歷屆英語高考真題長難句100句精選(3)

　　21. Supporters of underground development say that building down rather than building up is a good way to use the earth’s space. （NMET2002. A篇）

　　地下發展的支持者說在地下搞建筑而不是在地上搞建筑是一種利用地球空間的辦法。

　　簡析：關鍵詞rather than 而不是。

　　22. Those who could were likely to name a woman. （NMET2001. E篇）

　　那些能夠說出好朋友名字的單身男人，很有可能說出一個女人的名字。

　　簡析：省略句who could （name a best friend ）承前省。

　　23. In general, women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities. （NMET2001. E篇）

　　一般來說，女人相互的友誼基于相互分享情感和支持，但男人間的關系以共同參與社會活動為特征。

　　簡析：關鍵詞rest on 依靠。

　　24.For the most part, interactions between men are emotionally controlled —a good fit with the social requirements of“manly behavior”.（NMET2001. E篇）

　　就大部分而言，男人間的交往在感情上受控制，這與“男子漢氣概” 的社會要求是相符合的。

　　簡析：關鍵詞for the most part就大部分而言。

　　25.Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.（NMET2001. E篇）

　　一個女人最親密的女性朋友可能是第一個告訴她離開一次失敗的婚姻；而聽見一個男人說直到他的朋友一天晚上問他是否可以睡在他家的沙發上他才知道他朋友的婚姻已非常糟糕，這是很平常的。

　　簡析：夾雜多種語法結構not unusual=usual； not…until…，直到…才…。

　　26. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups. （NMET2001. D篇）

　　1066年以前，在我們現在稱為英國的土地上，住著屬于兩個主要語種的民族。

　　簡析：倒裝句，并含有定語從句及分詞短語。

　　27. If this state of affairs had lasted, English today would be close to German.（NMET2001. D篇）

　　如果這種情況延續下去的話，那么今天的英語將和德語很相近。

　　簡析：含虛擬語氣。

　　28. We even have different word for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which Shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming. while the upper-class Normans were doing most of the eating. （NMET2001. D篇）

　　我們甚至對某些食物有不同的單詞，特別是肉類，取決于它是長在田野里，還是在家里準備煮著吃，這就表明一個事實，即薩克森農民在農田干活，而上層階級的諾曼人在大吃大喝。

　　簡析：含對比。

　　29. When Americans visit Europe for the first time, they usually find Germany more “Foreign” than France because the German they see on signs and ads seems much more different from English than French does. （NMET2001. D篇）

　　當美國人第一次游覽歐洲時，他們通常發現德國比法國對他們來說更加“陌生”，因為他們在標牌和廣告上看到的德語，比起法語更加不同于英語。

　　簡析： 含比較級句型結構。

　　30. Some companies have made the manufacturing of clean and safe products their main selling point and emphasize it in their advertising. （NMET2001. C篇）

　　一些公司已經把潔凈安全產品的生產當作他們主要的銷售關鍵，并且在他們的廣告宣傳中強調這一點。

　　簡析：make后接雙賓語。