VIII. WRITING A. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning. EXERCISE 1 1. Does it take you 3 hours to do this task? Do you spend _________________________________________________. 2. Does he spend most of his free time playing video games? Does it take ___________________________________________________. 3. Is email a good way for people to communicate? Email ________________________________________________________. 4. Do these teenagers know which website is useful for them? These teenagers _______________________________________________. 5. Does your brother use the Internet every day? Your brother ___________________________________________________? 6. Finishing this exercise perfectly in ten minutes is very difficult for us. It’s ___________________________________________________________. 7. People have used the Internet all over the world. The internet has ________________________________________________. 8. She went out, but she didn’t say a word. She went out without ____________________________________________. 9. It is interesting to go out with friends at weekends. Going out _____________________________________________________. 10.Since the invention of computer, people have saved a lot of time. 1Since the computer ______________________________________________. 2Reading newspapers in the morning gives me great pleasure. 3 I enjoy ________________________________________________________. 4 Most children enjoy watching advertisements on TV. 5 Most children are _______________________________________________. What type of music do you like best? What is _______________________________________________________. Tom passed the exam easily. Tom had no ___________________________________________________. Don’t stop him doing what he wants. Let ___________________________________________________________. The children are excited about attending an English language summer course aboard. The children are looking __________________________________________. 7. Our form teacher let us wear casual clothes to go on a picnic last Sunday. We___________________________________________________________. 8. Wearing uniform makes us confident. Wearing uniform gives ___________________________________________. 9. We take pride in our school uniform. We are _______________________________________________________. 10.That girl is proud that she is awarded a scholarship of US$10,000. The girl prides __________________________________________________. B. Make meaningful sentences with the words given. 1. A website / be / place / you can create / read information / the Internet. ______________________________________________________________. 2. The first print / newspaper / appear / China. ______________________________________________________________. 3. Mary / have / difficulty / communicate / other people. ______________________________________________________________. 4. Watching TV / have become / one / the most popular forms / entertainment. ______________________________________________________________. 5. Bill Gates/ the inventor / the computer software / be born / Seattle / 1955. ______________________________________________________________.