核心英语阅读技能：句子阅读与难句解析SENTENCESTUDY:Introduction1.Trytodeterminewhatmakesthesentencedifficult:a.Ifthesentencecontainsalotofdifficultvocabularyitmaybethatthesentencecanbeunderstoodwithoutknowingthemeaningofeveryworld.Trycrossingoutunfamiliaritems:TheWesthadsentarmiestocaptureandholdJerusalem;insteadtheythemselvesfellvictimtoahostofnewideasandsubtleinfluenceswhichlefttheirmarkonthedevelopmentofEuropeanliterature,chivalry,warfare,sanitation,commerce,politicalinstitutions,medicine,andthePapacyitself.b.Ifthesentenceisverylong,trytobreakitupintosmallerparts:TheWesthadsentarmiestocaptureandholdJerusalem.TheWestfellvictimtoahostofnewideasandsubtleinfluences.TheseideasandinfluenceslefttheirmarkonthedevelopmentofEuropeanliterature,chivalry,warfare,sanitation,commerce,politicalinstitutions,medicine,andthepapacy.c.Also,ifthesentenceisverylong,trytodeterminewhichpartsofthesentenceexpressspecificdetailssupportingthemainidea.Oftenclauseswhicharesetoffbycommas,orintroducedbywordslikewhich,who,andthatareusedtointroduceextrainformationortoprovidesupportingdetails.Trycrossingoutthesupportingdetailsinordertodeterminethemainidea:Theseideas,whichlefttheirmarkondevelopmentofEuropeanliterature,chivalry,warfare,sanitation,commerce,politicalinstitutions,medicine,andthepapacy,greatlychangedWesternculture.2.Learntorecognizetheimportantgrammaticalandpunctuationclueswhichcanchangethemeaningofsentence.a.Lookforsinglewordsandaffixeswhichcanchangetheentiremeaningofasentence:Summeryweatherisnotuncommon.Theaveragedaytimehightemperatureisapproximately56.b.Lookforpunctuationclues:Wally“sings”atallofhisfriends’parties.Barrysaid,“Georgehasbeenelectedpresident?”Notethatalloftheitalicizedwordsoraffixesandthecircledpunctuationaboveareessentialtothemeaningofthesentences;ifanyoftheseareomitted,themeaningofthesentencechangessignificantly.c.Lookforkeywordsthattellyouofrelationshipswithinasentence:Theschoolhasgrownfromasmallbuildingholding200studentstoalargeinstitut