备考托福阅读的三个关键

阅读， 是阅读的唯一捷径。 关于单词 阅读理解最基本的出题方式是句子的同义改写。因为答案的判断标准是与文章内容相符，所以做题的最小单位是句子。而句子的最小单位是单词。单词这

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15. This added-worker effect could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. 【分析】简单句。句子主干为 This added-worker effect could support the safety net。过去

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3. This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Erics-son to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. 【分析】复合句。句子主干是

考研英语长难句讲解 第149期

25.Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Danes, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion. 【分析】多重复合句。主干是many settl

考研英语长难句讲解 第137期

2009年 1.Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,William Wordsworth said in the 19th century. 【分析】复合句。直接引语中，not....but连接两个主语，谓语动词单复数遵循就近原则。 【译文】不是选择，而是

考研英语长难句讲解 第139期

5.The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure , meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought. 【分析】复合句。主干为The current emphasis...highlights analysis an

考研英语长难句讲解 第142期

11.This means that a DNA database may have a lot of data from some regions and not others , so a person's test results may differ depending on the company that processes the results. 【分析】并列复合句。so连接两个并列分旬。前一分句

考研英语长难句讲解 第161期

17.They have been spurred in part by DNA evidence made available in 1998, which almost certainly proved Thomas Jefferson had fathered at least one child with his slave Sally Hemings. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为They have been spurred;which引

考研英语长难句讲解 第165期

27.Once you have a first draft you, can delete material that is unrelated to your thesis and add material necessary to illustrate your points and make your paper convincing. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为you can delete material and add mater

考研英语长难句讲解 第158期

13.But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height. 【分析】复合句。as引导时间状语从句，主句主

考研英语长难句讲解 第153期

3.Adding to a woman's increased dose of stress chemicals, are her increased opportunities for stress. 【分析】简单句。本句是一个典型的完全倒装句。其正常语序为 Her increased opportunitiesfor stress are adding to a woman's i

考研英语长难句讲解 第78期

2. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks. 【分析】多重复合句。句子主干

考研英语长难句讲解 第79期

4. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thoughts that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life. 【分析】复合句。句子主干为 the brain shuts d

考研英语长难句讲解 第86期

18. Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education. 【分析】复合句。此句运用了双重否定句，主干是 Thus poor countries might no

考研英语长难句讲解 第85期

16. Yet the research revealed that the U.S. factories of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese counterpartsa result of the training that U.S. workers received on the job. 【分析】复合句。句子

考研英语长难句讲解 第100期

14. Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and cannot easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs. 【分析】复合句。even though 引导让步

考研英语长难句讲解 第106期

26. If you are working on a word processor, you can take advantage of its capacity to make additions and deletions as well as move entire paragraphs by making just a few simple keyboard commands. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为 you can take a

考研英语长难句讲解 第105期

24. By using the first draft as a means of thinking about what you want to say, you will very likely discover more than your notes originally suggested. 【分析】复合句。By using...在句中作状语，其中 what 引导的从句作 thinking a

考研英语长难句讲解 第104期

22. Washington, who had begun to believe that all men were created equal after observing the bravery of the black soldiers during the Revolutionary War, overcame the strong opposition of his relatives to grant his slaves their freedom in his will. 【分

考研英语长难句讲解 第103期

20. The three-fifths formula handed Jefferson his narrow victory in the presidential election of 1800 by inflating the votes of the southern states in the Electoral College. 【分析】简单句。句子主干为 The three-fifths formula handed Jeff