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。