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

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One acre of farmland use to for crop production can produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes

一英亩用于农作物生产的农田可以生产1500磅西红柿

2013年6月听力原文

六级Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops.

现在，他们正试图弄清楚什么样的分子信号传导过程激活了复活植物中的种子构建基因，以及如何在作物中繁殖这些基因。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

她正在努力寻找一种方法，从适应极端干旱气候的稀有野生植物中提取特征，并将其用于粮食作物。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）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

六级She says she is aware that plenty of people do not want to eat genetically modified crops, but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.

她说，她知道很多人不想吃转基因作物，但她正在推进每一个可用的工具，直到一个工作。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

但是在过去的十年里，降雨量的减少使他能够种植高利润的作物。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Land Usage: Over the last five decades, improved farming techniques and technologies have helped to significantly increase crop yields along with a 12% expansion of farmed land use

土地利用：在过去五十年中，改进的农业技术和技术有助于显著提高作物产量，同时增加了12%的耕地利用

2013年12月阅读原文

六级There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.

有很好的理由解释为什么作物不使用干燥防御系统。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Crop pickers, violinists, construction workers, entrepreneurs, engineers, home health-care aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.

农作物采摘者、小提琴手、建筑工人、企业家、工程师、家庭保健助理和物理学家都是当今的候鸟。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance.

为了满足消费者的期望，大型超市通常会拒绝农场里所有完全可以食用的水果和蔬菜，因为它们的物理特性（如大小和外观）不符合严格的营销标准。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Perfectly eatable fruit and vegetable crops often fail to reach supermarkets due to their size or physical appearance

完全可以食用的水果和蔬菜作物往往因其大小或外观而无法到达超市

2013年12月阅读原文

考研As much of Mexico city shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to crop up in New York city, the southwestern United States and around the world.

随着墨西哥城的大部分地区在恐慌最严重时关闭，病例开始在纽约市、美国西南部和世界各地出现。

2010年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考Without the glaciers, water will arrive in the rivers at times when it can damage crops.

如果没有冰川，水会在可能损害农作物的时候流入河流。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研Humanity has the necessary agro-technological tools to eradicate hunger, from genetically engineered crops to artificial fertilizers.

人类拥有必要的农业技术工具来消除饥饿，从基因工程作物到人工肥料。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

随着地下水位下降和灌溉井干涸，中国作为世界上最大的小麦作物，自1997年达到1.23亿吨的峰值以来，已经下降了8%。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Some species of trees have been"read out of the party"by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

一些树种因生长速度太慢或销售价值太低而无法作为木材作物种植，因此被具有经济学头脑的林业工作者“开除党籍”。

2010年考研翻译原文

六级This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef

这因作物而异，从植物作物的3卡路里到牛肉生产的35卡路里不等

2013年12月阅读原文

四级The majority of the grains, about 80%, were from cereal crops like barley, and about 10% were bits of roots, including lily, which would have made the beer sweeter, the scientists say.

科学家说，大部分谷物（约80%）来自大麦等谷类作物，约10%来自根部，包括百合，这会使啤酒更甜。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw, they will have to find the best way to do so in useful crops.

一旦Farrant和她的同事们觉得他们对该扔哪个开关有了更好的认识，他们就必须在有用的作物上找到最好的方法。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级But Mr.Kibara says he has not received a higher price for his purple tea crop.

但奇巴拉说，他的紫茶作物没有收到更高的价格。

2016年12月听力原文

六级Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.

南非开普顿大学的生物学家Jill Farrant说，大自然对那些想在不可预知降雨的地方种植庄稼的人有很多答案。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.

在大多数情况下，人类的排泄物被用于谷物，谷物最终被煮熟，从而将传播水传播疾病的风险降至最低。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考Diets have changed in China—and so too has its top crop.

中国的饮食结构发生了变化，顶级作物也发生了变化。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

高考To collect manure for his crops.

为他的庄稼收集肥料。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

高考When we complained about the terrible smell, dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right.

当我们抱怨臭味难闻时，爸爸说粪便越浓，庄稼越健康，他是对的。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级It has consequences: South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.

其后果是：南非持续发生的三十年来最严重的旱灾将使今年的玉米收成至少减少四分之一。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement.

本案为法院提供了一个机会，以控制越来越多的专利被用于保护转基因作物和其他生命形式——但法院很可能会利用这一机会给这一趋势一个强有力的新支持。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Land Usage: Over the last five decades, improved farming techniques and technologies have helped to significantly increase crop yields along with a 12% expansion of farmed land use.

土地利用：在过去五十年中，改进的农业技术和技术有助于显著提高作物产量，同时增加了12%的耕地利用。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Better irrigation can dramatically improve crop yield and about 40% of the world's food supply is currently derived from irrigated land

更好的灌溉可以显著提高作物产量，目前世界40%的粮食供应来自灌溉土地

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance

为了满足消费者的期望，大型超市通常会拒绝农场里所有完全可以食用的水果和蔬菜，因为它们的物理特性（如大小和外观）不符合严格的营销标准

2013年12月阅读原文

六级This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef.

这因作物而异，从植物作物的3卡路里到牛肉生产的35卡路里。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级They have caused lots of damage to crops.

它们对农作物造成了很大的损害。

2013年12月听力原文

六级One acre of farmland use to for crop production can produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes.

一英亩用于农作物生产的农田可以生产1500磅西红柿。

2013年6月听力原文

六级Better irrigation can dramatically improve crop yield and about 40% of the world's food supply is currently derived from irrigated land.

更好的灌溉可以显著提高作物产量，目前世界40%的粮食供应来自灌溉土地。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Perfectly eatable fruit and vegetable crops often fail to reach supermarkets due to their size or physical appearance.

完全可以食用的水果和蔬菜作物往往因其大小或外观而无法到达超市。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级In Mexico In 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production.

在墨西哥

2013年6月六级考试真题（三）

六级Perhaps it is time for farmers to put their feet up now that robots are used to inspect crops, dig up weeds, and even have become shepherds, too.

也许是时候让农民们站起来了，因为机器人已经被用来检查作物、挖掘杂草，甚至已经成为牧羊人。

2018年12月6级真题第一套

六级Hoping that their kids can become the cream of the crop among others, more and more parents send their kids to various art classes to let them learn more.

越来越多的家长希望他们的孩子能成为其他人中的佼佼者，把孩子送到各种艺术班，让他们学到更多。

2009年12月英语六级真题

四级A decade ago, adapting the infrared (红外线) scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress.

十年前，适应红外(红外线) 物理学家Stephen Paley利用为军事目的和其他卫星开发的扫描技术，想出了一种快速测量作物温度的方法，以确定哪些作物处于压力之下。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye.

更好的是，佩利的远程扫描服务公司可以在作物问题肉眼可见之前检测到这些问题。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops.

安装在一架夜间3000英尺高空飞行的飞机上的红外扫描仪测量作物发出的热量。

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When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face; Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old provost (教务长) of Yale, who’ll become Oxford’s vice-chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in America.

当明年的一批高中毕业生在2009年秋天来到牛津大学时，他们将有一张新面孔加入；55岁的教务长安德鲁·汉密尔顿(教务长) 他将成为牛津大学的副校长，这个职位相当于美国的大学校长。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级This is the decline in the growth in yields of some of the world’s major crops.

这是世界上一些主要作物产量增长的下降。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops :rice, wheat, com and soyabeans (大豆).

作者对四种最重要的作物——水稻、小麦、玉米和大豆——进行了大量的数据分析(大豆).

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.

作者指出，“我们优先将作物改良工作重点放在喂养动物和汽车上，而不是放在喂养人类的作物上，这些作物是世界大部分地区粮食安全的基础。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops might be able to revert (回返）to forest or wilderness.

相反，报告称，由于人口增长放缓，目前耕种的土地可能会恢复原状(回返）去森林或荒野。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级The result is falling water tables(地下水位) in countries with half the world’s people, including the three big grain producers——China, India and the U. S. As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China’s wheat crop, the world’s largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

结果是地下水位下降(地下水位) 在拥有世界一半人口的国家，包括三大粮食生产国——中国、印度和美国。

2016年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套)

考研Nonstop waves of immigrants played a role, too -- and so did bigger crops of babies as yesterday’s “baby boom” generation reached its child bearing years.

源源不断的移民潮也起到了一定作用——随着昨天的“婴儿潮”一代达到生育年龄，更大的婴儿产量也发挥了作用。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题