英語四級四級長難句

1、叮叮小文庫四級長難句 分析在大學(xué)英語四級考試的閱讀理解中，我們經(jīng)常會遇到一些長而難的句子。長難句通常含有較多、 較長的修飾成分、并列成分或從句。長難句的豐富內(nèi)容和復(fù)雜結(jié)構(gòu)往往會導(dǎo)致理解的困難。理解 長難句的關(guān)鍵是了解長難句的類型，理清句子成分，抓住句子中的關(guān)鍵部分。首先我們先來了解制造長句的幾個要點一 詞匯：核心詞匯 +普通詞匯二 語法結(jié)構(gòu)1從句：定語、同位語、表語、賓語、狀語2并列結(jié)構(gòu)3插入語4倒裝5強調(diào)6省略：分詞作定語，獨立主格結(jié)構(gòu)2008-61But the real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global wa

2、rming, and withoutmajor technological breakthroughs we can't do much about it.2. The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it's really an engineering one.3. Privacy econo mist Alessa ndro Acauisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will s

3、urrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands ona pitiful 50-ce nts-off coup on（優(yōu)惠卷）4. The digital bread crumbs（碎屑）you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to re con struct who you are, where you are and what you like.guided ” by me into2007-124. The story

4、 about a fearful an gel starti ng first grade was quickly a little girl with a wild imagi nati on tak ing her first music less on.5. Because I know very little about farm ani mals who use tools or an gels who go to first grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co- opting my daughter ' s exper

5、ienee.6. While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putt ing myself far eno ugh away to give her room but close eno ugh to help if asked.2007-67. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work

6、in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.8. Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encoun ter. If you are liste ning to that 5th grade En glish teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting （

7、稍縱即逝的）thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand.You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to make writing the tool for thinking that it is.9. The practice that can help you pas

8、t your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “ free writi ng. ”10. As the words beg in to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your no tepad or your scree n.11. Now you have raw materials that you can beg in to work with using t

9、he critical mind that you' ve persuaded to sit on the side and watch quietly.12. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up stari ng bla nkly at the pages as the deadli ne draws n ear.13. There was a time in my life when people asked co

10、nstantly for stories about what it work in a field domin ated by men.14. Sometimes, whe n I was pushed in to an argume nt on left brain versus （相對于）right brai n, or nature versus nurture （培育）,I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf and all womankind.15. Then one day a few years ago, out of my

11、mouth came a sentence that would eve ntually become my reply to any and all provocati ons: I don t talk about that anym ore.16. It took me 10 years to get back the con fide nce I had at 19 and to realize that I did n deal with gen der issues.2006-1217. In fact, New York ' s municipal water for m

12、ore than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms of both taste and purity.18. Similarly, a magazine in England found that tap water from the Thames River tasted better tha n several lead ing brands of bottled water that were

13、400 times more expe nsive.19. According to an article in The Street Journal , some of the more shameless tactics include placing attractive bottles on the table for a visual sell, listing brands on the menu without prices, and pouring bottled water without even asking the diners if they want it.20.

14、Regardless of how it ' s sold, the popularity of bottled water taps into our desire for better health, our wish to appear cultivated, and even a longing for lost purity.21. As we have see n, the focus of medical care in our society has bee n shift ing from curi ng disease to preve nti ng disease

15、 especially in terms of cha nging our many un healthy behaviors, such as poor eati ng habits, smok ing, and failure to exercise.22. Imagi ne a pers on who is about the right weight, but does not eat very nu tritious foods, whofeels OK but exercises on ly occasi on ally, who goes to work every day, b

16、ut is not an outsta ndingworker, who drinks a few beers at home most nights but does not drive while drunk, and whohas no chest pains or abno rmal blood coun ts, but sleeps a lot and ofte n feels tired.23. The field of medici ne has not traditi on ally disti nguished betwee n some one who is merely“

17、not ill ” and some one who is in excelle nt health and pays atte ntio n to the body' s spe24. In r ecent years, however, some health specialists have begun to apply the terms“well“wellness ” only to those who are actively striving to maintain and improve their health.25. Eve n people who have a

18、physical disease orhan dicap （缺陷）may be “ well, ” in this newsense, if they make an effort to maintain the best possible health they can in the face of their physical limitati ons.26. And by focusing attention on healthy ways of living, the concept of wellness can have aben eficial impact on the way

19、s in which people face the challe nges of daily life.2006-627. But Han cock says it is also crucial whether a con versati on is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.28. Many immigrants in Salt Lake City were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were

20、being treated like disposable goods.29. We ' re saying we want you to work in these places, we' re going to look the other way interms of what our laws are, and then when it' s convenient for us, or when we can try to make apoint in terms of national security, especially after Sept. 11,

21、then you' re disposable.30. If Sept. 11 had never happened, the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone on quietly living in America, probably indefinitely.2006-6 舊31 . Women s educati on may be unu sual territory for econo mists, but enhancing women s con tributi on to

22、developme nt is actually as much an econo mic as a social issue.32 . Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expectthem to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else ' s family and bear children.33 . G

23、irls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework whiletheir brothers are sent to school-the prophecy （預(yù)言）becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women ina vicious circle of n eglect.34 . She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development

24、of all her childre n, en suri ng that her daughters are give n a fair cha nee.35 . The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser （鎖止器）,and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start itaga in.36 . Modern cars are

25、 far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won' t allo'them to start uni ess they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ign iti on （點火）key.2005-1237 . While here ' s on question that continuous stress is harmful, several studies suggest thatchallenging situations in

26、which you' re able to rise to the occasion can be good for you.38 . In a 2001 study of 158 hospital nu rses, those who faced con siderable work dema nds butcoped with the challenge were more likely to say they were in good health than those who felt they get the job done.39. Then there is the ge

27、neral, all covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise n ever to do aga in.40. Pare nts who wish to teach their childre n to apologize should see it as a sig n of stre ng

28、th, and therefore not resort to these pseudo-apologies.實戰(zhàn)演練1 . But the research paper also gives you a chanee to individualize a school assignment, to suita piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can do.2. To determine the consequences of sleep deficit, researcher

29、s have put subjects through a set of psychological and performa nee tests requiri ng them, for in sta nee, to add colu mns of numbers or recall a passage read to them only minutes earlier.3. Recent stories in the newspapers and magazines suggest that teaching and research con tradict each other, tha

30、t research plays too prominent a part in academic promoti ons, andthat teach ing is badly un deremphasized.4. House had to be sited “within easy walking distanee of the railroad station,” as somreside nts would point out; and only those wealthy eno ugh to afford a horse and a carriagedared to pen et

31、rate farther into the ope n coun try.5. White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely to have shri nking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assista nt.6. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you wil

32、l therefore not be offended if your ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours.7. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other ' s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition foradmi

33、ssi on to graduate school.8. 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.9. The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been un expectedly g

34、reat, partly because a stra nge seque nee of two successful grain harvests.10. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th centuryEnlightenment （啟蒙運動）tobe told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead.11. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidenee,because college will help them earn more money, become“ better ” people, and learn to be morresponsible citizens than those who don' t go.12. The shops ar