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GMAT 正确句子语法解析大全
1. A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide
the first evidence that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based on systematic astronomical observation.
2. A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
3. A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the
1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and only the second published by an American woman.同位语并列之后省略
4. A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of
sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time.
5. A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader
Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom. that 定语从句 that 后有插入语 to sb.
6. A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that
preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and causing flames to spread more quickly.伴随的并列
7. A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition. 介词短语作插入语 8. A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years
ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, and it is believed to have been the largest flying creature the world has ever seen. 同位语放在句首，同 位语由定语从句修饰
9. A Labor Department study states that the number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent in the past
decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost
new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago. 比较 结构
11. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.
12. A little under a million years ago, the briny waters of the Baltic Sea began
flooding into the cold North Atlantic: geologists are still debating whether the flood was gradual or cataclysmic.
13. A majority of the international journalists surveyed view nuclear power
stations as unsafe at present but think that they will be or could be made sufficiently safe in the future.
14. A migraine typically afflicts one side of the head, lasts for hours or days, and
may recur as infrequently as once every other month or as often as daily.
15. A new phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who mob cars at the stoplights. \名词+名词\的独立结构
16. A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
17. A patient accusing a doctor of malpractice will find it difficult to prove
damage without another doctor’s testimony about proper medical procedures. 该结构修饰句子，lacking 则修饰 damage 18. A peculiar feature of the embryonic mammalian circulatory system is that in
the area of the heart the cells adhere to one another, beating in unison yet adopting specialized orientations exclusive of one another.
19. A President entering the final two years of a second term is likely to be at a
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severe disadvantage and is often unable to carry out a legislative program. 20. A prolific architect who worked from the turn of the century until the late
1950’s, Julia Morgan designed nearly 800 buildings in California, perhaps most notably William Randolph Hearst’s monumental estate at San Simeon. 21. A proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage
poachers; the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoceroses once the animals’ horns have been trimmed. 现在完成时，没 有时间标志词
22. A recent national study of the public schools shows that there is now one microcomputer for every thirty-two pupils, four times as many as there were four years ago. 比较
23. A recent New York Times editorial criticized the city’s election board for, first
of all, failing to replace outmoded voting machines prone to breakdowns, and second, for failing to investigate allegations of corruption involving board members. 插入语
24. A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors have elected to retire early rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
25. A recent study of ancient clay deposits has provided new evidence supporting the theory that global forest fires ignited by a meteorite impact contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other creatures some 65 million years ago.
26. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed. so + adv. + that
27. A report by the American Academy for the Advancement of Science has
concluded that many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which North Americans are exposed come from the incineration of wastes.
28. A representative of the Women’s Bureau of the United States Department of
Labor contends that employers who offer benefits that permit employees to
balance the responsibilities of home and work better will realize gains in attendance, recruiting, and retention.
29. A shy, religious-minded publisher who had married a duke’s daughter,
Harold Macmillan surprised many by rising to the position of Prime Minister in 1957, though Churchill had since the 1930s been extolling Macmillan’s courage.
30. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered a gourmet delicacy by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.. 31. Mass determines whether a star, after passing through the red giant stage, will compress itself into a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole. 32. A study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture showed that if calves
exercise and associate with other calves, they require less medication and gain weight more quickly than those raised in confinement. 比较，前面 2 动 词，than 后省略助动词；if happens, happen
33. The Madagascar periwinkle, a derivative of which has proved useful in decreasing mortality among young leukemia patients, is cultivated in China as part of a program to integrate traditional herbal medicine into a contemporary system of health care.
34. A wildlife expert predicts that the reintroduction of the caribou into northern
Minnesota will fail if the density of the timber wolf population in that region is greater than one wolf for every 39 square miles.
35. According to a panel of health officials, there has been a great deal of
confusion in the medical profession about whether obesity is a biological disorder posing serious health risks or a condition more related to appearance than to health. 比较，介词不能省
36. According to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its
own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was of earlier generations. 动名词做主语；比较--时态不一致
37. According to a recent study by Rutgers University, the number of women in