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1、全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center考研基础阅读考研基础阅读欧娟娟欧娟娟Wechat:2全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 找主干 （红） 如何断句？(蓝) 1)划动词 _ 2)“波”并列and / but/ or 3)圈连接词 4)断从句 找出先行词全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句1】 As a linguist, he acknowledges th

2、at all varieties of human language, including non-standard ones like Black English, can be powerfully expressivethere exists no language or dialect in the world that can not convey complex ideas.2005.text4 作为一个语言学家，他认为各种各样的人类语言，包括像黑人英语这样的非标准英语都具有强大的表达力世上没有传达不了复杂思想的语言或方言。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion

3、 and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句2】 Hofstadter says our countrys educational system is in the grips of people who “joyfully and militantly proclaim their hostility to intellect and their eagerness to identify with children who show the least intellectual promise.”2004.text2 Hofstadter说，我们国家的教育体系受到这

4、些人的支配他们“得意，公然地宣称他们敌视知识，宣称他们渴望支持那些表现出最少的智慧潜力的孩子”全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句3】 An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers.1994. text1 市场型经济中的一个重要因素是反映消费者需求以及生产者对消费者需求做出反应

5、的机制。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句4】 The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s, when they discovered that oncogenes, which are cancer-causing genes, are inactive in normal cells.1994.text4 研究人员在70年代早期取得了很大进展，他们发现导致癌症的癌基因在正常细胞里是不活跃的。全国项目推广与管理中心National Pr

6、omotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句5】 Russians have a deep love for their own language and carry large chunks of memorized poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem old-fashioned to most English-speakers.2005.text4 俄罗斯人深爱自己的语言，并在脑海中存储了大量诗歌；而意大利的政

7、客们往往精心准备演讲，即使这在大多数讲英语的人们眼里已经过时。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句6】 For example, a grandmotherly woman staffing an animal rights booth at a recent street fair was distributing a brochure that encouraged readers not to use anything that comes from or is tested in animalsn

8、o meat, no fur, no medicines.2003.text2 例如，在近期的一次集市上，一位老奶奶站在动物权利宣传点前散发小册子，规劝人们不要使用动物制品和动物实验制品肉类，皮毛，药物。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句7】 In Europe, as elsewhere, multi-media groups have been increasingly successful groups which bring together television, radio, newspap

9、ers, magazines and publishing house that work in relation to one another.2005. Part C. 47 多媒体集团在欧洲就像在其他地方一样越来越成功了。这些集团把相互关系密切的电视台、电台、报纸、杂志、出版社整合到了一起。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句8】 Towns like Bournemouth and Eastbourne sprang up to house large “comfortable” class wh

10、o had retired on their incomes, and who had no relation to the rest of the community except that of drawing dividends and occasionally attending a shareholders meeting to dictate their orders to the management. 1996. text3 像伯恩茅斯和伊斯特本这样的城市的兴起是为了给大批 “舒适” 阶层提供居住场所，这些人靠自己的丰厚收入而不工作，除了领取红利，偶尔参加股东会议向管理人员发号

11、施令外，他们与外界没有联系。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句9】 Creating a “European identity” that respects the different cultures and traditions which go to make up the connecting fabric of the Old continent is no easy task and demands a strategic choice.2005. Part C. 49 创造一个尊重不同文化

12、和传统的“欧洲统一体”绝非易事，需要战略性选择。正是这些文化和传统组成了连接欧洲大陆的纽带。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句10】 The “Shareholders” as such had no knowledge of the lives, thoughts or needs of the workmen employed by the company in which he held shares, and his influence on the relations of capital a

13、nd labor was not good.1996. text3 the relations of capital and labor劳资关系 这种股东不了解他们所持股的公司里工人们的生活、思想和需求, 他们对劳资关系也不会产生积极的影响。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句11】 After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates. Australias Northern Territory becam

14、e the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.1997. text1 经过6个月争论和最后16个小时的国会激烈辩论，澳大利亚北部地区（澳北州）成为世界上第一个允许医生根据绝症病人个人意愿来结束其生命的合法当局。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句12】 In Australiawhere an aging popula

15、tion, life-extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.1997. text1 在澳大利亚，人口老龄化，延长寿命技术和公众态度的变化都发挥着各自的作用。其他州也将考虑制定类似的法律来处理安乐死问题。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从

16、句 【例句13】 As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of culture signal, assumptions and conventions underlies all social interrelationships.1997. text 2 同任何发达国家一样，一系列复杂的文化特征，信念和习俗构成了美国所有社会交往的基础。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句14】 New ways of organizin

17、g the workplaceall that re-engineering and downsizingare only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training.1998.text2 企业重组的新方法所有那些重新设计和缩小

18、规模的做法只是对一个经济的整体生产力做出了一方面的贡献，而这种经济的发展还收到许多其他因素的驱动，如设备、机械上的联合投资，新技术，以及教育和培训上的投资。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句15】 The complementary coastlines and certain geological features that seem to span the ocean are reminders of where the two continents were once joined.1998.te

19、xt5 但互相吻合的海岸线和某些似乎跨越海洋的地质特征会使人想到这两个大陆曾经是连在一起的。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句16】 At the same time, the American Law Institutea group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weightissued new guidelines for tort law stating that compani

20、es need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.1999.text1 与此同时，美国法学会该学会由一群举足轻重的法官、律师、学者所组成签署了新的民事侵害法纲要，宣布公司不必警示顾客那些显而易见的危险，或者给顾客列出一份冗长的可能造成的危险的清单。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句17】 Some companies are limiting the ris

21、k by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the companys private intranet.1999.text2 有些公司为了限制这种冒险，只与那些已经熟识的贸易伙伴进行在线贸易，给予这些伙伴进入本公司局域网的权利。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句18】 And the cost of computing power continues

22、 to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon.1999.text2 计算能力的成本持续自由下降，这对任何建立了网上销售的企业来说都是个好的征兆。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句19】 An education that aims at getting a student a certain kind of job is a technical education, justified

23、for reasons radically different from why education is universally required by law.1999.text3 旨在使学生胜任某种工作的教育是职业教育，它存在的理由与法律所规定的普及教育之间有很大差别。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第一讲：定语从句 【例句20】 Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a count

24、ry as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.1999.text3 此外，在我们这么大的一个国家里，经济延展到这么多的州，涉及到这么多的国际公司，因而要按照数量培养出所需要的各类专业人员是不太可能的。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：倒装句 【例句1】 With economic growth has come centrali

25、zation: fully 76 percent of Japans 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households.2000. text4 随着经济的发展，居住集中化也跟着来了，在日本1亿1900万人当中，足有76住在城市，在那里社区和几世同堂的大家庭已经成为过去，而取而代之的是单门独户的两代之家。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion

26、 and Management Center第二讲：倒装句 【例句2】 Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, tooand so did bigger crops of babies as yesterdays “baby boom” generation reached its child-bearing years.1998.text4 不断涌入的移民潮，还有以前“生育高峰”出生的那些孩子也已到了生育年龄，这些都发挥着作用。 全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：倒装句

27、【例句3】 Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, as population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.1998.text4 1980年美国人口普查显示出这样一幅图像：随着东北部和中西部人口增长近乎停止，地区间的竞争越来越激烈了。 全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Cente

28、r第二讲：分隔结构 【例句1】 Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers.1994.text2 许多其他商业企业，从剧院到杂志社，从电气公司到牛奶加工厂都通过计算机的使用给消费者提供更好、效率更高的服务.全国项目推广与

29、管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句2】 If its message were confined merely to informationand that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasiveadvertising would be so boring that no one

30、 would pay any attention.1995.text1 如果广告内容仅限于提供信息-这件事如果不是不可能，也很难实现，因为即使是对于衬衫颜色的挑选也具有一些劝诱性-那么广告将会变得非常索然无味，甚至没有人会注意到它。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句3】 One place where children soak up A-characteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly competitive insti

31、tution.1995.text4 让孩子吸收A型性格的一个地方是学校。学校，就其本质而言，是高度竞争的机构。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句4】 Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by grades in chemistry and more by such consideration as sensitivity and sympathy.1995.text4

32、也许对护理职业特别是医疗护理人员的选择应少注重化学成绩而多关注他们是否敏感、是否有同情心。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句5】 The debate was launched by the Government, which invited anyone with an opinion of the BBCincluding ordinary listeners and viewersto say what was good or bad about the corporation, and even

33、 whether they thought it was worth keeping.1996text2 英国政府发起了这场争论，它邀请每一位对BBC有看法的人包括普通的听众和观众对公司好坏进行评说，甚至可以评说他们是否认为公司值得办下去。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句6】 There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote tha

34、t points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.1998text2 正如财政部长罗伯特鲁宾所说的，生产力发生飞跃的商业传奇与统计数字所反映的情况之间存在着一种“脱节”。 全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句7】 A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress promoted me to abandon

35、my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming “I wanted to spend more time with my family”.2001.text5 一次平级的人事调动伤了我的自尊心，并阻断了我的事业发展，这促使我放弃自己地位较高的职业，当然，就像面子扫尽的政府部长那样，我也掩饰说“我只想与家人更多的呆在一起”。 全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Man

36、agement Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句8】 In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He describes their programs and tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may come as an unpleasant surpris

37、e.1996.text5 在书的后三章，他毫不客气地对创世纪论者进行了猛烈抨击。他揭露了这些人的纲领和手段，对那些不了解创世纪论者惯用手法的人来说，其欺骗和歪曲事实的程度会让他们感到气愤和吃惊。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句9】 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 t

38、he mythical good lifegrowing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into oneas a personal recognition of your limitations.2001.text5 对我们这一代女性来说，整个80年代我们曾被迫忙碌地生活，90年代中期的简化生活与其说是寻求神话般的好生活自己种有机蔬菜以及冒险制造有机蔬菜倒不如说我们都认识了自身的局限。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第二讲：分隔结构 【例句10】 It is

39、 a self-examination that has, at various times, involved issues of responsibility, creative freedom and the corporate bottom line.1997.text4 这样的质问仅仅只是公司自我反思的最新表白，是在不同时期涉及责任、创作自由和公司底线问题的自我反省。 全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：省略 【例句1】 As families move away from their stable commu

40、nity, their friends of many years, their extended family relationships, the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable.1995.text3 随着家庭远离稳定的社区、多年的朋友。大家庭的种种关系，非正式的信息交流被切断了。同时在需要时就能得到可靠可信的信息的信心也

41、随之丧失了。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：省略 【例句2】 Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataracts removed in a 30-minute surgical procedure.2003.text4 髋骨不行了可以更换，临床的抑郁症得到了控制，白内障仅用30分钟手术便可以切除。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句1

42、】 In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.1994.text1 在美国经济中，私有财产的概念不仅包括生产资料的所有权，也包括一定的权

43、利，比如，产品价格的决定权或与其他私有个体的自由签约权.全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句2】 However, whether such a sense of fairness evolved independently in capuchins and humans, or whether it stems from the common ancestor that the species had 35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered q

44、uestion.2005.text1 但是，这种公平感究竟是僧帽猴和人类自身各自独立进化而来的，还是起源于三千五百万年前两者的共同祖先呢？迄今为止，这仍然是一个悬而未决的问题。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句3】 They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even abroad and they make many bank

45、ing services available as well.1994.text2 信用卡持有者可在商店、饭店、宾馆，在当地、外地甚至国外赊购货物，同时信用卡还可以使他们得到银行提供的许多服务。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句4】 Television is one of the means by which these feelings are created and conveyedand perhaps never before has it served so much to connec

46、t different peoples and nations as in the recent events in Europe.2005 Part C 46. 电视是创造和传递感情的手段之一。也许在此之前，就加强不同的民族和国家之间的联系而言，电视还从来没有像在最近的欧洲事件中起过如此大的作用。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句5】 Discoveries in sciences and technology are thought by “untaught minds” to come in

47、blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents.1994.text5 科学技术上的发明创造被不知内情者看作灵感的眩目闪现或戏剧性事件的结果。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句6】 Innovation is like soccer; even the best players miss the goal and have their shots blocked much more frequently than they score.1

48、994.text5 创新就像踢足球，即使是最出色的球员也会痛失进球机会，其射门被挡出的机会大大多于进球的机会。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句7】 The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new languageall these are examples of people who have measurable results to show fo

49、r their efforts.1995.text2 工人的升职、学生的成绩提高、外国人掌握了一门新的语言-这些都证明了人们在付出努力之后，可以获得可衡量的成绩。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句8】 In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.1995.text

50、2 在这个过程中，旅途是没有真正的尽头的；我们总是有新的方式去体验世界、新的想法去尝试、新的挑战去接受。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句9】 In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first.1995.te

51、xt2 为了成长、为了走上新的旅途，人们需要有承担风险、面对未知世界、接受初次失败可能性的意愿。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第三讲：并列平行结构 【例句10】 Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today.1995.text3 去哪儿寻找专家信息，如何确定接受哪条专家建议成了当今许多人面临的问题。全国项目推广与管理中

52、心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句1】 That concept implies educational opportunity for all childrenthe right of each child to receive help in learning to the limits of his or her capacity, whether that capacity be small or great.1994.text3 这一概念暗示了所有儿童都有接受教育的机会即每个儿童，不管其本身的能力大小与

53、否，都有权利在学习上最大限度地得到帮助。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句2】 Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to co

54、ntrol their pain if that might hasten death.2002.text4全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句3】 “Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there is no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.” Wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language aut

55、hority.1994.text5 创造性思维也许只不过意味着能够意识到按老办法办事没什么特别可取之处。语言权威人士鲁道夫弗莱契写到。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句4】 This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient: ”How come nobody

56、thought of that before?”1994.text5 这解释了我们看到像塑料垃圾袋和带轮箱包之类令生活更加方便但却看似简单的发明时的反应：怎么过去就没有人想到这办法呢？全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句5】 Such large, impersonal manipulation of capital and industry greatly increased the numbers and importance of shareholders as a class, an e

57、lement in national life representing irresponsible wealth detached from the land and the duties of the landowners; and almost equally detached from the responsible management of business.1996.text3全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 同位语同位语 【例句5】 对资本与企业的如此大规模的非个人操纵大大地增加了作为一个阶级的持

58、股人的数量及其地位的重要性。他们在国民生活中代表着非责任性的财富，与土地及土地所有者责任相分离，几乎也同样与企业的责任经营相分离。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 不定式不定式作作状语状语 【例句6】 The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread intr

59、oduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the 19th century and then by several local geological journals in the 20th century.2001 text1 其整体的结果是使业余人员进入专业性地质学杂志更加困难，而审稿制度的全面引进使这个结果得到加强，这一制度开始是在19世纪的全国性杂志进行，进入20世纪后也在一些地方性地质杂志实行。全国项目推广与管理中心National Promotion and Management Center第四讲第四讲 不定式不定

60、式作作状语状语 【例句7】 No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word “amateur” does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may no