四级真题阅读长难句分析

1、真题阅读长难句分析1. Scott Hahn, cofounder with Gregory of Rogan and Loomstate, which uses all-organic cotton, says high-quality sustainable materials can still be tough to find.We need to train ourselves to think differently, shift our mindsets and realize that diversity opens doors for all of us, creating

2、opportunities in organizations and communities that benefit everyone.2. Most designers with existing labels are finding there aren ' t comparable fabrics that can just replace what you 're doing and what your customers are used to, ” he says.3. Last year the influential trade show Designers

3、& Agents stopped charging its participation fee for young green entrepreneurs （ 企业家 ） who attend its two springtime shows in Los Angeles and New York and gave special recognition to designers whose collections are at least 25% sustainable.9. They only come in when a friend drops dead on the golf

4、 course and they think, Geez, if it could happen to him, ,10. He believes most diseases that commonly affect men could be addressed by preventive check-ups.Shoppers seldom complain to the manager or owner of a retail store, but instead will alert their friends, relatives, coworkers, strangers and an

5、yone who will listen.4. This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional （ 过渡型的 ） cotton at higher prices, thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material.5. Scientists have devised a way to determine roughl

6、y where a person has lived using a strand （缕 ） of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.6. Todd Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt

7、Lake.11. This guidance eliminated the need for customers to circle the parking lot endlessly, and avoided confrontation between those eyeing the same parking space.12. Customers can also improve future shopping experiences by filling complaints to the retailer, instead of complaining to the rest of

8、the world.13. A code of conduct is hard to create when you ' re living in a world in which everyone is exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, and a world in which nice people are perceived to finish last.This jumping to our children ' s defence is part of what fuels the “ walking on eggs

9、hells ” feeling that surrounds our dealings with other people ' s children.7. He had a perfect r esum e and gave good responses to her questions, but the fact that he never looked her in the eye said“ untrustworthy, ” so she decided to offer the job to her second choice.8. When we begin to quest

10、ion our assumptions and challenge what we think we have learned from our past, from the media, peers, family, friends, etc., we begin to realize that some of our conclusions are flawed （ 有 缺 陷 的 ） or contrary to our fundamental values.14. Assuming you make it to the end of your natural term, about 7

11、8 years for men in Australia, you ' ll die on average five years before a woman.15. Two months ago Gullotta saw a 50-year-old man who had delayed doing anything about his smoker ' s cough for a year.19.Store managers are often the last to hear complaints, and often find out only when their r

12、egular customers decide to frequent their competitors, according to a study jointly conducted by Verde Group and Wharton School.20. “ Retailers who ' re responsive and friendly are more likely to smooth over issues than those who aren 't so friendly, ” said Professor Stephen Hoch.21. But the

13、 real truth is that we don ' t know enough to relieve global warming, and without major technological breakthroughs we can' t do much about it.22. We need economic growth unless we condemn the world 's poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else ' s living standards.23. Th

14、e trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it ' s really an engineering one.24. Whoever it is, they will see you in a way you never intended to be seen the 21st century equivalent of being caught naked.25. Psychologists tell us boundaries are healthy, tha

15、t it ' s important to reveal yourself to friends, family and lovers in stages, at appropriate times.26. Few people turn down a discount at tollbooths （ 收费站 ） to avoid using the EZ-Pass system that can track automobile movements.27. Privacy economist Alessandro Acquisti has run a series of tests

16、that reveal people will surrender personal information like Social Security numbers just to get their hands on a pitiful 50-cents-off coupon （ 优惠券 ）.28. When you consider that nearly three out of four Americans have seen the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? you can understand the power of te

17、levision to communicate with a large audience.29. Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but regardless of whether it is or isn' t we won ' t do much about it.30. Al Gore calls global warming an “ inconvenient truth ”, as if merely recognizing it

18、 could put us on a path to a solution.31. The digital bread crumbs（ 碎屑 ） you leave everywhere make it easy for strangers to reconstruct who you are, where you are and what you tect it.33. But at the same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and es

19、pecially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.34. Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as

20、 unwelcoming to international students.35. In response to the same forces that have driven the world economy, universities have become more self-consciously global: seeking students from around the world who represent the entire range of cultures and values, sending their own students abroad to prep

21、are them for global careers, offering courses of study that address the challenges of an interconnected world and collaborative （合作 的 ） research programs to advance science for the benefit of all humanity.36. Yale professor and Harvard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Tian Xu directs a research

22、 center focused on the genetics of human disease at Shanghai' s Fudan University in collaboration with faculty colleagues from both schools.37. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universit

23、ies, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K.38. While the kinds of instruction offered in these programs will differ, DL usually signifies a course in which the instructors post syllabi （ 课程大纲 ）, reading assignments, and schedules on Websites, and students send

24、in their assignments by e-mail39. Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales.32.Only when it's gone do you wish you' ve done more to40. While stepping back was diff

25、icult for me, it was certainly a good first step that I will quickly follow with more steps, putting myself far enough away to give her room but close enough to help if asked.41. Not only do we evaluate the cause of the pain, which can help us treat the pain better, but we also help provide comprehe

26、nsive therapy for depression and other psychological and social issues related to chronic pain.42. Then one day a few years ago, out of my mouth came a sentence that would eventually become my reply to any and all provocations: I don 't talk about that anymore.43. The practice that can help you

27、past your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing. ”44. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.45. Unlike physical energy, which is limited and diminishes with ag

28、e, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringings.46. “ Wellness” may perhaps best be viewed not as a state that people can achieve, but as an ideal that people can strive for.47. If you are listening to that 5th grade English teacher correct your grammar while you are

29、 trying to capture a fleeting (稍纵即逝的 ) thought, the thought will die.48. Regardless of how it's sold, the popularity of bottled water taps into our desire for better health, our wish to appear cultivated, and even a longing for lost purity.49. According to an article in The Wall Street Journal,

30、some of the more shameless tactics include placing attractive bottles on the table for a visual sell, listing brands on the menu without prices, and pouring bottled water without even asking the diners if they want it.50. Built with safety in mind, the highways have wide lanes and shoulders, dividin

31、g medians or barriers, long entry and exit lanes, curves engineered for safe turns, and limited access.51. But since water is much cheaper than wine, and many of the fancier brands aren 't available in stores, most diners don ' t notice or care.52. He must use the sounds of speech to identif

32、y the words spoken, understand the pattern of organization of the words (sentences), and finally interpret the meaning.53. Perhaps it was the extreme contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers.54. As we have seen, the focus of medical care in ou

33、r society has been shifting from curing disease to preventing disease especially in terms of changing our many unhealthy behaviors, such as poor eating habits, smoking and failure to exercise.55. Reaching new peaks of popularity in North America is Iceberg Water, which is harvested from icebergs off

34、 the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.56. Ultimately, however, our basic design strategy is focused not simply on being “less bad” but on creating completely healthful materials that can be either safely returned to the soil or reused by industry again and again.57. As you sleep you pass through a sequ

35、ence of sleep states light sleep, deep sleep and REM (rapid eye movement) sleep that repeats approximately every 90 minutes.58. You program the clock with the latest time at which you want to be wakened, and it then duly( 适时地 ) wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that.59. Home builder

36、s can now use materials such as paints that release significantly reduced amounts of organic compounds that don't destroy the quality of the air, water, or soil.60. We're giving people high-quality, healthful products and an opportunity to make choices that have a beneficial effect on the wo

37、rld.61. When we designed America 's first so-called “ green” office building in New York two decades ago, we felt very alone.62. The “ energy-efficient ” sealed commercial buildings constructed after the 1970s energy crisis revealed indoor air quality problems caused by materials such as paint,

38、wall covering and carpet.63. So for 20 years, we've been focusing on these materials down to the molecules, looking for ways to make them safe for people and the planet.64. “As sleep-deprived people ourselves, we started thinking of what to do about it, ”says Eric Shashoua, a recent college grad

39、uate and now chief executive officer of Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, a company created by the students to develop their idea.65. The headband equipped with electrodes and microprocessor measures the electrical activity of the wearer 's brain, in much the same way as some machines used for m

40、edical and research purposes and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed.66. Interest in pursuing international careers has soared in recent years, enhanced by chronic（ 长久的 ） personnel shortages that are causing companies to search beyond their home borders for talent.67. Variables in

41、cluded the slope of the land, the ability of the pavement to support the load, the intensity of road use and the nature of the underlying soil.68. Long-span, segmented-concrete, cable-stayed bridges such as Hale Boggs in Louisiana and the Sunshine Skyway in Florida, and remarkable tunnels like Fort

42、McHenry in Maryland and Mt.Baker in Washington, met many of the nation ' s physical challenges.69. Not only has the highway system affected the American economy by providing shipping routes, it has led to the growth of spin-off industries like service stations, motels, restaurants, and shopping

43、centers.70. An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices.71. His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists.72. And economi

44、cs, with its emphasis on incentives ， provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education.73. Many in-home jobs that used to be done primarily by women ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing voluntary work still need to be done by som

45、eone.74. In fact, New York's municipal water for more than a century was called the champagne of tap water and until recently considered among the best in the world in terms of both taste and purity.75. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while the

46、ir brothers are sent to school the prophecy（ 预言 ） becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle（ 恶性循环 ） of neglect.76. It starts in the Pacific Ocean and is thought to be caused by a failure in the trade winds（ 信风 ）, which affects the ocean currents driven by these winds.77. A governme

47、nt study recommended a national highway system of 33,920 miles, and Congress soon passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944, which called strict, centrally controlled design criteria.78. Traffic control systems and methods of construction developed under the interstate program soon influenced highw

48、ay construction around the world, and were invaluable in improving the condition of urban streets and traffic patterns.79. By opening the North American continent, highways have enabled consumer goods and services to reach people in remote and rural areas of the country, spurred the growth of suburb

49、s, and provided people with greater options in terms of jobs, access to cultural programs, health care, and other benefits.80. The technological advances made it possible for the middle classes to enjoy what had once been affordable only to the very rich.81. The clock, called Sleep Smart, measures y

50、our sleep cycle, and waits for you to be in your lightest phase of sleep before rousing you.82. The point in that sleep cycle at which you wake can affect how you feel later, and may even have a greater impact than how much or little you have slept.83. While she awaits the outcome, the government ha

51、s granted her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben&Jerry 's.84. Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won ' t allow them to start unless they receives a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition（ 点火 ） key.85. The first study t

52、o compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails.As the trade winds lessen in strength, the ocean temperatures rise, causing the Peru current flowing in from the east to warm up by as much as

53、5 °C .87. The interstate highway system was finally launched in 1956 and has been hailed as one of the greatest public works projects of the century.88. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools.89. But Hancock says it is al

54、so crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time.90. If you are submitting your resume in English, find out if the recipient（ 收件人 ） uses British English or American English because there are variations between the two versions.91. I wondered

55、 what I would do if confronted with a real midair medical emergency without access to a hospital staff and the usual emergency equipment.92. Thanks to more recent legislation, flights with at least one attendant are starting to install emergency medical kits to treat heart attacks.93. The logo, alon

56、g with the company' s long-held marketing image of the “ irresistibility ” of its chips, would help facilitate the company ' s global expansion.94. The executives acknowledge that they try to swing national eating habits to a food created in America, but they deny that amounts to economic im

57、perialism.95. While there 's no question that continuous stress is harmful, several studies suggest that challenging situations in which you' re able to rise to the occasion can be good for you. 思考类动词总结Think/assume/conceive/conclude/expect/ determine/hold/judge/presume/reckon/see/ sense/supp

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