英语阅读中长难句指导
1. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet
products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us.
2. It is because of the close association in most people’s minds of tools with man that special attention has always been focused upon any animal able to use an object as a tool, but it is important to realize that this ability, on its own, does not necessarily indicate any special intelligence in the creature concerned.
3. So don’t be surprised if you never encounter some of the expressions that still appear in school textbooks, and next time you hear somebody using a strange word you haven’t heard before, you can comfort yourself that there may well be a native speaker somewhere who doesn’t know it either.
4. More than three million people live in Inner London, and nearly five million people live in the surrounding suburban area, which is made up of formerly separate villages that have merged to form what is now called Outer London.
5.The next morning the stranger, actually a sorcerer (巫师), thanked her by granting (允准) her wish that anyone who climbed up her tree should not be able to come back down until she permitted it.
6. Behaviorists suggest that the child who is raised in an environment where there are many stimuli which develop his or her capacity for appropriate responses
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will experience greater intellectual development.
7. Even so, everyone at McDonald’s must be hoping that it will be a long time before the firm faces yet another such emergency.
8. Despite the saying that one never knows if lightning strikes him, a person can sometimes feel the bolt (闪电) coming and if quick enough， take protective action in time.
9. The paid manager acting for the company was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patriarchal (家长制的) system of the old family business now passing away.
10. Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from the decoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work.
11. For a family of four， for example， it is more convenient as well as cheaper to sit comfortably at home，with almost unlimited entertainment available，than to go out in search of amusement elsewhere.
12. It therefore becomes more and more important that， if students are not to waste their opportunities，there will have to be much more detailed information about courses and more advice.
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13. Wilson suggests changing this situation by looking into ten thousand species that could be made use of, which will be a way to reduce the clearing of the natural homes of plants and animals to enlarge farming areas.
14. Here are some examples of the things that a well--mannered person does or does not do no matter whether he is an Oriental or a westerner.
15. My idea of a university, based on having seen scores of them in different states of the US, was that it was a place of life and learning, an integral part of the community in which it was located.
16. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears.
17. I do know Miss Lacy proudly left that store carrying the sack that held her new hot pink hunting boots!
18. One of the exercises he asked his students to do is to keep a record of every penny they spend for a week.
19. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment.
20. The person who presents a program or a show on radio or TV is a host or
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hostess but the one who hosts a popular music program is called a disk jockey or DJ.
练习题
1.Having chosen family television programs and women’s magazines，the toothpaste marketer，for instance，must select the exact television programs and stations as well as the specific women’s magazines to be used.
2.In the 1970s he was a surgeon at Yale，had a wonderful wife and five beautiful children，but he was terribly unhappy.
3.Discrimination(歧视) isn’t their only concern；almost everyone testing positive for the Huntington’s gene(基因) develops symptoms(症状) during middle age， and doctors can do nothing to help.
4.I can’t live in fear of the possibility that as the earth’s population grows and we use more and more of our nonrenewable(不能再生的) resources，our children may have to lead poorer lives
5.However，those of us who are parents of children in this age group know that such offers are relatively rare and that many liberal-arts students(文科生) graduate with the belief that the prospective(预期的) workplace may not have a place for them.
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6.His journey to the e-mail hell began innocently（无知地） enough when, as chairman of Computer Associates International，a software company，he first heard how quickly his employees had accepted their new electronic-mail system.
7.I have known changes for the better and changes for the worse，but I have never questioned the fact that whether I liked it or not，change was unavoidable.
They also found that the bus conductor had a major role in preventing vandalism（故意破坏行为），and at the times he went up the stairs to the upper deck to collect fares，vandalism did not often occur.
8.Such tasks are generally important in their outcome，which only adds to the pressure to do good job，and yet their very complexity makes it difficult to know just where or how to begin.
9.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
10.What emerges(浮现) is a picture of an environment where the emphasis is on managing the technology as it spies on people doing their jobs，rather than promoting quality service to customers and providing a fair workplace
11.Justice does demand that murderers be punished. And common sense demands that society be protected from them. But neither justice nor
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self-preservation demands that we kill men whom we have already imprisoned.
12.A 38-square-mile island, is the farthest inhabited island in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1,510 miles southwest of its nearest neighbor St. Helena, and 1,950 miles west of Africa. Discovered by the Portuguese admiral(葡萄牙海军上将) of the same name in 1506, and settled in 1810, the island belongs to Great Britain and has a population of a few hundred.Coming in a close second——and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant island——is Easter Island, which lies 1,260 miles east of its nearest neighbour, Pitcairn Island, and 2,300 miles west of South America.The mountainous 64-square-mile island was settled around the 5th century, supposedly by people who were lost at sea. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1,000 huge stone figures, called moai, for which the island is most famous.On Easter Sunday, 1722, however, settlers from Holland moved in and gave the island its name. Today, 2,000 people live on the Chilean territory(智利领土). They share one street, a small airport and a few hours of television per day.
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