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1、1The Organization and Development of ParagraphsExercises:I. Underline the controlling ideas in these topic sentences.1. Most successful movies have a few qualities in common.2. A person can look for a job in several different ways.3. Students have various reasons for choosing where they want to sit
2、in a classroom.4. A young person needs to learn how to become self-reliant.5. Studying for tests calls for a methodical approach.II. Put “TB” beside the sentence in each pair that is too broad to be covered in a paragraph. Put “OK” beside the sentence in each group that has a limited subject and a s
3、harp focus.1. a. Animals act just like people sometimes.b. My cat has personality traits that make her seem almost human.2. a. Ive always done poorly in school.b. I flunked maths last semester for several reasons.3. a. Professional ice hockey is a dangerous.2b. Professional sports are violent.4. a.
4、Traveling can broaden your outlook on life.b. Traveling has helped me to appreciate different kinds of foods.5. a. I had a hectic time at work today.b. Ive been very busy lately.III. Put “TN” beside the simple, factual statement in each pair that is too narrow to be developed into a paragraph. Put “
5、OK” beside the assertive statement in each group that calls for support or development of some kind.1. a. I started college after being away from school for seven year.b. Several of my fear about returning to school have proven to be groundless.2. a. I do push-ups and sit-ups each morning.b. Exercis
6、ing every morning has had positive effects on my health.3. a. Lonnie has several ways to economize when his money gets tight.b. Lonnie always has money in his pocket.4. a. I spend a lot of time waiting in lines at the gas station and the bank.3b. Time spent in waiting lines can be put to good use if
7、 you know how.5. a. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a book I read recently.b. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn is a story about Hucks moral growth.IV. Revise these topic sentences to narrow the focus by stressing a controlling idea.1. The Santana is a fine car.2. Today many young people have d
8、eveloped a culture of their own.3. Good cameras are manufactured in many countries.4. Participation in college sports is beneficial.5. People could make a better use of their leisure time.V. Point out the topic sentence in each paragraph.1. Peter is one of the sloppiest people I know. He lives by hi
9、mself in a one-room apartment carpeted with dirty clothes, books, and crumpled candy bar wrappers. Stacks of papers cover the chair seats. Socks bake on the lampshades. When Peter makes a date of appointment, he may jot the time and the place on a scrap of paper that is soon tucked into a pocket and
10、 forgotten, ormore likelyhe doesnt jot the information at all. As a result, Peter is often a latecomer or no-show. His grades have suffered too, since few instructors will put up with a student who arrives out of breath ten minutes after the class has begun and whose wrinkled, hand-scrawled papers a
11、rrive (late, of course) punctuated with Coca-cola stains and melted M&Ms. The less Peter controls his sloppiness, the more it seems to control him.2. Californians and New Englanders are both American. They speak the same language and abide by the same federal laws. But they are very different in the
12、ir ways of life. Mobilityboth physical and psychologicalhas made a great impression on the culture of Californians; lack of mobility is the mark of the customs and morality of New Englander.3. We now have, as a result of modern means of communication, hundreds of thousands of words flung at us daily
13、. We are constantly being talked at, by teachers, preachers, salesmen, public officials and motion-picture sound tracks. The cries of advertisers pursue us into our very homes, thanks to the radioand in some houses the radio is never turned off from morning to night. Daily the newsboy brings us, in
14、large cities, from thirty to fifty enormous pages of print, and almost three times that amount on Sunday. We go 4out and get more words at bookstores and libraries. Words fill our lives.VI. Supply a topic sentence to each paragraph.1. . Nectar and pollen are sometimes scarce, and landscape abounds w
15、ith animals and people who think nothing of knocking over a beehive for its honey. The Africa honeybee has evolved, therefore, with a hypersensitivity to disturbance and a tendency to launch disconcerting mass attacks against potential enemies who come too near its nests.2. . The basic idea dates ba
16、ck at least to 1776. The countrys founders did not want the land to be held by a few very large and rich owners. Yet despite the American Revolution and two centuries of strife, a few very large and rich owners still predominate. In rural countries, the top 20 landownersless than 1 percent of the peopleown 20 to 50 percent of the land. They run farms owned by corporations and other absentee landlord
