中級(jí)美語(yǔ)lesson143 How to Improve Your Writing Skills

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143 How to Improve Your Writing Skills
    By the time you reach this page, you will have studied 142 lessons of this book. You will have learned
    many new words, idioms, sentence structures and quite a bit of grammar. You will have come to a stage where
    you might be asking yourself, "How much have I improved, if at all?"
    Why not give yourself a simple test? Read a short text. Read it carefully, then try to rewrite what you
    have just read, in your own words. After that, compare what you have written to the text. This is called
    paraphrasing. In face, it is a good way to improve your writing skills.
    spoken English 口語(yǔ)英語(yǔ) wirtten English 寫作英語(yǔ) writing skills
    carperter 木匠 He is skilled in carpentry.
    By the time 到...時(shí)候
    kick the bucket 俏皮話 pass away 過(guò)世
    I've received a sentence of five years.
    He was setenced to five years.
    flunk or fail
    How many girlfriends do you have, if at all