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北京大学2000年考博英语真题（完形填空部分） Part Three: Cloze Test Fill in each numbered blank in the following passage with ONE suitable the passage. Put your answers in ANSWER SHEET. (10%) One way of improving one’s writing is get into the habit of keeping a record of your observations, of storing (46) _____ in a notebook or journal. You should make notes on your experiences and on your (47) _____ of everyday life so that they are preserved. It is sad (48) _____ to be able to retrieve a lost idea that seemed brilliant when it flashed across your (49) _____, or a forgotten fact that you need to make a point in an argument or to illustrate a conclusion. The journal habit has still (50) _____ vaiue. Just (51) _____ you need to record observations-the material for writing-you need to practice putting thoughts on paper. Learning to write is more like learning to ski (52) _____ it is like studying calculus or anthropology. Practice helps you discover ways to improve. Writing down ideas for your own use forces you to examine them. Putting thoughts on paper for someone else to read (53) _____ you to evaluate not (54) _____ the content-what you say-but also the expression- (55) _____ you say it .Many writers have benefited from from this habit. ? Part Four : Proofreading ? Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 20 mistakes, one in each underlined sentence or part of a sentence. You may have to change a word, add a word or just delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out with a slash (\) and write the correct word. If you add a word, write the missing word between the words (in bracket) immediately before and after it. If you delete a word, cross it out with a slash (\).Put your answers in the ANSWER SHEET. (20%) ? Examples: Eg.1 (56) The meeting begun 2 hours ago. Correction in the ANSWER SHEET: (56) begun began Eg.2 (57) Scarcely they settled themselves in their seats in the theatre when the curtain went up. Correction in the ANSWER