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托福阅读难在哪里?对于很多同学来说,词汇是硬伤。一句话十个单词,七八个没看懂,那说明得好好背单词了。还有一部分同学是词汇都认识,整句话却愣是没看懂。问题出在哪里呢?我们知道托福阅读句子大都很长,一句话占考试页面三四行都很常见。为什么阅读偏爱长句呢?我们知道托福考试是没有单独对语法这一项进行测试的。而阅读文章当中的长难句就体现了对学生语法基础的检测。想要让句子变长,主要方法之一就是通过从句。阅读文章中,出现频率高的当属that所引导的定语从句,同位语从句和宾语从句。下面我们来学习一下这些从句的特点,希望对大家备考托福阅读有所帮助。
名词 that
that引导定语从句或同位语从句。
首先我们来区分一下定语从句和同位语从句:
that引导的定语从句:定语即限定,修饰;从句部分缺主语(更常见)或宾语。如I like the idea that can make him happy.我们可以发现谓语can make前缺主语,所以idea充当主语,译成:我喜欢这个可以让他开心的主意。
that引导的同位语从句:同位即同等位置,从句具体说明前面名词的内容;从句不缺成分,。如I like the idea that we may have a party.从句当中成分完整;从句具体说明idea的内容是什么。意思是:我喜欢这个主意(主意的内容是我们要开party)。
练习:
People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that changes in the nation's economy would bring social chaos.
主语:people; 介词短语in the United States in the nineteenth century是修饰成分,表明地点,时间;were haunted是整个句子的谓语;接下来我们看到名词prospect 后面有that, that从句当中成分完整(主:changes in the nation's economy;谓语:would bring;宾语:social chaos)。所以that 在这里引导同位语从句。
句子主干:People were haunted by the prospect.
练习:
The strikingly new forms of architecture that appeared in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries were built to meet the needs of industry.
我们看到主语The strikingly new forms of architecture后面的that,再看到that 后面的appeared缺主语,可以判断是that引导定语从句,先行词充当主语。定语从句到第二个动词were built前结束。所以这句话的谓语是were built.
句子主干:The strikingly new forms of architecture were built to meet the needs of industry.
动词 that
that引导宾语从句;从句不缺成分。
如:Mary believes that she will pass the exam.
Mary相信的内容用一个完整的句子来表达.
练习:
The structure of the backbone shows that Ambulocetus swam like modern whales by moving the rear portion of its body up and down.
很明显,主语:The structure of the backbone,整个句子的谓语:show。动词show后面出现that,所以我们知道that在这里引导宾语从句,整个从句就是The structure of the backbone所show的内容。