GREGMATLSAT长难句300例精讲精练[英文背诵word版本]

GREGMATLSAT长难句300例精讲精练

此书对省略，倒装，长句进行系统分析，其实还应该加上另外一种，就是插入语，

同时对于难句的类型中还有一种就是指代的混淆，个人见解

【Unit 1】

1.We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but n

ot in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not d estroyed.

2.

consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market.

3.

Individual entrepreneurs do not necessarily rely on their kin because th ey cannot obtain financial backing from commercial resources

4.Unfortunately, emancipation has been less profound than expected, fo r not even industrial wage labor has escaped continued sex segregation in the workplace

5. However, some broods possess a few snails of the opposing hand, an

d in predominantly sinistral broods, th

e incidence o

f dextrality is surpri singly high.

6. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period.

7. The problem is that the compound has mixed effects in the brain, a n ot unusual occurrence with psychoactive drugs.

8. But the debate could not be resolved because no one was able to ask the crucial questions in a form in which they could be pursued producti vely.

9. In addition, the ideal of six CEO?s (female or male) serving on the boa rd of each of the largest corporations is realizable only if every CEO ser ves on six boards.

10. If a cell degrades both a rapidly and a slowly synthesized mRNA slo wly, both mRNA?s will accumulate to high levels.

【检测练习】

请标出下列句子中的倒装、省略及长句。

1. The consumption of protein increases blood concentration of the oth er amino acids much more, proportionately, than it does that of tryptop han.

2. More remarkable than the origin has been the persistence of such se x segregation in twentieth-century industry.

3. That many terrestrial snakes in similar spatial orientations do not ex perience this kind of circulatory failure suggests that certain adaptatio ns enable them to regulate blood pressure more effectively in those ori entations.

4. Nevertheless, researchers of the Pleistocene epoch have developed all sorts of more or less fanciful model schemes of how they would hav

e arranged the Ice Age had they been in charge o

f events.

5. Despite these vague categories, one should not claim unequivocally t hat hostility between recognizable classes cannot be legitimately obser ved.

【Unit 2】

1. For instance, some of the novels appear to be structurally diffusive. I s this a defect, or are the authors working out of, or trying to forge, a di fferent kind of aesthetic？

2. Black Fiction surveys a wide variety of novels, bringing to our attenti on in the process some fascinating and little-known works like James W eldon Johnson?s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

3. This view may be correct: it has the advantage that the currents are driven by temperature differences that themselves depend on the positi on of the continents.

4. Federal efforts to aid minority businesses began in the 1960?s when t he Small Business Administration (SBA) began making federally guarant eed loans and government-sponsored management and technical assist ance available to minority business enterprises.

5. In such a context, what is recognized as “dependency” in Western ps ychiatric terms is not, in Korean terms, an admission of weakness or fai lure.

6. Most novelists and historians writing in the early to mid-twentieth ce ntury who considered women in the West, when they considered wome n at all, fell under Turner?s spell.

7. According to a recent theory, Archean-age gold-quartz vein systems were formed over two billion years ago from magmatic fluids that origin ated from molten granite-like bodies deep beneath the surface of the Ea rth.

8. Governments of developing countries occasionally enter into econom ic

development agreements with foreign investors who provide capital an d technological expertise that may not be readily available in such coun tries.

9. What money was spent on foreign missions was under the control of exclusively male foreign mission boards whose members were uniforml y uneasy about the new idea of sending single women out into the missi on field.

10. Michelson?s work is valuable as ethnography, as a reflection of the day-to-day

responsibilities of Mesquakie women, yet as is often the case with life-passage studies, it presents little of the central character?s psychologic al motivation.

【检测练习】

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1. That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descen dants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies tran smitted.

2. Hardy?s weakness derived from his apparent inability to control the c omings and goings of these divergent impulses and from his unwillingne ss to cultivate and sustain the energetic and risky ones.

3. In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining m ore accurately the status of women in various periods.

4. Most striking among the many asymmetries evident in an adult flatfis

h is eye placement: before maturity one eye migrates, so that in an adul t flatfish both eyes are on the same side of the head.

5. Perhaps he believed that he could not criticize American foreign polic y without endangering the support for civil rights that he had won from the federal government.

【Unit 3】

1. In experiments, an injection of cytoplasm from dextral eggs changes the pattern of sinistral eggs, but an injection from sinistral eggs does n ot influence dextral eggs.

2. Which of the following most probably provides an appropriate analog y from human morphology for the “details” versus “constraints” distinct ion made in the passage in relation to human behavior?

3. A low number of algal cells in the presence of a high number of graze rs suggested, but did not prove, that the grazers had removed most of t he algae.

4. Many critics of Emily Bronte?s novel Wuthering Heights see its secon

d part as a counterpoint that comments on, if it does not reverse, th

e fir st part, where a “romantic” reading receives more confirmation.

5. Apparently most massive stars manage to lose sufficient material th at their masses drop below the critical value of 1.4 M

⊙ before they exhaust their nuclear fuel.

6. An impact capable of ejecting a fragment of the Martian surface into an Earth-intersecting orbit is even less probable than such an event on t he Moon, in view of the Moon?s smaller size and closer proximity to Eart h.

7. Moreover, in a recent study, current speeds upstream of the nest and at the nest entrance were similar for nests upstream facing southeast and those facing in other directions.

8. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the “Old World”categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation, the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a “status quo” defen ded or attacked.

9. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both “normal” and having a val uable economic function.

10. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of it s own development, the price-fixing that it requires.

【检测练习】

请标出下列句子中的倒装、省略及长句。

1. Snyder, Daly and Bruns have recently proposed that caffeine affect b ehavior by countering the activity in the human brain of a naturally occ urring chemical called adenosine.

2. Protecting children from the crass business world became enormousl y important for late-nineteenth-century middle-class Americans, she su ggests; this sacralization was a way of resisting what they perceived as the relentless corruption of human values by the marketplace.

3. Since large bees are not affected by the spraying of Matacil, these re sults add weight to the argument that spraying where the pollinators ar e sensitive to the pesticide used decreases plant fecundity.

4. Although at first the colonies held little positive attraction for the En glish—they would rather have stayed home—by the eighteenth century people increasingly migrated to America because they regarded it as th e land of opportunity.

5. Virgin-soil epidemics are those in which the populations at risk have had no

previous contact with the diseases that strike them and are therefore i

mmunologically almost defenseless.

【Unit 4】

1. Unfortunately, the documentation of these and other epidemics is sli ght and frequently unreliable, and it is necessary to supplement what li ttle we do know with evidence from recent epidemics among Native Am ericans.

2. Scientists have begun to suspect that this intergalactic gas is probab ly a mixture of gases left over from the “big bang” when the galaxies w ere formed and gas was forced out of galaxies by supernova explosions .

3. However, recent investigations have shown that the concentrations o

f most mRNA?s correlate best, not with their synthesis rate, but rather with the equally variable rates at which cells degrade the different mR NA?s in their cytoplasm.

4. In recent studies, however, we have discovered that the production a nd release in brain neurons of the neurotransmitter serotonin (neurotra nsmitters are compounds that neurons use to transmit signals to other cells) depend directly on the food that the body processes.

5. This revisionist view of Jim Crow legislation grew in part from the re search that Woodward had done for the NAACP legal campaign during it s preparation for Brown v. Board of Education.

6. These techniques have strongly suggested that although the true bac teria indeed form a large coherent group, certain other bacteria, the arc haebacteria, which are also prokaryotes and which resemble true bact eria, represent a distinct evolutionary branch that far antedates the co mmon ancestor of all true bacteria.

7. The old belief that climatic stability accounts for the high level of spe cies diversity in the Amazon River basin of South America emerged, str angely enough, from observations of the deep sea.

8. Those who took the inconvenient historical facts into consideration d id so only in order to refute the widely held deterministic view that the

content and style of an artist?s work were absolutely dictated by heredi ty and environment.

9. For Landes and Badinter, the necessity of women?s having to speak in the established vocabularies of certain intellectual and political traditi on diminished the ability of the women?s movement to resist suppressio n.

10. But by 1916, ten years before the publication of The Weary Blues, H urry T. Burleigh, the Black baritone soloist at New York?s ultrafashionab le Saint George?s Episcopal Church, had published Jubilee Songs of the United States, with every spiritual arranged so that a concert singer co uld sing it “in the manner of an art song.”

【检测练习】

请标出下列句子中的倒装、省略及长句。

1.The word democracy may stand for a natural social equality in the b

ody politic or for a constitutional form of government in which power lies more or less directly in the people?s hand.

2.

Granted that war cost much less than it does today, that the Church r endered all sorts of educational and recreational services that were un obtainable elsewhere, and that government was far less demanding tha n is the modern state—nevertheless, for medieval men and women, sup porting commercial development required considerable economic sacrif ice.

3. That Louise Nevelson is believed by many critics to be the greatest twentieth-century sculptor is all the more remarkable because the grea test resistance to women artists has been, until recently, in the field of sculpture.

4. As she put it in The Common Reader, ?It is safe to say that not a sin gle law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anyt hing Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore。?

【难点】

1. 宾语倒装。it指代的是引号里的内容，为主句的真正宾语。

2. 主语倒装。it是形式主语，指代真正的主语to say that…anything Chaucer said or wrote。

3. 长句。that引导的宾语从句。

4. 平行结构省略。or之后省略句子的系动词has been。

5. 定语从句省略。Chaucer said or wrote是修饰anything的定语从句，省略了引导词that。

6. 长句。as引导的时间状语从句。

5. With the conclusion of a burst of activity, the lactic acid level is high in the body fluids, leaving the large animal vulnerable to attack until the acid is reconverted, via oxidative metabolism, by the liver into glucose, which is then sent (in part) back to the muscles for glycogen re-synthe sis.

【难点】

1.via oxidative metabolism为插入语。

原句子the acid is reconverted by the liver into glucose

【Unit 5】

1. A very specialized feeding adaptation in zooplankton is that of the ta dpole-like appendicularian who lives in a walnut-sized (or smaller) ballo on of mucus equipped with filters that capture and concentrate phytopl ankton.

【难点】

1. 介词结构倒装。in zooplankton修饰feeding adaptation。

2. 介词结构倒装。of the tadpole-like appendicularian修饰that，that指代adaptation

2. The very richness and complexity of the meaningful relationships tha t kept presenting and rearranging themselves on all levels, from abstra ct intelligence to profound dreamy feelings, made it difficult for Proust t o set them out coherently.

3. Now we must also examine the culture as we Mexican Americans hav

e experienced it, passing from a sovereign people to compatriots with n ewly arriving settlers to, finally, a conquered people—a charter minority on our own land.

4. The molecular approach to detecting peptide hormones using cDNA p robes should also be much faster than the immunological method becau se it can take years of tedious purifications to isolate peptide hormones and then develop antiserums to them.

5. As rock interface are crossed, the elastic characteristics encountere

d generally chang

e abruptly, which causes part o

f the energy to be refl ected back to the surface, where it is recorded by seismic instruments.

6. The methods that a community devises to perpetuate itself come int o being to preserve aspects of the cultural legacy that that community perceives as essential.

7. In which of the following does the author of the passage reinforce his criticism of responses such as Isaacs’ to Raisin in the Sun？

【难点】

1. 介词结构倒装。of the passage修饰author。

2. 介词结构倒装。of responses修饰criticism。

3. 介词结构倒装。such as Isaacs’ response 修饰responses。

4. 省略。Isaacs’后面省略了response。

5. 介词结构倒装。to Raisin in the Sun修饰response。

8. Inheritors of some of the viewpoints of early twentieth-century Progr essive historians such as Beard and Becker, these recent historians hav e put forward arguments that deserve evaluation

9. The correlation of carbon dioxide with temperature, of course, does not establish whether changes in atmospheric composition caused the warming and cooling trends or were caused by them.

10. The appreciation of traditional oral American Indian literature has b een limited, hampered by poor translations and by the difficulty, even in the rare culturally sensitive and aesthetically satisfying translation, of completely conveying the original?s verse structure, tone, and syntax.

【检测练习】

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1. Only in the case of the February Revolution do we lack a useful descr iption of participants that might characterize it in the light of what soci al history has taught us about the process of revolutionary mobilization.

2. Although fiction assuredly springs from political circumstances, its a uthors react to those circumstances in ways other than ideological, and talking about novels and stories primarily as instruments of ideology ci rcumvents much of the fictional enterprise.

3. Although these molecules allow radiation at visible wavelengths, whe re most of the energy of sunlight is concentrated, to pass through, they absorb some of the longer-wavelength, infrared emissions radiated fro m the Earth?s surface, radiation that would otherwise be transmitted ba ck into space.

4. Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that a ssociate the water within it with the hydrologic cycle may the entire sy stem properly be termed hydrogeologic.

5. My point is that its central consciousness—its profound understandin

g of class and gender as shaping influences on people?s lives—owes mu ch to that earlier literary heritage, a heritage that, in general, has not b een sufficiently valued by most contemporary literary critics.

【Unit 6】

1.Granted that the presence of these elements need not argue an auth

orial awareness of novelistic construction comparable to that of Hen ry James, their presence does encourage attempts to unify the novel ?s heterogeneous parts.

2. They are called virtual particles in order to distinguish them from rea l particles, whose lifetimes are not constrained in the same way, and w hich can be detected.

3. Other theorists propose that the Moon was ripped out of the Earth?s r ocky mantle by the Earth?s collision with another large celestial body af ter much of the Earth?s iron fell to its core.

4. Although Gutman admits that forced separation by sale was frequent, he shows that the slaves? preference, revealed most clearly on plantati ons where sale was infrequent, was very much for stable monogamy.

5. Civil rights activists have long argued that one of the principal reaso ns why Blacks, Hispanics, and other minority groups have difficulty est ablishing themselves in business is that they lack access to the sizable orders and subcontracts that are generated by large companies.

6. Moreover, those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the most efficient method of establis hing prices have not considered the economies of non-socialist countri es other than the United States.

7. Who would want an unmarked pot when another was available whose provenance was known, and that was dated stratigraphically by the pr ofessional archaeologist who excavated it?

【难点】

1. 长句。when引导的时间状语从句。

2. 定语从句。whose引导的定语从句修饰another。

3. 长句。由and连接的平行结构。

4. 平行结构省略。and连接的平行结构中省略了another。

5. 定语从句。that引导的定语从句修饰another。

8. Recently federal policymakers have adopted an approach intended to accelerate development of the minority business sector by moving awa y from directly aiding small minority enterprises and toward supporting larger, growth-oriented minority firms through intermediary companies.

【标识】

Recently federal policymakers have adopted an approach 1[intended to accelerate development 2[of the minority business sector] 3[by moving away from directly aiding small minority enterprises 4{and 5by moving t oward supporting larger, growth-oriented minority firms 6[through inter mediary companies]}]].

9. MESBIC?s are the result of the belief that providing established firms with easier access to relevant management techniques and more job-sp ecific experience, as well as substantial amounts of capital, gives thos e firms a greater opportunity to develop sound business foundations tha n does simply making general management experience and small amou nts of capital available.

10. And managers under pressure to maximize cost-cutting will resist in novation

because they know that more fundamental changes in processes or sys tems will wreak havoc with the results on which they are measured.

【检测练习】

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1. For instance, the mass-production philosophy of United States autom akers encouraged the production of huge lots of cars in order to utilize fully expensive, component-specific equipment and to occupy fully work ers who have been trained to execute one operation efficiently.

2. Woodward confessed with ironic modesty that the first edition “had b egun to suffer under some of the handicaps that might be expected in a history of the American Revolution published in 1776.”

3. While perhaps true of those officers who joined Black units for promo tion or other self-serving motives, this statement misrepresents the atti tudes of the many abolitionists who became officers in Black regiments .

4. Moreover, arguments pointing out the extent of both structural and fu nctional differences between eukaryotes and true bacteria convinced many biologists that the precursors of the eukaryotes must have diverg ed from the common ancestor before the bacteria arose.

5. The new tax law allowed corporations to deduct the cost of the prod uct donated plus half the difference between cost and fair market sellin g price, with the proviso that deductions cannot exceed twice cost

【Unit 7】

1. However, none of these high-technology methods are of any value if t he sites to which they are applied have never mineralized, and to maxi mize the chances of discovery the explorer must therefore pay particul ar attention to selecting the ground formations most likely to be minera lized.

2. Rather, the coincidence of increased United States government antid iscrimination pressure in the mid-1960s with the acceleration in the rat e of black economic progress beginning in 1965 argues against the con tinuity theorists? view.

3. Historians attempting to explain how scientific work was done in the laboratory of the seventeenth-century chemist and natural philosopher Robert Boyle must address a fundamental discrepancy between how su ch experimentation was actually performed and the seventeenth-centur y rhetoric describing it.

4. Although surveys of medieval legislation, guild organization, and ter minology used to designate different medical practitioners have demon strated that numerous medical specialties were recognized in Europe d uring the Middle Ages, most historians continue to equate the term “wo man medical practitioner,” wherever they encounter it in medieval reco rds, with “midwife.”

5. One might conclude that the older labor-intensive machinery still ope rating in United States integrated plants is at fault for the poor perform ance of the United States industry, but this cannot explain why Japane se integrated producers, who produce a higher-quality product using le ss energy and labor, are also experiencing economic trouble.

6. Moreover, the almost simultaneous abolition of Russian serfdom and United States slavery in the 1860s—a riveting coincidence that should h ave drawn more modern scholars to a comparative study of the two sys tems of servitude—has failed to arouse the interest of scholars.

7. Thomas V Carroll has proposed that the conclusions drawn by previo us researchers are attributable to their myopic focus on the premise th at, unless right-to-work laws significantly reduce union membership wit hin a state, they have no effect.

8. The Constitution gives Congress the basic power to declare war, as well as the authority to raise and support armies and a navy, enact regu lations for the control of the military, and provide for the common defen se.

9. One argument against my contention asserts that, by nature, textboo ks are culturally biased and that I am simply underestimating children?s ability to see through these biases.

10. Competing for votes, parties seek to offer different sections of the e lectorate what they most want; they do not ask what the majority think s of an issue, but what policy commitments will sway the electoral deci sions of particular groups.

【检测练习】

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1. He insisted that there could be no return to traditional, preindustrial models; only by accepting wholeheartedly the political and technologic al revolutions of the nineteenth century could the architect establish th e forms appropriate to a modern, urban society.

2. This preference for exogamy, Gutman suggests, may have derived fro m West African rules governing marriage, which, though they differed fr om one tribal group to another, all involved some kind of prohibition aga inst unions with close kin.

3. Such variations in size, shape, chemistry, conduction speed, excitatio n threshold, and the like as had been demonstrated in nerve cells remai ned negligible in significance for any possible correlation with the mani fold dimensions of mental experience.

4. Although qualitative variance among nerve energies was never rigidly disproved, the doctrine was generally abandoned in favor of the opposi ng view, namely, that nerve impulses are essentially homogeneous in q uality and are transmitted as “common currency” throughout the nervo us system.

5. It is one of nature?s great ironies that the availability of nitrogen in th

e soil frequently sets an upper limit on plant growth even though the pla nts? leaves are bathed in a sea o

f nitrogen gas.

【Unit 8】

1. Its subject (to use Maynard Mack?s categories) is “life-as-spectacle,”for readers, diverted by its various incidents, observe its hero Odysseus primarily from without; the tragic Iliad, however, presents “life-as-exper ience”: readers are asked to identify with the mind of Achilles, whose m otivations render him a not particularly likable hero.

2. But those of who hoped, with Kolb, that Kolb?s newly published comp lete edition of Proust?s correspondence for 1909 would document the pr ocess in greater detail are disappointed.

3. This succession was based primarily on a series of deposits and even ts not directly related to glacial and interglacial periods, rather than on the more usual modern method of studying biological remains found in i nterglacial beds themselves interstratified within glacial deposits.

4. Friedrich Engels, however, predicted that women would be liberated f rom the “social, legal, and economic subordination” of the family by tec hnological developments that made possible the recruitment of “the wh ole female sex into public industry”.

5. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most lik ely to agree with which of the following statements regarding socioeco nomic class and support for the rebel and Loyalist causes during the A merican Revolutionary War？

6. In this view, Hughes? attempts to imitate the folk blues are too self-c onscious, too determined to romanticize the African American experien ce, too intent on reproducing what he takes to be the quaint humor and na?ve simplicity of the folk blues to be successful.

7. An exploration of this largely overlooked early prose demonstrates th at Phelps played an instrumental role in legitimizing the American medi cal woman during a crucial earlier period when the number of women d octors in the United States increased substantially, but the woman doct or remained perhaps the most controversial new presence on the nation ?s occupational landscape.

8. Human genes contain too little information even to specify which he misphere of the brain each of a human?s 1011 neurons should occupy, l et alone the hundreds of connections that each neuron makes.

【标识】

Human genes contain 1{too little information even to specify 2{which he misphere of the brain 3[that each of a human?s 1011 neurons should oc cupy]}}, 4{let alone 5

to specify the hundreds of connections 6[that each neuron makes]}. 【难点】

1. 长句。too…to…构成的平行结构。

2. 长句。which引导的宾语从句。

3. 定语从句。that引导的定语修饰brain，省略that。

4. 长句。let alone连接的平行结构。

5. 平行结构省略。let alone连接的平行结构中省略了to specify。

6. 定语从句。that引导的定语从句修饰connections。

9. It has thus generally been by way of the emphasis on oral literary cre ativity that these Chicano writers, whose English language works are s ometimes uninspired, developed the powerful and arresting language th at characterized their Spanish-language works.

10. This declaration, which was echoed in the text of the Fourteenth A mendment, was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court?s rulin g in Dred Scott v. Sandford that Black people in the United States could be denied citizenship.

【标识】

This declaration, 1[which was echoed 2[in the text] 3[of the Fourteenth Amendment]], was designed primarily to counter the Supreme Court?s r uling 4[in Dred Scott v. Sandford] 5[that Black people 6[in the United St ates] could be denied citizenship].

【难点】

1. 定语从句。which引导的定语从句修饰declaration。

2. 介词结构倒装。in the text修饰echoed。

3. 介词结构倒装。of the Fourteenth Amendment修饰text。

4. 介词结构倒装。in Dred Scott v. Sandford修饰ruling。

5. 同位语从句。that引导的同位语从句进一步解释Dred Scott v. Sandford。

6. 介词结构倒装。in the United States修饰Black people。

【检测练习】

请标出下列句子中的倒装、省略及长句。

1. But achieving necessary matches in physical properties across interf aces between living and nonliving matter requires knowledge of which molecules control the bonding of cells to each other—an area that we h ave not yet explored thoroughly.

2. We have no pride in our growing interdependence, in the fact that our system can serve others, that we are able to help those in need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, m ake us try to forget or deny them, move away from them.

3.That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors? charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theories.

4. To buttress their case that caffeine acts instead by preventing adeno sine binding, Snyder et al compared the stimulatory effects of a series of caffeine derivatives with their ability to dislodge adenosine from its r eceptors in the brains of mice.

5. Most senior executives are familiar with the formal decision analysis models and tools, and those who use such systematic methods for reac hing decisions are occasionally leery of solutions suggested by these m ethods which run counter to their sense of the correct course of action.

【难点】

1. 介词结构倒装。of the ?useful? child修饰concept。

2. 定语从句。who引导的定语从句修饰child。

3. 介词结构倒装。of the ?useless? child修饰notion。

4. 定语从句。who引导的定语从句修饰child。

5. 长句。though引导的让步状语从句。

6. 无头句。省略producing的动作发出者child。

7. 长句。and连接的平行结构

【Unit 9】

1. During the nineteenth century, she argues, the concept of the “useful ” child who contributed to the family economy gave way gradually to th e present-day notion of the “useless” child who, though producing no in come for, and indeed extremely costly to, its parents, is yet considered emotionally “priceless”.

2. “Expulsion of children from the …cash nexus?…although clearly shape

d by profound changes in th

e economic, occupational, and family struct ures,” Zelizer maintains, “was also part o

f a cultural process …of sacreli zation? of children?s lives.”

【难点】

1. 介词结构倒装。of child修饰expulsion。

2. 介词结构倒装。from the ‘cash nexus’修饰expulsion。

3. 长句。although 引导的让步状语从句。

4. 无头句。although引导的让步状语从句中省略了expulsion is。

3. The question of whether the decrease in plant fecundity caused by th

e spraying o

f pesticides actually causes a decline in the overall populat ion of flowerin

g plant species still remains unanswered.

4. Automakers could schedule the production of different components o r models on single machines, thereby eliminating the need to store the buffer stocks of extra components that result when specialized equipm ent and workers are kept constantly active.

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5. Yet, like Paine, Woodward had an unerring sense of the revolutionary moment, and of how historical evidence could undermine the mythologi cal tradition that was crushing the dreams of new social possibilities.

6. Joseph Glatthaar?s Forged in Battle is not the first excellent study of Black soldiers and their White officers in the Civil War, but it uses more soldiers? letters and diaries—including rare material from Black soldiers —and concentrates more

intensely on Black-White relations in Black regiments than do any of its predecessors.

7. New techniques for determining the molecular sequence of the RNA of organisms have produced evolutionary information about the degree to which organisms are related, the time since they diverged from a co mmon ancestor, and the reconstruction of ancestral versions of genes.

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1. 介词结构倒装。for determining the molecular sequence修饰techniques。

2. 介词结构倒装。of the RNA修饰molecular sequence。

3. 介词结构倒装。of organisms修饰RNA。

4. 介词结构倒装。about the degree…versions of genes修饰information。

5. 介词结构倒装。to which organisms are related修饰degree。

6. 省略。省略介词about。

7. 长句。since引导的时间状语从句。8. 省略。省略介词about。

9. 介词结构倒装。of ancestral versions of genes修饰reconstruction

8. To explain this unfinished revolution in the status of women, historia ns have recently begun to emphasize the way a prevailing definition of f emininity often determines the kinds of work allocated to women, even when such allocation is inappropriate to new conditions.

9. For instance, early textile-mill entrepreneurs, in justifying women?s e mployment in wage labor, made much of the assumption that women w ere by nature skillful at detailed tasks and patient in carrying out repeti tive chores; the mill owners thus imported into the new industrial order hoary stereotypes associated with the homemaking activities they pres umed to have been the purview of women.

10. In order for the far-ranging benefits of individual ownership to be ac hieved by owners, companies, and countries, employees and other indiv iduals must make their own decisions to buy, and they must commit so me of their own resources to the choice.

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1. Granted, apart from medical licenses, the principal sources of inform ation regarding medical practitioners available to researchers are wills, property transfers, court records, and similar documents, all of which t ypically underrepresent women because of restrictive medieval legal tr aditions.

2. This seems especially true of the language of the contemporary scho ol of literary criticism that now prefers to describe its work simply and rather presumptuously as theory but is still popularly referred to as pos tstructuralism of deconstruction.

3. Indeed, one indication of the movement?s strength is the fact that its most distinguished critic, Richard A. Posner, paradoxically ends up expr essing qualified support for the movement in a recent study in which he systematically refutes the writings of its leading legal scholars and co operating literary critics.

4. When these versions of the classical theory are applied to the civil ri ghts movement, the source of strain is identified as a change in black s ocioeconomic status that occurred shortly before the widespread prote st activity of the movement.

5. Monopoly power is the ability of a firm to raise its prices above the c ompetitive level—that is, above the level that would exist naturally if se veral firms had to compete—without driving away so many customers a s to make the price increase unprofitable.