考研英语阅读基本功：难句过关
24. What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year-old man coming in for a routine physical check up just before going on vacation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months?
25.Between midnight and dawn, when sleep will not come and all the old wounds begin to ache, I often have a nightmare vision of a future world in which there are billions of people, all numbered and registered, with not a gleam of genius anywhere, not an original mind, a rich personality, on the whole packed globe.
26. It needs men who can be prompted without an aim except the aim to be on the move, to function, to go ahead.
27. Then he would publish the poem, sometimes years before the music that went with it was written.
28. We live in a narrowed world where we must be alert, awake to realism; and realism demands a standard which either must be met or result in failure.
29. We can expose our children to the best values we have found.
30. In short, you will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
31. To us, a winner is one who responds authentically by being credible, trustworthy, responsive, and genuine, both as an individual and as a member of a society.
32. Those most loved are invariably those who have the capacity for believing in others.
33. Americans who stem from generations which left their old people behind and never closed their parents' eyelids in death, and who have experienced the death provided by two world wars fought far from our shores are today pushing away from them both a recognition of death and a recognition of the way we live our lives.
34. God, I'm glad I can talk about it with you--probably you're the only outlet that I'll have that won't get tired of my talking about writing.
35. Certainly the humanist thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who are our ideological ancestors, thought that the goal of life was the unfolding of a person's potentialities; what mattered to them was the person who is much, not the one who has much or uses much.
36. How much easier, how much more satisfying it is for you who can see to grasp quickly the essential qualities of another person by watching the subtleties of expression, the quiver of a muscle, the flutter of a hand.
37. Her woebegone expression, her hang-dog manner, her over-anxiousness to please, or perhaps her unconscious hostility towards those she anticipated will affront her--all act to drive away those whom she would attract.
38. There is very long list of such perhapses, few of which we are in a position to evaluate with any degree of assurance.
39. If marriage exists only as an intimate relationship that can be terminated at will, and family exists only by virtue of bonds of affection, both marriage and family are relegated to the marketplace of trading places, with individuals maximising their psychological capital by moving through a series of more or less satisfying intimate relationships.
第二章 倒装句
1. For example, they do not compensate for social inequality, and thus do not tell how able an underpriviledged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
2. Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday's baby boom generation reached its child-bearing years.
3. Much as I have traveled, I have never seen anyone to equal her in thoroughness, whatever the job.
4. Odd though it sounds, cosmic inflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics, and some astrophysicists have been convinced for the better part of a decade that it is true.
5. Only when you have acquired a good knowledge of grammar can you write correctly.
6. Nowhere do 1980 census statistics dramatize more the American search for spacious living than in the Far West.
7. In no country other than Britain, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
8. We have been told that under no circumstances may we use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.
9. Not since Americans crossed the continent in covered wagons have they exercised and dieted as vigorously as they are doing today.
10. Not until these fundamental subjects were sufficiently advanced was it possible to solve the main problems of flight mechanics.
11. Little did we expect that he would fulfil his task so rapidly.
12. Hardly had he begun to speak when the audience interrupted him.
13. This means that no sooner has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently.