4. In order to achieve coherence when developing a paragraph, all the following techniques may help except _____.

When reading a magazine, most people skim it first, reading a paragraph or two. If the first few paragraphs hold their interest, they______.

A．read down

B．read on

C．read up

D．read along

For this part, writing a paragraph in about 100-120 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly on ANSWER SHEETⅡ.

假如你是李明，由于生病住进了医院。在医院里，得到了刘医生对你的及时治疗与帮助，目前已康复出院。写一封感谢信，对刘医生表示感谢。信件应包括以下内容：

(1) 指出对方帮助了自己，表示感谢

(2) 展开叙述对方怎样帮助了自己

(3) 表示希望可以做些事情来回报对方。

For this pan, writing a paragraph in about 100 - 120 words based on the following situation. Remember to write it clearly on ANSWER SHEET Ⅱ.

以我最喜欢的电视节目为题写一篇作文，内容包括：

(1) 我最喜欢的电视(或无线电)节目是……

(2) 这类节目的内容和特点。

(3) 我喜欢它的原因。

A paragraph following the passage would most probably discuss ______.

A．the nature of fog

B．a way to improve alarm systems

C．other causes of fatigue

D．other uses of the microprocessor

Write a paragraph of data interpretation for the following data report. You are required to write about 100 words. In 2014 the Mental Health Task Force on Graduate Student Mental Health at the University of California Berkley surveyed its graduate students and revealed 45% had experienced an emotional or stress-related problem in the last 12 months that significantly affected their well-being and/or academic performance. A 2013 survey of college students found that 57% of women and 40% of men reported experiencing episodes of “overwhelming anxiety” in the past year, and 33% of women and 27% of men reported a period in the last year of feeling so depressed it was difficult to function.

The author mentioned Aristotle, a great ancient thinker, in order to ________.

A．emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of “human nature”

B．show that the concept of “human nature” was used to justify social evils

C．prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of “human nature”

D．support the idea that some human traits are acquired

For this assignment, write a paragraph describing your own reasons for being in college. You might want to look first at the following list of common reasons students give for going to school. If you have different reasons for being in college that are not listed here, add them to the list. Then select your three most important reasons for being in school and generate specific supporting details for each reason. Make your paragraph truly personal; do not fall back on vague generalities. Reasons students go to college: ? To have some fun before getting a job ? To prepare for a specific career ? To please their families ? To educate and enrich themselves ? To be with friends who are going to college ? To take advantage of an opportunity they didn’t have before ? To find a husband or wife ? To see if college has anything to offer them ? To do more with their lives than they’ve done so far ? To earn the status that they feel comes with a college degree ? To get a new start in life ? Other:_____________________________________________________

Write a paragraph of about 80-100 words to summarize the main idea of the Discussion section of the article. Academic Dishonesty Among College Students Discussion I hypothesized (假设） that the participants would be most likely to cheat in the $20 reward group. However, I did not find a significant difference between the different reward levels, which could either mean that the type of reward did not affect the likelihood of cheating or that the sample size was not large enough to yield significant results. The pattern that emerged between participants’ self-reports of cheating behaviors and their dishonesty ratings revealed that participants were willing to say that behaviors in which they had not engaged were “extremely wrong”, but behaviors in which they had engaged were rated as “not wrong” or “somewhat wrong”. It could be that the participants were trying to justify their behaviors by saying that they only engaged in the more acceptable types of cheating and never took part in anything that was really dishonest. Participants who cheated on the puzzle task also had higher self-efficacy (自我效能) scores, which means that they feel like they have more control over their success. Perhaps participants who have higher levels of self-efficacy are more confident that they will succeed. The puzzle task in this experiment, however, was designed so that the participants could not successfully solve all of the puzzles without cheating. Refusing to fail such a simple task, they decided cheating was an acceptable tactic for success. This study contained only 34 participants, hence it is important to note that all of these findings should be approached with caution. Further investigation is necessary in order to strengthen the significance of the findings. However, the findings of this study could be the first steps to uncovering the motivations behind academic dishonesty. A suggestion for future research is closer examination of the differences in academic motivations of people who cheat and those who do not.