六级given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

尼日利亚农业部长奥杜·奥格贝（Audu Ogbeh）警告说，这种害虫可能会给该国的粮食安全带来严重问题，因为这种蛾子也能攻击辣椒和土豆等作物。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

我们需要在地球上的大部分地区接受这一事实，因此，很少或根本不经处理的废物将被用于农业，这是有充分理由的。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

农业是水密集型行业，占全球淡水消耗量的近70%。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

美国农业部和食品工业部收集销售统计数据并保持准确记录

2012年12月听力原文

高考But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

但在农业领域，小农可以从主要参与者中获益。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考China's approach to protecting its environment while feeding its citizens " offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide.

中国在保护环境的同时养活其公民的做法“为全世界的农业和粮食政策制定者提供了有益的教训。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

高考The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce a special feature of agriculture.

作者在文章的开头提到了汽车工业，以介绍农业的一个特点。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

高考The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

中国农业部发现，从2005年政府开始土壤测试计划，向农民提供具体的肥料建议到2011年，化肥使用量下降了770万吨。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

高考The loss of glaciers there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.

由于全球变暖，那里冰川的消失对农业构成了巨大威胁。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.

由于非洲农业仍然基本上没有生产能力，粮食是进口的，消耗了一部分收入。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的Liqa Raschid Sally说，废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

但也有许多例子表明，无论是通过不受管制的矿物开采、农业用水的大量使用、刀耕火种的耕作还是化石燃料的大量消耗，世界上的贫富地区都有通过破坏环境来增加财富的例子，大量消耗) 运输。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Whether the biotech industry should take priority over agriculture.

生物技术产业是否应该优先于农业。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades

其中约70%由全球农业部门消费，在未来几十年中，消费水平将继续上升

2013年12月阅读原文

六级In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

为了开始应对这一挑战，该机构建议：联合国粮食及农业组织与国际工程界合作，确保发达国家政府实施向新兴发展中国家转让工程知识、设计诀窍和适当技术的计划

2013年12月阅读原文

六级The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.

米罗诺夫说，新成立的国家食品和农业研究所不会为其提供资金，国家卫生研究院不会为其提供资金，而美国宇航局只提供了短暂的资金。

2012年6月听力原文

六级"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的liqa Raschid Sally说：“废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。”。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

但也有许多通过破坏环境来增加财富的例子，无论是在世界的富裕地区还是贫穷地区，无论是通过不受管制的矿物开采、农业用水的急剧增加、刀耕火种的耕作还是化石燃料的大量消耗

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture lead by international corporations.

这是一种不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业限制的方法。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

六级Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

读过《牧民》、《牧场主》和《放牧》等杂志后，他迷上了以草为食的农业理念。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级While farming is often difficult for both the body and mine, Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by desire to set a new standard for agriculture.

桑切斯说，虽然耕种对身体和我来说都很困难，但他和他的许多年轻农民伙伴都是出于建立新的农业标准的愿望。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

六级Young farmers are guided by their love for agriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology to find inexpensive and appropriately sized tools.

年轻的农民以他们对农业的热爱为指导，以他们的技术知识为帮助，找到价格低廉、尺寸合适的工具。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

六级About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades.

其中约70%由全球农业部门消费，在未来几十年中，消费水平将继续上升。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries.

为了开始应对这一挑战，研究所建议：

2013年12月六级考试真题（二）

六级Green Revolution vs Environmentalists Borlaug’s advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years.

绿色革命与环保主义

2013年6月六级考试真题（三）

六级“We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

“我们需要在地球的大部分地区接受这一事实，因此很少或根本没有处理的废物将被用于农业是有充分理由的。

2016年6月大学英语六级第2套真题

六级This is especially true in agriculture, where sustainable development is often taken as the sole measure of progress without a proper appreciation of historical and cultural perspectives.

在农业中尤其如此，在农业中，可持续发展往往被视为衡量进步的唯一标准，而没有正确理解历史和文化观点。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级To start with, it is important to remember that the nature of agriculture has changed markedly throughout history, and will continue to do so .

首先，重要的是要记住，农业的性质在整个历史上都发生了显著变化，并将继续如此。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级medieval agriculture in northern Europe fed, clothed and sheltered a predominantly rural society with a much lower population density than it is today.

北欧中世纪的农业为一个人口密度远低于今天的以农村为主的社会提供了食物、衣服和庇护。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级What’s more, demand for animal products in developing countries is growing so fast that meeting it will require an extra 300 million tons of grain a year by 2050. yet the growth of cities and industry is reducing the amount of water available for agriculture in many regions.

此外，发展中国家对动物产品的需求增长如此之快，到2050年，每年需要额外3亿吨粮食才能满足这一需求。然而，城市和工业的发展正在减少许多地区可用于农业的水量。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级All this means that agriculture in the 21stcentury will have to be very different from how it was in the 20th.

所有这些都意味着21世纪的农业将与20世纪大不相同。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级We also need to abandon the notion that agriculture can be “zero impact”.

我们还需要摒弃农业可以“零影响”的观念。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级What is crucial is recognizing that sustainable agriculture is not just about sustainable food production.

至关重要的是认识到可持续农业不仅仅是可持续粮食生产。

2008年12月英语六级真题

四级As supplier of most of the food we eat and of raw materials for many industrial processes, agriculture is clearly an important area of the economy.

作为我们所吃的大多数食品和许多工业过程的原材料的供应商，农业显然是经济的一个重要领域。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级But the industrial performance of agriculture is even more important than this.

但农业的工业表现甚至比这更重要。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级This performance in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment, or market structure, within which it function.

这一表现反过来取决于农业的组织方式以及农业运作的经济环境或市场结构。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级In the following pages the performance of American agriculture is examined.

在接下来的几页中，我们将考察美国农业的表现。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级But the industrial performance of agriculture (the relative efficiency of agricultural production compared to other areas in the economy) is even more important than this.

但农业的工业绩效（与经济中其他领域相比，农业生产的相对效率）甚至比这更重要。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级This performance, in turn, depends on how agriculture is organized and on the economic environment, or market structure, within which it functions.

这种表现反过来取决于农业的组织方式以及农业运作的经济环境或市场结构。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works.

农业专家们毫不怀疑这项技术是有效的。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade.

最近从农业部退休的雷·杰克逊认为，到本世纪末，远程红外作物扫描可能会被采用。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records.

美国农业部和食品行业收集销售统计数据并保持准确记录。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级One example comes from agriculture.

农业就是一个例子。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organisation has argued.

该报告证实了另一篇新论文中更乐观的发现，该论文表明，到2050年，世界将不必像粮食及农业组织所说的那样，为了养活90亿人而挖掘更多的土地用于农业。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

考研This will be particularly true since energy pinch will make it difficult to continue agriculture in the high-energy American fashion that makes it possible to combine few farmers with high yields.

这将是特别正确的，因为能源紧缩将使农业难以以美国的高能源方式继续发展，从而使少数农民能够获得高产。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Furthermore, it is obvious that the strength of a country’s economy is directly bound up with the efficiency of its agriculture and industry, and that this in turn rests upon the efforts of scientists and technologists of all kinds.

此外，很明显，一个国家的经济实力与农业和工业的效率直接相关，而这反过来又取决于各种科学家和技术人员的努力。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题