IV. Discourse StructureQuestions 33-40:
 Choose the BEST answer from the box below for each blank in the passages.
(A) It can create rhythm and structure； can be weighty or breathless； can hold a sentence backor flick it forward “like a stone skipping across water.”
(B) A historian and a philosopher of science, she is indeed a witty, elegant writer with nononsense about her.
(C) Fortunately, this modest little powerhouse has found its defender.
(D) Her message is that punctuation is not about limits； it’s about making language richer.
        Pity the poor semicolon, punctuation’s wallflower, wrongfully maligned and too seldom asked todance. __(33)__. Cecelia Watson, in Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark,sweeps away the myths that have sidelined the semicolon — it’s not snooty, not rulebound — anddemonstrates what impressive chops it has. __(34).__
        Forget the “rules,” she says； just listen. In example after example — from the majesty of Melvilleto the brutal Glasgow slang of Irvine Welsh’s “Trainspotting” — the semicolon is a miracle of prosody. __(35).__ A semicolon can be like a sigh. In a stunning passage from “The Big Sleep,” RaymondChandler’s semicolon is a small hiccup of heartbreak.
        Great writers, Watson says, break the rules that would dole out semicolons as if they were “acontrolled substance.” __(36)__.
【題組】33.