高考英语长难句分析

高考英语长难句分析练习

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The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that

shows their curiosity and how it inspires them to explore their world.

2. Students are being dared to draw a picture, write an article, take a photo or write a poem that shows what they are curious

about.

3. Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge and are selected as winners will be honored at a special ceremony during the

CSF on Sunday, April 21st.

4. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles

(about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

5. The action group has also found acceptable paper made from materials other than wood, such as agricultural waste.

6. In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting

（禁止）

the killing of passenger pigeons(

旅鸽

), but by then, no

sizeable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years.

7. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.

8. After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success, that is, when guests leave the igloo

（冰屋）

hotel they will receive a paper stating that they have had a taste of adventure.

9. Few of us are asked to make great decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle, but all of us are called

upon daily to make a great many personal decisions.

10. Todd thought of the difficulty with which he managed to get the amount of money he needed to start his gas station.

their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed

for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Ani mals

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ITA

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in salt Lake City.

12. It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point, there were more than 3billion passenger pigeons

——

a

number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird

in the world.

13. In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations

——

UNESCO and National Geographic

among them

——

have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.

14. Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in Minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for

an au pair

（互惠生）

from China. She didn’t want her children to miss out on their roots.

15. By the closing decades of the 19

th

century, the hardwood forests where passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by

Americans’ need for wood, which scattered

（驱散）

the flocks

（群体）

and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold

temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline

（减少）

.

16. Now, through the two organizations that he has founded

——

the Digital Himalaya project and the World Oral Literature

Project

——

Turin has started a campaign to make such

documents

（文献）

, found in libraries and stores around the world,

available

not

just

to

scholars

but

to

the

younger

generations

of

communities

from

whom

the

materials

were

originally

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collected.

17.

Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots became more excited when they then heard three drumbeats than when they

heard just two; likewise when the researchers started with drumbeats and moved to spots.

18. When slightly older babies were shown cards with pictures of objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on), changing the

number of objects had an effect separate from changing the objects themselves.

19. What Winter knows of the 19-year-old who saved his life is only that he died in a car accident and that his family was

willing to honor his wishes and donate his organs

（器官）

for transplantation(

移植

).

20. Pasteur discovered that heating the wine gently for a few minutes after it had fermented would kill off the yeast that was left

in the wine, with the result that the wine would remain fresh for much longer.

21. 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 li

brarian told

the

magazine “American Libraries”.

22. The alarm had been raised because Vicki became suspicious(

怀疑

) of the guest who checked in at 3 pm the day before New

Year’s Eve with little luggage and wearing sunglasses and a hat pulled down over his face ...

23. At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in

using genes as well as nanotechnology(

纳米技术

) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been

possible in the past.

24. First put forward by the French mathematician Pierre de Format in the seventeenth century, the theorem 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.

25. It is difficult to measure the quantity of paper used as a result of use of Internet-connected computers, although just about

anyone who works in an office can tell you that when e-mail is introduced, the printers start working overtime. That is, the

growing demand for paper in recent years is largely due to the increased use of the Internet.

26.. Perhaps the best sign of how computer and internet use pushes up demand for paper comes from the high-tech industry

itself, which sees printing as one of its most promising new market.

borrowed

from

English

and

Chinese,

these

terms

are

often

changed

into

forms

no

longer

understood

by

native

speakers.

28. The major market force rests in the growing population of white-collar employees, who can afford the new service, in other

words,

Shanghai’s

car

rental

（租赁）

industry

is

growing

so

fast

mainly

due

to

the

increasing

number

of

white- collar

employees.

29. Decision-thinking is not unlike poker

—

it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think and

what you think they think you think.

30. Still, he could not help thinking that if anything should happen, the nearest person he could contact by radio, unless there

was a ship nearby, would be on an island 885 miles away

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