下面九个句子均来自SAT真题，难点在于都是倒装，使得考生一时难以找到句子的主干，从而看不懂句子。考生可利用下面资料集中训练阅读这种句型，从而加快句子理解的速度。
1.Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation's labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultural pursuits.(T)
(倒装Accompanying that growth was a structural change that…=A structural change…was accompanying that growth)
伴随着这一增长的是一个结构变化，它以经济的不断多样化和国家劳动力从农业到制造业和其他非农业职业的逐渐转化为特征。
2. Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country's impressive population growth.(T)
(倒装结构Basic to any understanding…is…)
要理解二战之后20年中的加拿大，就必须了解该国惊人的人口增长。
该句的正常语序是The country's impressive population growth is basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War.
本句是一个简单句，只不过使用了倒装，谓语动词是is.
3.Accustomed though we are to speaking of the films made before 1927 as “silent”，the film has never been，in the full sense of the word, silent.(T)
(倒装accustomed though we are…=though we are accustomed…)
虽然我们习惯于将1927年以前的电影叫做“无声电影”，但是就“无声’’这个词的完整意义上说，电影从未真正的无声过。
4.Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine.(T)
(倒装句Herein lay the beginning=the beginning lay herein，what引导的从句作of的宾语，修饰beginning)
这里面包含了医学中从对营养疗法价值无知到否认其价值这一过程的开端。
5.Outside the magnetosphere，blasting toward the Earth is the solar wind，a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic field.(T)
(倒装句：blasting toward the Earth is the solar wind…=the solar wind…is blasting toward the Earth)
在磁气圈的外围，太阳风暴——一个有着自身磁场、迅速移动的电离化气团构成的等离子体一极快地袭向地球。
6.Among the species of seabirds that use the windswept cliffs of the Atlantic coast of Canada in the summer to mate，lay eggs，and rear their young are common murres, Atlantic puffins，black-legged kittiwakes，and northern gannets. (T)
(倒装句：Among the species of seabirds…are…=…are among the species of seabirds…)
夏天在加拿大大西洋沿岸迎风的悬崖上交配、产卵并抚育后代的海鸟中有普通海鸦、大西洋海鹦、黑脚三趾鸥和北部塘鹅。
7.Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well：that the medium has certain qualities of beauty and expressiveness with which sculptors must bring their own aesthetic sensibilities into harmony.(T)
(倒装结构Implicit in it is an aesthetic principle as well=An aesthetic principle is implicit in it as well，that引导的句子做principle的同位语)
其中也蕴涵一个美学原则：用于雕刻的媒介物有一定的美和富于表现力的特性，雕刻家必须使他们自己的审美感与这些特性融为和谐的—体。
8. Coincident with concerns about the accelerating loss of species and habitats has been a growing appreciation of the importance of biological diversity，the number of species in a particular ecosystem，to the health of the Earth and human well-being.(T)
(倒装coincident with concerns…has been…=…has been coincident with concerns…)
在对物种和动物栖息地加速消失表示关注的同时，人们也越来越认识到生物多样化，即一个特定生态系统中物种的数量对地球的健康以及人类幸福的重要性。
9.Matching the influx of foreign immigrants into larger cities of the United States during the late nineteenth century was a domestic migration，from town and farm to city，within the United States.(T)
(倒装句：Matching the influx…was a domestic migration…=a domestic migration…was matching the influx…)
19世纪晚期，与外国移民流入美国较大城市相媲美的，是美国本土移民从小镇和乡村到城市的国内迁移。
