一、复合句

1. When a new movement in art attains a certain fashion, it is advisable to find out what its advocates are aiming at, for, however farfetched and unreasonable their principles may seem today, it is possible that in years to come they may be regarded as normal.（2000年第三篇）

2. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar.（2000年第五篇）

二、并列句

While talking to you, your could-be employer is deciding whether your education, your experience, and other qualifications will pay him to employ you and your “wares” and abilities must be displayed in an orderly and reasonably connected manner.（1996年第一篇）

三、定语从句

1. The American economic system is organized around a basically private-enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most.（1994年第一篇）

2. The change met the technical requirements of the new age by engaging a large professional element and prevented the decline in efficiency that so commonly spoiled the fortunes of family firms in the second and third generation after the energetic founders. （1996年第三篇）

四、名词性从句

1. That experiences influence subsequent behavior is evidence of an obvious but nevertheless remarkable activity called remembering. （1995年第五篇）

2. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real. （1998年第二篇）

3. Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request. （1999年第二篇）

4. Replies show that compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedeses, and trade stocks, and they’re less likely to go to church, do volunteer work, or put down roots in a community. （2001年第三篇）

五、状语从句

Consumers seem only concerned, not panicked, and many say they remain optimistic about the economy’s long-term prospects, even as they do some modest belt tightening. （2004年第三篇）

六、特殊结构

1. While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention, we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself. （1994年第三篇）

2. Discoveries in sciences and technology are thought by “untaught minds” to come in blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents. （1994年第五篇）

3. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow. （1995年第二篇）

4. On the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: “This book stands for reason itself.” And so it does—and all would be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate. （1996年第五篇）

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