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1、Chapter 1 Basic Requirements for Writing 一 Types of English Essays A narration is an account of an event or a series of events Description is to paint a picture in words of a person place object or scene Exposition means explaining or supply knowledge or ideas Argumentation is to convince other peop
2、le to agree to and approve the writer s point of view even persuade them to change their mind or behavior by offering logical proofs in a reasonable way 二 Organization of a composition introductory paragraph body paragraphs concluding paragraph The Hazards of Moviegoing I am a movie fanatic However
3、I hate to watch movies in the theatre The problems in getting to the theater the terrible conditions of the theater itself and the disturbing behavior of some moviegoers are all reasons why I don t want to go there First of all just getting to the theater presents difficulties It takes about a thirt
4、y minute drive to the theater down the crowed streets And then there are the long lines waiting for you to buy a ticket for a popular movie Once entered you are confronted with the problems of the theater itself The musty smell is everywhere in the theater and you can never hope to take a fresh air
5、Also half the seats you sit in seem loose or tilted so that you sit in an awkward position What s worse some of the moviegoers are disturbing during the film Little kids race up and down the aisles usually in giggling packs teenagers whistle and shout at the screen adults comment loudly on the perfo
6、rmance of the stars With all these problems I was tired of the experience of getting to the movies and dealing with the theater itself and some of the other moviegoers Therefore I dislike the idea of going to watch the movie in the theatre 1 Introductory Paragraph I ve been dating Scott for about si
7、x weeks During that time we ve had normal dates coffee lunch movies at the multiples movies on his DVD player but last Wednesday he asked if I would consent to go with him to the last day of a professional golf tournament I like Scot I want to see our relationship progress and I m a decent actor Swa
8、llowing my horror I said Sure sounds like fun What it actually sounded like was unadulterated boredom This past Sunday however proved that my expectations were completely off base A Background Material Advertisements perhaps are most omnipresent in big cities They shout at us from the television scr
9、een and the radio loudspeakers wave to us from every page of the newspaper and magazine gaze at us from the roadside buildings and passing vehicles all day and signal to us in colored lights all nights Scarcely a day passes that we cannot meet an advertisement B Story Two hurricanes have visited me
10、recently and except for a few rather hasty observations of my own which somehow seem presumptuous all I know about these storms is what I ve heard on the radio I live on the Maine coast to the east of Penobscot Bay Formerly this cost was not in the path of hurricanes or if it was didn t seem to know
11、 it but times change and we must change with them My house is equipped with three small old fashioned radios two of them battery sets one a tiny plug in bedside model on which my wife sometimes manages to get the Giants after I have turned in we do not have TV and because of this curious omission we
12、 are looked upon as eccentrics possibly radicals C Quotation Most people even many women themselves believe that women in China have achieved great equality They think women now have held up half the sky they can take up almost all the professions once only occupied by men and can even receive equal
13、 pay for equal work Despite the enormous strides women had made I argue that Chinese women still have a long way to go in their struggle for real equality D Question If you were at a restaurant with a friend who started choking on a piece of meat how would you help her If you pulled an unconscious c
14、hild out of a swimming pool how would you try to revive her You never know when you might be in an emergency situation where someone s life depends on what you do Without the proper training you may have little luck helping the choking person or the unconscious child However if you had been trained
15、in the procedures on First Aid your chances of helping would have been excellent Since you never know when someone may need your help you should take a First Aid course as soon as possible 2 Body Paragraphs A By description My Bedroom My bedroom which is my own world is about 10 square meters When I
16、 get home I d like to open the window then lay my head on the cozy pillow My bed is comfortable and large enough for two persons much better than the small bed in my school dormitory The bed is in the middle of my bedroom beside which is a cloth racket on the right and a computer on the left On the ceiling there is bunch of wind bells made of all kinds of small glass bells When breeze enters my room the wind bells will sway with the melody of breeze and produce sweet sound My bedroom is the plac
