Text 4(2005)

　　Mr. McWhorter’s academic specialty is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom”, for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.

　　[分析] 等价结构：no more regrettable=natural (and连接并列结构)

　　Equally, in poetry, the highly personal, performative genre is the only form that could claim real liveliness.

　　[分析] 等价结构：genre=form(表语结构提示意义相同；实际上，genre与form之间是种属关系，genre是一种form)

　　he is really grieving over the loss of something beautiful more than useful

　　[分析] 等价结构：grieving=loss of something beautiful(对美丽事物的消失，一般应该感到惋惜，由此可知grieving的意思就是“惋惜”)。

　　二、反义结构

　　Text 1(2005)

　　when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers

　　[分析] 反义结构：separate 与adjoining意思相反(二者由but连接)

　　Text 4(2005)

　　While even the modestly educated sought an elevated tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s

　　[分析] 反义结构：elevated 与modestly意思相反(句首的while even提示相反意义)。

　　In both oral and written English, talking is triumphing over speaking, spontaneity over craft.

　　[分析] 反义结构：spontaneity 与craft意思相反(over连接两个相对或相反的方面)。

　　注：本文撰写时参考了李传伟编著的《2007年考研英语阅读真题全方位突破》(中国广播电视出版社出版)。