阅读理解长难句解析2

阅读理解长难句解析2

三、否定句

1.P171 But even he was unable to discover how long the gorilla lives, or how or why it dies, nor was he able to define the exact social patterns of the family groups, or indicate the final extent of their intelligence.

2.P172 Descriptive linguists cannot explain how a sentence is transformed – or, in other words, indicate such relationships as that between active and passive voice.

3.P173 For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 80s, downshifting in the mid-90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life – growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one –as a personal recognition of your limitations.

4.P175 Who knows but it will rain tomorrow?

5.P176 I know not what, nor where, neither what latitude, what country, what nation or what river. I neither saw, nor desired to see any people; the principal thing I wanted was fresh water.

6.P176 He had never touched anything in the library other than American novels.

7.P177 Don’t tell him more than you can help.

8.P177 Rather than condemnation there was some kindness in the man’s voice.

9.P178 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.

10.P179 They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law.

11.P181 He’s no more able to read Spanish than I am.

12.P182. One can’t be too careful in making the decision as it was such a critical case.

13.P;183 You cannot be careful enough. You cannot take enough care.

14.P184 There, a child grows up under the ever-present attention of his parents… No necessity of making a living away from home results in neglect of children.

15.P185 A book may be compared to your neighbor, if it be good, it can not last too long; if bad, you can not get rid of it too early.

四、省略句

1.P80 If a needle is thrown at random on a sheet of paper ruled with lines whose distance apart is exactly equal to the length of the needle, how often can it be expected to fall on a line and how often into a blank space?

2.P81 Neither do we know how the universe begin, nor how it will end – if, indeed, it ends at all.

3. Son and father, together, had saved the day – he by holding out for something he enjoyed and I by having the sense, finally, to realize that he was right, and to let go of my dream of how things should be.

4.P85 The increase in the numbers of married women employed outside the home in the twentieth century had less to do with the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it did with their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool of single women workers.

5.P85 The European Union is an imperfect creature, with some of its actions based on fine principles of political economy and some one poor ones.

6.P86 To Americans, being on one’s own suggests that one is a fully independent and functioning part of the whole capable and willing to make choices.

7.P87 For example, a school superintendent wishes to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever.

8.P88 Airline pilots, in fact, whose experience is so obviously relevant that it ought to serve as a guide, often live by their own watches, ignoring local time, and have breakfast at midnight if necessary.

9.P91 The question “what are the roads like?”may when asked at one time, refer to the condition of the surface, at another, to their narrowness, at another to the traffic upon them, and at still another to the presence or otherwise of ice or snow.

10.P92 The largest known raindrops are slightly less than a quarter inch across or would be if they were perfectly round.

11.P92 Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oncogene, but how remains unknown.

12.P93 In their hearts, women think it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it – if possible during their husband’s life, but, at any rate, after his death.

13.P95 I could accept this fact with calmness because I know that if I wasn’t able to avoid a mistake, chances were that no other surgeon could have, either.

14.P98 By taking thought, men can move mountains – and have.