GMAT-OG12-SC正確句子總結(jié)

1、og12th-sc正確的句子1. the glass house mountains in queensland, australia, were sighted in 1770 by the english navigator captain james cook, who so named them supposedly because their sheer wet rocks glistened like glass.2. although a surge in retail sales has raised hopes that a recovery is finally under

2、 way, many economists say that without a large amount of spending the recovery might not last.3. although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century american poets had professed an interest in native american poetry and had pretended to imitate native american forms in their own works, it was not un

3、til almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying traditional native american poetry in native languages.4. of all the vast tides of imgration that have swept through history, perhaps none was more concentrated than the wave that brought 12 million immigrants onto american shores in

4、 little more than three decades.5. diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nations third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.6. in late 1997, the chambers inside the pyramid of the pharaoh menkaure at giza were closed to vistors for cleaning and

5、 repair because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such level that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing on the walls,7. as its sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, the company has become increasingly willin

6、g to compete for the mass market sales it would in the past have conceded to rivals.8. the widely accepted big bang theory holds that the universe began in an explosive instant ten to twenty billion years ago and has been expanding ever since9. like the brontes and brownings, james joyce and virgini

7、a woolf are often subjected to the kind of veneration that blurs the distinction between the artist and the human being.10. carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal level of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.11. there a

8、re several ways to build solid walls using just mud or clay, but the most extensively used method has been to form the mud or clay into bricks, and, after some preliminary air drying or sun drying, to lay them in the wall in mud mortar.12. rising inventories, if not accompanied by corresponding incr

9、eases in sales, can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.13. a surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.14. sunspots,vortices of gas associated with strong electromagnet

10、ic activity, are visible as dark spots on the surface of the sun but have never been sighted on the suns poles or equator.15. warning that computers in the united states are not secure, the national academy of sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emerge

11、ncy response teams, and create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.16. retail sales rose 0.8 of 1 percent in august,intendifying expectations that personal spending in the july-september quarter would more than double the 1.4 percent growth rate in perso

12、nal spending for the previous quarter.17. the commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the wordnaturalto foods that do not contain color of flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or anything that has been synthesized.18. plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon,

13、in the form of carbon dioxide, and converting it to energy-rich sugars.19. the iroquois were primarily planters, although they supplemented their cultivation of maize, squash, and beans with fishing and hunting20. unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries

14、a potent venom that can cause intense pain.21. neuroscientist, having amassed a wealth of knowledge over the past twenty years about the brain and its development from birth to adulthood, are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows and how babies acquire language.22. none of th

15、e attempts to specify the cause of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed do.23. once designed with its weight concentrated in a metal center, the discus used in track competition is now lined with

16、 lead around the perimeter, thereby improving stability in flight and resulting in longer throws.24. in virtually all types of tissue in every animal species, dioxin induces the production of enzymes that are the organisms attempt to metabolize, or render harmless, the chemical irritant.25. using ac

17、counts of various ancient writers, scholars have painted a sketchy picture of the activities of an all-female cult that, perhaps as early as the sixth century b.c., worshipped a goddess known in latin as bona dea,the good goddess.26. emily dickinsons letters to susan huntington dickinson, which were

18、 written over a period beginning a few years before susans marriage to emilys brother and ending shortly before emilys death in 1886, outnumber her letters to anyone else.27. paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone unearthed in burma and estimated to be 40 to 44 million years old

19、 provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.28. building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal peru, the mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood,

20、and the exploitation of other wild and domestic resources.29. the end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and exciting enormous interest whenever they were put on show.30. for members of

21、the seventeenth-century ashanti nation in africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, protecting warriors against enemy arrows and spears.31. even though many of her colleagues were convinced that genes were relatively simple and static, brabara mcclint

22、ock adhered to her own more complicated ideas about how genes might operate, and in 1983, at the age of 81, was awarded a nobel prize for her discovery that the genes in corn are capable of moving from one chromosomal site to another. 32. galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestatio

23、ns of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as to a person standing on land.33. because an oversupply of computer chips has sent price plunging, the manufacturer has announced that it will cut production by closing

24、 its factories for two days a month.34. beyond the immediate cash flaw crisis that the museum faces, its survival depends on whether it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,000 artifacts.35. along with the drop in produc

25、er prices announced yesterday, the strong retail sales figures released today seem to indicate that the economy, although growing slowly, is not nearing a recession.36. dressed as a man and using the name robert shurtleff, deborah sampson, the first woman to draw a soldiers pension, joined the conti

26、nental army in 1782 at the age of 22, was injured three times, and was discharged in 1783 because she had become too ill to serve.37. although schistosomiasis is not often fatal, it is so debilitating that it has become an economic drain on many developing countries.38. in 1850, lucretia mott publis

27、hed her discourse on women, a treatise that argued for equal political and legal rights for women and for changes in the married womens property laws.39. in 1527 king henry viii sought to have his marriage to queen catherine annulled so that he could marry anne boleyn.40. dr.tonegawa won the nobel p

28、rize for discovering how the body can constantly change its genes to fashion a seemingly unlimited number of antibodies, each targeted specifically at an invading microbe or foreign substance.41. to develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers would have to know a great deal more than th

29、ey do now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.42. scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000

30、years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a michigan forest. 43. laos has a land area comparable to that of great britain but a population of only four million people, many of whom are members of hill tribes ensconced in the virtually inaccessible mountain valleys of the north.44

31、. the plot of the bostonians centers on the rivalry that develops between olive chancellor, an active feminist, and basil ransom,her charming and cynical cousin, when they find themselves drawn to the same radiant young woman whose talent for public speaking has won her an ardent following.45. quasa

32、rs, at billions of light-years from earth the most distant observable objects in the universe, are believed to be the cores of galaxies in an early stage of development.46. in ancient thailand, much of the local artisans creative energy was expended on the creation of buddha images and on constructi

33、on and decoration of the temples in which they were enshrined.47. five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western scotland this summer, bringing to 34 the number of wild birds successfully raised since transplants from norway began in 1975.48. in 1713, alexander pope began his translation of t

34、he iliad, a work that took him seven years until complete and that literary critic samuel johnson,popes contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language.49. the automotive conveyor-belt system, which henry ford modeled after an assembly-line technique introduced by ransom olds, redu

35、ced the time required to assemble a model t from a day and a half to 93 minutes. 50. according to some analysts, the gains in the stock market reflect growing confidence that the economy will avoid the recession that many had feared earlier in the year and instead come in for a soft landing, followe

36、d by a gradual increase in business activity.51. a new study suggests that the conversational pace of everyday life may be so brisk that it hampers the ability of some children to distinguish discrete sounds and words and, as a result, to make sense of speech.52. long before it was fashionable to be

37、 an expatriate, josephine baker made paris her home, and she remained in france during the second world war as a performer and an intelligence agent for the resistance.53. the nineteenth-century chemist humphry davy presented the results of his early experiments in his essay on heat and light, a cri

38、tique of all chemistry since robert boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that davy hoped to found.54. the report recommended that the hospital eliminate unneeded beds, consolidate expensive services, and use space in other hospitals.55. many house builder offer rent-to-buy programs that enab

39、le a family with insufficient savings for a conventional down payment to move into new housing and to apply part of the rent to a purchase later.56. many of the earliest known images of hindu deities in india date from the time of the kushan empire and were fashioned either from the spotted sandston

40、e of mathura or from gandharan grey schist57. it can hardly be said that educators are at fault for not anticipating the impact of microcomputer technology: alvin toffler, one of the most prominent student of the future,did not even mention microcomputers in future shock, published in 1970.58. a lea

41、ding figure in the scottish enlightenmen, adam smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what marxs das kapital is to socialism.59. the olympic games helped to keep peace among the pugnacious states of the greek world，for a sacred truce was proclaimed during the month of festival

42、. 60. while all states face similar industrial waste problems, the predominating industries and the regulatory environment of each states obviously determine the types and amounts of waste produced, as well as the cost of disposal. 61. rivaling the pyramids of egypt or even the ancient cities of the

43、 maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect qin shi huang, chinas first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete. 62. when congress reconvenes, some newly elected members from rural states will tr

44、y to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage more aggressive sales of united states farm products overseas.63. the yield of natural gas from norways troll gas field is expected to increase annually until the year 2005 and then to stabili

45、ze at six billion cubic feet a day, an extraction rate that will allow at least 50 years production.64. doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol consumption not only do damage by themselves but also aggravate genetic predispositions

46、toward certain diseases.65. in a plan to stop the erosion of east coast beaches, the army crops of engineers proposed building parallel to shore a breakwater of rocks that would rise six feet above the waterline and act as a buffer, absorbing the energy of crashing waves and pretecting the beaches.6

47、6. the 32 species that make up the dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its aggressive hunting pods.67. affording strategic proximity to the strait gibraltar,morocco was also of inte

48、rest to the french throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that without it their trip on algeria would never be secure.68. the first trenches cut into a 500-acre site at tell hamoukar,syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in

49、 northern regions of the middle east arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern mesopotamia, in what is now southern iraq.69. once they had seen the report from the medical examiner, the investigators had no doubt that the body recovered from the river

50、 was that of the man who had attempted to escape from the state prison.70. his studies of ice-polished rocks in his alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led louis agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate a

51、reas. 71. unlike the original national museum of science and technology in italy, where the models are encased in glass or operated only by staff members, the virtual leonardo project,an online version of the museum,encourages visitors to touch each exhibit and thereby (to) activate the animated fun

52、ctions of the piece72. more and more in recent years,cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.73. combining enormous physical strength with higher i

53、ntelligence, the neanderthals appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.74. a 1972 agreement

54、 between canada and the united states reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump into the great lakes75. a proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers；the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks to see rhinoce

55、roses once the animals horns have been trimmed.76. retailers reported moderate gains in their november sales, as much because their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.77. the only way for growers to salvage frozen citrus i

56、s to have it quickly processed into juice concentrate before warmer weather returns and rots the fruit. 78. fossils of the arm of a sloth, found in puerto rico in 1991, have been dated at 34 million years old, making the sloth the earliest known mammal on the greater antilles islands.79. defense att

57、orneys have occasionally argued that their clients misconduct stemmed from a reaction to something ingested, but if criminal or delinquent behavior is attributed to an allergy to some food, the perpetrators are in effect told that they are not responsible for their action.80. a report by the america

58、n academy for the advancement of science has concluded that many of the currently uncontrolled dioxins to which north americans are exposed come from the incineration of wastes.81. recently physicians have determined that stomach ulcers are caused not by stress, alcohol, or rich foods, but by a bact

59、erium that dwells in the mucous lining of the stomach.82. according to a recent poll, owning and living in a freestanding house on its own land is still a goal of a majority of young adults, as it was of earlier generations.83. in 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just by the fa