1 《英语写作基础》形成性考核册参考答案Learning Activity 1 Task 1 1. No sooner 2. The moment 3. Hardly 4. as though 5. provided 6. in case 7. in order to 8. despite the fact that Task 2 Tom Blair is a successful businessman, but he used to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and was working in a pub when he decided to start his own business. Peter had always been interested in plants and flowers, so he decided to set up a company which cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his own, but soon he took on two people to help him. The company has been growing for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich but he complain that he doesn’t work with plants but rather a computer every day. Task 3: see P139-140 of the textbook. 2 Task 4: Do it independently. Task 5: See the posted articles.. Learning Activity 2 Task 1: Do it independently. 用以下单词分别造句：add: 补充beg:祈求boast：吹嘘complain ：抱怨declare：宣布insist：坚持murmur：咕嘟地说order：命令promise：答应snap：尖声说stammer：口吃 threaten：威胁warn：警告whisper：耳语Task 2 Egypt Seeks the Return of the Ancient Obelisk Egypt wants Cleopatra’s Needle back. The Egyptian embassy claims the ancient obelisk, a London landmark, would be better cared for in Cairo than in London, exposed to traffic fumes of the embankment. “Cleopatra’s needle should be in a museum in Cairo. In London it faces environmental hazards,” said the embassy’s cultural councilor Hussein Sayed. The embassy’s fall follows a campaign by Egyptian experts who are angry that so much of their heritage is abroad. “We would like to see the return of important objects to museums in Egypt,”said professor Abdul Halim Nureldin, vice dean of Cairo University and...
