考研英语阅读基本功：难句过关
14. Not only did white men encroach upon the Indians' hunting grounds, but they rapidly destroyed the Indians' principal means of existence--the buffalo.
15. So great was the honour that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory.
16. To such lengths did she go in rehearsal that two actors walked out.
17. In this class are ads that suggest that the product will satisfy some basic human desires.
18. Emerging from the 1980 census is the picture of a nation developing more and more regional competition, ad population growth in the Northeast and Midwest reaches a near standstill.
19. Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before.
20. Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities, says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines.
21. How their results compared with modern standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.
22. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace.
23. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing U.S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births.
24. Certain it is that all essential processes of plant growth and development occur in water.
25. We really should not resent being called paupers. Paupers we are, and paupers we shall remain.
26. The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity.
27. This is the world out of which grows the hope, for the first time in history, of a society where there will be freedom from want and freedom from fear.
28. Today the main economic activities of the family are in the nature of consumption--however productive may be what some of its members do in society.
29. Of the intrinsic differences that separate American from English the chief have their roots in the obvious disparity between the environment and traditions of the American people since the seventeenth century and those of the English.
30. Especially was this importance impressed on me when I realized how much Hollywood was involved in exporting American life to the world, and how much Broadway with all its thertres meant to the modern drama.
31. Lost in the wuphoria of success is any thought that--in another place, at another time--it may well be naval air power without the support of any land-based air power that carries the day.
32. Underlying much of the desire for change, too, was the feeling of many of the world's newly independent states that they had never had a part in framing traditional doctrine.
33. Not only was man now able to see with measured precision independently of visibility, but he could now see such objects as aircraft at ranges far in excess of those possible even under ideal optical conditions with normal vision.
34. Forgotten is any idea that naval air power is not power unto itself, but part and parcel of naval power--trained, supported, operated, and commanded by people well-versed in the intricacies of war at sea and war from the sea.
35. This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will bind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.
36. These measures, or such other measures as the Congress may build out of its experience and wisdom, I shall seek, within my constitutional authority, to bring to speedy adoption.
37. Slap-slap-slap-slap... Around and around a submariner goes, the soft-soled shoes beating a rhythm on the hard, shiny floor in a Trident submarine. People on shore might grasp the instant irony of a man jogging to prolong his life around weapons capable of destroying two hundred cities.
38. Friends who are near to me I know well, because through the months and years they reveal themselves to me in all their phases; but of casual friends I have only an in complete impression, an impression gained from a handclasp, spoken words.
39. Closely related with this is the capacity to be tolerant--not, indeed, of what is wrong, but of the frailty and imaturity of human nature which induce people, and again especially children, to make mistakes.
40. According to Newton's first law of motion a body is in motion but actually never is there a body which will remain in motion forever because it is impossible to get rid of external influence.
41. Added to that difficulty is the need for the media, for economic and journalistic reasons, to present a controversial perspective, which is not usually as objective as we might wish.