2016考研英语作文必背高分句：理性

on the dust jacket of this fine book, stephen jaygould says: "this book stands for reason itself. and soit does-and all would be well were reason the onlyjudge in the creationism/evolution debate.

译文：这部优秀作品的护封上引用了斯蒂芬·杰·古尔德的一句话：“这本书本身就代表了理性。”的确如此——如果理性是创世纪论和进化论之争的唯一裁判，那么一切问题就已解决了。

点睛：第一句话中用了直接引语作宾语。第二句话是对第一句的肯定，破折号后的部分作了进一步的解释。were reasonthe only judge inthe creationism/evolution debate其实是省略if的虚拟条件句，相当于if reason were the only judgein the creationism/evolutiondebate。

考点归纳：如果虚拟条件句中的谓语部分含有were、had或should，可以将其放在句首，省略连词if，变成倒装句——这就叫做虚拟语气的倒装，是考研英语阅读文章中常常出现的。

were it not for your help,1 wouldn't have got what i have today.=if itwere not for your help,iwouldn't have got what i have today.

要是没有你的帮助，我就不会有今天。

had you come earlier, you would have met him.= if you had come earlier, youwould have methim.

你来得早一点儿的话，就可以碰到他了。

should it rain,the crops would be saved.= were it to rain.the crops wouldbe saved.

假如下雨，庄稼就有救了。

注意：在虚拟语气的从句中，动词be的过去时态一律用were，不用was。

if i were you,1 would go to look for him.

如果我是你，就会去找他。

if he were here, everything would be all right.

如果他在这儿，一切都会好的。考研国家线