1 / 23 2006 年4 月 英语修辞学 Ⅰ.Fill in each blank with an appropriate word or phrase. 1. Communicative rhetoric, which emphasizes (1) ________ of words and phrases, the selection of sentence patterns, organizing paragraphs and whole pieces of writing in such a way that ideas are expressed most clearly, most accurately and most appropriately so (2)____________ to achieve the best communication. 2. In many cases, words may fail to communicate clearly for reasons other than that they are difficult or specialized. Sometimes we fail to use words accurately, select (1) _________ the proper one or one somewhat like it. The trick in avoiding errors of this sort is not to submit a paper until you have checked every word whose meaning you (2) _____________ doubt about. 3. Good writing is clear, (1) ______ it presents simple ideas, but because it presents ideas in the most appropriate form the subject requires. In a broad sense most problems of diction are problems of clarity. One‘s lapses in this respect my result from not (2) ________ one‘s words as other will see them and thus they conveys a meaning very different from what one intends. 4. All this indicates that by ―general‖, we (1) __________ a large class or group of objects, whereas by ―specific‖, we refer to a member of the class or group. Abstract terms may (2) ____________ be classified that way, but the main principle is applicable. 5. Words do not simply accompany experience; more frequently they are the experience, or are its primary content. We live surrounded by (1) ______, inside and outside us. It can strangle and suffocate us, or it can connect and link, strengthen and renew us. Language, then, is far (2) __________...
