GRE閱讀長難句練習5

　　句子1：

　　Instead of trying to keep down the body temperature deep inside the body, which would involve the expenditure of water and energy, desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise to what would normally be fever height, and temperatures as high as 46 degrees Celsius have been measured in Grant's gazelles.

　　主干: desert mammals allow their temperatures to rise

　　翻譯: 沙漠哺乳動物并不試圖將體溫控制得很低, 因為這么做將會涉及水和能量的消耗, 而是允許體溫上升到平常是高燒的溫度——有人在格蘭特羚羊身上曾測到高達46攝氏度的體溫。

　　1.如果沙漠哺乳動物不將體溫保持得較高的話: ：

　　A水和能量的消耗會增加

　　B水和能量的消耗會減少

　　C水和能量的消耗不會變化

　　答案：A

　　句子2：

　　That sex ratio will be favored which maximizes the number of descendants an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.

　　主干: That sex ratio will be favored

　　翻譯: 那種能最大化一個個體會擁有的后代數(shù)量和基因傳播數(shù)量的性別比例會被喜歡。

　　1.maximize的邏輯主語是: ：

　　A that sex ratio

　　B Descendants

　　C An individual

　　答案：A

　　2.an individual will have and hence the number of gene copies transmitted.修飾的是: ：

　　A that sex ratio

　　B Descendants

　　答案：C

　　3.maximize的賓語是: ：

　　A the number of descendants

　　B The number of gene copies transmitted

　　C A and B

　　答案：A

　　句子3：

　　Only when a system possesses natural or artificial boundaries that associate the water within it with the hydrologic cycle may the entire system properly be termed hydrogeologic.

　　主干: the entire system be termed hydrogeologic.

　　翻譯: 只有當一個系統(tǒng)擁有自然的或人工形成的邊界來把邊界中的水與水文循環(huán)聯(lián)系起來的時候, 才有可能把整個的系統(tǒng)恰當?shù)某蔀榕c水文地質(zhì)學有關(guān)。

　　1.這句話的主語是: ：

　　Aa system

　　Bhydrologic

　　Cthe entire system

　　答案：C

　　2.it指代的是: ：

　　A Water

　　B Boundaries

　　C System

　　答案：B