六级They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

它们可能能够应对一定长度的干旱，许多人用“耐旱”一词来形容这种植物，但它们从来没有停止过用水，所以Farrant更愿意称它们为抗旱植物。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

这对那些气候脆弱的国家是不公平的，它的目标只是将气温升高控制在2℃以下，这只对不到4%的国家有利，而发达国家则负有唯一的责任，他们不必担心他们所消耗的食物和水。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考On a mere 1/10 of an acre in Los Angeles, Loe and her family grow, can(装罐) and preserve much of the food they consume.

洛伊和她的家人仅在洛杉矶1/10英亩的土地上生长，他们可以(装罐) 并保存他们所食用的大部分食物。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

在需求方面，这些趋势包括每年增加7000多万人，越来越多的人希望进入食物链，消费-72-高谷物密集型肉制品，以及大规模转移（“，转向) 将美国粮食用于生产生物燃料。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

在需求方面，这些趋势包括每年增加7000多万人，越来越多的人希望进入食物链，消费高度粮食密集型的肉制品，以及美国粮食大量转移到美国

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

即使在广泛使用的社交媒体出现之后，仍然存在一个金字塔式的生产，只有少数人上传材料，一个稍大的群体评论或修改该内容，还有很大一部分剩余内容可供消费。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级Health experts advise that the average woman should consume about 2,000 calories a day and a man about 2,500 calories to maintain a healthy weight.

健康专家建议，为了保持健康的体重，女性平均每天应摄入约2000卡路里，男性平均每天应摄入约2500卡路里。

2010年12月听力原文

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Indians likewise had the traditional life taken from them by white settlers who often encourage them to consume alcohol to prevent them from fighting back

同样，印第安人的传统生活也被白人定居者剥夺，他们经常鼓励他们喝酒，以防止他们反击

2013年6月听力原文

四级They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days

它们只按雨天消耗的电量收费

2013年6月阅读原文

四级It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume

研究人们消费的食物的数量和种类很容易

2012年12月听力原文

六级What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

随着越来越多的人成为现场生产和消费自己能源的消费者，花了几十年和数十亿美元建成的集中式电网会发生什么？没有人知道哪种（如果有的话）电池技术将最终占据主导地位，但有一点仍然很清楚：能源的未来在于我们如何储存能源。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company’s products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

它认为，由于检察官在调查中不消费公司的产品，因此他们只能受到光环效应的影响。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级They are too often built around consuming natural resources.

它们往往是围绕着消耗自然资源而建立的。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级As long as we're consuming fossil fuels, we're putting out CO2,"says Klaus Lackner, a geophysicist at Columbia, University" We cannot let the CO2 in the atmosphere rise indefinitely.

“只要我们在消耗化石燃料，我们就在排放二氧化碳，”哥伦比亚大学地球物理学家克劳斯·拉克纳说，“我们不能让大气中的二氧化碳无限期上升。”。

2012年6月阅读原文

高考That's bad news for the environment – and our wallets – as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the news ones that do the same things.

这对环境和我们的钱包来说都是坏消息，因为这些过时的设备比做同样事情的新闻设备消耗更多的能源。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become "prosumers," who produce and consume their own energy on-site?

随着越来越多的人成为“消费者”，他们在现场生产和消费自己的能源，花了几十年和数十亿美元建成的中央电网会发生什么？

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考Wondering how my mum could consume them so quickly, I began observing her daily routine for two weeks.

不知道妈妈怎么能这么快就把它们吃掉，我开始观察她两周的日常生活。

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 A 原文

考研Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

下载和消费文化需要高超的技能，但如果不能超越下载，就等于剥夺了人类的一个重要组成部分。

2012年考研阅读原文

四级Some scientists claim that people should consume the right kind of food at breakfast.

一些科学家声称，人们应该在早餐时摄入正确的食物。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those who rush through their meals.

吃得慢的人往往比那些匆匆忙忙地吃完饭的人每餐消耗大约70卡路里。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days.

它们只按雨天消耗的电量收费。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.

最近粮食价格的急剧上涨部分是因为越来越多的人想要消费肉制品。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级ZEH communities are the leading edge of technologies that might someday create houses that produce as much energy as they consume.

ZEH社区是技术的前沿，有一天可能会创造出与他们消耗的能量一样多的房子。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级"Everyone in the U.S. is consuming salt far in excess of what is good for them," says lead author Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo of UCSF.

加州大学旧金山分校的首席作者Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo博士说：“美国每个人的食盐量都远远超过了对他们有益的水平。”。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级President Obama will no doubt make the point publicly when he gets to Beijing: the Chinese need to consume more; they need-believe it or not-to become more like Americans, for the sake of the global economy.

毫无疑问，奥巴马总统抵达北京后将公开表明这一点：中国人需要更多消费；为了全球经济，他们需要信不信由你变得更像美国人。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级What should be done to encourage Chinese people to consume

如何鼓励中国人消费

2012年12月阅读原文

六级Indians likewise had the traditional life taken from them by white settlers who often encourage them to consume alcohol to prevent them from fighting back.

同样，印第安人的传统生活也被白人定居者剥夺，他们经常鼓励他们喝酒，以防止他们反击。

2013年6月听力原文

考研It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company's products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

它认为，由于检察官在调查中不消费公司的产品，因此他们只能受到光环效应的影响。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Health experts advise that the average woman should consume about 2,000 calories a day and a man about 2,500 calories to maintain a healthy weight

健康专家建议，为了保持健康的体重，女性平均每天应摄入约2000卡路里的热量，男性平均每天应摄入约2500卡路里的热量

2010年12月听力原文

六级Nearly all the cultural objects we consume arrive wrapped in inherited opinion； our preferences are always, to some extent, someone else’s.

我们消费的几乎所有文化物品都包裹着继承的观点在某种程度上，我们的偏好总是别人的。

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（一）

六级Such systems consume almost no conventional fuel at all.

这样的系统几乎根本不消耗传统燃料。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级President Obama will no doubt make the point publicly when he gets to Beijing: the Chinese need to consume more; they need—believe it or not—to become more like Americans, for the sake of the global economy.

毫无疑问，奥巴马总统将在抵达北京时公开表明这一点：中国人需要更多消费；信不信由你，为了全球经济，他们需要变得更像美国人。

2012年12月英语六级真题

四级It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume.

研究人们食用的食物的数量和种类很容易。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级They might even feel driven to support government measures to prevent people from consuming this deadly stuff.

他们甚至可能会觉得有必要支持政府的措施，防止人们食用这种致命的东西。

2014年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级You are just consuming neat sugar.

你只是在吃纯糖。

2014年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion(转向) of U. S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

在需求方面，这些趋势包括每年持续增加7000多万人，越来越多的人希望向食物链上游转移，消费高谷物密集型肉类产品，以及大规模转移(转向) 美国粮食的大部分用于生产生物燃料。

2016年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套)

考研Shippers who feel they are being overcharged have the right to appeal to the federal government’s Surface Transportation Board for rate relief, but the process is expensive, time consuming, and will work only in truly extreme cases.

觉得自己被多收费的托运人有权向联邦政府的水陆运输委员会上诉，要求减免运费，但这一过程既昂贵又耗时，而且只有在真正极端的情况下才能奏效。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题