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2012年英语专业四级考试真题❖ SECTION A COMPOSITION [35 MIN]
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The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节)is one of the
important national festivals in China．Write on ANSWER
SHEET THREE a composition of about 200 words on the
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Organization: narration — in time. description — in space. exposition — by logic.
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What are they like: narration — a stage play or motion picture in
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Marks will be awarded for content, organization，
language and appropriateness．Failure to follow the
instructions may result in a loss of marks．
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❖ The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan, an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races. It symbolizes people's attempts to rescue Qu Yuan. In the current period, these races also demonstrate the virtues of cooperation and teamwork. Besides, the festival has also been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice). Zong zi is made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. People who mourned the death of Qu threw Zong zi into the river to feed his ghost every year. With the changes of the times, the memorial turns to be a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of year. People will hang healthy herbs on the front door to clear the bad luck of the house.
following topic：
❖ The Dragon Boat Festival
❖ First, you should tell what you know about the festival．
❖ Second, you should describe how you or other people usually observe the festival．
❖ Although the significance of the festival might be
different with the past, it still gives the observer an
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opportunity to glimpse a part of the rich Chinese cultural
Exposition Writing
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❖ What are the distinctions among narration, description and exposition? Purpose: narration — to tell a story, to tell merely what happened (what/when/who). description — to describe an object, to tell us how something looks, to re-create the thing in words. exposition — to explain an idea, a thing, a person or a combination of these, to answer the questions how and why.
words (to describe a course of events from a subjective vantage point, and may be written in first-person present/past tense). description — a verbal photograph or painting (to provide a vivid picture of a person, location, object, event, etc.). exposition — a lecture, discussion, or debate.