高考英语长难句

（A）长句理解

(1) It is reported that the difficulties the American scientists met when they succeeded in sending up the first man-made satellite considered by some to be of fine quality are a lot greater than those the climbers came across when they tried to reach the top of the highest mountain in the world that lies in the southwest of China.

(2) It is probably not by chance that young people in different parts of the world today try to start a movement of struggle and pressure which is shaking governments and attempting to put new values in practice in a world which they consider as unfair or even as horrible as the rule by Hitler.

(3) Many people find it helpful to plan each week a seven day timetable showing the occasions on which they will be working privately and the particular subjects that they will be studying on each occasion as a result of great pressure they face with the rapid development of modern industry and agriculture.

4. Well educated at home at a time when women of good family were not encouraged to do anything more important than work hard at arts, she became the writer of a magazine named Correspondence des Families in which she was brave enough to publish articles by the revolutionaries who believed in communism.

5. Decision-thinking is not unlike poke —it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think and what you think they think you think. The mental process is similar. Naturally, this card game has often been of considerable interest to people who are, by any standards, good thinkers.

Long sentence analysis

1 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.

2 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.

3 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 librarian told the magazine “American Libraries”.

4 First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Format in the seventeenth century, the theory 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.

5 The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBC---including ordinary listeners and viewer to say what was good or bad about the Corporation, and even whether they thought it was worth keeping.

6 Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone human, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment---although no one had proposed to do so---and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning.

7 But it is a little upsetting to read in the explanatory notes that a certain line describes a fight between a Turkish and a Bulgarian officer on a bridge off which they both fall into the river---and then to find that the line consists of the noise of their falling and the weights of the officers, “pluff!pluff!” a hundred and eighty-five kilograms.

8 The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.

9 Eddie never said this---not to his wife, not to his mother, not to anyone---but he cursed his father for dying and for trapping him in the very life he’d been trying to escape; a life that, as he heard the old man laughing from the grave, apparently now was good enough for him.

10 It begins as a childlike interest in the grand spectacle and exciting event; it grows as a mature interest in the variety and complexity of the drama, the splendid achievements and terrible failures; it ends as deep sense of the mystery of man's life of all the dead, great and obscure, who once walked the earth, and of wonderful and awful possibilities of being a human being.

11 He will be happy, he will learn how to accomplish the task sooner, and then he can proceed to more complex activities, like opening the door or asking for the key---both of which accomplishments can (and should) in due course be modeled for him as well.

12 And, more generally, he is less likely to view life---as Americans do---as a series of situations in which one has to learn to think for oneself, to solve problems on one’s own and even to discover new problems for which creative solutions are wanted.

13 But assuming that the contrast I have developed is valid, and that the fostering of skills and creativity are both worthwhile goals, the important question becomes this: Can we gather, from the Chinese and American extremes, a superior way to approach education, perhaps striking a better balance between the poles of creativity and basic skills?