雅思閱讀長難句真題分析

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.（劍5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句為“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”為that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，做tell的賓語；在該賓語從句中“a shock was to be administered”為主句;

而“whenever the pupil gave the wrong answer to a question”為whenever引導(dǎo)的時間裝語從句，在該賓語從句中做時間狀語，“beginning at the lowest level and increasing in severity with each successive wrong answer”為現(xiàn)在分詞短語做狀語，在該賓語從句中做伴隨狀語。

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

分析：本句的主句為“What Milgram was trying to discover was the number of teacher-subjects”; “What Milgram was trying to discover”為What引導(dǎo)的主語從句；“who would be willing to administer the highest levels of shock”為定語從句，做teacher-subjects的定語，關(guān)系詞為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.（劍5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句為“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”為時間狀語，prior to相當于before; “who would be willing to administer the highest shock level of 450 volts.”為定語從句，做an ordinary population的定語，關(guān)系詞為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.（劍5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句為并列句，“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連接；其中“that ‘most subjects would go beyond 150 volts’”為that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，做felt的賓語，而“that only four percent would go up to 300 volts”也為that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，做anticipated的賓語。

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.（劍5, Test 1 passage 2）

分析：本句的主句為“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.”為不定式做表語，做be的表語；

在此表語中“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，皆為that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，做argue的賓語；“that was activated by the experiment”為定語從句，做instinct的定語，關(guān)系詞為that。

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