was no help.G. Time had been blotted out while the monk listened to the lark. Paragraph 2 A .Secure in its island home, the dodo had lost the power of flight since there were no enemies to fly from.B. The goats ate the undergrowth which provided the dodo with cover; dogs and cats hunted and harried the old birds; while pigs grunted their way round the island, eating the eggs and young, and the rats followed behind to finish the feast.C .Man discovered the dodos paradise in about 1507, and with him came his enemies: dogs, cats, pigs, rats and goats.D .The dodo, the ponderous waddling pigeon, inhabited the island of Mauritius.E. The dodo surveyed these new arrivals with an air of innocent interest.F. By 1681, the fat, ungainly and harmless pigeon was extinct.G. Then the slaughter began. 三. The passage below is a newspaper report of a raid on a Securicor van (a security van carrying money). Read the passage and do the exercise (24%)Gunmen Grab 1m in Security Van RaidSix men armed with rifles and shotguns escaped with 1, 014,005 in notes after ambushing a Securicor van on a country road near Chatham, Kent, yesterday. After failing to cut their way into the van with what is believed to have been a chain saw some o f the gang forced the driver and a guard to open the rear door at gunpoint.Other members of the gang went along a line of 20 cars which had been forced to stop by the ambush, threatened the drivers and seized their ignition keys which they threw into woodland beside the road.The robbery, which lasted about 10 minutes began soon after 9 a.m. on the A229 road at Bluebell Hill. The Securicor van, with a crew of four and carrying money to London from its base near Aylesbury, was sandwiched by two vehicles.One braked in front of the van and, as it slowed, reversed into its bonnet. The other rammed the rear of the van. They took a number of bags of cash but left some behind, a Securicor spokesman said.The gang escaped in a white Transit van and a green Ford Granada which they abandoned about a mile away and drove off in at least two other cars, one of them a white Jaguar with a V registration, and possibly a brown Curtain.The Securicor crew sent out a radio call for help after they were ambushed. Kent police set up roadblocks, but the raiders escaped the net.Number these events in the order in which they actually occurred. If two events occurred at the same time, give them the same number. _One vehicle braked in front of the van and reversed into it._Some of the gang threatened other drivers and threw away their ignition keys._The gang stole over 1 million from the van. _The men tried to cut their way into the van._The gang forced the driver and guard to open the door._The Securicor van was sandwiched by two cars._One vehicle rammed the rear of the van._The gang escaped in a white van and a green car._The gang drove off