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189. By offering lower prices and a menu of personal communications options,
such as caller identification and voice mail, the new telecommunications company has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced these companies to offer competitive prices. 190.
By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a
kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds for sympathizing with the Pretoria regime. grounds for 固定搭配
191.By studying the primitive visual systems of single-cell aquatic organisms,
biophysicists have discovered a striking similarity between algae and cows, a similarity that indicates the common evolutionary origin of plants and animals: both algae and cows produce a light-sensitive protein called rhodopsin.
192. By the mid-seventeenth century, Amsterdam had built a new town hall so
large that only St. Peter’s in Rome, the Escorial in Spain, and the Palazza Ducale in Venice could rival it for scale or magnificence. 固定表达 A rival B for sth.
193. Byron possessed powers of observation that would have made him a great
anthropologist and that make his letters as a group the rival of the best novels of the time.
194. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four
thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added. 195.
California’s child-support payments are as high as, or higher than, those
of any other state. 196.
Camille Claudet worked continuously through the 1880’s and early 1890’s
with the sculptor Auguste Rodin; since there are very few signed works of hers, the conclusion seems inescapable that part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period was conceived and executed by Claudet. that 置后避 免头重脚轻
197. 198.
Camus broke with Sartre in a bitter dispute over the nature of Stalinism. Canadian scientists have calculated that every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.
199. Because the underinflation of tires can waste up to five percent of a car’s
fuel by increasing car-road friction, car owners can substantially boost their vehicles’ fuel efficiency by properly inflating the tires. 200.
Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are
nearly 2,000 years older than any of their supposed predecessors. 201.
To be successful, cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin within one
to four minutes after a cardiac arrest. 202.
Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels
of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.
203. Carpenters, dentists, sewing machine operators, needlepointers, piano
players, and indeed any people who work with their hands for long hours can get carpal tunnel syndrome.
204. Cartographers have long struggled with the problem of how to draw the
spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper. 205.
Certain pesticides can become ineffective if used repeatedly in the same place; one reason is suggested by the finding that there are much larger populations of pesticide-degrading microbes in soils with a relatively long history of pesticide use than in soils that are free of such chemicals.
206. Very reluctant to have any extra weight on his plane when he attempted his solo transatlantic flight, Charles Lindbergh refused to carry even a pound of mail, despite being offered $1,000 to do so. 207.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for
urban apartment houses that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities. 名词并列之后， 后面的修饰成分可以不一样
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错误原句：Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities...
including 的经典解释
The function and meaning of the including… phrases are unclear in choice A: for example, it is hard to tell whether Gilman called for urban apartment houses that included childcare facilities or whether such facilities represent one variety of the urban apartment houses she wanted built.
208. Chicago, whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American city, was plagued by labor troubles like the Pullman Strikes of 1894.
209. Child prodigies are marked not so much by their skills rather than by the fact that these skills are fully developed at a very early age.
210. Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of
thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic
composition inside its own square frame.
211. Chronic low-level leaking and the routine discharge of drilling mud and mineral salts present considerable environmental risk during offshore oil drilling. 因为谓语后面也比较长，所以没有头重脚轻
212. Citing evidence that the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere has
increased more than seven percent in the last 30 years, many scientists have expressed a fear that destruction of forests and continued use of fossil fuels will cause an irreversible shift in Earth’s climatic pattern.
213. Clark and Florence Wallace, a husband-and-wife medical team, worked
steadily and efficiently through the night, but as they sipped their coffee the
next morning, she noticed that he seemed disoriented.
214. Climatic shifts are so gradual as to be indistinguishable at first from ordinary fluctuations in the weather. so as to do 结构，只要主语一致就是可以 使用的
215. Compared with other Native Americans of the Southwest, the Quechans were singularly uninterested in the accumulation of material wealth or in the
crafting of elaborate pottery and basketry. 216.
Computers are becoming faster, more powerful, and more reliable, and so too are modems, the devices that allow two or more computers to share information over regular telephone lines.
217. Concerned at the increase in accident fatalities, Tennessee adopted a
child-passenger protection law requiring that parents restrain children under four years of age in a child safety seat. 218.
Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations
overlying one another, Schliemann temporarily halted his excavations of the
fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy. 219.
Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers to provide workers
with unpaid leave so that they can care for sick or newborn children. 220.
Constance Horner, chief of the United States government’s personnel
agency, has recommended that the use of any dangerous or illegal drug in the five years prior to application for a job be grounds for not hiring an applicant. 221.
A consumer may not think of household cleaning products as hazardous
substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.
222. Contrary to earlier conjectures, it may be that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels would cool the globe by reducing the amount of solar energy absorbed by snow.
223. Contrary to popular belief, victors in the ancient Greek Olympic Games
received cash prizes in addition to their laurel wreaths.
224. Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is
not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of
income, nor is it displacing the physical production of goods. 平行 225.
Convinced at last of the soundness of her advice, the villagers tried crop
rotation, built crude sanitary facilities, and even used goat’s milk to make cheese.