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Read & Write My homeworks Nouns verbs Articles Adverbs Adjectives Pronouns Prepositions Conjunctions Week: ...    [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] ... |     2010 - [ANSWER]  練習答案 ...                  INTRODUCTION How To Use This Book Writing is a lot like playing the piano. Some people enjoy it more than others, and people who are good at it study and practice it. No one is born playing the piano, but everyone can do it if they want. The same goes for writing. If you’re interested in learning about writing and in becoming a better writer, this book will help you acquire the mysterious and coveted power of the pen. This book covers the basics of writing: punctuation, usage, and diction. There’s no fluff here; this book is for busy people who want to learn as much as they can as efficiently as possible. In 20 chapters, each of which you can complete in 20 minutes, you can improve your grasp of grammar. Each chapter contains lots of examples that illustrate the grammatical rules, and plenty of opportunities for you to practice the skills. Many people are afraid of writing. They look at a blank sheet of paper or an empty computer screen and say, "l just don’t know what to write. Even when I know what I want to say, I’m afraid it will come out looking wrong and sounding stupid.” But writing has three distinct advantages over speaking. • You can take it back. Although writing is not instant communication and it doesn’t allow for immediate response and exchange, written communication can be retracted. Once words are spoken, you can never unspeak them. However, writing can be revised often until you’ve written the exact words in the exact tone you want. It`s a more careful, thoughtful way of communicating. • You can make it clear. The second advantage is that writing forces you to clarify your thoughts. If you’re having trouble writing, it’s usually because you’re not yet finished with the thinking part. Sometimes just sitting down and writing whatever is on your mind helps you discover and organize what you think. • It lasts. Another advantage is permanence. Ideas presented in writing carry far more weight than spoken ideas. Additionally, these ideas can be reviewed and referred to in their exact, original form. Spoken ideas rely upon the sometimes inaccurate memories of other people. Writing is nothing mo re than thought on paper — considered, thoughtful thought. Many great ideas and observations are never born because their creators won’t express them. You may have some wonderful things stuck inside your head with no way to get them out where others can see them. This book can help you express your ideas. Develop your own plan for completing the 20 chapters in this book. They’re designed to be completed in 20 minutes a day, but you may want to take more or less time with each lesson — or more time with chapters you find difficult and less with those you know cold. You could do a chapter each weekday and come out with a better knowledge of grammar in only a month. Or you may want to do more or fewer chapters at a time. You should, however, plan to complete at least two chapters a week. If you leave too much time between lessons, you’ll forget what you’ve learned. By the time you finish this book, you’ll have much more confidence in your writing, and you’ll probably be a better thinker. If you practice what you’ve learned, it won’t take long for other people to notice the new and improved you..     Famous Fairy Tales. Alice in Wonderland Characters The Alice in Wonderland characters stand out. In a genre populated by fairy folk, dragons and knights in shining armor, they defy normalcy in every way. Most fantasy stories contain characters that are either primarily good or primarily evil, with varying shades of gray. The characters in Lewis Carroll’s two famous books about Alice, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, rarely fall into either category. Most of them are neither especially good n’or evil. They’re just plain mad! (Above: An illustration by John Tenniel from an early edition of Lewis Carroll's 1866 book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Alice (left: as portrayed by Disney) is the main character in Lewis Carroll’s two famous books about her, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lewis Carroll is thought to have based Alice on a real life little girl called Alice Liddell. The fictional Alice celebrates her birthday on 4 May. She is a seven years old in the first book and seven and a half in the second book - an important age difference as she likes to point out - but acts more mature than her tender years might suggest. She is highly intelligent and imaginative and enjoys showing off her knowledge to others. Both Alice's mind and her manners are often in sharp contrast with those of her fellow Alice in Wonderland characters. Despite a vivid imagination, she is a logical girl who depends on reason to understand the world around her. So she's often puzzled by the behaviour of the characters she meets down the rabbit hole, many of whom say and do things that don't make any sense (at least not to her)! She's also offended by their ill manners, most famously those of The Hatter, who directs several rude remarks at her at the Mad Hatter Tea Party. Alice is most often portrayed as a blonde slender girl wearing a blue knee-length dress with a white pinafore, a pair of stripy tights and a wide hairband. This image of her has been popularized by Disney and embraced by the public.   Give us your Feedback. We will respond to your enquiry as soon as possible.
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