雅思阅读：剑桥雅思阅读长难句分析

1. The scent she carried in her samples and on her body was a message to the other bees that this was the one they were looking for.(剑4, General Training Test B section 3)

分析：本句的主句为“The scent was a message to the other bees”;“she carried in her samples and on her body”为定语从句，做The scent的定语，关系词在定语从句中做宾语，因此被省掉;“that this was the one they were looking for”为that引导的同位语从句，做a message的同位语;“they were looking for”为定语从句，做the one的定语，关系词在定语从句中做for的宾语，因此被省掉。

2. Soon he would also discover a number of other remarkable facts about how bees communicate and, in doing so, revolutionize the study of animal behavior generally.(剑4, General Training Test B section 3)

分析：本句的主句为“he would also discover a number of other remarkable facts about…and revolutionize the study of animal behavior generally”;“how bees communicate”为how引导的宾语从句，做介词about的宾语。

3. There had, of course, been dictionaries in the past, the first of these being a little book of some 120 pages, compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray, published in 1604 under the title A Table Alphabeticall ‘of hard usual English words'.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句主句“There had been dictionaries”;“the first of these being a little book of some 120 pages, compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray, published in 1604 under the title A Table Alphabeticall ‘of hard usual English words'”为独立主格结构，其中“compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray”和“published in 1604 under the title A Table Alphabeticall ‘of hard usual English words'”均为过去分词短语作定语，做a little book的定语。

4. It is highly appropriate that Dr Samuel Johnson, the very model of an eighteenth-century literary man, as famous in his own time as in ours, should have published his Dictionary at the very beginning of the heyday of the middle class.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句的主句为“It is highly appropriate that… ”, 其中it为形式主语，真正的主语为that引导的主语从句，即“that Dr Samuel Johnson, the very model of an eighteenth-century literary man, as famous in his own time as in ours, should have published his Dictionary at the very beginning of the heyday of the middle class”;在主语从句中“the very model of an eighteenth-century literary man”为Dr Samuel Johnson的同位语，“as famous in his own time as in ours”为Dr Samuel Johnson的定语。

5. His approach to the problems that had worried writers throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was intensely practical.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句的主句为“His approach to the problems was intensely practical”;“that had worried writers throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries”为定语从句，做the problems的定语，关系词为that。

6. He was to be paid ￡1,575 in installments, and from this he took money to rent 17 Gough Square, in which he set up his ‘dictionary workshop'.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句为并列句，“He was to be paid ￡1,575 in installments”和“from this he took money to rent 17 Gough Square, in which he set up his ‘dictionary workshop'.”并列，由and连接;“in which he set up his ‘dictionary workshop'.”为定语从句，做17 Gough Square的定语，关系词为which。

7. James Boswell, his biographer, described the garret where Johnson worked as ‘fitted up like a counting house' with a long desk running down the middle at which the copying clerks would work standing up.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句主句为“James Boswell described the garret as ‘fitted up like a counting house' with a long desk.”;“his biographer”为James Boswell的同位语;“where Johnson worked”为定语从句，做the garret的定语，关系词为where; “running down the middle”为现在分词短语做定语，做a long desk的定语;“at which the copying clerks would work standing up”为定语从句，做long desk的定语，关系词为which。

8. He was also helped by six assistants, two of whom died whilst the dictionary was still in preparation.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句主句为“He was also helped by six assistants”;“two of whom died whilst the dictionary was still in preparation”为定语从句，做six assistants的定语，关系词为whom;在定语从句中，“whilst the dictionary was still in preparation”为whilst引导的时间状语从句。

9. The fact that Johnson had taken on the Academies of Europe and matched them (everyone knew that forty French academics had taken forty years to produce the first French national dictionary) was cause for much English celebration.(剑5, Test 1 passage 1)

分析：本句的主句为“The fact was cause for much English celebration”;“that Johnson had taken on the Academies of Europe and matched them”为that引导的同位语从句，做The fact的同位语;括号中部分起到解释说明的作用。

10. A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology, Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their willingness to obey instructions given by a ‘leader' in a situation in which the subjects night feel a personal distaste for the actions they were called upon to perform.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句主句为“Stanley Milgram of Yale University tested 40 subjects from all walks of life for their willingness to obey instructions given by a ‘leader' in a situation”;“A few years ago, in one of the most fascinating and disturbing experiments in behavioural psychology”为状语;“in which the subjects night feel a personal distaste for the actions they were called upon to perform”为定语从句，做a situation的定语，关系词为which, 其中“they were called upon to perform”也为定语从句，做the actions的定语，关系词在该定语从句中做宾语，因此被省掉。

11. Milgram told each volunteer ‘teacher-subject' that the experiment was in the noble cause of education, and was designed to test whether or not punishing pupils for their mistakes would have a positive effect on the pupil's ability to learn.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句的主句为“Milgram told each volunteer ‘teacher-subject' that…”;“that the experiment was in the noble cause of education, and was designed to test whether or not punishing pupils for their mistakes would have a positive effect on the pupil's ability to learn.”为宾语从句，做动词told的宾语;“whether or not punishing pupils for their mistakes would have a positive effect on the pupil's ability to learn”为whether引导的宾语从句，做test的宾语。

12. 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。

13. Milgram told the teacher-subject to ignore the reactions of the pupil, and to administer whatever level of shock was called for, as per the rule governing the experimental situation of the moment.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句的主句为“Milgram told the teacher-subject to ignore the reactions of the pupil, and to administer whatever level of shock was called for”; 其中“whatever level of shock was called for”为whatever引导的宾语从句，做administer的宾语;as per为介词短语，意为依据，根据;“governing the experimental situation of the moment”为现在分词短语作定语，做the rule的定语。

14. As the experiment unfolded, the pupil would definitely give the wrong answers to questions posed by the teacher, thereby bringing on various electrical punishments, even up to the danger level of 300 volts and beyond.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句主句“the pupil would definitely give the wrong answers to questions”; “As the experiment unfolded”为As引导的时间状语从句，做该主句的时间状语;“posed by the teacher”为过去分词短语作定语，做questions的定语;“bringing on various electrical punishments, even up to the danger level of 300 volts and beyond”为现在分词短语作状语，做主句的伴随状语。

15. In these situations, Milgram calmly explained that the teacher-subject was to ignore the pupil's cries for mercy and carry on the experiment.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句的主句为“Milgram calmly explained that…”; “that the teacher-subject was to ignore the pupil's cries for mercy and carry on the experiment”为that引导的宾语从句，做explain的宾语;在该宾语从句中“to ignore the pupil's cries for mercy and carry on the experiment”为不定式做表语。

16. If the subject was still reluctant to proceed, Milgram said that it was important for the sake of the experiment that the procedure be followed through to the end.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句的主句为“Milgram said that …”; “If the subject was still reluctant to proceed”为If引导的条件状语从句;“that it was important for the sake of the experiment that the procedure be followed through to the end.”为that引导的宾语从句，做said的宾语;在该宾语从句“that it was important for the sake of the experiment that the procedure be followed through to the end.”中，it为形式主语，“that the procedure be followed through to the end”为that引导的主语从句，是该宾语从句真正的主语。

17. What Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects who would be willing to administer the highest levels of shock, even in the face of strong personal and moral revulsion against the rules and conditions of the experiment.(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, even in the face of strong personal and moral revulsion against the rules and conditions of the experiment.”为定语从句，做teacher-subjects的定语，关系词为who。

18. 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。

19. The overwhelming consensus was that virtually all the teacher-subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter.(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句主句为“The overwhelming consensus was that …”; “that virtually all the teacher-subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter”为表语从句，做was的表语。

20. 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。

21. How can we possibly account for this vast discrepancy between what calm, rational, knowledgeable people predict in the comfort of their study and what pressured, flustered, but cooperative ‘teachers' actually do in the laboratory of real life?(剑5, Test 1 passage 2)

分析：本句主句为“How can we possibly account for this vast discrepancy between…and…”; “what calm, rational, knowledgeable people predict in the comfort of their study”和“what pressured, flustered, but cooperative ‘teachers' actually do in the laboratory of real life”均为what引导的宾语从句。

22. 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。

　　23. As audiences grew, so did the places where films were shown, finishing up with the ‘great picture palaces’ of the 1920s, which rivaled, and occasionally superseded, theatres and opera-houses in terms of opulence and splendour.(剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句的主句为倒装句“so did the places”; “As audiences grew”为as引导的时间状语从句;“where films were shown”为定语从句，做places的定语，关系词为where; “finishing up with the ‘great picture palaces’ of the 1920s”为现在分词短语做伴随状语;“which rivaled, and occasionally superseded, theatres and opera-houses in terms of opulence and splendour.”为非限制性定语从句，关系词为which。

24. It was above all the French, followed by the Americans, who were the most passionate exporters of the new invention, helping to start cinema in China, Japan, Latin America and Russia.(剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句的主句为“It was above all the French”; “followed by the Americans.”为过去分词短语做定语;“who were the most passionate exporters of the new invention”为非限制性定语从句，做French的定语，关系词为who; “helping to start cinema in China, Japan, Latin America and Russia”为现在分词短语做定语。

25. In terms of artistic development it was again the French and the Americans who took the lead, though in the years before the First World War, Italy, Denmark and Russia also played a part.(剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句主句为强调句式“it was again the French and the Americans who took the lead”; “though in the years before the First World War, Italy, Denmark and Russia also played a part”为though引导的让步状语从句。

26. The rest of the world survived partly by learning from Hollywood and partly because audiences continued to exist for a product which corresponded to needs which Hollywood could not supply.(剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句的主句为“The rest of the world survived”; “because audiences continued to exist for a product”为because引导的原因状语从句;“which corresponded to needs ”为定语从句，做product的定语，关系词为which; “which Hollywood could not supply”为定语从句，做needs的定语，关系词为which。

27. As well as popular audiences, there were also increasing audiences for films which were artistically more adventurous or which dealt with the issues in the outer world. (剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句的主句为“there were also increasing audiences for films”, “which were artistically more adventurous”和“which dealt with the issues in the outer world”为并列句，由or连接，都为定语从句做films的定语，关系词都为which.

28. They turned their back on the past, leaving the style of the pre-war Russian cinema to the émigrés who fled westwards to escape the Revolution.(剑4, General Training Test A section 3)

分析：本句中“They turned their back on the past”为主句;“leaving the style of the pre-war Russian cinema to the émigrés”为现在分词短语做状语;“who fled westwards to escape the Revolution.”为定语从句，做the émigrés的定语，关系词为who。