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biggest difficulty is finding a subject. Sometimes that difficulty appears less
complicated because the subject is identified in a writing assignment. But
writing assignments vary in how they are worded, what they assume, and what they
expect. For example, you may be asked to discuss two characters in a play you
have read. This open assignment does not identify a subject; it merely
identifies an area in which a subject needs to be developed. Another version of
that same assignment might ask you to compare and contrast the way the two
characters make compromises. This closed assignment identifies a subject, but it
assumes you how to work with a specific form (comparison and contrast essay) and
it expects you to produce specific information. In other words, although the
second assignment rest A. an interesting topic B. specific facts C. the writer’s unique perspective D. a general impression [单项选择]
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Not many decisions could have been more difficult for a family to make them to say farewell to a community where it had lived for centuries, to abandon old ties and familiar landmarks, and to sail across dark seas to a strange land. Today, when mass communications tell one part of the world all about another, it is quite easy to understand how poverty or tyranny might force people to exchange an old nation for a new one. But centuries ago migration was a leap into the unknown. It was an enormous intellectual and emotional commitment. The forces that moved early immigrants to their great decision — the decision to leave their homes and begin an adventure filled with uncertainty, risk and hardship — must have been of overpowering proportions. As Oscar Handlin states, the early immigrants of America "would collide with unaccustomed problems, learn to understand alien ways and alien languages, manage to su A. searching for religious freedom B. breaking with past cultural inheritance C. escaping political oppression D. searching for riches 我来回答: 提交
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