丁往道英语写作手册 part3 第三题答案

英语写作手册part3 第三题答案

Ш.Rewrite the following by putting the short sentences into complex sentences, or sentences with participial (分词) , prepositional, or other phrases:

1. Xu comes from a working-class family and he enrolled in college last fall.

2. The dean issued a bulletin that the library would remain open on weekends.

3. Last night was a wild night that the thunder roaring, the wind

blowing a gale and the rain falling in torrent.

4. The temperature must have fallen considerably during the night

that there are icicles on the trees.

5. He returned to his hometown where he had been away for

twelve years and he looked in vain for the familiar landmarks.

6. We have made some progress, but we still have a long we to go.

7. The sky was cloudless and the sun was shining brightly.

8. There were over two hundred passengers on board the plane,

about one third of whom were foreigners.

9. As the girl’s mother was a famous pianist, she began to learn to

play the piano when she was a child.

10. Napoleon was born in 1769 when Corsica had just been acquired by France.

11. A stormy applause broke forth as soon as she appeared on the stage .

12. The gypsies are really a nomadic people from India who were

once thought to be Egyptians, migrated into Europe.

13. Because of the new workers are young and inexperienced, they

are eager to learn from the veteran worker.

14. It was a poor quarter where there were lot of small huts which

doted a hillside with mud walls and straw roofs.

15. Hearing that his father was ill, he was anxious to go home to

see him, so he went to the station early in the morning to buy

a ticket.