GRE填空經(jīng)典句式練習1

　　1 “The most important distinction among countries concerns not their form of government but their degree of government.” ——Samuel P. Huntington

　　典型句式：not A but B 結構。

　　句子主干： The distinction concerns not form of government but degree of government.

　　翻譯：國家之間最大的差別不在于管理的形式而在于管理的效力。

　　2 McDonald’s crew members don’t sit in front of computers all day, leaving little opportunity to check balances or make tweaks to asset allocation plans at work.

　　典型句式：分詞狀語結構

　　句子主干： McDonald’s crew members don’t sit in front of computers all day.

　　翻譯：麥當勞的員工不是整天坐在電腦前，工作時間沒有什么機會來檢查帳戶或者倒騰資產(chǎn)分配計劃。

　　3 He considers how investor-rights gadflies prompted a redistribution of corporate power and charts the achievements of the foes of the German biotech industry.

　　典型句式：A and B順承結構組合句。

　　句子主干： he considers A and charts B.

　　翻譯：他承認消費者維權人士在促進公司權力再分配中的作用，并且紀錄德國生物技術行業(yè)的仇敵的成就。

　　4 I prefer a wife who understands that my sexual needs may entail more than strict adherence to monogamy.

　　典型句式：A more than B; 委婉表達;幽默表達

　　句子主干：I prefer a wife who understands something.

　　翻譯：我更喜歡這樣的妻子，她理解我的性需求或許會導致對一夫一妻制的遵守不那么嚴格(允許我有婚外性生活的權利)。

　　5 People who oppose abortion can say that persons have a right to life only if they didn’t come into existence because of rape; or they can say that all persons have a right to life, but that some have less of right to life than others, in particular, that those who came into existence because of rape have less.

　　典型句式：A;or B 大分號組合句/only if 條件句 / say that A, but that B, that C

　　句子主干： People can say A, or they can say B.

　　翻譯：那些反對墮胎的人會說，只有當人不是因為強奸行為而獲得生命的時候，人才有生存的權利;他們也可以說，所有的人都有生存的權利，但一些人比另一些人生存的權利更少，尤其是，那些因為強奸行為而降生的人權利更少一些。