GMAT 正确句子语法解析大全

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GMAT 正确句子语法解析大全

1. A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide

the first evidence that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based on systematic astronomical observation.

2. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.

3. A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the

1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and only the second published by an American woman.同位语并列之后省略

4. A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of

sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time.

5. A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader

Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom. that 定语从句 that 后有插入语 to sb.

6. A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that

preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and causing flames to spread more quickly.伴随的并列

7. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition. 介词短语作插入语 8. A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years

ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, and it is believed to have been the largest flying creature the world has ever seen. 同位语放在句首，同 位语由定语从句修饰

9. A Labor Department study states that the number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent in the past

decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost

new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago. 比较 结构

11. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.

12. A little under a million years ago, the briny waters of the Baltic Sea began

flooding into the cold North Atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic.

13. A majority of the international journalists surveyed view nuclear power

stations as unsafe at present but think that they will be or could be made sufficiently safe in the future.

14. A migraine typically afflicts one side of the head, lasts for hours or days, and

may recur as infrequently as once every other month or as often as daily.

15. A new phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who mob cars at the stoplights. \名词+名词\的独立结构

16. A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.

17. A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove

damage without another doctor’s testimony about proper medical procedures. 该结构修饰句子，lacking 则修饰 damage 18. A peculiar feature of the embryonic mammalian circulatory system is that in

the area of the heart the cells adhere to one another, beating in unison yet adopting specialized orientations exclusive of one another.

19. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a

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severe disadvantage and is often unable to carry out a legislative program. 20. A prolific architect who worked from the turn of the century until the late

1950’s, Julia Morgan designed nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon. 21. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage

poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been trimmed. 现在完成时，没 有时间标志词

22. A recent national study of the public schools shows that there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were four years ago. 比较

23. A recent New York Times editorial criticized the city’s election board for, first

of all, failing to replace outmoded voting machines prone to breakdowns, and second, for failing to investigate allegations of corruption involving board members. 插入语

24. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors have elected to retire early rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

25. A recent study of ancient clay deposits has provided new evidence supporting the theory that global forest fires ignited by a meteorite impact contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other creatures some 65 million years ago.

26. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed. so + adv. + that

27. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has

concluded that many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come from the incineration of wastes.

28. A representative of the Women’s Bureau of the United States Department of

Labor contends that employers who offer benefits that permit employees to

balance the responsibilities of home and work better will realize gains in attendance, recruiting, and retention.

29. A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a duke’s daughter,

Harold Macmillan surprised many by rising to the position of Prime Minister in 1957, though Churchill had since the 1930s been extolling Macmillan’s courage.

30. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered a gourmet delicacy by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.. 31. Mass determines whether a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole. 32. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves

exercise and associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement. 比较，前面 2 动 词，than 后省略助动词；if happens, happen

33. The Madagascar periwinkle, a derivative of which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients, is cultivated in China as part of a program to integrate traditional herbal medicine into a contemporary system of health care.

34. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern

Minnesota will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than one wolf for every 39 square miles.

35. According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of

confusion in the medical profession about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to appearance than to health. 比较，介词不能省

36. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its

own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was of earlier generations. 动名词做主语；比较--时态不一致

37. According to a recent study by Rutgers University, the number of women in

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state legislatures has grown in every election since 1968.

38. According to a recent study, the elderly in the United States are four times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children than to receive it from them. 倍数表达，谓语比较

39. According to a ruling by the state Supreme Court, the owner of polluted land

is liable for the cleanup of the property even if the owner is not responsible for pollution that occurred before the title changed hands.

40. According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of

Teaching, companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about as many as are enrolled in the nation’s four-year colleges and universities. as 后省略主语 people

41. According to a study published by Dr. Myrna Weissman, only one percent of Americans born before 1905 had suffered major depression by the age of seventy-five; of those born since 1955, six percent had become depressed by age twenty-four.

42. According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the

Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing in socioeconomically deprived areas. 倍数表达，主语比较，与 38 对比

43. According to Booker T. Whatley’s recent analysis, planting the same crops as are planted on large farms will lead to economic disaster for the small farmer, who should plan a succession of high-value crops that will provide a year-round cash flow. the same sth. as(sth 省略) be done

44. According to Henry David Thoreau, a majority is allowed to rule not because it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger.

45. According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the

Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue after that of his mother and the body after that of his wife.

46. According to Interstudy, a nonprofit organization that studies health

maintenance organizations (HMO’s), only 36 percent of the nation’s 607 HMO’s were profitable last year; it estimates that this year 73 percent will be. 47. According to scientists at the University of California, the pattern of changes

that have occurred in human DNA over the millennia indicates that everyone alive today may be a descendant of a single female ancestor who lived in Africa sometime between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago.

48. According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment. 不满足实意原则？，插入语除 外？

49. According to some economists, Japan is in danger of plunging into a

depression that, with double-digit unemployment, could severely strain a society that regards lifetime employment as a virtual right of citizenship.

50. According to some economists, the July decrease in unemployment to the lowest level in two years suggests that the gradual improvement in the job market is continuing.

51. According to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 20

percent of young adults used cocaine in 1979, twice the number reported in the 1977 survey. 倍数

52. According to the Better Business Bureau, failure to advertise the highest price in a range of prices for a service or product as prominently as the lowest violates the New York Consumer Protection Law.

53. According to the National Pasta Association, per-capita consumption of pasta in the United States is already approaching 19 pounds a year and will reach 30 pounds a year by the twenty-first century. will...by 时间点

54. According to the professor’s philosophy, the antidote to envy is one’s own work, always one’s own work: not thinking about it, not assessing it, but simply doing it. but doing？

55. According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating what kind of

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damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

56. Acid rain and snow result from the chemical reactions between industrial

emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and atmospheric water vapor to produce highly corrosive sulfuric and nitric acids.

57. In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits. in addition to + 名词， 不需要考虑逻辑主语；in addition to + 动名词，需要 58. Adult survivors of child abuse traditionally have had little or no chance of getting their symptoms recognized and treated.

59. Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of

interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure.

60. After a few weeks’ experience, apprentice jewelers can usually begin to

discriminate, though not with absolute certainty, between genuine diamonds and imitation diamonds. though + with 介词结构做插入修饰主语 61. Natural gas, the United States’ second biggest fuel source after crude oil, is supplied almost exclusively from reserves in North America. 62. After gradually declining to about 39 hours in 1970, the workweek in the

United States has steadily increased to the point that the average worker now puts in an estimated 164 extra hours of paid labor a year.

63. After July, anyone disposing of or servicing refrigerators must capture the chlorofluorocarbons in the refrigerant chemicals.

64. When asked by Queen Isabella to describe the newly discovered island of Hispaniola (now Haiti), Admiral Columbus reached for a sheet of paper, crumpled it, and said, “It looks like that—beyond the mountains, more mountains.”

65. After suffering $2 billion in losses and 25,000 layoffs, the nation’s

semiconductor industry, which makes chips that run everything from computers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears to have made a

long-awaited recovery.

66. After the Arab conquest of Egypt in A.D. 640, Arabic became the dominant language of the Egyptians, replacing older languages and writing systems. 67. After the Civil War, contemporaries of Harriet Tubman maintained that she had all of the qualities of a great leader, coolness in the face of danger, an excellent sense of strategy, and an ability to plan in minute detail.

68. Although life expectancy for children improved after the Colonial period, during which the mortality rate was 50 percent, as late as the nineteenth century about one child in three died before reaching the age of six.

69. After the Vietnam war Bettye Granter, a U.S. Army nurse, continued her

efforts on behalf of injured Vietnamese children, providing medical care, helping to reunite estranged families, and establishing a fund for the children’s future education.3 个伴随并列

70. After this year’s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square

Garden, the ensemble was touted as the country’s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

71. Aging is a property of all animals that reach a fixed size at maturity, and the

variations in life spans among different species are far greater than those among individuals of the same species: a fruit fly is ancient at 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some tortoises at 150.

72. In her home, Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals that featured the

preparation of great quantities of ceremonial food, the wearing of many layers of colorful clothing adorned with silver, and the recounting of traditional tribal jokes and stories.

73. Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special

fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted. after 后面的句子可与前面形式不一样；改成 after exhausting its oil reserves 的 则错，因为最临近的动词是 sustain，所以又修饰 fund 的歧义，并且那样多代 词 it，不爽 74. All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously

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inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to the nation’s recreational areas. doing A and B, as well as doing C

75. Along with the drop in producer prices announced yesterday, the strong retail

sales figures released today seem to indicative that the economy, although growing slowly, is not nearing a recession. although+分词做插入语修饰 76. Although not all the proceedings of the Communist party conference held in Moscow were carried live, Soviet audiences have seen a great deal of coverage.

77. The irritation of the stomach caused by aspirin can be avoided if the aspirin tablet is given a coating that will not dissolve until the tablet reaches the intestine.

78. Dozens of New York’s small museums are devoted to local history or various ethnic groups, and there are also many one-of-a-kind museums from Manhattan to the Bronx that are open for exploration on summer weekends.

79. Although early soap were first aired on evening radio in the 1920’s, they were moved to the daytime hours in the 1930’s when the evening schedule became crowded with comedians and variety shows.

80. Although films about the American West depict coyotes as solitary animals howling mournfully on the tops of distant hills, in reality these gregarious creatures live in stable groups that occupy the same territory for long periods.

81. Although fruit can no longer grow once it is picked, it continues for some time

to respire, taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, just as human beings do when they breathe.

82. Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry.

83. Although it claims to delve into political issues, television can be superficial, as when the three major networks each broadcast exactly the same statement from a political candidate.

84. Although it was expected that workers under forty would show hostility to the

plan, the research report indicates that both younger and older people approve of governmental appropriations for Social Security.

85. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and

Albert Museum was among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.

86. Although it is just inside the orbit of Jupiter, amateur astronomers with good

telescopes should be able to see the comet within the next few weeks.

87. Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an

undesirable one, they are far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from fakes. 无连词

88. Although many Whites, noting the presence of some Blacks in the middle

class, think that the time for enforcing civil rights measures is past, Blacks generally are aware that average-income and unemployment figures show as wide a radical discrepancy as ever.

89. Although Ms. Bakara had previously emphasized that she could not speak for

other Black people, she ventured to do so on this one occasion because she firmly believed that many minority people, if not most, would agree with her. 90. Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than for any previous campaign, it had provisions for only twenty-four days. for 比 in 好，

because supplies are gathered/or an upcoming campaign

91. Although one link in the chain was demonstrably weak, it was not so weak as to require the recall of the automobile.

92. Although it had been partially destroyed, the archaeologists were able to infer from what remained of the inscription that the priest Zonainos was buried in the crypt.

93. Although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.

94. Although she had signed a pledge of abstinence as an adolescent, Frances

Willard was 35 years old before she chose to become a temperance activist.

studies of the interaction of stimuli and hormones.

329. Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the

rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank’s profits on paper.

330. His right hand and arm crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World Warr, Horace Pippin, a Black American painter, worked by holding the brush in his right hand and guiding its movements with his left.

331. Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or “African sleeping sickness,” a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.

332. His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the

range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the

concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas. 333.

Houseflies that hatch in summer live only about three weeks, but those

that emerge in the cooler days of fall often live longer than six months. 334.

However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in

government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

335. Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by

overcutting trees and farming too intensively, and though some protective measures, such as the establishment of national forests and wildlife sanctuaries, were taken decades ago, great increases in population and in the intensity of industrialization are causing a worldwide ecological crisis.

336. Ideally, the professional career diplomat should help maintain an effective American foreign policy despite changes in administration.

337. Idioglossia is a phenomenon, incompletely understood at best, in which two persons develop a unique and private language with highly original vocabulary and syntax.

338. The use of single strain of plant for a given crop over a wide area, a

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practice fostered by modern seed-marketing methods, increases the likelihood that the impact of a single crop disease or pest will be disastrous.

339. If additional deposits of oil are found, the amount that can be used as fuel will increase and the price of oil will drop, even if the deposits are not immediately tapped.

340. If any people at InterCom Financial Advisers had anticipated, or even suspected, the impending sale of the Koniko kelp processing plant, they would have advised owners of Koniko stock to unload all shares immediately.

341. If Dr. Wade is right, any apparent connection between eating highly processed foods and excelling at sports is purely coincidental.

342. If industrial pollution continues to deplete the ozone layer, the resulting

increase in ultraviolet radiation will endanger human health, causing a rise in the incidence of skin cancer and eye disease, and may even threaten global ecological systems.

343. If the new airboat does what it is supposed to do—travel at high speeds

undeterred by sandbars, crocodile-infested mudflats, or marshy hippo haunts—it could revolutionize transport on the 2,900-mile-long Congo River.

344. If the proposed expenditures for gathering information abroad are

reduced even further, international news reports will continue to diminish in number and quality.

345. If the reporter had known the landlord’s side of the story, she would not

have written an article so favorable to the 81-year-old tenant. 346.

Ignoring the admonitions of his staff, the chief financial officer accepted

the advice of the consulting company because he believed that the standardized accounting procedures would prove to be both inexpensive and reliable indicators of economic performance.

347. Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since

prehistoric times, and they are still prized as game animals by the campesinos, who typically cook the meat in a heavily spiced stew.

348. In 1527 King Henry VIII sought to have his marriage to Queen Catherine

annulled so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. 349.

In 1791 Robert Carter III, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in

Virginia, stunned his family, friends, and neighbors by filing a deed of emancipation, setting free the more than 500 slaves who were legally considered his property. 350.

In 1922, when Truman was almost forty years old, he was living in his

mother-in-law’s house, watching the haberdashery store he had opened three

years earlier go bankrupt, and facing a future with no visible prospects. 351.

In 1929 relatively small declines in the market ruined many speculators who had bought on margin; they had to sell, and their selling pushed other investors to the brink.

352. In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a

six-hour workday, not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was an economy made overproductive by advances in technology.

353. In 1973 mortgage payments represented twenty-one percent of an

average thirty-year-old male’s income; in 1984 the figure was forty-four

percent. 354.

In 1978 a national study found that not only had many contractors

licensed by a self-policing private guild failed to pass qualifying exams, but

they had also falsified their references. 355.

In 1978 only half the women granted child support by a court received the

amount awarded; more than a million others had no support agreements whatsoever.

356. In 1980 the United States exported twice as much of its national output of goods as it did in 1970. 尽管是 1980 和 1970 对比，但 as 后面的助动词是要必 须能替换 exported 的，所以 had 是错的！ 357.

In 1980, for the first time, the number of foreigners touring the United

States exceeded the number of Americans going abroad. 358.

In 1982 the median income for married-couple families with a

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wage-earning wife was $9,000 more than that for families in which only the husband was employed. 359.

In 1990’s, there are more babies born by women over thirty years old than

under it. 介宾短语比较；than (by women) under it，省略了相同的词 360.

In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century. 361.

At a time when women typically had a narrow range of choices, Mary

Baker Eddy became a distinguished writer and the founder, architect, and builder of a growing church.

362. In a plan to stop the erosion of East Coast beaches, the Army Corps of

Engineers proposed building parallel to shore a breakwater of rocks that would rise six feet above the waterline and act as a buffer, absorbing the energy of crashing waves and protecting the beaches. 363. 364.

In A.D. 391, as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides.

In a recent poll, 86 percent of the public favored a Clean Air Act at least as strong as the present act. 365. In addition to having more protein than wheat does, rice has protein of higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.

366. In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices;

their wines are priced to sell, and they do. 367.

In ancient times, Nubia was the principal corridor through which cultural influences were transmitted between Black Africa and the Mediterranean basin.

368. In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata women are seen as the means of bringing peace and good sense to a war-torn world.

369. In an assessment of the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working

poor is irrelevant. 避免了逻辑主语的问题 370.

In astronomy the term “red shift” denotes the extent to which light from a distant galaxy has been shifted toward the red, or long-wave, end of the light spectrum by the rapid motion of the galaxy away from the Earth.

371.In cold-water habitats, certain invertebrates and fish convert starches into

complex carbohydrates called glycerols, in effect manufacturing their own antifreeze. 372.

In contrast to large steel plants that take iron ore through all the steps

needed to produce several different kinds of steel, small mills, by processing steel scrap into a specialized group of products, have been able to put capital into new technology and remain economically viable. 373.

In contrast to true hibernators such as woodchucks and hedgehogs,

whose body temperatures drop close to the freezing point during the winter months, bears maintain a nearly normal body temperature throughout their prolonged sleep.

374. In December of 1987 an automobile manufacturer pleaded no contest to

criminal charges of odometer tampering and agreed to pay more than $16 million in civil damages for having test-driven cars with their odometers disconnected. 375.

In developing new facilities for the incineration of solid wastes, we must

avoid the danger of shifting environmental problems from the pollution of

water by landfills to the pollution of air by incinerators. 376.

In Egypt in the late Paleolithic period, the climate changed, pastures

became deserts, and the inhabitants were forced to withdraw from their

hunting grounds to the land bordering the Nile. 377.

In England the well-dressed gentleman of the eighteenth century protected his clothing while having his wig powdered by poking his head through a device that resembled the stocks.

corporations. 426.

India is country with at least fifty major regional languages, fourteen of

which are officially recognized. 427.

Industrial pollution has done serious and possibly irreversible damage to the bronze horses on the facade of the cathedral of St. Mark La Venica.

428. Inflation has made many Americans reevaluate their assumptions about

the future; they still expect to live better than their parents did, but not so well as they once thought they could. 为什么补出的动词 did 不可能指代 expect？better than 修饰的是 live 所以 than 后的 did 指 live。

429. Inflation in medical costs slowed for the fifth consecutive year in 1986 but was still about 50 percent greater than the rate of price increases for other items included in the consumer price index. 430.

Initiated on Columbus Day 1992, five centuries after Europeans arrived in the New World, Project SETI pledged a $100 million investment in the search

for extraterrestrial intelligence. 431.

Innovative companies are skillful not only in developing new products but

also in finding new ways to promote old ones. 432.

Intar, the oldest Hispanic theater company in New York, has moved away

from the Spanish classics and now draws on the works of contemporary Hispanic authors, both those who live abroad and those who live in the United States. 433.

Intended primarily to stimulate family summer travel, the new airfare,

which allows both an adult and a child to fly for the price of one ticket, also shortens the advance-purchase requirement for family travel to a minimum of seven days rather than fourteen. 434.

International sporting events need not be fiscal disasters, as the financial

success of the 1992 Olympic Games demonstrates. 435.

Inuits of the Bering Sea were isolated from contact with Europeans longer

than were Aleuts or Inuits of the North Pacific and northern Alaska. 436.

IRS provision 254-B requires that an S corporation with assets of greater

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than $200,000 send W-2 forms to its full- and part-time employees on or before Jan. 31. 437.

It appears illogical to some people that West Germany, which bans such

seemingly lesser evils as lawn-mowing on Sundays, still has some 4,000 miles of highway with no speed limit.

438. It has been estimated that illiteracy costs the United States at least $20

billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues. 439.

It is a special feature of cell aggregation in the developing nervous system

that in most regions of the brain the cells not only adhere to one another but

also adopt some preferential orientation. 440.

It is an oversimplified view of cattle raising to say that all one has to do with cattle is leave them alone while they feed themselves and then corral them and drive them to market when the time is ripe. 441.

It is as difficult to prevent crimes against property as it is to prevent those

against a person.

442. It is characteristic of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as it is of virtually every great American museum, that the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as have the judgments of the art historian. 这种句式没见过 443.

It is not likely that the competitive imbalance that now exists between

Japan and all other major industrial nations will be redressed within the foreseeable future.

444. It is possible that Native Americans originally migrated to the Western Hemisphere over a bridge of land that once existed between Siberia and Alaska. 445.

It is well known in the supermarket industry that how items are placed on

shelves and how frequently the inventory turns over can be crucial to profits. 446.

It may be another fifteen years before spacecraft from Earth again venture to Mars, a planet now known to be cold, dry, and probably lifeless.

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447. It may be that by focusing primarily on a patient’s mental condition and

on vague and often very speculative psychodynamic factors, mental health professionals lessen the accuracy of their predictions about the patient’s future behavior. 448.

It may someday be worthwhile to try to recover uranium from seawater, but at present this process is prohibitively expensive. 449.

It seems likely that a number of astronomical phenomena, such as the

formation of planetary nebulas, are caused by the interaction of two stars

orbiting each other at close range. 450.

It takes a deft balance of savings discipline, investment knowledge, risk taking, luck, and time to raise a million dollars through investments.

451. It was an increase in reported cases of malaria along the Gulf Coast that

in 1921 led the health authorities to grant a permit for human

experimentation to the group later called Unimedco. 452.

Plagued by injuries, tennis celebrity Tracy Austin, who won the Italian and U.S. Opens at age 16 in 1979, sat out the years from 1984 to 1988, occasionally working as a television commentator.

453. It was the loss of revenue from declines in tourism that in 1935 led the

Saudi authorities to grant a concession for oil exploration to the company later to be known as Aramco. 454.

Japan used the huge sums of capital it received from the United States

after the Second World War to help build a modern industrial system. 455.

Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of

composer who receives popular acclaim while living, but whose reputation

declines after death and never regains its former status. 456.

Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired,

turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of

Orleans and s persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne. 457.

John Smith provides information on the conditions that lead women to a

gynecologist, noting that these conditions can be, and sometimes are, used to

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promote needless surgery. 458.

Joplin’s faith in his opera “Tremonisha” was unshakable; in 1911 he

published the score at his own expense and decided to stage the work himself. 459.

Judge Bonham denied a motion to allow members of the jury to go home

at the end of each day rather than be confined to a hotel. 460.

It could be argued that the most significant virtue of a popular democracy

is not the right to 10 participate in the selection of leaders, but rather its

affirmation of our importance in the scheme of things. 461.

Judge Forer recognizes that the American judicial system provides more

safeguards for accused persons than does the legal system of any other country, but she believes there is a great disparity between the systems of justice accorded rich and poor.

462. Judge Lois Forer’s study asks why some litigants have a preferred status over others in the use of a public resource, the courts, which in theory are available to all but in fact are unequally distributed between rich and poor. 463.

Judicial rules in many states require that the identities of all prosecution

witnesses be made known to defendants so that they can attempt to rebut the testimony, but the Constitution explicitly requires only that the defendant have the opportunity to confront an accuser in court.

464. Just as a writer trying to understand shtetl life might read Shalom

Aleichem or Isaac Bashevis Singer, so a writer trying to understand black life in the American South might well listen to records by the Mississippi Delta bluesman Charlie Patton.

465. Just as plant species native to regions with browsing mammals evolved

many natural anti-browser defenses (such as sharp spines and toxic chemicals), so humans in malarial regions have evolved dozens of chemical defenses against malaria. 466.

Just as reading Samuel Pepys’s diary gives a student a sense of the

seventeenth century—of its texture and psyche—so listening to Jane Freed’s guileless child narrator takes the operagoer inside turn-of-the-century

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Vienna. 467.

Just as the European countries of the early eighteenth century sought to exploit the resources of our continent, so too are we now attempting to extract energy and minerals from the ocean bed.

468. The fact that King Alfred had occupied and fortified London in 886 did not mean that he had also won the loyalty of its citizens: the invading Danes were well aware of this weakness and used it to their advantage in 893.

469. Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, one of only two women in the U.S.

Senate in 1992, said she did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republicans.

470. Lacking information about energy use, people tend to overestimate the

amount of energy used by visible equipment, such as lights, that must be turned on and off and underestimate that used by unobtrusive equipment, such as water heaters.

471. Last spring a Colorado health department survey of 72 playgrounds in

private child-care centers found that 95 percent had unsafe conditions

ranging from splinters to equipment near collapse. 472.

Last year, land values in most parts of the pinelands rose almost as fast as,

and in some parts even faster than, those outside the pinelands. 473.

Lawmakers are examining measures that would require banks to disclose

all fees and account requirements in writing, to provide free cashing of government checks, and to create basic savings accounts that carry minimal fees and require minimal initial deposits.

474. Legend has it that when the Mohawk Joseph Brant was presented to

George III in 1776, he proudly refused to kiss the King’s hand, inasmuch as he considered himself an ally, not a subject.

475. Legislation in the Canadian province of Ontario requires of both public

and private employers that pay be the same for jobs historically held by

women as for jobs requiring comparable skill that are usually held by men. 476.

Less detrimental than the effects of bacterial transformation are the

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