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put forward by the French
mathematician Pierre de Format in the
seventeenth century, the theorem had
baffled and beaten the finest
mathematical minds, including a French
woman scientist who made a
major
advance in working out the problem, and who had to
dress like a
man in order to be able to
study at the Ecolab polytechnique.
（
NMET2003.C
篇）
这个定理，先是由十七世纪法
国数学家皮尔法特提出，曾使一批杰
出的数学大师为难，包括一位法国女科学家，她在解
决这个难题方面
取得了重大的进展，她曾女扮男装为了能够在伊科尔理工学院学习。
简析：
夹杂过去分词短语，现在分词短语，动名词及两个定语从
句。
2. It is difficult to
measure the quantity of paper used as a result of
use of
Internet-connected computers,
although just about anyone who works in an
office can tell you that when e-mail is
introduced, the printers start
working
overtime. That is, the growing demand for paper in
recent years is
largely due to the
increased use of the Internet.
（
NMET2003.E
篇）
由于因特网的使用，计算所使用的纸张的数量是很难的，
然而几乎
任何在办公室工作的人能告诉你，当引进电子邮件后，打印机就开始
超时工作。也就是说近年来人们对于纸张的日益需求主要是由于因特
网越来
越多的使用。
简析：夹杂较复杂的句型结构，关键词
just about<
/p>
几乎；
overtime
超
时地。
3.
Perhaps the best sign of how computer and internet
use pushes up
demand for paper comes
from the high-tech industry itself, which sees
printing as one of its most promising
new market.
（
NMET2003.E
篇）
或许，表明电脑及因特网使用促进人们对于纸张的需求的最好迹象
源于高
科技产业本身，印刷业被认为是高科技产业极有前景的新市场
之一。
简析：夹杂较复杂的句
型结构，关键词
promising
有前途的。
4. The action group
has also found acceptable paper made from
materials
other than wood, such as
agricultural waste.
（
NMET200
3.E
篇）
这个行动组也发现一种人们可接受的纸，制成这种纸的原
料不是木
料，而是农业废料。
简析：关键词
other
than
而不是。
5. Mostly borrowed from English and
Chinese, these terms are often
changed
into forms no longer understood by native
speakers.
（
NMET2003.D
篇）
这些术语，主要从英语和汉语引入，经常会变成不再被说本族语的
人们理解的
形式。
简析：关键词
term
术语。
6. It is one of many
language books that are now flying off
booksellers
’
shel
ves.
（
NMET2003.D
篇<
/p>
)
它是现在很畅销的许多外语书中的一本。
简析：比喻生动形象。
7. The mass media and government
white papers play an important part
in
the spread of foreign words.
（
NMET2003.D
篇）
大众传播媒介和政府白皮书（正式报告）在外国词传播过
程中起重
要作用。
简析：关键词
the mass
media and government white papers
大众传播
媒介和政府白皮书
（正式报告）。
from Animal Hospital
will delight all fans of the programme and
anyone who was a lively interest in
their pet, whether it be a cat
、
dog or
snake!
（
NMET2003.C
篇）
来自动物医院（
这个电视节目）的故事（这本书），将使这个电视
节目的爱好者以及对无论是猫、狗还是
蛇这类宠物有浓厚兴趣的任何
人感到高兴。
简析：关键词
fans
…
爱好者，
whet
her
…
or
…
，无论是
…
还是
…
< br>。
9.
Newton is shown as a gifted scientist with very
human weaknesses
who stood at the point
in history where magic ended and science began.
（
NMET2003
.C
篇）
牛顿被证明是一位很有才华的科学家，他处于一个魔术终结科学开
启的历史时期，他也有普通人所特有的弱点。
简析：夹杂两个定语从句。
10. But for all the
texts that are written, stored and sent
electronically, a
lot of them are still
ending up on paper.
（
NMET2003
.E
篇）
但对于所有这些以电子手段记录，贮存及传递的文本而言，许多文
本仍要（打印）在纸上。
简析：关键词
text
文本；
end up
最后成为（处于）。
their shining brown eyes,
wagging tails, and
unconditional love,
dogs can provide the nonjudgmental
listeners needed for a beginning reader
to gain confidence,
according to
Intermountain Therapy Animals
（
ITA
）
in salt
Lake City.
（
NMET20
03.B
篇）
据盐湖城的
ITA
的观点，闪烁的棕色眼睛，摇着尾巴，并有无条件
的爱心，狗能成为无判断力
的（忠实的）听者，这是刚开始搞阅读的
小孩所需要的。
简析：夹杂
< br>with
构成的介词短语及过去分词短语。
12. The Salt Lake City
public library is sold on the idea.
（
NMET2003.B
篇）
这家盐湖城公共图书馆接受这个观点。
简析：关键词
sell on
（
to
）使接受。
13. Discovered by the Portuguese
admiral of the same name
in 1506, and
settled in 1810, the island belongs to Great
Britain and has a population of a few
hundred.
（
NMET2003.
A
篇）
这个岛屿，于
1506
年被同名的葡萄
牙上将发现，在
1810
年有人
居住，
现在属于英国，人口数有几百人。
简析：有两个过去分词短语作状语。
14. They had no connection with the
outside world for more
than a thousand
years, giving them plenty of time to build
more than 1000 huge stone figures,
called moat, for which the
island is
most famous.
（
NMET2003.A
篇）
他们已有一千多年与外界没有联系，这给他们充足的时间来修建
1000
多座巨大的石像，被称为莫艾，因为有这个东西这个岛屿极其
出
名。
简析：夹杂有现在分词短语，过去分词短语及定语从句。
15. Our parties are
aimed for children 2 to 10 and
they
’
re
very
interactive and creative in that they build a
sense of
drama based on a subject.
（
NMET2002.
E
篇）
我们的（生日）聚会针对两到十岁的小孩，它们互动感强，富有创
新，因为它们能基于一个主题构建一种戏剧的氛围。
简析：关键词
aim for
针对；
in that
在于。
16. The most important idea behind the kind of
party
planning described here is that
it brings parents and children
closer
together.
（
NMET2002.
E
篇）
在这里叙述的这种筹备（生日）聚会的计划所带有的最重要的观点
在于它能让父母和孩子的关系更加密切。
简析：夹杂过去分词短语及表语从句。
had realized that the
words:
“
one of six to
eight
”
under the
first picture in the book connected the hare in
some
way to Katherine of Aragon, the
first of Henry VIII
’
s six
wives.
（
NMET2002.
D
篇）
他曾认识到那本书里第一幅图画下面的那些词“一、六、八”在某
些方面将这个野兔和阿拉甘的凯撒英，即亨利八世的六个妻子当中的
第一个妻子，联系
起来。
简析：夹杂宾语从句及过去分词短语。
one day he came across
two stone crosses in
Ampthill park and
learnt that they had been built in her honor
in 1773.
（
NMET2002.
D
篇）
直到有一天他在阿帕斯尔公园碰巧看见两个石制的十字架，他才懂
得在
1773
年修建这两个十字架是为了向她表示敬意。
简析：关键词
come
across
碰巧遇见，
in
one
’
s
honor
纪念某
人。
19. It is Sue
Townsend
’
s musical play,
based on her best-
selling book.
（
NMET2002.
C
篇）
它是苏珊?汤森德的音乐剧本，根据她畅销的小说改编的。
简析：关键词
best-selling
畅销的。
20. Gold is one of a growing number of shoppers
buying
into the organic trend, and
supermarkets across Britain are
counting on more like him as they grow
their organic food
business.
（
NMET2002.
B
篇）
戈德是对有机食品感兴趣众多购买者当中的一位，遍及英国的超市
依赖更多像他那样的购买者，因为他们要增加有机食品生意。
简析：关键词
count on
依赖。
21. Supporters of underground
development say that building
down
rather than building up is a good way to use the
earth
’
s space.
（
NMET2002.
A
篇）
地下发展的支持者说在地下搞建筑而不是在地上搞建筑是一种利用
地球空间的办法。
简析：关键词
rather than
而不是。
22. Those who could were likely to name a woman.
（
NMET2001.
E
篇）
那些能够说出好朋友名字的单身男人，很有可能说出一个女人的名
字。
简析：省略句
who could
（
name a best friend
）承前省。
23. In general,
women
’
s friendships with
each other rest on
shared emotions and
support, but men
’
s
relationships are
marked by shared
activities.
（
NMET2001.
E
篇）
一般来说，女人相互的友谊基于相互分享情感和支持，但男人间的
关系以共同参与社会活动为特征。
简析：关键词
rest on
依靠。
the most part, interactions between men are
emotionally controlled -a good fit with
the social requirements
of
“
manly behavior
”
.
（
NME
T2001. E
篇）
就大部分而言，男人间的交往在感情上受控制，这与“男
子汉气
概”
的社会要求是相符合的。
简析：关键词
for the
most part
就大部分而言。
s a woman
’
s
closest female friend might be the
first to tell her to leave a failing
marriage, it wasn
’
t unusual
to hear a man say he
didn
’
t know his
friend
’
s marriage was
in serious trouble until he appeared
one night asking if he
could sleep on
the sofa.
（
NMET2001.
E
篇）
一个女人最亲密的女性朋友可能是第一个告诉她离开一次失败的婚
姻；而听见一个男人说直到他的朋友一天晚上问他是否可以睡在他家
的沙发上他才知道
他朋友的婚姻已非常糟糕，这是很平常的。
简析：夹杂多种语法结构
not
unusual=usual
；
no
t
…
until
…，直
到…才…。
26.
Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain
lived
peoples belonging to two major
language groups.
（
NMET2001.
D
篇）
1066
年以前，在我们现在称为英国的土地上，住着属于两个主要
语种的民族。
简析：倒装句，并含有定语从句及分词短语。
27. If this state of
affairs had lasted, English today would be
close to
German.
（
NMET2001.
D
篇）
如果这种情况延续下去的话，那么今天的英语将和德语很相近。
简析：含虚拟语气。
28. We even have different word for
some foods, meat in
particular,
depending on whether it is still out in the fields
or
at home ready to be cooked, which
Shows the fact that the
Saxon peasants
were doing the farming. while the upper-class
Normans were doing most of the eating.
（
NMET2001.
D
篇）
我们甚至对某些食物有不同的单词，特别是肉类，取决于它是长在
田野里
。
赵
婷
(915386416)
17:20:12 29. When Americans
visit
Europe for the first time, they usually find
Germany more
“
Foreign
”
than France because the German
they see on
signs and ads seems much
more different from English than
French
does.
（
NMET2001.
D
篇）
当美国人第一次游览欧洲时，他们通常发现德国比法国对他们来说
更加“陌生”，因为他们在标牌和广告上看到的德语，比起法语更加
不同于英语。
简析：
含比较级句型结构。
30. Some companies have made the
manufacturing of clean
and safe
products their main selling point and emphasize it
in
their advertising.
（
NMET2001.
C
篇）
一些公司已经把洁净安全产品的生产当作他们主要的销售关键，并
且在他们的广告宣传中强调这一点。
简析：
make
后接双宾语。
31. After their stay, all visitors
receive a survival certificate
recording their success, that is, when
guests leave the igloo
hotel they will
receive a paper stating that they have had a
taste of adventure.
（
NMET2001. B
篇）
在他们逗留之后，所有的游客都会收到一份生存证明记录他们的成
功，也就是说当游客离开小冰屋旅馆时，他们会得到一份证明，表明
他们曾尝试过冒险
。
简析：含两个分词短语，关键词
state
表明。
32. The major
market force rests in the growing population
of white-collar employees, who can
afford the new service, in
other words,
Shanghai
’
s car rental
industry is growing so fast
mainly due
to the increasing number of white-collar
employees.
（
NMET2001.
A
篇）
主要的市场因素取决于白领工人的人数增加，这些人付得起这种新
型服务，换句话说，上海的汽车出租行业发展如此快，主要因为白领
工人人数的增加。
简析：关键词
rest in
依赖。
33. That you won
’
t be for
long means it won
’
t be long
before you
’
ll
have to recycle your rubbish.
（
NMET2000. E
篇）你不会
等很长时间意味着过不了多久你就会回收你的垃圾。
简析：夹杂主语从句及宾语从句。
34. These words, I have just made
up, have to stand for thing
and ideas
that we simply can
’
t think
of.
（
NMET2000.D
篇）
这些词，是我编造的，只是代表我们不能想到的事物和观念。
简析：关键词
make up
编造。
35. Picturing(Imagining) the future will serve the
interests of
the present and future
generations.
（
NMET2000.
D
篇）
设想未来有益于现在和将来的几代人。
简析：关键词
picture
活用为动词想象，设想。
36. Decision thinking is
not unlike poker - it often matters
not
only what you think, but also what others think
you think
and what you think they think
you think.
（
NMET2000. C
篇）
做决策像打扑克牌，起作用的不但是你怎么想的，还包括别人对你
的想法是怎么看的以及你对别人的看法是如何考虑的。
简析：含较复杂的句型结构
not unlike=like
not only
…
but
also
…
不仅…而且…
37. The easy way out
isn
’
t always easiest.
（
NMET2000.
B
篇）
解决问题容易的办法并非总是最容易的。
简析：关键词
the way out
解决问题的办法。
hot sun had caused the dough
（面团）
to double in
size and the fermenting
yeast
（酵母）
made
the surface shake
and sigh as though it
were breathing and it looked like some
unknown being from outer space.
（
NMET2000.
B
篇）
炙热的太阳导致面团面积加倍，酵母使面团的表面摆晃叹息，似乎
它在呼吸，它看上去像某种来自外部空间的无名生物。
简析：比喻形象生动。
39. After all, what
lively children wouldn
’
t
settle for
spending only half the day
doing ordinary school work, and
acting,
singing or dancing their way through the other
half of
the day?
（
NMET1999.
E
篇）
毕竟，难道这些活泼可爱的孩子们不满足于半天搞普通教育的文化
课，半天搞表演、唱歌、舞蹈等舞台训练吗？
简析：反问句式，语气强烈。
40. Dad, in a hurry to
get home before dark so he could go
for
a run, had forgotten wear his safety belt-a
mistake 75% of
the US population make
every day.
（
NMET1999.
D
篇）
爸爸，急匆匆地在天黑之前赶回家，以便他能出去跑步，却忘记系
安全带
-
这是
75%
的美国人每天犯的一个错误。
简析：关键词
for a
run
去跑步。
summit was to mark the 25th
anniversary
（周年）
of
president Nixon
’
s
journey to China, which was the turning
point in China-US relations.
（
NMET1998.B
篇）
这次高峰会是为了纪念尼克松
总统访华
25
周年，尼克松访华是中
美
关系的转折点。
简析：关键词
mark
纪念。
42. Many of the problems are of college level and
these
pupils can figure them out.
（
NMET1997.A
篇）
很多问题是大学水平，这些小学生能够解答出来。
简析：关键词
be of college level
大学水平，
figure
out
解决，
解答。
43. Rising through the
roof is the Tower of the Sun, inside
Which stands a 160-foot -tall Tree of
Life.
穿过屋顶矗立着
太阳之塔，在里面有一棵
160
英尺高的生命之
树。
简析：含有两个倒装句。
44. The present question is that
many people consider
impossible what is
really possible if effort is made.
目前的问题是，很多人把其实只要付诸努力就能做到的事
情看成是
做不到的。
简析：
consider
后的宾语后置。
45. Ill and suffering as she was after the inhuman
punishment, she yet remained so
cheerful and confident,
eager to devote
the little strength left to her to helping the
other comrades.
她受过重罚，而且有病，可她却这样愉快，这样充满了信心，这样
用尽她所剩的力量来帮助其他同志。
简析：含有让步状语从句及形容词短语作状语。
46. Freed from TV,
forced to find their own activities, they
might take a ride together to watch the
sunset.
如果他们从
电视中的束缚中解脱出来，不得不自己安排活动，他们
可能会全家驱车去看日落。
简析：含有两个过去分词短语。
47. I went around to the front of
the house, sat down on the
steps, and,
the crying over, I ached, And my father must have
hurt, too, a little.
我绕到房子的前面，坐在台阶上，哭了一阵之后，我感到
阵阵心
痛，我的父亲心里肯定也有一点不好受。
简析：动作描写，情真意切。
48. It covered the whole distance
from broken -hearted
misery to bursting
happiness-too fast.
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