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考研英語(yǔ)閱讀基本功:難句過(guò)關(guān)
第一章 定語(yǔ)從句
1. Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compound-interest law, which was greatly enhaced by the invention of printing.
2. If they can each be trusted to take such responsibilities, and to exercise such initiative as falls within their sphere, then administrative overhead will be low.
3. There are probably no questions we can think up that can't be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness.
4. The curtain was rung down in that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
5. Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have described the physiological mechanisms that allow the seals to cope with the extreme oxygen deprivation that occurs during its longest dives, which can extend 500 meters below the ocean's surface and last for over 70 minutes.
6. The renaissance of the feminist movement began during the 1950's led to the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the lives of women in the East.
7. Tom, the book's protagonist, took issue with a man who doted on his household pet yet, as a slave merchant, thought nothing of separating the husband from the wife, the parents from the children.
8. We are not conscious of the extent to which work provides the psychological satisfaction that can make the difference between a full and an empty life.
9. Thus, the unity that should characterize the strong system is developed by affording opportunity for diversity, which appears to be essential if education is to develop in consideration of the needs of children and youth.
10. Automobiles have been designed which operate on liquid hydrogen, but these systems give rise to seemingly unavoidable problems arising from the handling of a cryogenic liquid.
11. It is designed to make students study, which should be their immediate mission in life.
12. We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in many more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night.
13. Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses will experience greater intellectual development.
14. While there are almost as many definitions of history as there are historians, modern practice most closely conforms to one that sees history as the attempt to recreate and explain the significant events of the past.
15. While this boundary does not mark the outer limit of a State's territory, since in international law the territorial sea forms part of a State's territory, it does represent the demarcation between that maritime area where other States enjoy no general rights, and those maritime areas where other States do enjoy certain general rights.
16. He finds that students who were easy to teach because they succeeded in putting everything they had been taught into practice, hesitate when confronted with the vast untouched area of English vocabulary and usage which falls outside the scope of basic textbooks.
17. The reader who peruses with some attention the following pages will have occasion to see that both operational and mental aspects of physics have their place, but that neither should be stressed to the exclusion of the other.
18. The public is unhappy about the way society is going, and its view, fueled in part by the agendists and the media, seems to be that judicial decisions unacceptable to them, regardless of the evidence or the law, will slow or change social directions.
19. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.
20. The samples should preferably be taken from points in the rig where the flow is turbulent so that the contaminant is kept well mixed in the oil.
21. Our hope for creative living in this world house that we have inherited lies in our ability to re-establish the moral ends of our lives in personal character and social justice.
22. From the very day of the capitulation, by which Bismark's prisoners had signed the surrender of France but reserved to themselves a numerous bodyguard for the express purpose of cowing Paris, Paris stood on the watch.
23.When I'm having trouble with a story and think about giving up, or when I start to feel sorry for myself and think things should be easier for me, I rool a piece of paper into that cranky old machine and type, word by painful word, just the way my mother did.
24. What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?
25.Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe.
26. It needs men who can be prompted without an aim except the aim to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.
27. Then he would publish the poem, sometimes years before the music that went with it was written.
28. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure.
29. We can expose our children to the best values we have found.
30. In short, you will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
31. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.
32. Those most loved are invariably those who have the capacity for believing in others.
33. Americans who stem from generations which left their old people behind and never closed their parents' eyelids in death, and who have experienced the death provided by two world wars fought far from our shores are today pushing away from them both a recognition of death and a recognition of the way we live our lives.
34. God, I'm glad I can talk about it with you--probably you're the only outlet that I'll have that won't get tired of my talking about writing.
35. Certainly the humanist thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who are our ideological ancestors, thought that the goal of life was the unfolding of a person's potentialities; what mattered to them was the person who is much, not the one who has much or uses much.
36. How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression, the quiver of a muscle, the flutter of a hand.
37. Her woebegone expression, her hang-dog manner, her over-anxiousness to please, or perhaps her unconscious hostility towards those she anticipated will affront her--all act to drive away those whom she would attract.
38. There is very long list of such perhapses, few of which we are in a position to evaluate with any degree of assurance.
39. If marriage exists only as an intimate relationship that can be terminated at will, and family exists only by virtue of bonds of affection, both marriage and family are relegated to the marketplace of trading places, with individuals maximising their psychological capital by moving through a series of more or less satisfying intimate relationships.
第二章 倒裝句
1. For example, they do not compensate for social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underpriviledged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
2. Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's baby boom generation reached its child-bearing years.
3. Much as I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her in thoroughness, whatever the job.
4. Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics, and some astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.
5. Only when you have acquired a good knowledge of grammar can you write correctly.
6. Nowhere do 1980 census statistics dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West.
7. In no country other than Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
8. We have been told that under no circumstances may we use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.
9. Not since Americans crossed the continent in covered wagons have they exercised and dieted as vigorously as they are doing today.
10. Not until these fundamental subjects were sufficiently advanced was it possible to solve the main problems of flight mechanics.
11. Little did we expect that he would fulfil his task so rapidly.
12. Hardly had he begun to speak when the audience interrupted him.
13. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.
14. Not only did white men encroach upon the Indians' hunting grounds, but they rapidly destroyed the Indians' principal means of existence--the buffalo.
15. So great was the honour that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory.
16. To such lengths did she go in rehearsal that two actors walked out.
17. In this class are ads that suggest that the product will satisfy some basic human desires.
18. Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, ad population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.
19. Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before.
20. Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities, says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines.
21. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.
22. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace.
23. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U.S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births.
24. Certain it is that all essential processes of plant growth and development occur in water.
25. We really should not resent being called paupers. Paupers we are, and paupers we shall remain.
26. The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity.
27. This is the world out of which grows the hope, for the first time in history, of a society where there will be freedom from want and freedom from fear.
28. Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption--however productive may be what some of its members do in society.
29. Of the intrinsic differences that separate American from English the chief have their roots in the obvious disparity between the environment and traditions of the American people since the seventeenth century and those of the English.
30. Especially was this importance impressed on me when I realized how much Hollywood was involved in exporting American life to the world, and how much Broadway with all its thertres meant to the modern drama.
31. Lost in the wuphoria of success is any thought that--in another place, at another time--it may well be naval air power without the support of any land-based air power that carries the day.
32. Underlying much of the desire for change, too, was the feeling of many of the world's newly independent states that they had never had a part in framing traditional doctrine.
33. Not only was man now able to see with measured precision independently of visibility, but he could now see such objects as aircraft at ranges far in excess of those possible even under ideal optical conditions with normal vision.
34. Forgotten is any idea that naval air power is not power unto itself, but part and parcel of naval power--trained, supported, operated, and commanded by people well-versed in the intricacies of war at sea and war from the sea.
35. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.
36. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.
37. Slap-slap-slap-slap... Around and around a submariner goes, the soft-soled shoes beating a rhythm on the hard, shiny floor in a Trident submarine. People on shore might grasp the instant irony of a man jogging to prolong his life around weapons capable of destroying two hundred cities.
38. Friends who are near to me I know well, because through the months and years they reveal themselves to me in all their phases; but of casual friends I have only an in complete impression, an impression gained from a handclasp, spoken words.
39. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant--not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the frailty and imaturity of human nature which induce people, and again especially children, to make mistakes.
40. According to Newton's first law of motion a body is in motion but actually never is there a body which will remain in motion forever because it is impossible to get rid of external influence.
41. Added to that difficulty is the need for the media, for economic and journalistic reasons, to present a controversial perspective, which is not usually as objective as we might wish.
42. Only now that I've struggled to find patience in myself when Matthew insists he help me paint the house or saw down dead trees in the back yard am I able to see that day through my father's eyes.
43. This process, difficult and complex as it is, is simple compared to the job of discovering that new kinds of corn could be developed, or to the job of discovering how to develop them.
44. Among the advantages that future biochips, or living computers, would have over conventional semiconductor chips are that they are smaller, they do not generate as much heat, and they allow for the parallel processing of information, making them faster than today's semiconductor devices.
45. Into this area of industry came millions of Europeans who made of it what became known as the melting pot, the fusion of people from many nations into Americans.
46. Neither would it prevent cruise missiles or bombers whose flights are within the Earth's atmosphere, from hitting their targets.
47. From each of them goes out its own voice, as inaudible as the streams of sound conveyed by electric waves beyond the range of our hearing, and just as the touch of a button on our stereo will fill the room with music, so by opening one of these volumes, one can call into range a voice far distant in time and space, and hear it speaking, mind to mind, heart to heart.
48. His students might feel inclined to counter these with the words: The more I learn, the less I know.
49. In the motorized wheelchair, a boyish face dimly illuminated by a glowing computer screen attached to the left armrest is Stephen Willia Hawking, 46, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists.
50. Rather than a particular method, the success of science has more to do with an arttitude common to scientists.
51. Of primary interest in business and technical research reports is the validity of the results as the bases for company decisions.
52. He wrote operas, and no sooner did he have the synopsis of a story but he would invite--or rather summon--a crowd of his friends to his house and read it aloud to them.
53. Not only did he seem incapable of supporting himself, but it never occurred to him that he was under any obligation to do so.
54. I might have been incredulous had I not been accustomed to such response, for long ago I became convinced that the seeing see little.
55. Then, down the crowded thoroughfare comes the University of Cambridge's most distinctive vehicle, bearing its most distinguished citizen.
56. A nice example is that dreaded polar ice cap, which some scientists say isn't starting to melt at all but instead will shortly begin to enlarge rapidly, giving birth to a new ice age that soon will cover the entire United States.
57. Were it not for the feather lost in departure, no one would have known that the white bird had ever been.
58. Sir Isaac Newton was one of the pioneers in investigating viscosity, and on his analysis depends the definition of the coefficient.
59. A widely known achievement of radio electronics is an electronic calculating machine that can perform several thousand arithmetical operations in one second.
60. Nearly all our clothes are made from fibres of one sort or another, be they deried from plants, animals, coal or petroleum and all these fibres, when they are carefully examined, are seen to consist of long chain molecules.
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