高考英语长难句分析

高考英语长难句分析练习

1、The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that

shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.

2. Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious

about.

3. Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the

CSF on Sunday, April 21st.

4. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

5. The action group has also found acceptable paper made from materials other than wood, such as agricultural waste.

6. In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting（禁止）the killing of passenger pigeons(旅鸽), but by then, no sizeable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.

7. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.

8. After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success, that is, when guests leave the igloo（冰屋）hotel they will receive a paper stating that they have had a taste of adventure.

9. Few of us are asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle, but all of us are called upon daily to make a great many personal decisions.

10. Todd thought of the difficulty with which he managed to get the amount of money he needed to start his gas station.

11.With their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed

for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Animals（ITA）in salt Lake City.

12. It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3billion passenger pigeons ——a

number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world.

13. In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations ——UNESCO and National Geographic

among them ——have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

14. Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for

an au pair（互惠生）from China. She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots.

15. By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by

Americans’ need for wood, which scattered（驱散）the flocks（群体）and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline（减少）.

16. Now, through the two organizations that he has founded——the Digital Himalaya project and the World Oral Literature

Project ——Turin has started a campaign to make such documents（文献）, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally

collected.

17. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they

heard just two; likewise when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.

18. When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the

number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves.

19. What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was

willing to honor his wishes and donate his organs（器官）for transplantation(移植).

20. Pasteur discovered that heating the wine gently for a few minutes after it had fermented would kill off the yeast that was left

in the wine, with the result that the wine would remain fresh for much longer.

21. This chance discovery ended a 12-day search by the Library Company of Philadelphia for a historical treasure—a 120-page

diary kept 190 years ago by Deborah Logan—“a woman who knew everybody of her day,” James Green, the li brarian told the magazine “American Libraries”.

22. The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious(怀疑) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New

Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face ...

23. At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in

using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past.

24. First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Format in the seventeenth century, the theorem had baffled and

beaten the finest mathematical minds, including a French woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem, and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the Ecolab Polytechnique.

25. It is difficult to measure the quantity of paper used as a result of use of Internet-connected computers, although just about

anyone who works in an office can tell you that when e-mail is introduced, the printers start working overtime. That is, the growing demand for paper in recent years is largely due to the increased use of the Internet.

26.. Perhaps the best sign of how computer and internet use pushes up demand for paper comes from the high-tech industry

itself, which sees printing as one of its most promising new market.

27.Mostly borrowed from English and Chinese, these terms are often changed into forms no longer understood by native

speakers.

28. The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can afford the new service, in other

words, Shanghai’s car rental （租赁）industry is growing so fast mainly due to the increasing number of white-collar employees.

29. Decision-thinking is not unlike poker—it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think and

what you think they think you think.

30. Still, he could not help thinking that if anything should happen, the nearest person he could contact by radio, unless there

was a ship nearby, would be on an island 885 miles away。

31. Thirty years after being introduced to McCauley’s words, they still seem to me the best yardstick（准绳）, because they give

us a way to measure ourselves rather than others.

32. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more

than 1000 huge stone figures, called moat, for which the island is most famous.

33. Until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.

34. Gold is one of a growing number of shoppers buying into the organic trend, and supermarkets across Britain are counting on

more like him as they grow their organic food business.

35.Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear

a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep

on the sofa.

36. When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “Foreign” than France because the

German they see on signs and ads seems much more different from English than French does.

37. Some companies have made the manufacturing of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their

advertising.

38. That you won’t be for long means it won’t be long before you’ll have to recycle your rubbish.

39. The hot sun had caused the dough （面团）to double in size and the fermenting yeast（酵母）made the surface shake and

sigh as though it were breathing and it looked like some unknown being from outer space.

40. Dad, in a hurry to get home before dark so he could go for a run, had forgotten wear his safety belt-a mistake 75% of the US

population make every day.

41. The present question is that many people consider impossible what is really possible if effort is made.

42. Ill and suffering as she was after the inhuman punishment, she yet remained so cheerful and confident, eager to devote the

little strength left to her to helping the other comrades.

43. It covered the whole distance from broken -hearted misery to bursting happiness——too fast.

44. The old couple have been married for 40 years and never once have they quarreled with each other.（NMET2003.34）

45. As a result , at the poin t in our game when I’d have figured on (predicted) the score to be about 9 to 1 in my favor , it was

instead 7 to 9 - and Ed was leading.

46. So when Ed arrived for our game not only with the bottom of his shirt gathered inside his trousers but also with a stomach

you could hardly notice , I was so surprised that I was speechless , my cousin must have made an effort to get himself into shape .

47. The researchers said that among the problems with some earlier studies is that they often failed to take into account those

people most at risk for skin cancer—people with fair skin and freckles(雀斑)，for example—are more likely to use sunscreen. As a result，it may appear that sunscreen users get cancer more often.

48.The busier we are，the more important we seem to ourselves and，we imagine，to others. To be unavailable to our friends

and family，and to be unable to find time to relax—this has become the model of a successful life.

49. As the only girl in a family of seven children，she often felt like she had “seven fat hers，” because her six brothers，as well

as her father，tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant，she retreated(躲避) into books. Despite her love of reading，she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.

50. First, I have to find the red ones among the leaves, which means I almost have to stand on my head，and once found I have

to reach down and under, pick the tomatoes and withdraw (缩回) my full fist without dropping the prize so dearly won．51. If you ask people to name one person who had the greatest effect on the English language, you will get answers like “Shakespeare”, “Samuel Johnson”, and “Webster”, but none of these men had any effect at all compared to a man who didn’t even speak English—William, the Conqueror.

52．Sparrow failed to grow for another two years. Until a new CEO, Carl Pearson, decided to build up its market share. He did

a survey, which showed that consumers who already used Sparrow restaurants were extremely positive about the chain,

while customers of other fast-food chains were unwilling to turn away from them.

53. Most believe the footprints are nothing more than ordinary animal tracks , which had been made larger as they melted and

refroze in the snow.

54. The WTO cannot live up to its name if it dose not include a country that is home to one fifth of mankind.

55. It is the ability to do the job that matters not where you come from or what you are.

56. How could I ever get him to finish unloading the car without screaming at me and making a scene in front of the other

girls, who I would have to spend the rest of the year with?

57. People who multitask all the time may be the worst at doing two things at once, a new research suggests. The findings,

based on performance and self-evaluation by about 272 college students, indicate(表明) that many people multitask not out of a desire to increase productivity, but because they are easily distracted(分心) and can’t focus on one activity.

58. Not surprisingly, the scientists said, most people thought they were better than average at multitasking, and those who

thought they were better at it were more likely to report using a cellphone while driving or viewing multiple kinds of media at once. But those who frequently deal with many things at the same time were found to perform the worst at the actual multitasking test.

59. It was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history ——a society in which the

majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living,

60. The process of urbanization ——the migration (迁徙) of people from the countryside to the city ——was the result of

modernization, which has rapidly transformed(转变) how people live and where they live….. Cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus(过多的) food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.

61. The most valuable lesson I gained from studying in France wasn’t just to respect the French people but to respect all

people, for your next best friend could be just a continent away.

62.Today it is not unusual for a student,even if he works part time at college and full time during the summer，

to have $5,000 in loans(贷款) after four years—loans that he must start to repay within one year after graduation