福师13春《高级英语阅读（二）》第九章拓展资源
福师13春《高级英语阅读（二）》第九章拓展资源Practice test 10 (pages 130-132)
课文内容概要
The biggest flying monster in the world
1. The largest known creature ever to have flown, an extinct reptile with an estimated wingspan of 51ft, has been discovered by fossil hunters in the west Texas. (lines 1-2)
这是新闻报道的点题句，把especially interesting 的要点放在显著位置。同Ski-ing down Everest的写法是完全一致的。
2. … an old debate among palaeontologists over whether flying reptiles flapped their featherless, leathery wings or merely climbed on to high perches and leapt into the air currents to soar like gliders. (lines 10-12)
注意复合结构，这里并列的成分有两组，其一由or引导，其二由 and 引导。
3. … the mammoth size （主语）of the newly found creature made（谓语）improbable （宾补） the theory （宾语）that （引导同位语从句）it was able to rise into the air under wing-power alone. (lines 13-15)
这里宾语the theory 的位置移到宾补的后面，是因为带同位语从句的宾语很长。
4. Unlike most previously known pterosaurs, the Big Bend creature （到文章的其它地方寻找有关的解释）was found in non-marine sediments, suggesting (= which suggests) that its habitat was away from oceans. ( lines 31-2)
cf. …during the past three years at Big Bend national park in Brewster County, Texas.
cf. The Big Bend fossils were found … (line 35)
Monster could not flap wings
1. 'It is wrong to think that the pterodactyl had featherless, leathery wings, because they were warm-blooded creatures, and the one found in Russia had furry wings, and fur on its fingers.'(lines 47-9)
cf. … flying reptiles flapped their featherless, leathery wings… (lines 10-11)
观点的分歧在这里直接表现出来。
2. In that （指前句提到的内容）, they were like mammals, although they are called reptiles. (lines 49-50)
Here, 'that' means that they were warm-blooded creatures and had furry wings.
The sentence can be written this way:
They were like mammals in that they were warm-blooded creatures and had furry wings.
3. Mr. Desmond said that it would not have （虚拟语气）flapped its wings, because they (meaning its wings) would be too heavy for the creature to cope with if (省略了they were) flapped. (lines 54-5)
4. The largest one before the Texas excavation had a wingspan of 23 ft, and the latest find is extraordinary because it （形式主语）was never thought that （真正的主语从句）there could be anything bigger (省略了than the largest one before the Texas excavation). (lines 57-9)
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