2019-2020年高考英语 复杂句子结构分析讲练

2019-2020年高考英语复杂句子结构分析讲练

纵观历年高考英语试题，可以发现阅读文章中出现了许多结构复杂的句子。不难理解，命题

者在句子难度上大做文章，无非是想通过增加句子长度和使用复杂结构来打断和干扰考生正

常的阅读习惯和思维方式，从而达到考查考生综合阅读能力的目的。

一、复杂句的构成

复杂句常由是由各种修饰语（如各类从句、非谓语、形容词性短语、名词性短语、介词短语，同位语，with+宾语+宾补结构, 并列结构等）拓展而成。

难点：如何判断修饰语及其修饰的对象。

1. The day I was looking forward to _______ at last.

A. came

B. e

C. ing

D. had e

2. The students absent from the lessons must make up for them ?

Question: What does “them” refer to?

3. People objecting to seat belt installation suggest that children are already well protected by the school buses that follow the Nation Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) safety requirements set in 1977.

Questions: Why do some people object to seat belt installation? (10 words)

4. “It is irresponsible for G oogle to produce a product like this without taking technological measures that would obscure (遮掩) the identities of people captured

by this product,” he said.

Question: What is the problem of Google’s new product? (5 words)

5. This chance discovery ended a 12-day search by the Library pany of Philadelphia

for historical treasure—a 120-page diary kept 190 years ago by Deborah Logan, “a woman who knew everybody in her days,” James Green, the librarian told the magazine “American Librarians”.

Who discovered the diary?

A. The Library pany of Philadelphia.

B. Deborah Logan.

C. James Green.

D. No one knows.

6. (2008北大自主招生)Translate the underlined sentences in the following passage from English into Chinese.

Thanks to the work of many scientists, we are now clear that many of the important earthquake（地震）regions are places where the movements of plates are happening and therefore, it bees much easier to look for signs that an earthquake is ing soon. (2) In the past few years, there has

been great excitement about the possibility of finding out when earthquakes are going to happen by measuring changes in the rocks, but we are still not sure whether this can be the basis for an efficient means of predicting earthquakes.

But further research on this subject may suggest ways in which earthquakes can

be predicted and prevented. (3) One idea is that it might be possible to reduce the pressures that have built up in rocks by pumping in water at high pressure, thus producing a wet surface on which the two opposite side of the fault can slide. Now the question is that nobody is quite sure what the results might be.

二、长难句常见的特殊结构类型

I. 使用插入语

1. In 1996 Armstrong, the then No1 cyclist in the world, was diagnosed with cancer and many thought that it meant the end of his career, maybe even his life.（同位语）

2. The one-kilogram Win-Cub satellite, named for its home city and its shape, will be put

into

low orbit.（非谓语）

3. On Yi Jian Lain’s arrival to the NBA, his performance in the first game, as his fans

had

expected, turned out a great success. （从句）

4. Those，unaware of what is happening in society today , may be surprised to learn that

few

academic philosophers study death, happiness and so on.

Practice：

1. This lecture, following the previous lectures focusing on the reading obstacles in

new words and psychology, turns to those in plex sentences, which are always dogging students as well. Syntax analysis, in this case, particularly when meaning analysis fails

to work, proves to be a great help.

1) Dogging in this sentence means_______.

A. following… as a fierce dog

B. like a ghost hanging around

C. puzzling

D. exciting

2) Those in this sentence refers to _______.

A. obstacles

B. lectures

C. students

D. new words and psychology

2. I, together with my newly-born son, was determined to visit my father although we

had separated and never contacted for nearly 20 years because I would not follow his footprint. On the long flight to Hawaii, memories of my childhood, when I was my father’s shadow, came flooding back. …So excited was my father with the new status of grandfather

that he was determined to resign earlier to take care of Tim.

Which of the following statements is wrong?

A. There must have been some gap in munication between the writer and her father at first.

B. The father changed his attitude after writer’s visit and his grandson’s birth.

C. On the way back to visit her father, the writer was caught in a storm.

D. Probably the grandfather was now living with his grandson.

II. 使用省略结构

1. You can learn that the oldest person is a woman who lived to be 122 years and 164 days,

the longest moustache reached a length of 1.6 metres, and that the longest poisonous snake is 5.71 metres long.

2. Decision-thinking is not unlike poker—it often matters not only what you think, but