台北新竹英文家教

英文大考常考題 – 8

綜合測驗  

Denmark is … country where less prison bars are. The country has developed a system of justice based upon prevention of crime rather than imprisonment. Only when people commit the most serious crimes ________ to prison where they serve short sentences averaging six months.

(A) they are sent                           (B) do they send

(C) are they sent                           (D) they send

這題答案是 (C)。 (三民書局英文四自學手冊A – p.195)

這題的重點是倒裝句：

1.   它的直述句如下：

      They are sent to prison where they serve short sentences averaging six months only when people commit the most serious crimes.

      當要強調[ only when … ]的子句，而將這個子句置於句首，這個時候主要子句要倒裝，助動詞或be動詞要放在主詞之前 –

      Only when people commit the most serious crimes are they sent to prison where they serve short sentences averaging six months.