2013年12月英语六级句型写作练习21
2013年12月英语六级句型写作练习21
Combining sentences with subordinating conjunctions or relative pronouns
In the United Stated there is a belief. It goes that people are rewarded for working, producing, and achieving. Many people believe that there is equality of opportunity. It allows anyone to become successful. This belief is illustrated by stories written by a nineteenth-century American novelist, Horatio Alger. He wrote about the “American Dream”. In his stories he described poor people. They became rich because of their hard work, honesty, and luck. The stories reinforced the idea. The idea is that all individuals, no matter how poor, were capable of becoming wealthy as long as they were honest and hard-working. For many Americans, however, Horatio Alger’s “rags-to-riches” stories do not represent the reality of opportunity. Many poor immigrants were able to become rich. They came to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today, however, the poor generally do not rise to the middle and upper classes. That is why the “American Dream” is now described as a myth.
Rewrite the passage to make it book more natural. This will mean adding or removing words and putting some of the sentences together.
1. There were once a dog and a cat sitting by a kitchen door. The cook came out and threw several pieces of meat to them. They both sprang to get the meat. The dog was the stronger. He ate it all himself.
2. This was selfishness. By this I mean that the dog cared only for himself. Was this wrong? No, the dog knew no better.
3. Men are different from dogs. They follow a different rule of conduct. How miserable we should all be! Every person were to care only for himself. We ought to be thankful. We have a higher nature than that of beasts. We are able to see and feel the duty of being kind and affectionate to one another. We can see and feel this duty. We ought to be very careful always to observe it.
