考研英语长难句

考研英语长难句

Attributive

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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".

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Apart from the pronunciation exercises, which call for the teacher's' active guidance in the form of demonstration of the sound features concerned, most exercises are such that students can work more or less independently, the teacher coming in only to check, to clarify, and to organize discussion on points of general interest or on matters in which different views are possible.

Inversion

1.For example, they do not compensate for social inequality, and thus do not tell

how able an underprivileged 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. Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.

6. 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.

7. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births.

Ellipsis

1.The breakthroughs would create as much danger as they would hope.

2.The eggs of the Mojave shrimp are the size and have the appearance of grains of

sand.

3.The largest known raindrops are slightly less than a quarter-inch across, or would

be if they were perfectly round.

4.As families move away from their stable community, their friends of many years,

and their extended family relationship, the informal flow of information cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable..

5.Until recently, the scientific community was so powerful that it could afford to

ignore its critics – but no longer.

6.In their hearts, women think it is men’s business t o earn money and theirs to spend

it –if possible during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death.

7.Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of

settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. Parallel structure

1. But the individualist approach, by attacking gender role, denying the significance of physiological difference, and condemning existing familial institutions as hopelessly patriarchal, has often simply treated as irrelevant the family role important to many women.

2. In fact, privatization has not only rescued individual industries and a whole economy headed for disaster, but has also raised the level of performance in every area.

3. In the laboratory, when the seal dives below the surface of the water and stops breathing, its heart beats more slowly, requiring less oxygen and its arteries become constricted, ensuring that the seal's blood remains concentrated near those organs most crucial to its ability to navigate underwater.

4. Most earthquakes had a small area of intense shaking, which weakened rapidly with increasing distance from the epicenter, but others were characterized by a lower peak intensity, felt over a broader area.

5. Green, hilly, with abundant trees, it was a beautiful country, the Virginia-Kentucky border territory--or would have been, except for the mines.

6. Consequently, the choice of materials cannot be left until the end but must occur in at least a tentative way as the design proceeds in order for later steps based on intermediate calculations and decisions to be realistic.

7. The lack of insistence on personal honor, the surface informality, the disparaging

responses to compliments, and willingness to admit mistakes are part of the egalitarian tradition, as are the Americans' pride in what they have been able to achieve and their criticism of things that fall short of perfection.

8. Though unemployed longer when seeking work, older women job-hunt harder, hold

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b longer with less absenteeism, perform as well or better, are more reliable, and are more willing to learn than men or younger women.

9. But since the consequences of poverty are related to powerlessness, not to the absolute supply of money available to the poor, and since the amount of power purchasable with a given supply of money decreases as a society acquires a larger supply of goods and services, the solution of raising the incomes of the poor is likely, unless accompanied by other measures, to be ineffective in a wealthy society.

10. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data. Negation

1. Sir Alexander Fleming did not, as legend would have it, look at the mold on a piece of cheese and get the idea for penicillin there and then. He experimented with antibacterial substances for nine years before he made his discovery.

2. Certainly I don't teach because teaching is easy for me. Nor do I teach because I think I know answers, or because I have knowledge I feel compelled to share.

3. Thus the use, at say seven months, of "mama" as a greeting for his mother cannot be dismissed as a meaningless sound simply because he also uses it at other times for his father, his dog, or anything else he likes.

4. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

5.From this motive I began to think seriously of matrimony, and choose my wife, as

she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

6.Tapping the new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for

America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane.

7. A whale is no more a fish than a horse is.

8. A whale is no less a mammal than a horse is.

Figurative language

1. The Hemingway mode was in ascendancy for decades before it was eclipsed by trendy fabulist “exercises.” The pendulum is swinging back, though, and it’s going to knock these effete eggheads right out of their Aeron chairs.

2. But books aren’t bomb shelters, they’re bridges –through their pages we’re brought out into society, and one can posit that someone who reads is prepared for the world on a deeper level than someone who doesn’t.

3. Robert Fult on once wrote, “The mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc., like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them

as an exhibition of his thoughts, in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea.”

4. We live a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.

Difficult sentences

1.Progress is the law of life; man is not man as yet.

2.The rank is but the guinea’s stamp; the man is the gold for all that.

3.Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

4.One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

5.Who dares do all that many become a man, and dares no more, he is a man indeed.

6.Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; posterity will regard the

merit rather than the man.

7.Barring some piece of luck I have seen but few men get rich rapidly except by

means that would make them writhe to have known in public.

8. In general, the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted can be not well defined.

9. Thus it happened that when the new factories that were springing up required labor, tens of thousands of homeless and hungry agricultural workers, with their wives and children, were forced into the cities in search of work, and any work, under any condition, that would keep them alive.

10. We assumed that there were forces of attraction between molecules which varied rapidly with the distance so that the attraction between molecules that were more than a few ten millionths of a millimeter apart was very small but became considerable when the molecules approached more closely.

11. The point at which tool using and tool making acquire evolutionary significance is surely when an animal can adapt its ability to manipulate objects to a wide variety of purposes, and when it can use an object spontaneously to solve a brand-new problem that without the use of a tool would prove insoluble.

12. So don’t be surprised if you never encounter some of the expressions that still appear in school textbooks; and next time you hear somebody using a strange word you haven’t heard before, you can comfort yourself that there may well be a native speaker somewhere who doesn’t know it either.

13. Despite the saying that one never knows if lightning strikes him, a person can sometimes feel the bolt coming and if quick enough, take protective action in time. 14. Towns like Bournemouth and Eastboune sprang up to house large “Comfortable" classes who had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders' meeting to dictate their orders to the management.

15. This seems mostly effectively done by supporting a certain amount of research not related to immediate goals but of possible consequence in the future

16. New forms of thought as well as new subjects for thought must arise in the future as they have in the past, giving rise to new standards of elegance.

17. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.

18. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend.

19. Levi Strauss persuaded the court that, by selling its jeans cheaply alongside soap powder and bananas, Tesco was destroying the image and so the value of its brands--which could only lead to less innovation and, in the long run, would reduce consumer choice.

20. The 1993 Family and Medical Lexdye Act was supposed to help families like Garro’s, offering a safety net to employees who want to take time off to nurture newborns, tend to their own major illnesses or care for sick relatives.