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1. "So what your association is backing is a program which would allow the middle and upper classes to acquire a bomb while poor people will be left defenseless with just handguns." (2004. 阅读. Text 2)
【译文】“因此，你所在的组织支持的是允许中产及上层阶级拥有氢弹而穷人只能用手枪防身，毫无自保能力。”
【析句】复合句。主句what your association is backing is a program,其中what your association is backing作主语从句，宾语a program后which would allow...to acquire a bomb作定语从句，最后while作并列连词，表对比，这里指的是穷人与中产及上层阶级的对比。

2. To make matters worse for the government, it soon emerged that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign Office, and that she was in fact very well-informed about both the situation in Angola and the British government's policy regarding landmines. (2004. 阅读. Text 4)
【译文】对政府来说更糟糕的是，公主的访问已得到外交部的批准，而且事实上她对安哥拉的形式和英国政府关于地雷的政策了如指掌。
【析句】复合句。句首，to make matters worse for the goverment为不定时作结果状语，主句it emerged that引导主语从句，it是形式主语。注意有两个并列的that主语从句，第一个是that the Princess's trip had been approved by the Foreign office, 第二个是that she was very well-informed about..., 都是简单句。

3. But no one knows for sure how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth with the last government survey, conducted in 1998, projecting output anywhere from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels. (2005. 阅读. Text 1)
【译文】1998年进行的上个政府调查预测冻土下有三百万到六百万桶原油，但没人确定冻土下埋藏原油的准确数量。
【析句】复合句。主句no one knows how much crude oil lies buried beneath the frozen earth, 其中，how much...earth是knows的宾语从句，buried beneath the frozen earth为过去分词作定语修饰crude oil。主句后with the last goverment survey projecting output...是with伴随结构，两个逗号见conducted in 1998为过去分词作定语插入语。

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