英語長句練習(xí)

1、(1) Visual cues from audience members can indicate that a speech is dragging , that the speaker is dwelling on a particular point for too long , or that a particular point requires further explanation 1(2) But art history focuses on much more than this because art reflects not only the political val

2、ues of a people , but also religious beliefs , emotions , and psychology.2(3) One widely held belief is that a sharp fright will end a troublesome bout of hiccups , but many people prefer just waiting for them to go away as this “cure” is often worse than the ailment itself .3(4) That our environmen

3、t had little , if anything ,to do with our abilities , characteristics and behavior is central to this theory.4(5)And I take heart from the fact that the enemy, which boasts that it can occupy the strategic point in a couple of hours , has not yet been able to take even the outlying regions , becaus

4、e of the stiff resistance that gets in the way.5(6) A physically mature female deer in good condition who has conceived in November and given birth to two fawns during the end of May or first part of June , must search for food for the necessary energy not only to meet her bodys needs but also to pr

5、oduce milk for her fawns.6(7) The president said at a press conference dominated by questions on yesterdays election results that he could not explain why the Republicans had suffered such a widespread defeat, which in the end would deprive the Republican Party of long-held superiority in the House.

6、7(8) The second aspect is the application by all members of society from the government official to the ordinary citizen, of the special methods of thought and action that scientists use in their work.8(9) The method was largely developed by physicists , chemists and biologists ; it was later adopte

7、d by people working in such areas as education, psychology and sociology , where the subjects of research were often people.9(10)David Cameron will lead a high-powered UK business and government mission to China today in an attempt to boost trade and exports with the worlds second-largest economy be

8、fore this weeks Group of 20 summit in South Korea.10（11）I believe strongly that it is in the interests of my countrymen that Britain should remain an active and energetic member of the European Union.11(12) But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demoniac personality, a granite will, uncann

9、y instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and until toward the end, when drunk with power and success, he overreached himself an amazing capacity to size up people and situations， there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.12(13) Energy is the cu

10、rrency of the ecological system and life becomes possible only when food is converted into energy which in turn is used to seek more food to grow , to reproduce and to survive.13(14) By the middle of the year , he warned , the Soviet Union would overtake the United States in the number of land based

11、 strategic missiles , the result of a massive Soviet effort beginning in the mid 1960s , after the Cuban fiasco, to achieve at least parity and possibly superiority in nuclear weapons.14(15) What should doctors say, for example, to a 46-year- old man coming in for a routine physical checkup just bef

12、ore going on vocation with his family who, though he feels in perfect health, is found to have a form of cancer that will cause him to die within six months ?15（16）American business is much freer than most competitors-which are often restrained by unions, social policies, and regulations-to hire and

13、 fire, reorganize and deploy resources where they will be most productive.16（17）Law-and-order is the longest-running and probably the best-loved political issue in American history. Yet it is painfully apparent that millions of Americans, who would never think of themselves as lawbreakers, let alone criminals, are increasingly taking liberties with the legal codes that are designed to protect and nourish their society.17（18） The country had grown rich,