六级历年阅读真题长句

1、历年阅读真题长句分析,2006年12月,1、Using this information, the amygdala appraises a situation- I think this charging dog wants to bite me - and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body.,分析： 句子的主干为the amygdala appraises a situation. and triggers a response。Using this information是方式状语，两个破

2、折号中间的为插入语，用来解释说明situation,可以忽略不计。,2、Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom- and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.,分析： 句子的主干为Those would-be executive

3、s had little interestand their professor was met。逗号中间的says Etzioni是插入语。在第二个分句中，when引导的是时间状语从句，翻译时注意中英的区别！在中文里，状语从句一般都前置，而英语则相对灵活，位置可前可后！,3、From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a l

4、ot thats left him shaking his head.,分析： 句子的主干是Etzioni has seen a lot前面两个that引导的定语从句，由fromto.连接。第一个 that 引导的是定语从句，先行词是classes，how to 是teach的间接宾语（teach sb sth）。第二个that 引导的也是定语从句，先行词是a lot 。,2008年6月,1、 And yet there are substantial sectors of the vast U.S. economy - from giant companies like Coca-cola

5、to mom-and-pop restaurant operators in Miami- for which the weak dollar is most excellent news.,分析： 句子主干是here are substantial sectors.,两个破折号间的内容是插入语，可以忽略不计。For which引导的是定语从句，先行词是substantial sectors。,2008年12月,1、 Sustainable development is applied to just about everything from energy to clean water an

6、d economic growth, and as a result it has become difficult to question either the basic assumptions behind it or the way the concept is put to use.,分析： 句子的主干是development is applied toandit has become.。前半句中everything是核心词，后面的from.to.growth是它的修饰语。as a result注意前后因果关系！the concept is put to use是定语从句，因为先行词

7、the way 后可以省略关系代词that。,2、 Telles fears that Mexican-Americans may be fated to follow in the footsteps of American blacks- that large parts of the community may become mired(陷入) in a seemingly permanent state of poverty and underachievement.,分析： 句子的主干是Telles fears that 第一个that引导的宾语从句作fears的宾语。破折号后面的内

8、容对前面的进行解释说明。of poverty and underachievement是state内容的具体表现（of看前不看后）。,2009年6月,1、For hundreds of millions of years, turtles(海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to trac

9、k them, or volunteers to hand carry the hatchlings(幼龟),down to the waters edge lest they become disoriented by headlights and crawl towards a motel parking lot instead.,分析：句子的主干是 turtles(海龟) have struggled，注意before 的用法！后面的主语是用or连接的三个名词：nature documentaries，GPS satellites and marine biologists和volunt

10、eers，主语后用不定式作后置定语。Lest 用了虚拟语气。,2、But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic sea turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds.,分析： 句子主干是N

11、ature is indifferentand a reportshowed, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds为非限制性定语从句，修饰loggerheads。,3、Ultimately we must get a handle on those issues as well, or a creature that outlived the dinosaurs will meet its end at the hands of humans, leaving our descendants to wonder how a creature so u

12、gly could have won so much affection.,分析： 句子主干是 we must get a handleor a creaturewill meet its end。Or在这里表示结果“否则”， that outlived the dinosaurs为定语从句，修饰前面的creature, leaving ouraffection为现在分词作结果状语。how a creature so ugly could have won so much affection为宾语从句，作wonder的宾语。,4、But economists say families abou

13、t to go into debt to fund four years of partying, as well as studying, can console themselves with the knowledge that college is an investment that, unlike many bank stocks, should yield huge dividends.,分析： 句子主干是economists say。Familiesdividends为省略了引导词的宾语从句。to fund four years为不定式作目的状语，that collegediv

14、idends为同位语从句，解释前面的knowledge。Thatshould yield huge dividends为定语从句，修饰investment。,5、A 2008 study by two Harvard economists notes that the “labor-market premium to skill”- or the amount college graduates earned thats greater than what highschool graduates earned - decreased for much of the 20th century,

15、 but has come back with a vengeance(报复性地) since the 1980s.,分析：句子主干是A 2008 studynotes.,that引导一个很长的宾语从句，在这句从句中，主语是the “labor-market premium to skill”，谓语有两个decreased和has come back，由but连接，两个破折号之间为插入语，解释说明“labor-market premium to skill”，在插入语中，what 引导宾语从句。,2009年12月,1、 A specialist who performs a procedure

16、 in a 30-minute visit can be paid three times more than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patients disease.,分析：句子主干是A specialistcan be paid three times more than a primary care physician。Who引导定语从句，先行词为specialist，using.disease为现在分词作physician的后置定语。,2、Remove the pressure

17、for primary care physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and reward them for optimally(最佳地)managing their disease and practicing evidence-based medicine.,分析：句子主干是Remove the pressureand reward them。两个并列的现在分词managing 和practicing 作for的介词宾语。,3、Since December, when the report came out, the mayor

18、, neighborhood activists and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus childrens health and over what, if anything, ought to be done.,分析：句子主干是the mayor, neighb

19、orhood activists and various parent-teacher associations have engaged in,为三个并列的主语。冒号后的三个并列的over进一步说明battle 的内容，what 引导宾语从句，作最后一个over的介宾。,2010年6月,1、To classify parenting as personal choice for which there is no collective responsibility is not merely to ignore the social benefits of good parenting; r

20、eally, it is to steal those benefits because they accrue(不断积累) to the whole of society as todays children become tomorrows productive citizenry(公民).,分析：句子主干是由分号连接的两个并列句，前一个主语是To classify parenting as personal choice，后一个主语是it ，指代前句同一个主语。,2、A new study from the Center for Information and Research on C

21、ivic Learning and Engagement(CIRCLE) at Tufts University shows that todays youth vote in larger numbers than previous generations, and a 2008 study from the center for American Progress adds that increasing numbers of young voters and activists support traditionally liberal causes.,分析：句子主干是两个由and连接的

22、并列句，A new studyshows,and a 2008 studyadds。FromUniversity和fromProgress均为后置宾语，分别修饰前面的主语。后面还有两个that引导的宾语从句。,3、The result could be a group of young people that, like their boomer parents, grows up with a strong sense of purpose and sheds the image of apathy（冷漠）theyve inherited from Generation X(60年代后期和7

23、0年代出生的美国人).,分析：句子主干是The result could be a group of young people,thatgrows upand sheds为定语从句。theyve inherited from Generation X为省略了that的定语从句。,2010年12月,1、American scholars fanned out across much of the world - with support from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright program, etc.- to promote the teaching o

24、f literature and the arts in an effort to make the case for democratic freedoms.,分析：句子主干是American scholars fanned out，破折号中间为伴随状语，可以忽略。to promote.freedoms为目的状语。,2、Much of the concern among politicians about the state of American universities today is focused on the absence of “real world” education-

25、which means preparation for professional and scientific careers.,分析：句子主干是Much of the concernis focused on the absence，about和of均为介宾短语后置，分别修饰各自前面的名词。破折号后面由which引导的定语从句，修饰education。,2011年6月,1.David Card , an economist at the UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants low-

26、cost labor are businesses and employers- meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.,分析：句子主干是David Cardnotes that。逗号中间的是作为David 的同位语。Notes 后为that 引导的宾语从句，同时后面还有一句定语从句wholabor，修饰the ones。破折号后面的内容是对businesses and employers的举例说明。,2. That conclusion was reinfo

27、rced by another finding: that their opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s,which curbed immigrants access to certain benefits.,分析：句子主干是That conclusion was reinforced。冒号后面thatbenefits是同位语从句,作findings的同位语。Whendecreased 是时间状语从句。As19

28、90s是非限制性定语从句。,3、But schools rarely dig down to find out what really makes an applicant succeed, to create a class which also contains diversity of attitude and approach- arguably the only diversity that, in a business context, really matters.,分析：句子主干是 schools rarely dig down to find out, to create a

29、 class。What引导的是宾语从句，作find out的宾语。Whichapproach是定语从句，修饰class,破折号是对前面内容的解释说明，其中还有一个插入语，表示地点。最后还有一个定语从句thatreally matters，修饰前面的diversity。,4、They should also be seeking individuals who have backgrounds in areas such as political science, the creative arts, history or philosophy, which will allow them to

30、 put business decisions into a wider context.,分析：句子主干是They should also be seeking individuals, who havephilosophy是定语从句，修饰前面的individuals , such as 是用来解释前面的area , whichcontext是非限制性定语从句，which 指代前面的整句话。,5、Perhaps most significant, according to Mannaz, is the creasing interest large companies have in mor

31、e collaborative management models, such as those prevalent in Scandinavia , which seek to integrate the hard and soft aspects of leadership and encourage delegated responsibility and accountability.,分析：句子主干是 most significantis the creasing interest。Largemodels是省略引导词的定语从句，修饰interest。Whichaccountabili

32、ty是非限制定语从句，修饰those,其中seek和encourage是从句中的两个并列谓语。,2013年6月（第一套）,1、 A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.,分析：句子主干是A shattering loss of confidence inspires be

33、havior后面有两个定语从句，第一个修饰behavior，第二个修饰mechanisms.,2013年6月（第二套）,1、 If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if youve been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are “marginally attached to the labor force” and not actually unemployed.,分析

34、：句子主干是 it may surprise you to learn; you are “marginally attached to the labor force” and not actually unemployed。第一个句子含有两个if引导的状语从句，if you say no 是整个分句的条件状语从句，learn 后面的that 引导宾语从句，同时里面还有另一个If 引导的状语从句。,2、This nameless person pushed the human race over a historic threshold, for it was in that year th

35、at mankind became, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.,分析：句子主干是This person pushed the human race over a threshold， 第一个for引导的是原因状语从句，后面还有强调句型，第二个for作为插入语，充当时间状语。,2013年12月（第一套）,1、 The aim is to ensure that employees have an explicit tool to help them understand their own

36、abilities and aspirations, determine career possibilities, and set (usually short term) goal.,分析：句子主干是The aim is to ensure that，引导的是宾语从句，从句的主干是employees have an explicit tool，后面有三个不定式并列，作目的状语。,2、“Trying to quantify or measure the impact of women in politics is hard because in very few countries have

37、 been enough women in politics to make a difference,”says Anne Marie Goetz.,分析：句子主干是Trying tois hard because，注意后面few这个词，具有否定含义，解释了作者的观点和态度！,2013年12月（第二套）,1、 In poor societies, people have children to improve their economic well-being by increasing the number of family workers and providing support f

38、or parents in their old age.,分析：句子主干很简单，不定式表目的，by引导的两句短语充当improve的方式状语。,2013年12月 （第三套） Kapur points out that while the model adopted by many teachers when introducing students to new knowledge - providing lots of structure and guidance early on, until the students show that they can do it on their own - makes intuitive sense, it may not be the best way to pro