英语写作基础形考册部分练习题参考答案Part IILearning Activity 1Key to Task 1(p 7)Choose the best connecting word or phrase from the box below to complete the following sentences.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, Frenc h did not becom e the national language, replacin g English entirely. The reason i s that the Conquest was no t a national migration, as the earlier Anglo-Saxon invasio n had been. Great numbers of Normans came to England , but they came asruler s 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 village s in which French was never heard excep t 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 the birth perhaps the most powerful medium of mass communication in history: television. Experiments in broadcasting pictures (along with sound) over the airwaves had begun as early as the 1920s, but commercial television did not come into existence until shortly after World War II. It experienced a phenomenally rapid growth. In 1946, there were only 17000 sets in the entire country (the United States); by 1953, two thirds of all American homes had television sets; and by 1957, there were 40 million television sets in use—almost as many sets as there were families. More people had television sets, according to one report, than had refrigerators……The impact of television on American life was rapid, pervasive, and profound. Television news had by the end of the 1950s replaced newspapers, magazines and radios a s the nation’s most important vehicle of information. Television advertising exposed the entire nation to new fashions and products. Television entertainment programming, almost all of it controlled by the three national networks (the National Broadcasting Company, the Columbia Broadcasting System, and the American Broadcasting Company) created a common image of American life –an image that was predominantly white, middle-class, and suburban. Televised sports events gradually made professional sports one of the important sources of entertainment (and one of the biggest businesses) in America .Part IILearning Activity 2Key to Task 2(p11)Task 2 (4 points)The extract of The Gift of the Mag i is given below. Edit the article, which contains some errors. Look for:one punctuation mistakesone article mistakes three tense mistakestwo spelling mistakes three preposition mistakesDella finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with thi s result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling - something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honour of being owned by Jim.There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.麦琪的礼物（二）The Gift of the MagiDella finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard. Tomorrow would be Christams Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months , with this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses had been greater than she had calculated. They always are . Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim.Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him.Something fine and rare and sterling-------something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being owned by Jim.德拉哭完了以后，小心地用破粉扑在面颊上。