真题回放:If it did,it would open up its diversity program,now focused narrowly on race and gender,and look for reporters who differ broadly by outlook,values,education,and class.
破解真题:这是一个含有条件状语从句的复合句。If it did是条件状语从句。主句中主语是it;谓语动词有两个,分别是would open up……和look for……这是一个与现在事实相反的虚拟语气,从句用一般过去时,主句中would+动词原形open up和Look for.
真题回放:Coke town was a town of red brick,or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and the ashes had allowed it;But as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage.
真题回放:If,in future,railroads charged all customers the same average rate,they argue,shippers who have the option of switching to trucks or other forms of transportation would do so,leaving remaining customers to shoulder the cost of keeping up the line.
真题回放:How many men would have considered the possibility of an apple falling up into the tree?Newton did because he was not trying to predict anything.
破解真题:前半部分问句中,主语是men;谓语是would have considered;宾语是the possibility;of an apple……into the tree是定语,修饰possibility.本句省略了从句:if they had observed the falling of an apple.
参考译文:有多少人会考虑过苹果向上飞到树上的可能性?牛顿考虑过,因为他不想对任何事情进行预测。
条件从句有时倒装,关于这一点的详细说明见倒装结构第二部分“状语从句中的倒装”的相关内容。
example 113.(1995年Translation)
真题回放:For example,they do not compensate for gross social inequality,and thus do not tell how able an underprivileged youngster might have been had he grown up under more favorable circumstances.
破解真题:此句是由and thus连接起来的并列句。在后一个并列分句中,主语they(指测试)省略了;谓语是do not tell;宾语是how able an underprivileged more favorable circumstances,其中,had he……favorable circumstances是条件状语从句,正常语序应当是if he had grown up under……。
2)在in order that和so that引导的目的状语从句中,谓语动词多用may/might或can/could后加动词原形,表示虚拟。而在lest,for fear that和in case that等引导的目的状语从句中,谓语动词多用should后加动词原形,表示虚拟(should经常被省略)。
example 114.(英语专业4级考试02年Text C)
真题回放:It would be foolish to go to an interview for a job in a law firm wearing jeans and a sweater;and it would be discourteous to visit some distinguished scholar looking as if we were going to the beach or a night club.
破解真题:这句话是由分号隔开的两个并列句。第二个并列句中包含一个as if引导的比较状语从句。是把go to an interview与go to the beach or a night club作一对比。
真题回放:However,when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers,so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock,their behaviour became markedly different.
真题回放:They should be quick to respond to letters to the editor,lest animal right misinformation go unchallenged and acquire a deceptive appearance of truth.
破解真题:这是个含有一个目的状语从句的复合句。目的状语从句由lest引导,其中的主语是animal right misinformation;谓语动词有两个,分别是go和acquire,go是系动词,与后面的unchallenged构成系表结构go和acquire都是动词原形,其实前面的should被省略了;acquire后面的a deceptive appearance of truth是它的宾语。