填空题

Exposition Exposition is writing that explains. Most of the books in university i braries are examples of exposition. Although exposition is often formal and______, it appears also in [1] ______ magazines and newspapers, in any place where people look for explana- tions. It is a writing with which we attempt to control our world, whether our means of doing so is a complicated system of philosophy or a cook book or a medical instruction. [2] ______ Exposition is a wide net. If the______ purpose of the writer is to [3] ______ tell a story, the writing is______ rather than exposition. If the writer [4] ______ tends to tell us how something looks, we may call it______. The subject of the expository writer may be people, things, ideas or a combination of [5] ______ these, but always he is a man thinking, interpreting, informing and per- [6] ______ suading. He is more likely to appeal to our______ by using evidence and logic. [7] ______ ______seldom is a piece of writing pure exposition. So the. exposito- ry writer will do well to remember that his primary purpose --the purpose that guides and shapes his total organization--is to explain by and to show relationships. [8] ______ The writing of exposition begins in an understanding of the broad pur- pose to be achieved. It begins in the writer’ s head. Before the writing, the [9] ______ expository writer must ask himself four questions: What specific purpose do I intend to make Is it worth making7 For whom am I making And how [10] ______ can I best convey my point to my readers.______ the writer has careful- ly answered these questions, no amount of good grammar and correct spell- ing will save him, and his composition is already worthless even before he begins to scrible. Once the writer is ______what point he intends to make, his comportion is already half organized. With his reader in mind, he has already solved many of his problems of diction and ______as well.