六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

十多年前，当时就读于范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新环境的能力，而是他们称之为未来学习准备的素质。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

十多年前，范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先验知识应用于新情况的能力

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

一年多前，我买了它，因为我的亲戚给了我生日礼物，而不是不合身的衣服。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，《老友记》是一部颇受欢迎的情景喜剧，只要轻敲遥控器，观众很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，流行情景喜剧《老友记》的观众只需轻敲遥控器，很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.

几年前，当我的祖父母快80多岁的时候，他们面临着无法充分照顾自己的现实。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考Five years ago, when I taught art at a school in seattle, I used tinkertoys as a test at the beginning of a term to find out something about my students.

五年前，当我在西雅图的一所学校教艺术时，我在学期开始时用tinkertoys作为测试来了解我的学生。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

野生胡萝卜大概在3.6亿年前和其他开花植物一起进化而来。

2017年6月听力原文

四级But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

但是沃巴赫说，游戏化这个词和这个概念的广泛、有意识的应用直到大约五年前才真正开始。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

另一个对高等数学学生有影响力的反馈者是一个名为“问题解决艺术”的在线学校，它大约在13年前开始，现在有15000名用户。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

一万年前，当我们的祖先是猎人和采集者时，除了寻找食物，他们没有时间对任何事情感到好奇。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研This figure is now 830, 000 above its year ago level.

这个数字现在比一年前的水平高出83万。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.

巴雷特想知道缺乏实物货币是否真的会导致一个人花费更多，因此她决定在几个月前进行一项实验。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

这是一项新研究的结论，该研究发现地球海洋现在吸收热量的速度是18年前的两倍。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的女儿伊丽莎白（Elisabeth）谈到“我们这么多机构中令人不安的诚信缺失”，她认为，诚信已经崩溃，因为人们普遍认为社会上唯一的“分类机制”应该是利润和市场。

2015年考研阅读原文

六级Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

让我们面对现实吧，就在不久前，随时随地工作的想法还只是一个遥远的乌托邦梦想的一种形式，而现在我们可以在世界上任何地方执行几乎任何基于办公室的任务，只要我们能够访问in

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition.

她在两周前的一次车祸中受伤，目前情况危急。

2011年6月听力原文

考研In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

根据Liberum Research的数据，第三季度，CEO的更替率比一年前下降了23%，这是因为紧张的董事会与他们所拥有的领导者纠缠在一起。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

数字经济巨头们的力量和雄心是惊人的——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高档食品连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook支付了更高的价格收购WhatsApp me

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研A century ago, the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.

一个世纪前，来自大西洋彼岸的移民包括定居者和旅居者。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the "unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions".

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的女儿伊丽莎白（Elisabeth）谈到“我们这么多机构中诚信缺失令人不安”。

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级About a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on "Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow".

大约一年前，我飞往新加坡，与作家马尔科姆·格拉德威尔、时装设计师马克·埃科和平面设计师斯特凡·萨格迈斯特一起，就“面向未来儿童的营销”向一群广告人发表演讲。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

“保护和改善人类环境是影响全世界人民福祉和经济发展的一个重大问题，”本次会议的《最后宣言》写道，这是1992年里约热内卢地球首脑会议和三年前约翰内斯堡世界发展首脑会议的第一步。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考I go back years ago, when we lived in a three-room house, when we got up before daylight and worked till after dark to make ends meet.

我回到几年前，那时我们住在一间三居室的房子里，我们在天亮之前起床，一直工作到天黑，以维持收支平衡。

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

六级I just got the idea a few months ago after posting some holiday photos on my social media accounts.

几个月前，在我的社交媒体账户上发布了一些假日照片后，我才有了这个想法。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of solitary self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again.

几年前，在经历了十年的单独自营职业后，当我重新进入全职工作岗位时，有一件事是我最期待的：有机会再次结交工作上的朋友。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

在比尔之后，托尼￡每周花60英镑，￡其中40个用于食物，但10年前他还在挣钱￡每年有13万人在公司通讯部工作，每周至少在伦敦最好的餐厅就餐两次。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考A century ago, the resource in question was oil.

一个世纪前，所讨论的资源是石油。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

克里斯是移民的儿子，三年多前开始学习英语。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

几年前，田纳西州的一位年轻农民乔纳森·迪辛格（Jonathan Dysinger）利用当地一家慢钱组织的小额贷款开发了一种工具。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

一年前，当我在等待我的大学申请结果时，我经常去一些网站了解大学会是什么样子。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

大约一个月前，他买了一款流行的文字游戏，游戏中使用了一些小木片，上面有不同的字母。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

天哪，这里的消息传得真快！我几个小时前才收到订单。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文

高考Charles darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear.

150多年前，查尔斯·达尔文（Charles darwin）设想了一个更加繁忙、喧闹和亲密的世界(亲密的) 比我们能看到和听到的世界还要多。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in lecce in southern italy.

15年前，我在意大利南部的莱切度暑假。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考He bought a smartphone a couple of months ago and he took it on our recent ski vacation to Colorado.

几个月前，他买了一部智能手机，在我们最近去科罗拉多州滑雪度假的时候带着它。

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

高考I got here a few days ago, on Saturday...oh, no, wait a minute...sorry, Friday, not Saturday.

我几天前到的，星期六……哦，不，等等……对不起，星期五，不是星期六。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 听力 原文

高考I have not tried reading my newspaper out loud on a train, but, several years ago, I read some chapters from Harry porter to my bored and noisy children.

我没有试过在火车上大声读报纸，但是，几年前，我读了一些章节，从哈利·波特到我那些无聊而吵闹的孩子们。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考I last saw him a few months ago.

我上次见到他是几个月前。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考I learned this lesson from an experience many years ago.

我从多年前的一次经历中吸取了这个教训。

2018年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

高考If anyone had told me three years ago that I would be spending most of my weekends camping.

如果三年前有人告诉我，我周末大部分时间都会去露营。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考If the copyright date of your current dictionary shows that it was published five or more years ago, consider investing in a more recent edition.

如果你的字典的版权日期显示它是在五年前出版的，请考虑投资一个更近的版本。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 任务型读写 原文

高考It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

这真是一个令人愉快的地方，它看起来和100年前肯定是一样的，有蜿蜒的街道和漂亮的村舍。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

高考It was made around 40 years ago.

它是大约40年前制造的。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

高考It was on the desk with my book a moment ago.

刚才它和我的书在桌子上。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 听力 原文

高考Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

麻疹曾一度每年导致450名儿童死亡，甚至更多儿童致残。14年前，由于MMR疫苗的普遍使用，麻疹在美国几乎被消灭。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000 in support of a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger.

我的目标是在一年内减掉150磅，筹集5万美元，以支持30年前发起的消除饥饿运动。

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

高考Not so long ago, most people didn't know who Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was going to become.

不久前，大多数人还不知道雪莉·安·弗雷泽·普赖斯会成为什么样的人。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考On one of her trips to New York several years ago, Eudora Welty decided to take a couple of New York friends out to dinner.

在几年前的一次纽约之旅中，尤多拉·韦尔蒂决定带几个纽约朋友出去吃饭。

2016年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Ordered over a week ago, the books are expected to arrive any time now.

这些书是一周前订购的，预计现在随时可以到。

2016年高考英语北京卷 单项选择 原文

高考Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

几年前，我收到了一封来自17岁的克里的信，她自称是世界级的挑剔者，几乎总是被事情所困扰。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

高考Some 2, 500 years ago Greece discovered freedom.

大约2500年前，希腊发现了自由。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

一些语言专家认为，一万年前，当世界上只有五百万到一千万人口时，他们之间可能会说1200种语言。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考The last time we met them was at our wedding three years ago.

我们最后一次见到他们是在三年前的婚礼上。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 听力 原文

高考The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.

福特T型车于一个世纪前在密歇根州的皮奎特工厂制造，第一辆车于1908年9月27日下线。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago.

同样的调查也表明，如今父母的参与率比上一代人更高。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

相比之下，两年前这个时候有一半的学生已经找到了工作。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

高考Three weeks ago, I witnessed a small near-disaster a few miles west of here.

三周前，我目睹了在这里以西几英里处发生的一场小灾难。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Three years ago, schools in edina, minnesota, changed the start time from 7:25 am to 8:30 am.

三年前，明尼苏达州埃迪纳的学校将上课时间从上午7:25改为上午8:30。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

因此，生活在一百万年前的人类，尽管他们有着巨大的大脑和锋利的石器，却一直生活在对肉食动物的恐惧之中。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

高考Twenty-five years ago, there were hardly any education programs for environment.

25年前，几乎没有任何环境教育项目。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Two years ago, while cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head—to be a swimmer.

两年前，当凯西在观看奥运会时，一个梦想进入了她可爱的小脑袋，成为一名游泳运动员。

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

高考Up to two children under ago five may travel free with a paying customer.

最多两名五岁以下儿童可以与付费客户免费旅行。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Years ago, a critical event occurred in my life that would change it forever.

几年前，我的生活中发生了一件将永远改变它的重大事件。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

高考Years ago, I was asked to write 102 essays on the great ideas of some famous authors.

几年前，我被要求就一些著名作家的伟大思想写102篇文章。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考You bought it from us on May 1st, only three weeks ago.

你是5月1日从我们这里买的，就在三周前。

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

四级What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

巴思几十年前写的东西在今天更加真实。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

几年前，她开始对鸡蛋感兴趣，并学习了传统的乌克兰技巧来画她非常现代的人物。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

大多数道路、桥梁、交通、供水系统、电网和通信网络都是50至100年前安装的，在出现故障之前，它们基本上被视为理所当然。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《重新想象生活》中写道。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

这位哲学教授说，这本书在今天的意义与它在许多世纪前第一次被写成时一样重要。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

50年前启动的联邦领先计划已经为3000多万儿童提供了服务。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.

游戏化的理念在一个多世纪前就被一些企业所实践。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

超级市场的种类比以往任何时候都多，美国农贸市场的数量是20年前的四倍多。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

几年前持有少量毒品的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？这些法律也起到了反作用，因为它们使有犯罪记录的人更难找到住房或工作，这是减少倒退的两个关键因素。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

事实上，风筝已经使用了几个世纪。25个世纪前，风筝在中国很有名。

2015年12月听力原文

四级Peering into the future G) The sharing economy is a little like online shopping, which started in America 15 years ago

展望未来G）共享经济有点像15年前在美国开始的网上购物

2013年12月阅读原文

四级He owned a small retail business in Michigan years ago.

几年前，他在密歇根州拥有一家小型零售企业。

2013年6月听力原文

四级He lost his mother two weeks ago

他两周前失去了母亲

2011年6月听力原文

四级"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

“事实上，除了几十年前进行的几项小型试点研究外，几乎没有确凿的证据证明中年危机，”芭芭拉·哈格蒂在她的新书《生活重新想象》中写道。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级A few months ago, I was down with a terrible cold which ended in a persistent bad cough.

几个月前，我患了重感冒，最后持续咳嗽。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

四级A message in a bottle sent out to sea by a New Hampshire man more than five decades ago was found 1500 miles away and has been returned to his daughter.

五十多年前，一位新罕布什尔州男子在1500英里外的一个瓶子里寄出了一条信息，并将其归还给了他的女儿。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.

一项新的研究发现，麦当劳发布了自15年前首次进行此项调查以来最慢的乘车时间。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.

大约15年前，我被邀请加入一个针织团体。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

大麦是一个意外的发现：据研究人员称，这种作物是在欧亚大陆西部驯化的，直到大约2000年前才成为中国中部的主食。根据当时的时间，他们指出，大麦可能已经有34种进入了欧洲大陆

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

大麦是一个意外的发现：据研究人员称，大麦是在欧亚大陆西部驯化的，直到2000年前才成为中国中部的主食。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.

但在他184年前结束的短暂一生中，他将永远改变法国美食(美食), 为皇室成员和其他重要人物撰写畅销烹饪书籍，并想出神奇的菜肴。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

但是Werbach说，“游戏化”这个词和这个概念的广泛、有意识的应用直到大约五年前才真正开始。

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级More than 1,000 years ago, they made three important geographical discoveries.

1000多年前，他们取得了三项重要的地理发现。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级Police frequent the area day and night, as two months ago, a young man was shot just down the street.

两个月前，一名年轻男子在街上被枪杀，警察日夜不停地在该地区巡逻。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?

多年前拥有少量药物的女性是否应该永久无法获得护士执照？

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级So it may seem rather strange that I have returned to college to finish the degree I left undone some four decades ago.

因此，我回到大学去完成四十年前没有完成的学位，这似乎有点奇怪。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级That's about 10 seconds more than the industry average — and a lot slower than a decade ago, according to the study, which was commissioned by QSR, an industry trade publication.

这项由行业贸易出版物QSR委托开展的研究表明，这比行业平均水平高出约10秒，比十年前慢了很多。

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

与六年前相比，每支香烟中的尼古丁含量增加了10%，这意味着更容易上瘾，也更难戒烟。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey's phrase from 100 years ago.

创客运动正在重新发现在做中学，这是杜威100年前的一句话。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级The properly-named startup "Morning-After Maids", was launched about a month ago in Auckland by roommates Rebecca Foley and Catherine Arthurs.

一个月前，由室友丽贝卡·福利（Rebecca Foley）和凯瑟琳·阿瑟斯（Catherine Arthurs）在奥克兰创办了一家名为“早安女佣”的初创公司。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级We went there about ten years ago for our honeymoon.

大约十年前我们去那里度蜜月。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago at killip elementary, he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students.

14年前，当Ted Komada开始在killip小学教书时，他不知道如何管理教室，并努力与学生沟通。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.

虽然公众认为，与20-30年前相比，现在的男女在工作场所更加平等，但大多数人认为需要进行更多的改革。

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Years ago, the government made money by selling public lands, but most of the best public lands have now been sold.

几年前，政府通过出售公共土地赚钱，但现在大部分最好的公共土地都被出售了。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C