Tham khảo tài liệu 'new sat writing workbook episode 2 part 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | PART III PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER 38. Driving down the freeway there blew the most noisy car horns that I had ever encountered. A there blew the most noisy car horns B I heard the most noisy car horns C there were the noisiest car horns D the most noisy car horns blew E I heard the noisiest car horns PRACTICE EXERCISE SET 1 IMPROVING PARAGRAPHS Instructions The selections below are unedited drafts of students essays. Carefully read each essay. Sections of each essay need to be rewritten to make the meaning clearer and more precise. Each essay is followed by a series of questions about changes that might improve all or part of its organization development sentence structure language usage diction audience focus or use of the conventions of standard written English. Choose the answer that most clearly and effectively expresses the writer s intended meaning. Indicate your choice by filling in the appropriate oval on the answer sheet. Questions 39 through 44 are based on the following first draft of an essay which is a response to an assignment discussing foreign language. 1 You are in a foreign country and your money is stolen. 2 You go to the police but they do not speak English. 3 You lose your belongings in a Chinese railroad station. 4 You complain to the authorities but they don t understand English. 5 In Paris you order veal for dinner but get sweetbreads instead. 6 All of these unfortunate events can be eliminated by the knowledge of the applicable foreign language. 7 This type of verbal mistake is not isolated to the ordinary American citizen. 8 A former United States Department of State official went to Japan. 9 She intended to say Your country is beautiful. 10 It came out as Your country smells like a horse. 11 American companies are not immune from language mistakes. 12 One of the most publicized corporate language errors involved General Motors. 13 When the company introduced its Nova car in Latin America it did not sell up to .
