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GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(50/50)

The discovery that Haydn’s and Mozart’s symphonies were conducted during their lifetimes by a pianist who plays the chords to keep the orchestra together has given rise to early music recording in which a piano can be heard obtrusively in the foreground, despite evidence indicating that the orchestral piano was virtually inaudible to audiences at eighteenth-century concerts and was dropped as musically necessary when a better way to beat time was found.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(49/50)

None of these translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan’s three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babbling about drawbridges and battlements.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(48/50)

Though historically there is a discernible break between Jewish law of sovereign state of ancient Israel and of the Diaspora (the dispersion of Jewish people after the conquest of Israel), the spirit of the legal matter in later parts of the Old Testament is very close to that of Talmud, one of primary codifications of Jewish law in the Diaspora.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(47/50)

The history of global diversity can be summarized as follows : after the initial flowering of multicellular animals, there was a swift rise in the number of species in early Paleozoic times (between 600 and 430 million years ago) , then plateau-like stagnation for the remaining 200 million years of the Paleozoic era, and finally a slow but steady climb through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras to diversity’s all-time high.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(46/50)

The people’s liberty consists not in their original responsibility for what exists, but merely in the faculty they have acquired of abolishing any detail that may distress or wound them, and of imposing any new measure, which, seen against the background of existing laws, may commend itself from time to time to their instinct and mind.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(45/50)

Because the increased awareness of civil rights in these decades helped reinforce the belief that life on reservations prevented Native Americans from exercising the rights guaranteed to citizens under the United State Constitution, the readjustment movement advocated the end of the federal government’s involvement in Native American affairs and encouraged the assimilation of Native Americans as individuals into mainstream society.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(44/50)

In the early 1950’s, historians who studied preindustrial Europe (which we may define here as Europe in the period from roughly 1300 to 1800) began, for the first time in large numbers, to investigate more of the preindustrial European population than the 2 or 3 percent who comprised the political and social elite: the kings, generals, judges, nobles, bishops, and local magnates who had hitherto usually filled history books. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(43/50)

The physicist rightly dreads precise argument, since an argument that is convincing only if it is precise loses all its force if the assumption on which it is based are slightly changed, whereas an argument that is convincing through imprecise may well be stable under small perturbations of its underlying assumption.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(42/50)

If one begin by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek description of such societies were meant not so much to represent observed historical fact— real Amazonian societies — but rather to offer “ moral lessons ” on the supposed outcome of women’s rule in their own society. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(41/50)

Although iridium is extremely rare on the Earth’s surface, the lower regions of the Earth’s mantle have roughly the same composition as meteorites and contain large amounts of iridium, which in the case of a diapir eruption would probably be emitted as iridium hexafluoride, a gas that would disperse more uniformly in the atmosphere than iridium-containing matter thrown out from a meteorite impact. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(40/50)

Because his work concentrates on the nineteenth century, McLaughlin unfortunately overlooks  earlier sources of influence, such as eighteenth century White resident traders and neighbors, thus obscuring the relative impact of the missionaries of the 1820 in contributing to both acculturalization and resistance to it among the Cherokee.  

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(39/50)

In addition, the style of some Black novels, like Jean Toomer’s Cane, verges on expressionism or surrealism ; dose this technique provide a counterpoint to prevalent theme that portrays the fate against which Black heroes are pitted, a theme usually conveyed by more naturalistic modes of expression ?

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(38/50)

But the resent discovery of detailed similarities in the skeletal structure of the flippers in all three groups undermines the attempt to explain away superficial resemblance as due to convergent evolution — the independent development of similarities between unrelated groups in response to similar environmental pressures.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(37/50)

As a consequence, it may prove difficult or impossible to establish for a successful revolution a comprehensive and trustworthy picture of those who participated, or to answer even the most basic questions one might pose concerning the social origins of the insurgents.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(36/50)

Because the potential hazard pollen grains are subject to as they are transported over long distances are enormous, wind pollinated plants have, in the view above, compensated for ensuing loss of pollen through happenstance by virtue of producing an amount of pollen that is one to three order of magnitude greater than the amount produced by species pollenated by insects. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(35/50)

While the new doctrine seems almost certainly correct, the one papyrus fragment raises the specter that another may be unearthed, showing, for instance, that it was a posthumous production of the Danaid tetralogy which bested Sophocles, and throwing the date once more into utter confusion. 

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(34/50)

Thus, women in education are more likely to become teachers than school administrators, whose more conventional full-time schedules do not correspond to the schedules of school-age children, while female lawyers are more likely to practice law in trusts and estates, where they can control their work schedules, than in litigation, where they cannot.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(33/50)

In its final section, by declaring the resolution is not intended to alter the constitutional authority of either Congress or the President, the resolution asserts that congressional involvement in decisions to use armed force is in accord with the intent and spirit of the Constitution.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(32/50)

The historian Frederick J. Turner wrote in the 1980’s that the agrarian discontent that had been developing steadily in the Unite State since about 1870 had been precipitated by the closing of the internal frontier— that is, the depletion of available new land needed for expansion of the American farming system.

GRE,GMAT,SAT經典長難句(31/50)

However, as they gained cohesion, the Bluestockings came to regard themselves as a women’s group and to possess a sense of female solidarity lacking in the salonnieres, who remained isolated from one another by the primacy each held in her own salon.