考研英语阅读基本功：难句过关 1. Libraries made education possible, and education in its turn added to libraries: the growth of knowledge followed a kind of compoundinterest law, which was greatly enhaced by the invention of printing. 2. If they can each be trusted to take such responsibilities, and to exercise such initiative as falls within their sphere, then administrative overhead will be low. 3. There are probably no questions we can think up that cant be answered, sooner or later, including even the matter of consciousness. 4. The curtain was rung down in that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon. 5. Studies of the Weddell seal in the laboratory have described the physiological mechanisms that allow the seals to cope with the extreme oxygen deprivation that occurs during its longest dives, which can extend 500 meters below the oceans surface and last for over 70 minutes. 6. The renaissance of the feminist movement began during the 1950s led to the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the lives of women in the East. 7. Tom, the books protagonist, took issue with a man who doted on his household pet yet, as a slave merchant, thought nothing of separating the husband from the wife, the parents from the children. 8. We are not conscious of the extent to which work provides the psychological satisfaction that can make the difference between a full and an empty life. 9. Thus, the unity that should characterize the strong system is developed by affording opportunity for diversity, which appears to be es...
