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1、分析长难句1. The secretary told me that Mr. Harmsworth would see me. I felt very nervous when I went into his office. 2. As we had had a long walk through one of the markets of Old Delhi, we stopped at a square to have a rest. 3. After a time, we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the othe
2、r side of the square, so we went to have a look at him. 4. When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe. 5. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and modern pop so
3、ngs. 6. Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America.7. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. 8. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investiga
4、te, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.9. Some time ago, an interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea. 10. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia
5、Irini. 11. The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization.12. These days, people who do manual work often receive tar more money than people who work in offices. 13. People who work in offices are frequently referred to aswhite-collar workers for the simp
6、le reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work.14. Recently the New York Animal Medical Centre made a study of 132 cats over a period of five months. 15. All these cats had one experience in common: they had fallen off high buildings, yet only eight of them died from shock or injuri
7、es.16. The idea that modern art can only be seen in museums is mistaken. 17. Even people who take no interest in art cannot have failed to notice examples of modern sculpture on display in public places. Strange forms stand in gardens, and outside buildings and shops. We have got quite used to them.
8、 18. Some socalledmodernpieces have been on display for nearly eighty years.19. Four days after setting out, while the Titanic was sailing across the icy waters of the North Atlantic, a huge iceberg was suddenly spotted by a lookout. 20. After the alarm had been given, the great ship turned sharply
9、to avoid a direct collision.21. The Titanic turned just in time, narrowly missing the immense wall of ice which rose over 100 feet out of the water beside her. Suddenly, there was a slight trembling sound from below, and the captain went down to see what had happened. 22. The noise had been so faint
10、 that no one thought that the ship had been damaged. Below, the captain realized to his horror that the Titanic was sinking rapidly, for five of her sixteen watertight compartments had already been flooded! 23. The order to abandon ship was given and hundreds of people plunged into the icy water. As
11、 there were not enough lifeboats for everybody, 1, 500 lives were lost.24. People become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot be eaten.25. If you lived in the Mediterranean, for instance, you would consider octopus a great delicacy. 26. You would not be able to u
12、nderstand why some people find it repulsive. 27. On the other hand, your stomach would turn at the idea of frying potatoes in animal fat-the normally accepted practice in many northern countries. 28. The sad truth is that most of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we stick to them all
13、our lives. 29. We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. 30. The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation. 31. The terrible secret is called a skeleton in the cu
14、pboard. 32. At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. 33. The readers hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned eve
15、ry one of her five husbands. 34. It has been said that everyone lives by selling something. 35. In the light of this statement, teachers live by selling knowledge, philosophers by selling wisdom and priests by selling spiritual comfort. 36. Though it may be possible to measure the value of material
16、goods in terms of money, it is extremely difficult to estimate the true value of the services which people perform for us. 37. There are times when we would willingly give everything we possess to save our lives, yet we might grudge paying a surgeon a high fee for offering us precisely this service. 38. The conditions of society are such that skills have to be paid for in the same way that goods are paid
