英语四级四级长难句

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四级长难句分析

在大学英语四级考试的阅读理解中，我们经常会遇到一些长而难的句子。长难句通常含有较多、较长的修饰成分、并列成分或从句。长难句的丰富内容和复杂结构往往会导致理解的困难。理解长难句的关键是了解长难句的类型，理清句子成分，抓住句子中的关键部分。

首先我们先来了解制造长句的几个要点

一词汇：核心词汇+普通词汇

二语法结构

1．从句：定语、同位语、表语、宾语、状语

2．并列结构

3．插入语

4．倒装

5．强调

6．省略：分词作定语，独立主格结构

2008-6

1．But the real truth is that we don't know enough to relieve global warming, and —— without major 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 economist Alessandro Acauisti has run a series of tests that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon(优惠卷)

4. The digital bread crumbs(碎屑) you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you like.

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4．The story about a fearful angel starting first grade was quickly “guided”by me into

the tale of a little girl with a wild imagination taking her first music lesson.

5. Because I know very little about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first

grade, I had to accept the fact that I was co-opting my daughter's experience.

6. While stepping back was difficult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I

will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but

close enough to help if asked.

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7. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel

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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 encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher

fleeting(稍纵即逝的) thought, correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a

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 past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you

write is what Elbow calls “free writing.”

10. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves

be captured on your notepad or your screen.

11. Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the 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 staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.

13. There was a time in my life when people asked constantly for stories about what it's like to work in a field dominated by men.

versus (相对于14. Sometimes, when I was pushed into an argument on left brain ) right

nurture(培育brain, or nature versus ), I would instantly fight fiercely on my behalf

and all womankind.

15. Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually

become my reply to any and all provocations: I don't talk about that anymore.

16. It took me 10 years to get back the confidence I had at 19 and to realize that I didn't want to deal with gender issues.

2006-12

17. In fact, New York's municipal water for more 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 than several leading brands of bottled water that were 400 times more expensive.

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The Street Journal, some of the more shameless tactics 19. According to an article in

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. 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 seen, the focus of medical care in our society has been shifting from curing

disease to preventing disease—especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy

behaviors, such as poor eating habits, smoking, and failure to exercise.

22. Imagine a person who is about the right weight, but does not eat very nutritious foods,

who feels OK but exercises only occasionally, who goes to work every day, but is not an

outstanding worker, who drinks a few beers at home most nights but does not drive while

drunk, and who has no chest pains or abnormal blood counts, but sleeps a lot and often

feels tired.

23. The field of medicine has not traditionally distinguished between someone who is

merely “not ill” and someone who is in excellent health and pays attention to the body's special needs.

24. In recent years, however, some health specialists have begun to apply the terms “well”

and “wellness” only to those who are actively striving to maintain and improve their

health.

handicap (缺陷) may be “physical disease orwell,” in this 25. Even people who have a

new sense, if they make an effort to maintain the best possible health they can in the

face of their physical limitations.

26. And by focusing attention on healthy ways of living, the concept of

wellness can have

a beneficial impact on the ways in which people face the challenges of daily life.

2006-6

27. But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation 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 being treated like disposable goods.

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29. We're saying we want you to work in these places, we're going to look the other

way in terms of what our laws are, and then when it's convenient for us, or when we can

try to make a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept. 11, then you're disposable.

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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.

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31．Women's education may be unusual territory for economists, but enhancing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue.

32．Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do

not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to

marry into somebody else's family and bear children.

33．Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework

prophecy (预言while their brothers are sent to school-the) becomes self-fulfilling,

circle of neglect.

trapping women in a vicious

34．She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development

of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance.

immobiliser (锁止器), and a radio fitted with a remotesignal from a control The 35．car is

centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not

be able to start it again.

36．Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won't allow

ignition (点火) beamed out by thekey. ID them to start unless they receive a unique code

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37．While here's on question that continuous stress is harmful, several studies suggest

that challenging situations in which you're able to rise to the occasion can be good

for you.

38．In a 2001 study of 158 hospital nurses, those who faced considerable work demands

but coped 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 general, 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 never to do again.

40. Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of

strength, and therefore not resort to these pseudo-apologies.

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1．But the research paper also gives you a chance to individualize a school assignment,

to suit a piece of work to your own interests and abilities, to show others what you can

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do.

2.To determine the consequences of sleep deficit, researchers have put subjects through

a set of psychological and performance tests requiring them, for instance, to add

columns 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

contradict each other, that research plays too prominent a part in academic promotions,

and that teaching is badly underemphasized.

4.House had to be sited “within easy walking distance of the railroad station,” as

some old residents would point out; and only those wealthy enough to afford a horse

and a carriage dared to penetrate farther into the open country.

5.White collar workers doing routine work in government offices are, however, as likely

to have shrinking brains as the farm worker, bus driver and shop assistant.

6.But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things,

and you will 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 for admission 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.