Day 21

英文重现

I realized then that my extended family is not just a collection of accidental alliances but a living body,an entity that will welcome me for being simply who I am:the daughter of my mother,the niece of my aunts and uncles.

——SAT 2009年5月题，Section 7

解析

1.“that”引导的从句“that my extended…a living body”作“realized”的宾语；该从句中的“not just…but…”相当于“not only…but also”结构省略了“also”。

2.“an entity”是前面“a living body”的同位语；“that will welcome me for being simply who I am…my aunts and uncles”为定语从句修饰“entity”，冒号后面的内容是对“who I am”的进一步解释说明。

词意辨析

参考翻译

就在那时，我意识到我的大家庭不仅仅是一个由偶然的联姻而构成的群体，而是一个有生命的团体，是一个仅仅因为“我是谁”——我妈妈的女儿，我婶婶、叔叔们的侄女——就会欢迎我的整体。

实战演练

I had grown up in the United States virtually without relatives,which,in my intense desire to assimilate,was quite all right with me.But this attitude dissolved when I walked into that apartment in Beijing.I realized then that my extended family is not just a collection of accidental alliances but a living body,an entity that will welcome me for being simply who I am:the daughter of my mother,the niece of my aunts and uncles.We had never before seen each other but,in that moment,we shared a sense of connection and loyalty unlike anything I had previously experienced.

When the author talks about being welcomed“for being simply who I am”,she attributes this acceptance to____.

(A)character

(B)nationality

(C)appearance

(D)kinship

(E)accomplishment

答案：D

答案解析

本题考查的就是对“welcome me for being simply who I am:the daughter of my mother,the niece of my aunts and uncles”（我被接受仅仅是因为我是我妈妈的女儿，我婶婶、叔叔们的侄女）这一句话的理解。这句话的意思就是：我被接受就只是因为我跟妈妈、婶婶、叔叔们的关系而已。这之间的关系是什么呢？很显然是D选项表达的“亲属”关系，跟选项A“性格”、选项B“国籍”、选项C“外表”、选项E“成就”都没有关系。