【正文】 e buildup of ice at the poles and the drop in water levels near the equator speed up the Earth’s rotation, just as a spinning figure skater increases speed by drawing in her arms. (AP168)4. Although fruit can no longer grow once it is picked, it continues for some time to respire, taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide, just as human beings do when they breathe. (Cp822)5. International sporting events need not be fiscal disasters, as the financial success of the 1992 Olympic Games demonstrates. (EP6516)2/in the capacity or character of 作為。，當(dāng)作，視為1. In Aristophanes’s Lysistrata women are seen as the means of bringing peace and good sense to a wartorn world(DP444)2. Sunspots, vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnetic activity, appear on the surface of the Sun as dark spots although never sighted at the Sun’s poles or equator. (Dp724)3. .With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of munities on the Great Lakes that are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting new business. (Bp8821)4. If additional deposits of oil are found, the amount that can be used as fuel will increase and the price of oil will drop, even if the deposits are not immediately tapped. (AP1210)5. In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a sixhour workday, not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent acmodation to what many observers thought was an economy made overproductive by advances in technology. (Cp2215)6. The department defines a private passenger vehicle as one that is registered to an individual and that has a gross weight of less than 8,000 pounds. (AP13)7. Green anole lizards, familiar to schoolchildren as chameleons, have recently bee familiar to biologists as excellent animals for laboratory studies of the interaction of stimuli and hormones. (AP188)8. Scientific interest in providing suitable habitats for bottomdwelling animals such as river clams arises not from their importance as a source of human food but from their role as an integral link in the aquatic food chain. (AP1118)3/叢句。Introducing a concessive clause , usu replaceable by a construction with (expressing reason) since。 seeing that表示理由，因?yàn)椋热?。When, while, 當(dāng)。之時(shí) 1. Even as they never forgave the Crusaders who overran their homeland, the Syrians have never absolved the French for taking territory from them. (Dp7210)2. As measured by the Commerce Department, corporate profits peaked in the fourth quarter of 1988 and have slipped since then, as many panies have been unable to pass on higher costs. (Cp9016)3. As it bees more mon for both husband and wife to work outside the home, panies are beginning to help in finding new employment for the spouses of transferred employees. (AP121)4. The bank acknowledged that its difficulties are likely to continue as it attempts to deal with the precipitous fall of the dollar against the yen and the dislocations reflected in the stock market decline. (Cp2222)5. In terms of physics, the characteristic feature of the roller coaster is that the potential energy of the cars, gained as a chain drive lifts them through the Earth’s gravity to the top of the first drop, has been converted to kinetic energy by the time the ride ends. (Cp2223)6. Although it claims to delve into political issues, television can be superficial, as when the three major networks each broadcast exactly the same statement from a political candidate. (Cp2219)④As much….as, as many …as…, as….as….(in parison of equality , in the patterns: 以下列型式用于平等的比較：as+adj/adv +as,。 not as/so+adj/adv as)1. Psychologists now contend that the way adults think and feel is determined as much by their early childhood peers as by their parents. (Dp788)2. .In 1980 the United States exported twice as much of its national output of goods as it did in 1970. (Bp7623)3. An inventory equal to 90 days sales is as much as even the strongest businesses carry, and then only as a way to anticipate higher prices or ensure against shortages. (Bp21812)4. Child prodigies are marked not so much by their skills as by the fact that these skills are fully developed at a very early age. (AP12)5. The five hundred largest manufacturing firms in the United States produce goods worth almost as much as those of the remaining four hundred thousand firms. (AP195)6. American productivity is declining in relation to Europe’s。 the energy expended per unit of production in the United States is as much as twice that expended in West Germany. (AP1107)6/.Kanasas Republican Nancy Kassebaurn, one of only two women in the . Senate in 1992, said she did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republican ones. (EP7517)7. Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by robbing workers of the special Skills that were once their most important strength as by eliminating jobs. (AP1119)8. Some historians of science have argued that science moves forward not so much because of the insights of great thinkers as because of more mundane developments, such as improved tools and technologies. (AP1213)9. The efforts of the bipartisan mittee were marked as much by frustration as by success. (AP1221)10. According to a study by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, panies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, about as many as are enrolled in the nation’s fouryear colleges and universities. (AP1233)11. In one of the bloodies battles of the Civil War, fought at sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, four times as many Americans were killed as would later be killed on the beaches of Normandy during DDay. (Cp9019)12. Never before had taxpayers confronted as many changes at once as th