高职高专英语应用能力考试写作专项辅导
? 大纲对A级考试写作测试的要求:
高职高专英语教学中写作教学的目的是培养学生在涉外的日常活动和业务联系嘲行简单的局面交流。《高等学校英语应用能力考试大纲》对A级考试中写作的要求是:学生能就一般性题材,在25分钟内写出80-100词的命题作文,正确使用所学的词组和句型,正确使用标点符号,句子结构完整,意思清楚且符合逻辑,句与句之间过渡自然,连续性强,格式符合文体要求。 ? A级考试写作测试的评分标准
从格式、语言和表达三方面衡量,按综合方式评分,只给一个分数。分数可分为5个档次,即:
1.14分:格式正确;内容完整,表达清楚;语言上仅有很少的小错误。
2.11分:格式基本正确;内容比较完整,表达比较清楚;有一些语言错误,有个别句子结构上的错误。
3.8分:格式基本正确;内容总体完整,表达勉强可以理解;有较多的语言错误,包括少量严重错误。
4.5分:格式勉强符合文体;内容不完整,但没有离题;表达上有较大困难,语言有大量错误,有一些是严重错误。
5.2分:格式不正确;内容表达不清楚;语言支离破碎,有个别句子正确。 ? A级考试写作常考文体
以下是2000年到2009年所有考过的作文题目: 年份 文体 2000.12 征稿启事 2001.6 通知(公司庆祝) 2001.12 投诉信 2002.6 商务信函(致歉信) 2002.12 招聘广告 2003.6 通知(校园活动) 2003.12 电子邮件(预订房间) 2004.6 征稿启事 2005.1 询价信与报价信 2005.6 商务信函(催款信) 2005.12 邀请信 2006.6 公司内部事务信函 2006.12 商务信函(建立业务关系) 2007.6 内部通知/备忘录 2007.12 申请信(申请做奥运会志愿者) 2008.6 商务信函(通知对方产品价格上涨) 2008.12 投诉信 2009.6 询问信函(询问旅游信息) 2009.12 询价信
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综观以上历年A级写作试题,主要考察的文体有书信、启事、通知、广告、备忘录等。其中书信以商业信函为主,近年来也有考过电子邮件。启事通知主要考查与校园生活有关的内容。广告以招聘广告为主。以下就对各种文体分别进行介绍。 一. 书信体 1.信的结构及格式:
The Three Gorges College of Applied Technology 写信人的地址 147 Shazhong Road, Shapingba, Chongqing 400044 (可有可无)Tel: 023-68101185 Fax 023-68104347 May 6th,2003 写信日期 (空一行)
Professor John Smith Department of Human Resources Management 收信人的地址 (写地址之前先Illinois State University 写收信人的职称Fort Collins, IL 80523-1774 和姓名) U.S.A
对收信人的称呼 Dear Professor Smith, On behalf of The Three Gorges College of Applied Technology, I would be very pleased to invite you to attend and chair a session during the upcoming “International Symposium on Human Resources Management” to be held in Chongqing, China, from Oct.12-Oct.15, 2003.
I sincerely hope you will be able to accept our invitation. As a famous scholar in this field and well-known both in the United States and in China, your participation will be among the highlights of the symposium.
If you can accept the invitation, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can prepare the final program. Sincerely yours, 正文 Liu Dong 署名 Conference Coordinator
注意:一般情况下,如果题目中没有特殊要求,不必写出写信人和收信人的地址,但必须在右上角写写信日期。如下表: 写信日期 对收信人的称谓, 正文 署名
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对收信人的称呼需注意以下几点:
1.对没有头衔的男性一般称呼Mr.+姓氏。如果同时称呼多个男性,用Mr.的复数形式Messrs.+姓氏。
2.对没有头衔的女性一般称呼Mrs.或Miss+姓氏. 同时称呼多个女性可用Mmes.。
3.对外公函中对收信人的称呼,可用Gentleman /Gentlemen, Dear Sir(s), Madam/Mesdames。
4.对有头衔的人,可以直接用头衔加姓氏或头衔加全名。
结尾的署名必须得用“Sincerely yours, ”的字样。类似的说法还有:“Yours, Yours truly, Yours faithfully, Yours sincerely”等。
注意:如果信件有附件,应在左下角注明Encl.或Enc.( 如:Enc: Catalogue)。如果附件不止一个,则应写出2(或3,4,5等)Encs. 如果要补叙正文中遗漏的话,在左下角注明P.S.。 2.信件开头常用语:
? I am writing to you to ask…
我写信是要问你…
? Thank you for your letter on April10th.
感谢你四月十号的来信。
? In reply to your letter on March 4th, I’d like to tell you…
应你三月四号来信的要求,我相告诉你… ? I’d like to apply for…
我想申请…
? I learn from your letter that…
从你的信中得知…
? I am glad / sorry to hear that…
我听说…感到很高兴/难过。 3.信末常用语:
? Looking forward to your early reply.
盼望尽快收到您的来信。 ? Hoping to hear from you soon.
希望能很快收到您的回复。
? I will be appreciated if you can reply me as soon as possible.
如果您可以忙回复我,我会特别感激的。 ? Best wishes to you.
给您送上我最美好的祝福。 ? Wish you a great success in…
祝福您在…方面取得成功。 ? Please contact me soon.
请尽快联系我。
信件根据其用途又可分为邀请信及回函、求职信、申请信、推荐信、投诉信、建立业务关系的信函及回函、询价信及回函、感谢信、祝贺信、慰问信等,下面一一进行介绍:
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邀请信及回函
邀请信在各种社交活动中应用广泛,用于邀请对方参加某一会议或活动。回函即对邀请信的回复,或接受或拒绝。不管是接受还是拒绝都应该表示感谢,如果接受邀请,就该提一下你是多么盼望去参加;如果你不得已需要谢绝邀请,就应该以适当的理由表示歉意。
邀请信范文: Dear Sirs,
This is to advise that we are going to hold an Export Commodities Fair in Shanghai from May 1st to May 15th, 2005. A great variety of samples, newly designed by our manufactuers, will be on exhibition. We take pleasure in inviting you to come to the fair. Please fax the date of your arrival, enabling us to makethe necessary preparations.
Yours faithfully, Chen Ming
邀请信回函范文: 范文1(谢绝)
January 22, 2008
Dear Mr. Brown,
Thank you very much for your kindness in asking us to attend your opening ceremony, but we regret very much that we will not be able to go there as we already have an important previous engagement that day.
We send our congratulations and best wishes to you and will be together with you in spirit on this happy event.
Sincerely,
Mark 范文2:(接受)
January 25th, 2003
Dear Mrs. Marks,
Thank you for inviting me to have dinner and to see the play Hamlet On Monday evening, February 10th. I shall be delighted to accept your invitation. I know that Hamlet is a wonderful play. I am looking forward to the performance.
Sincerely yours
Liu Ying
邀请信及回函范文: Dear Miss Smith,
My brother Peter will be staying with us for a few days during the Christmas holidays and my wife and I have planned a family dinner for him next Saturday evening at seven o’clock so that he can meet some of our friends. We should be delighted if you could join us. I hope you will let me know that you can come.
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