雅思阅读长难句真题分析

1. The teacher-subject was told that whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to a question, a shock was to be administered, beginning at the lowest level and increasing in severity with each successive wrong answer.（剑5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句为“The teacher-subject was told that…”; “that whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to a question, a shock was to be administered, beginning at the lowest level and increasing in severity with each successive wrong answer”为that引导的宾语从句，做tell的宾语；在该宾语从句中“a shock was to be administered”为主句;

而“whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to a question”为whenever引导的时间装语从句，在该宾语从句中做时间状语，“beginning at the lowest level and increasing in severity with each successive wrong answer”为现在分词短语做状语，在该宾语从句中做伴随状语。

2 What Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects who would be willing to administer the highest levels of shock（剑5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句为“What Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects”; “What Milgram was trying to discover”为What引导的主语从句；“who would be willing to administer the highest levels of shock”为定语从句，做teacher-subjects的定语，关系词为who。

3. Prior to carrying out the experiment, Milgram explained his idea to a group of 39 psychiatrists and asked them to predict the average percentage of people in an ordinary population who would be willing to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts.（剑5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句为“Milgram explained his idea to a group of 39 psychiatrists and asked them to predict the average percentage of people in an ordinary population.”; “Prior to carrying out the experiment”为时间状语，prior to相当于before; “who would be willing to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts.”为定语从句，做an ordinary population的定语，关系词为who。

4. The psychiatrists felt that ‘most subjects would go beyond 150 volts’ and they further anticipated that only four percent would go up to 300 volts.（剑5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句为并列句，“The psychiatrists felt that ‘most subjects would go beyond 150 volts’”和“they further anticipated that only four percent would go up to 300 volts”并列，由and连接；其中“that ‘most subjects would go beyond 150 volts’”为that引导的宾语从句，做felt的宾语，而“that only four percent would go up to 300 volts”也为that引导的宾语从句，做anticipated的宾语。

5.  One’s first inclination might be to argue that there must be some sort of built-in animal aggression instinct that was activated by the experiment, and that Milgram’s teacher-subjects were just following a genetic need to discharge this pent-up primal urge onto the pupil by administering the electrical shock.（剑5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句为“One’s first inclination might be to…”; “to argue that there must be some sort of built-in animal aggression instinct that was activated by the experiment, and that Milgram’s teacher-subjects were just following a genetic need to discharge this pent-up primal urge onto the pupil by administering the electrical shock.”为不定式做表语，做be的表语；

在此表语中“that there must be some sort of built-in animal aggression instinct”和“that Milgram’s teacher-subjects were just following a genetic need to discharge this pent-up primal urge onto the pupil by administering the electrical shock”并列，皆为that引导的宾语从句，做argue的宾语；“that was activated by the experiment”为定语从句，做instinct的定语，关系词为that。

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