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下面剖析英语六级阅读真题长难句解析，希望考生根据提供的译文和分析认识长难句的句子结构。 1. But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of he middle-class reader, of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence, those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration, that surround the image of the classic act of reading. 【译文】但是，比起基础读写能力不足这一普遍问题，我更担心的是一个看起来不那么紧迫的问题，即中产阶层读者的读写技巧甚至也有所下降，他们不愿意在安静的地方，牺牲难得在家的时间，集中注意力用以读书，而这些与经典阅读活动息息相关。 【析句】复合句。主句but my own worry is less that of...than it is of..., 使用了比较特殊的比较级结构，be more/less that of sth than it is of sth。具体来看，than前面的部分比较简单，than后面，it is of the more luxurious problem of the decline...,of his unwillingness to afford...,those spaces of silence,those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration都作afford的宾语。最后，that surround the image of the classic act of reading作三个those短语的定语从句。 2. This new form of part-reading, of part-perception against background distraction, renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and concentration, let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves, which is to learn it by heart. | 
