大漠拆句-7

大漠拆句：
继大漠点词之后又一个新的尝试，精选14-15年托福阅读真题中出现的句子简化题并进行拆解精析，最终的目标是希望能够帮助同学们掌握长难句的读法，在有词汇量的基础上快速把握句子主干。最终轻松搞定句子简化题，但更重要的是掌握一般性的长难句的读法，为所有的阅读考试扫平障碍。目前正在积累备课中，未来一到两月备课成熟以后上线。

Domestication

In turn, population growth pressured the resource base of the area, and people were forced to eat so-called third-choice foods, particularly wild grain, which was difficult to harvest and process but which responded to human efforts to increase yields.

主干：

population growth pressured the resource base of the area , and people were forced to eat third-choice foods.

and 作为连词连接两个句子的时候，两个句子并列重要，主干同等列出

非主干成分:

• 定语从句

• which was difficult to harvest and process
• which responded to human efforts to increase yields

值得一提的单词

• process : 大家都知道的意思是作为名词--步骤／过程，但在这里作为动词，意思是「进行加工／处理」--put through a industrial or manufacturing process in order to change it ;

• yield : v. bear/produce or provide 生产／提供等； n. 生产量／出产量

翻译：

反过来，人口增长给当地的资源带来压力，以至于人们不得不吃所谓的「第三选择食物」，尤其是wild grain -- 这种食物很难生产和加工但是高产。

翻译仁者见仁，这里只是抛砖引玉作为参考

真题实战

A. Human efforts to increase yields of wild grains relieved the pressure population growth put on the resource base of the area.
B. The resource base of the area was pressured by population growth because third-choice foods were difficult to harvest and process.
C. Although wild grains responded to human efforts to increase yields, they were third-choice foods because they were difficult to harvest and process.
D. Population growth put pressure on available food resources, forcing people to eat foods that were less preferred but that responded to human efforts to increase yields.

答案：D
解释：关于简化题的做法日后专门说，这里只是简单提一下最核心的原则：主干对主干。D选项的主干为Population growth put pressure on available food resources , forcing people to eat foods (that ...)，主干与原文一致;
A主干：human efforts relieved the pressure
B主干：the resource base was pressure by population growth 这个主干其实问题不大，但关键在后面生生加了一个原文没有的因果关系。
C主干：wild grains were third-choice foods

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