长难句和单词题

1. 长难句和单词题 主讲人：叶磊华

2. PART ONE: 长难句 1. Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly been ignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic” novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.

3. Virginia Woolf’s provocative statement about her intentions in writing Mrs. Dalloway has regularly beenignored by the critics, since it highlights an aspect of her literary interests very different from the traditional picture of the “poetic” novelist concerned with examining states of reverie and vision and with following the intricate pathways of individual consciousness.

4. 1. VW’s statement has been ignored 2. Since an aspect different from traditional pic. 3. The poetic novelist concerned with … and with following …

5. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as “racial—based negative prejudgments against a group general accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,” can be also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.

6. His thesis works relatively well when applied to discrimination against Blacks in the United States, but his definition of racial prejudice as “racial—based negative prejudgments against a group general accepted as a race in any given region of ethnic competition,” can be also including hostility toward such ethnic groups as the Chinese in California and the Jews in medieval Europe.

7. His thesis works well Butdefinitioncan be also including hostility toward such ethnic groups

8. 练习1： Thus, for instance, it may come as a shock to mathematicians to learn that the Schrodinger equation for the hydrogen atom is not a literally correct description of this atom, but it is an approximation to a somewhat more correct equation (taking account of spin, magnetic dipole, and relativistic effects); and that this corrected equation is itself only an imperfect approximation to an infinite set of quantum field—theoretical equations.

9. 练习2: In the early 1950’s, historian who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books.

10. 练习3: Both Jewish law and canon law are more uniform than Islamic law. Though historically there is a discernible break between Jewish law of the sovereign state of ancient Israel and of the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jewish people after the conquest of Israel), the spirit of the legal mater in later parts of the Old Testament is very close to that of the Talmud, one of the primacy codifications of Jewish law in Diaspora.

11. 练习4: Most striking among the many asymmetries evident in an adult flatfish is eye placement: before maturity one eye migrates, so that in an adult flatfish both eyes are on the same side of the head.

12. 练习5: But those of us who hoped, with Kolb, that Kolb’s newly published complete edition of Proust’s correspondence for 1909 would document the process in greater detail are disappointed.

13. 练习6: There have been attempts to explain these taboos in terms of inappropriate social relationships either between those who are involved and those who are not simultaneously involved in the satisfaction of a bodily need, or between those already satiated and those who appear to be shamelessly gorging.

14. 练习7: The isotopic composition of lead often varies from one source of common copper ore to another, with variations exceeding the measurement error; and preliminary studies indicate virtually uniform isotopic composition of the lead from a single copper—ore source.

15. PART TWO: 单词题 Critics also point out that the shallow seaways had retreated from and advanced on the continents numerous times during the Mesozoic, so why did the dinosaurs survive the climatic changes associated with the earlier fluctuations but not with this one? Although initially appealing, the hypothesis of a simple climatic change related to sea levels is insufficient to explain all the data. • The word “fluctuations” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Extremes • Retreats • Periods • Variations

16. Even today, microscopic meteorites continually bombard Earth, falling on both land and sea. • The word “bombard” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Approach • Strike • Pass • Circle

17. Their calculations show that the impact kicked up a dust cloud that cut off sunlight for several months, inhibiting photosynthesis in plants; decreased surface temperatures on continents to below freezing; caused extreme episodes of acid rain; and significantly raised long-term global temperatures through the greenhouse effect. This disruption of food chain and climate would have eradicated the dinosaurs and other organisms in less than fifty years. The word “disruption” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Exhaustion • Disturbance • Modification • Disappearance

18. The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual. The process perceived by these anthropologists may be summarized briefly. The word “championed” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Changed • Debated • Created • Supported

19. The transition from forest to treeless tundra on a mountain slope is often a dramatic one. Within a vertical distance of just a few tens of meters, trees disappear as a life-form and are replaced by low shrubs, herbs, and grasses. This rapid zone of transition is called the upper timberline or tree line.The word “dramatic” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Gradual • Complex • Visible • Striking

20. The low growth form can also permit the plants to take advantage of the insulation provided by a winter snow cover. In the equatorial mountains the low growth form is less prevalent. The word “prevalent” in the passage is closest in meaning to • Predictable • Widespread • Successful • Developed