英语写作基础形考册部分练习题参考解析.doc

英语写作基础形考册部分练习题参考答案 Part II Learning Activity 1 Key to Task 1(p 7) Choose the best connecting word or phrase from the box below to complete the following sentences. ?? as though??? despite the fact that???? hardly??? in case?? ?? no sooner?? provided??? the moment???? in order to 1.????? No sooner had Jane left college than offers of work came in. 2.????? The moment Jack left college, he set off round the world. 3.????? Hardly had Mary left college when she realized she was expecting their first child. 4.????? The Director looked very pale at the meeting, as though he had just received some very bad news. 5.????? I have been promised a job as a trainee manager in my uncle’s hotel, provided? (on the condition that) I pass all my final-year school examinations. 6.????? Her parents encouraged her to do a secretary course in case she could not find work as an actress. 7.????? I had some coaching in maths before the exam in order to increase my chances of passing. 8.????? John was not offered the job despite the fact he was the best applicant. Key to Task 2 (p8) There are ten mistakes in the following passage, find the out and correct them: One might wonder why, after the Norman Conquest, French did not become the national language, replacing English entirely. The reason is that the Conquest was not a national migration, as the earlier Anglo-Saxon invasion had been. Great numbers of Normans came to England , but they came as rulers and landlords. French became the language of the court, the language of ？ nobility, the language of polite society, the language of literature. But it did not replace English as the language of the people. There must always have been hundreds of towns and villages in which French was never heard except when visitors of high station passed through. Key to Task 3 (p8) Here is a short story from which some verbs have been omitted. Fill the blanks with verbs which you find appropriate in the context. The post war era witnessed th