考研英语 长难句分类突破与语法构成

考研英语

长难句分类突破与语法构成

第一章

名词性从句

一、主语从句

1. It is a strange thought, but I believe a correct one, that twenty or thirty

pages

of

ideas

and

information

would

be

capable

of

turning

the

present-day world upside down, or even destroying it.

2.

While

it

’

s

true

that

we

all

need

a

career,

it

is

equally

true

that

our

civilization has accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge in fields

far removed from our own and that we are better for our understanding of

these other contributions.

3. It is one of the most unpleasant discoveries which we all make that we

must decline in this way, that if we escape

wars, accidents and diseases

we shall eventually die of old age, and that this happens at a rate which

differs little from person to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor

of our dying between the ages of sixty- five and eighty.

4. It is recounted of Carlyle that when he heard of the illness of his friend,

Henry,

he

went

off

immediately

to

visit

him,

carrying

with

him

in

his

pocket what remained of a bottle of medicine formerly prescribed for an

indisposition of Mrs Carlyle

’

s.

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二、宾语从句

1. The phrase

“

substance abuse

”

is often used instead of

“

drug abuse

”

to

make

clear

that

substances

such

as

alcohol

and

tobacco

can

be

just

as

harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine.

2. It was necessary to recognize that these institutions which are based on

the

same

premises,

let

us

say

the

supernatural,

must

be

considered

together, our own among the rest.

3. The young couple was worried because neither of them was aware of

where they had lost the necklace.

4.

More

generally,

the

escape

clauses

could

undermine

the

reforms

by

encouraging

the

suspicion

that

the

new

package

will

not

deliver

the

changes that its supporters claim, but close analysis of what is inevitably

a very complicated package might confirm the skeptics

’

fears.

5. A leader should show that he or she values the input of subordinates ---

for example, by involving them in decisions about matters in which they

have a direct stake.

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三、表语从句

1. The irony of the historian

’

s craft is that its practitioners always know

that their efforts are but contributions to an unending process.

2. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that

businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.

3. Galileo

’

s greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn

the

newly

invented

telescope

on

the

heavens

to

prove

that

the

planets

revolve around the sun rather than around the earth.

4.

One

difficulty

is

that

almost

all

of

what

is

called

behavioral

science

continues to trace behavior to states of mind, feelings, traits of character,

human nature, and so on.

四、同位语

1. Levi Coffin, a teacher raised in North Carolina, explained,

“

The Bile,

in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about

color.

”

2.

In

Europe,

as

elsewhere

multi-media

groups

have

been

increasingly

successful:

groups

which

bring

together

television,

radio,

newspaper,

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magazines and publishing houses that work in relation to one another.

3.

This

alone

demonstrates

that

the

television

business

is

not

an

easy

world to survive in, a

fact underlined by statistics that show that out of

eighty

European

television

networks,

no

less

than

50%

took

a

loss

in

1989.

4. Imagine the effect on a reasonably advanced technological society, one

that still does not possess the bomb, of making it aware of the possibility,

of supplying sufficient details to enable the thing to be constructed.

5. Henson is but one name on a long list of courageous men and women

who

together

forged

the

Underground

Railroad,

a

secret

web

of

escape

routes and safe houses that they used to liberate slaves from the American

South.

6.

Rather,

we

have

a

certain

conception

of

the

American

citizen,

a

character

who

is

incomplete

if

he

cannot

competently

assess

how

his

livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself.

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第二章

定语从句

1.

The

Greeks

assumed

that

the

structure

of

language

had

some

connection

with

the

process

of

thought,

which

took

root

in

Europe

long before people realized how diverse language could be.

2.

Pearson

has

pieced

together

the

work

of

hundreds

of

researchers

around the world to produce a unique millennium technology calendar

that

gives

the

latest

dates

when

we

can

expect

hundreds

of

key

breakthroughs and discoveries to take place.

3.

But

that,

Pearson

points

out,

is

only

the

start

of

man-machine

integration: It will be the beginning of the long process of integration

that will ultimately lead to a fully electronic human before the end of

the next century.

4.

New ways of organizing the workplace --- all that re-engineering and

downsizing --- are only one contribution to the overall productivity of

an

economy,

which

is

driven

by

many

other

factors

such

as

joint

investment

in

equipment

and

machinery,

new

technology,

and

investment in education and training.

5.

If,

on

the

other

hand,

producing

more

of

a

commodity

results

in

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reducing

its

cost,

this

will

tend

to

increase

the

supply

offered

by

seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more

consumers to buy the product.

6.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of

the necessary

mode of working of the human

mind; it is simply the

mode by which all phenomena are reasoned about and given precise

and exact explanations.

7.

Silicon

Valley

is

a

magnet

to

which

numerous

talented

engineers,

scientists

and

entrepreneurs

from

overseas

flock

in

search

of

fame,

fast

money

and

to

participate

in

a

technological

revolution

whose

impact

on

mankind

will

surely

surpass

the

epoch-making

European

Renaissance and Industrial Revolution of the bygone age.

8.

The principle of making the best use of all we have requires that we

stop

the

waste

of

human

life

in

industry

and

prevent

the

waste

of

human welfare which flows from the unfair use of concentrated power

and

wealth

in

the

hands

of

men

whose

eagerness

for

profit

blinds

them to the cost of what they do.

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