大学英语四级综合分类模拟题3.docVIP

综合演练三 Part Ⅰ Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter in about 120 words to the manager of a department store complaining about the poor quality of the color TV you bought there one month ago. Part Ⅱ Error correction (15 minutes) Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank, If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (—) in the blank. Traditionally, the American farmer has always been independent and hard-working. In the eighteenth century farmers were quite self-efficient. The farm family grew and made almost nothing it 1. ______ needed. The surplus crop would be sold in order to buy a few items in the local general store. In 1860, because some of the farm population had moved to the 2. ______ city, yet eighty percent of the American population was still in the country. In the late nineteen century, farm work and life were not much 3. ______ changed from that they had been in old days. The banner arose at dawn 4. ______ or before and had much work to do, with his own muscles like his 5. ______ chief source of power. He used aces, spades and other complicated 6. ______ tools. In his house cook was done in wood-burning stoves, and the 7. ______ kerosene lamp was the only improvement on the candle. The familys recreation and social life chiefly consisted a drive in the wagon to the 8. ______ nearby small town to village to transact some business as well as to chat with neighbors who had also come to town. The children attended