课堂练习-名词从句.doc

名词性从句例1. Whoever comes to our library will be welcome. (主语从句）例2. How and when human language developed and whether animals such as chimpanzees and gorillas can develop a more elaborate system of communication are issues at present being researched, but as yet little understood.（主语从句）例3. How well the prediction will be validated by later performance depends upon the amount, reliability, and appropriateness of the information used and on the skill and wisdom with which it is interpreted. (主语从句)例4. It is often said that wide reading is the best alternative course of action but even here it is necessary to make some kinds of selection.（主语从句）例5. And it is imagined by many that the operations of the common mind can by no means be compared with these processes, and that they have to be acquired by a sort of special training. (主语从句)例6. From the end of the Second World War until very recently, it was generally accepted in Britain that the State should provide a full range of free educational facilities from nursery schools to universities.（主语从句）例7. He believes that the highly mobile American society leaves individuals with feelings of rootlessness, isolation, indifference to community welfare, and shallow personal relationships.（宾语从句）例8. Some people think that it is a shame that a censor should interfere with works of art.（宾语从句）例9. It is virtually impossible to imagine that universities, hospitals, large business or even science and technology could have come into being without cities to support them.（宾语从句）例10. We fail to learn that pain is the bodys way of informing the mind that we are doing something wrong, not necessarily that something is wrong.（宾语从句）例11. You have all heard it repeated that men of science work by means of induction and deduction, that by the help of these operations, they, in a sort of sense, manage to extract from Nature certain natural laws, and that out of these by some special skill of their own, they build up their theories.（宾语从句）例12. Nutritional experiments have made it evident that vitamins are indispensable for ones growth and health. （表语从句）例13. One aspect of analogies is that they are limited by the scientific understanding of the time. （表语从句）例14. A even more possibility is that the dark matter is composed of sub-atomic articles left over the Big Bang that is believed to have sparked the creation of the universe.（表语从句）例15. Galieos greatest glory was that in 1609 he was the first person to turn the newly invented telescope on the heavens to prove that the planets revolve around the sun rather than around the Earth. （表语从句）例16. Unfortunately, Platos analogy misses an important characteristic of memory, namely it is selective.（同位语从句）例17. In spite of the fact that the authors who dealt with womens issues prior to 1949 agreed in principle that reforms had to be instituted, the outlook they depicted for reform was bleak.（同位语从句）例18. An order has been given that the researchers who are now in the sky-lab should be sent back. （同位语从句）例19. Even the most precisely conducted experiments offers no hope that the result can be obtained without error.（同位语从句）例20. However, the writing of chemical symbols in the form of an equation does not give any assurance that the reaction shown will actually occur.（同位语从句）Christmas Lost and FoundChristmas was a quiet affair when I was growing up. There were just my parents and me. I vowed that someday Id marry and have six children, and at Christmas my house would vibrate with energy and life and love. I found the man who shared my dream, but we had not reckoned on the possibility of infertility. Undaunted, we applied for adoption and, within a year, he arrived.We called him our Christmas Boy because he came to us during that season of joy, When he was just six days old. Then nature surprised us again. In rapid succession we added two biological children to the familynot as many as we had hoped for, but compared with my quiet childhood, three made an entirely satisfactory crowd.As our Christmas Boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the expertise to select and decorate the Christmas tree each year. He rushed the season, starting his gift list before wed even finished the Thanksgiving turkey. He pressed us into singing carols, our froglike voices contrasting with his musical gift of perfect pitch. Each holiday he stirred us up, leading us through a round of merry chaos. Our friends were right about adopted children not being the same. Through his own unique heredity, his irrepressible good cheer, his bossy wit, our Christmas Boy made our life colorful. He made us look and behave better than we were.Then, on his 26th Christmas, he left us as unexpectedly as he had come. He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denver street, on his way home to his young wife and infant da