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1、Improving Paragraphs1.Directions12.Answering Improving Paragraphs Questions1一、The questions below are based on the following passage:2答案：3二、The question below is based on the following passage:4答案：5三、The question below is based on the following passage:5答案：6四、The question below is based on the follo
2、wing passage:6答案：7This type of question measures your ability to:edit and revise sentences in the context of a paragraph or the entire essay organize and develop paragraphs in a coherent and logical manner apply the conventions of standard written English 1.DirectionsThe following passage is an earl
3、y draft of an essay. Some parts of the passage need to be rewritten.Read the passage and select the best answers for the questions that follow. Some questions are about particular sentences or parts of sentences and ask you to improve sentence structure or word choice. Other questions ask you to con
4、sider organization and development. In choosing answers, follow the requirements of standard written English.2.Answering Improving Paragraphs QuestionsTo answer the Improving Paragraphs questions that accompany the draft essay, you will need to note what sentences need to be corrected and to know ho
5、w the sentences relate to one another and to the essay as a whole. Follow the outlined steps to answer the questions.Step 1: Read the entire essay quickly to determine its overall meaning. The essay is intended as a draft, so you will notice errors.Step 2: In answering each question, make sure that
6、your answer about a particular sentence or group of sentences makes sense in the context of the passage as a whole. Choose the best answer from among the choices given, even if you can imagine another correct response.一、The questions below are based on the following passage:(1) Many times art histor
7、y courses focus on the great masters, ignoring those women who should have achieved fame. (2) Often women artists like Mary Cassatt have worked in the shadows of their male contemporaries. (3) They have rarely received much attention during their lifetimes.(4) My art teacher has tried to make up for
8、 it by teaching us about women artists and their work. (5) Recently she came to class very excited; she had just read about a little-known artist named Annie Johnson, a high school teacher who had lived all of her life in New Haven, Connecticut. (6) Johnson never sold a painting, and her obituary in
9、 1937 did not even mention her many paintings. (7) Thanks to Bruce Blanchard, a Connecticut businessman who bought some of her watercolors at an estate sale. (8) Johnson is finally starting to get the attention that she deserved more than one hundred years ago. (9) Blanchard now owns a private colle
10、ction of hundreds of Johnsons works watercolors, charcoal sketches, and pen-and-ink drawings.(10) There are portraits and there are landscapes. (11) The thing that makes her work stand out are the portraits. (12) My teacher described them as unsentimental. (13) They do not idealize characters. (14)
11、Characters are presented almost photographically. (15) Many of the people in the pictures had an isolated, haunted look. (16) My teacher said that isolation symbolizes Johnsons life as an artist.1. In context, which is the best revision to the underlined portion of sentence 3 (reproduced below)?They
12、 have rarely received much attention during their lifetimes.(A)In fact, they had(B)Too bad these artists have(C)As a result, these women have(D)In spite of this, women artists(E)Often it is the case that the former have2. In context, which of the following revisions to sentence 7 is most needed?(A)D
13、elete Thanks to.(B)Move Thanks to Bruce Blanchard to the end of sentence 7.(C)Delete who.(D)Change her to Johnsons.(E)Change the period to a comma and combine sentence 7 with sentence 8. 3. In context, which of the following is the best version of sentence 10 (reproduced below)?There are portraits a
14、nd there are landscapes.(A)(As it is now)(B)You can see both portraits and landscapes.(C)Therefore, both portraits and landscapes are among her works.(D)Johnson painted both portraits and landscapes.(E)Among them Johnson has portraits and landscapes.答案：1.Correct Answer: CExplanation:Although sentenc
15、e 3 is not grammatically wrong, its relationship to the preceding sentence needs to be made clearer. A transitional phrase should be added to emphasize the cause-and-effect relationship between the stated facts women artists received little attention as a consequence of having worked in the shadows of their male contemporaries and the ambiguous pronoun They should be replaced with a word or phrase that clearly refers to the women artists and not the male contemporaries mentioned in sentence 2. (A), (B), and (D) are unsatisfactory because in each case the trans
