考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

为了鼓励创新和竞争，该报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对教师的资助，鼓励学者将他们的学习成果用于应对当今的巨大挑战。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

为了鼓励创新和竞争，报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对teac的资助

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Collection consists of masterworks in sculpture, colored glass, and precious objects from Europe dating from about the 9th to the 15th century.

收藏品包括9世纪至15世纪欧洲雕塑、彩色玻璃和珍贵物品的杰作。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

考研It is not, however, a sign that they' re getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.

然而，这并不是一个迹象，表明他们正在认真考虑为21世纪改革邮政系统。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

在本世纪初，大约三分之一的庄稼工人年龄在35岁以上。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

从16世纪末开始，年轻贵族们在巴黎、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨，尤其是罗马，作为他们的巅峰之地，成为一种时尚，终极) 他们的古典教育。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice,Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination (终极) of their classical education.

从十六世纪末开始，年轻贵族们在巴黎、威尼斯、佛罗伦萨，尤其是罗马，作为他们的巅峰之地，成为一种时尚(终极) 他们的古典教育。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

绝大多数的调查结果表明，今天，美国梦的理念以及实现美国梦所需的条件与20世纪末的情况大不相同。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

因为在十八世纪末之前，欧洲几乎没有博物馆，所以大游客经常通过私人收藏来观看绘画和雕塑，许多人渴望为自己的收藏获得希腊罗马和意大利艺术的实例。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco- Roman and Italian

因为在十八世纪末之前，欧洲几乎没有博物馆，所以大游客经常通过私人收藏的方式观看绘画和雕塑，许多人渴望获得希腊罗马和意大利的范例

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Just over a decade into the 21st century, women's progress can be celebrated across a range of fields

21世纪刚刚过去十年，妇女的进步可以在多个领域得到庆祝

2013年12月阅读原文

六级This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorie intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

这意味着到本世纪末可能会有额外的30亿张嘴需要进食，在这一时期，全世界发展中国家人民的财富、卡路里摄入和饮食偏好都将发生重大变化。

2013年12月阅读原文

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

六级More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在零食中放一个小奖品来游戏化零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头（“，巨头) 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，在工厂地板上写下上一班生产的钢材吨数，从而激励下一班工人击败上一班。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.

在阅读了一些关于19世纪第一批中国移民如何在美国生存的历史书籍后，她开始热衷于自己和他人的家族史。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 信息匹配 题设

四级A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

苏格兰一座16世纪的城堡因洪水冲走了一块块泥土而濒临倒塌，威胁到了它的地基。

2016年12月听力原文

高考The first is that antitrust authorities need to move form the industrial age into the 21st century.

首先，反垄断机构需要从工业时代进入21世纪。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

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

考研A century ago Octavia Hill launched the National Trust not to rescue stylish houses but to save“the beauty of natural places for everyone forever”.

一个世纪前，奥克塔维亚·希尔成立了国家信托基金会，目的不是拯救时髦的房屋，而是“为每个人永远保存自然之美”。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.

一个世纪前，很少有人每天刷牙数次。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级the 20th century a highway, car, truck century—and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, " Kasarda says.

20世纪是公路、汽车、卡车的世纪，21世纪将越来越成为航空的世纪，因为全球越来越多地通过航空联系起来，”卡萨达说。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

直到20世纪初，孩子们才开始使用颜色编码：在家用洗衣机出现之前的时代，所有的婴儿都穿白色衣服，因为洗干净衣服的唯一方法就是煮衣服。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Dudok alone shaped most century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings still bear his unique characteristics.

仅杜杜克一人就塑造了大多数世纪的山丘，大约75座建筑仍然具有他的独特特征。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

为了热爱艺术的公众的时间、注意力和金钱，古典乐器演奏家不仅要与歌剧院、舞蹈团、戏剧公司和博物馆竞争，还要与20世纪伟大古典音乐家的有记录表演竞争。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid-20th century.

直到20世纪中叶，该体系还没有将女性纳入陪审团。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.

虽然乌干达和尼日尔的身高在20世纪初有所增加，但近年来这一趋势发生了逆转，18岁儿童的身高有所下降。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Renaissance ideas had spread throughout Europe well into the 17th century, with the arts and sciences flourishing extraordinarily among those with a more logical disposition.

文艺复兴思想一直传播到17世纪的整个欧洲，艺术和科学在那些更具逻辑性的人中间异常繁荣。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级In his teenage years, Careme fashioned eatable copies of the late 18th century's most famous buildings—cookies in the shape of ruins of ancient Athens and pies in the shape of ancient Chinese palaces and temples Sylvain Bailly.

在他十几岁的时候，卡雷姆仿制了18世纪末最著名的建筑——古雅典废墟形状的饼干和中国古代宫殿和寺庙形状的馅饼——西尔万·贝利（Sylvain Bailly）。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

我们与20世纪之交至第二次世界大战前夕在英国发表的不受关注的报纸评论相去甚远Ⅱ, 在新闻纸极其廉价和时尚的时代，艺术批评被认为是出版物的装饰品。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

半个多世纪以来，GDP及其效用问题一直困扰着决策者。

2017年考研阅读原文

六级Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

19世纪以前，欧洲几乎没有博物馆。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

一个世纪以来，经过计算的名称变化表明，命名任何团体都是一项政治任务。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise .

一个世纪以来，经过计算的名称变化表明，命名任何团体都是一项政治任务。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

在过去的五年里，我注意到家长们回归到一种信念，即青少年需要长辈的指导，而不是20世纪后半叶流行的自由主义、随大流的育儿模式。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

在过去的五年里，我注意到家长们回归到一种信念，即青少年需要长辈的指导，而不是20世纪下半叶流行的自由主义的“随大流”育儿模式。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In the early 20th century, few things were more appealing than the promise of scientific knowledge.

在20世纪初，没有什么比科学知识的承诺更吸引人了。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级This exploitation has reached such extremes that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be extinguished before the end of the century.

这种开发已经达到了极端，目前看来，在本世纪末之前，几十万种物种将灭绝。

2013年12月听力原文

考研Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

奥林·克尔（Orin Kerr）是一位法学教授，他将21世纪数字信息的爆炸式增长和可访问性与20世纪将汽车作为一种虚拟生活必需品进行了比较：当时，法官们必须为乘用车这一新的个人领域制定新的规则；他们必须弄清楚第四修正案现在如何适用于数字信息。

2015年考研阅读原文

高考In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

事实上，据联合国教育、科学及文化组织联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）称，当今世界6000-7000种语言中有一半可能在下个世纪消亡。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.

根据一项新的研究，气温上升和南极周围原始水域的过度捕捞可能导致王企鹅种群在本世纪末濒临灭绝。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.

我们今天所知道的最早的印刷书籍出现在868年的中国，1世纪初韩国使用金属字体，但1450年左右在德国发明了使用移动金属字体的印刷机。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

考研In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.

20世纪30年代，弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特（Frank Lloyd Wright）开始建造比他在19世纪90年代和20世纪初设计的两层楼房更为简朴高效的房屋，通常约1200平方英尺。

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

还有一些人把鸡蛋提升为一种奇特的艺术，比如19世纪开始受到俄罗斯人青睐的布满宝石的鸡蛋。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级As he traveled through the homes of early 19th century nobility, Careme forged the new art of French gourmet food.

当他走遍19世纪早期贵族的家中时，卡雷姆创造了法国美食的新艺术。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered "eggs" that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

其他人则把鸡蛋提升为一种奇特的艺术，比如19世纪开始受到俄罗斯人青睐的镶满珠宝的“鸡蛋”。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

早在20世纪初，厨房就一直是烟雾缭绕、嘈杂的地方，通常位于地下或屋后，尽可能远离生活空间。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

20世纪后半叶，一群天才、勇士、企业家和有远见的人努力创造了一台神奇的机器，它可以作为打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机、邮件和邮递员。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

国家,战争,海军大楼,原名,，在十九世纪的最后四分之一和二十世纪的第一个四分之一，即美国作为一个国际大国崛起的时期，设有三个与制定和执行国家外交政策最密切相关的行政部门。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

在本世纪初，人们认为鸣禽正在消失。

2010年考研翻译原文

考研Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person

奥林·克尔（Orin Kerr）是一位法学教授，他将21世纪数字信息的爆炸式增长和可访问性与20世纪将汽车作为一种虚拟生活必需品进行了比较：法官们必须为新人制定新的规则

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm.

在过去的一个世纪里，人们长高了，韩国女性平均身高增加了20厘米，伊朗男性平均身高增加了16.5厘米。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

早在12世纪，它们就被认为是西欧最罕见的历史建筑。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien hirst, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", at Sotheby's in London on September 1'th 2008.

2008年9月1日，伦敦苏富比拍卖行（Sotheby's）拍卖了达米恩·赫斯特（Damien hirst）的56件作品，这是一个世纪以来艺术品市场历史上最长的牛市。

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.

正如他在论文中所写的那样，他想“为古典和现代冷却的美树立标准，并向遥远的未来证明19世纪的法国厨师是世界上最著名的”。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry because they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.

19世纪末有人认为，人类不会因为悲伤而哭泣，但当眼泪开始流出时，他们会变得悲伤。

2011年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

到了19世纪末，科拉坚果被每吨运往欧洲和美国。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.

这间曾经只属于仆人的房间被提升为现代家庭设计展示厅，讲述了一个世纪社会变迁的故事。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Between meals, Careme wrote cook books that would be used in European kitchens for the next century.

在两餐之间，卡雷姆写下了下个世纪将在欧洲厨房使用的烹饪书籍。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu

20世纪之交到第二次世界大战前夕，在新闻纸极其便宜、时尚的艺术批评被视为英国社会的装饰品的时候，英国出版的未经关注的报纸评论与我们的差距更大

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考But while increasing health was a typical feature of the 20th century, declining birth rate could be a defining one of the 21st.

虽然健康水平的提高是20世纪的一个典型特征，但出生率的下降可能是21世纪的一个决定性特征。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

高考The birth rate in the 21st century may be much than it was in the 20th.

21世纪的出生率可能比20世纪要高得多。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

高考By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

根据一项新的研究，到本世纪末，如果不是更早的话，由于气候变暖，世界海洋将变得更蓝、更绿。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

最初被称为国家、战争和海军大楼的三个行政部门与十九世纪末二十五年和十九世纪初制定和执行国家外交政策的关系最为密切

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

麻省理工学院全球变化科学中心的科学家Stephanie Dutkiewicz建立了一个气候模型，预测整个世纪海洋的变化。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级It’s been in business nearly a century.

它已经经营了将近一个世纪。

2015年12月听力原文

四级It's been in business nearly a century.

它已经经营了将近一个世纪。

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级Maria Sibylla Merian, like many European women of the 17th century, stayed busy managing a household and rearing children.

玛丽亚·西比拉·梅里安（Maria Sibylla Merian）和17世纪的许多欧洲妇女一样，一直忙于管理家庭和养育子女。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.

巴赫于1750年去世，但直到19世纪初，他的音乐天赋才得到充分认可。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 单项填空 原文

高考For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

在上个世纪的大部分时间里，汽车代表了美国人高速前进寻找新世界的意义。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

20世纪后半叶，一群天才、勇士、企业家和有远见的人努力创造了一台神奇的机器，可以作为打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Just over a decade into the 21st century, women's progress can be celebrated across a range of fields.

21世纪刚刚过去十年，妇女的进步可以在多个领域得到庆祝。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

到19世纪下半叶，中央供暖系统已普及到每一个中上层阶级家庭。

2014年6月阅读原文

高考It has shaped most of century Hilvesum.

它塑造了本世纪的大部分山丘。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

高考The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre.

该公司的作品展现了21世纪中国戏剧的新面貌。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级In the 20th century the main threat to international security was superpower conflict; today it is failing states.

20世纪对国际安全的主要威胁是超级大国冲突；今天，它是失败的国家。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

在20世纪下半叶，粮食价格几次大幅上涨。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.

在20世纪中期，大多数家庭在家吃饭而不是在外面吃饭。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级By the 15th century, many people flew kites in Europe.

到了15世纪，许多人在欧洲放风筝。

2015年12月听力原文

四级But while printing quickly caused the hand written book to die out, handwriting lingered on (继续存在) well into the 16th century.

但是，尽管印刷术很快导致手写书的消亡，但手写体依然挥之不去(继续存在) 一直到16世纪。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century

蒸汽的高成本和对速度的低需求使得世界上大部分的海运货物在20世纪初之前都是靠帆运输的

2014年6月阅读原文

四级Half a century later GM is a typical example of poor management.

半个世纪后，通用汽车是管理不善的典型例子。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级sustainable way is the cornerstone (基石) of our nation's energy security, and will be one of the major challengesof the 21st century.

可持续发展的道路是基石(基石) 这将是21世纪的主要挑战之一。

2011年12月阅读原文

四级By the 18th century, there was a feeling of community that had grown.

到了18世纪，人们对社区的感觉越来越强烈。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte was known to be unimpressed by the declining taste of early 18th century cooking, but under pressure to entertain Paris' high society, he too called Careme to his kitchen at Tuileries Palace.

众所周知，法国皇帝拿破仑·波拿巴（Napoleon Bonaparte）对18世纪早期烹饪品味的下降不感兴趣，但在娱乐巴黎上流社会的压力下，他也将凯雷姆（Careme）请到了他位于杜伊勒里宫（Tuileries Palace）的厨房。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级The 18th century really was a waterborne (水运的) century, the 19th century a rail century.

18世纪确实是一个水上的世纪(水运的) 19世纪，19世纪是铁路世纪。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级The Vikings' first major discovery occurred in the 9th century.

维京人的第一个重大发现发生在9世纪。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.

他们收集了从19世纪英国海军舰艇航行到现代自动海洋探测器等各种仪器采集的温度读数。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

四级This was first mentioned in reference to brewing in the ninth century.

这是第一次提到酿造在九世纪。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

即使在上个世纪动荡的年代，媒体也经常夸大青年人的反叛。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyright – and the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined.

当然，这意味着几乎所有在20世纪出版的书籍都仍然受版权保护。在上个世纪，出版的书籍比前几个世纪的总和还要多。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级In the early 20th century Americans believed science and technology could solve virtually all existing problems.

在20世纪初，美国人相信科学技术可以解决几乎所有现存的问题。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak.

这张桌子可以追溯到18世纪，由西班牙橡木制成。

2013年12月听力原文

六级A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry

编年史教授亨利·路易斯·盖茨（Henry Louis Gates）最近研究了一个搜索项目，该项目着眼于19世纪非洲裔美国人的小说和诗歌

2013年12月听力原文

六级But a century later, her findings came under scientific criticism.

但一个世纪后，她的发现受到科学批评。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

在20世纪的最后几十年里，美国的生活水平提高了，经济萧条在很大程度上得以避免。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture.

19世纪中叶，美国政府采取了一项将印度儿童从家庭和文化中驱逐出去的美国化政策。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B