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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
