雅思閱讀長難句解析每日一練(3)

　　● 題目：

　　Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin—the new medium quickly found its way across the world, attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so. (劍4, General Training Test A passage 3)

　　● 分析：

　　本句的主句為“the new medium quickly found its way across the world”;“Beginning as something unusual in a handful of big cities—New York, London, Paris and Berlin”現(xiàn)在分詞短語做狀語;“attracting larger and larger audiences wherever it was shown and replacing other forms of entertainment as it did so”兩個并列的分詞短語做狀語，其中“wherever it was shown”wherever引導(dǎo)的為地點狀語，“as it did so”為as引導(dǎo)的狀語從句。

　　● 題目：

　　The second set of more specific changes that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries, accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources. (劍4, test4 passage 3)

　　● 分析：

　　本句主句為“The second set of more specific changes stems from the dramatic rise in health costs in most OECD countries”;“that have led to the present concern about the distribution of health-care resources.”為定語從句，做changes的定語，關(guān)系詞為that;“accompanied by large-scale demographic and social changes which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為過去分詞短語做狀語，其中“which have meant, to take one example, that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為定語從句，做changes的定語，關(guān)系詞為which,“that elderly people are now major (and relatively very expensive) consumers of health-care resources.”為that引導(dǎo)的賓語從句，做mean的賓語。