高考This affects their nervous systems and ability to produce baby birds, and can lead to kidney failures and death.

这会影响它们的神经系统和繁殖小鸟的能力，并可能导致肾衰竭和死亡。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.

钱包的死亡让我烦恼的是它在我们的物理环境中所代表的变化。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

今天，关于这个问题有一个严肃的问题：是否应该对处决罪犯设定最低年龄限制？换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？。

2015年12月听力原文

六级right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.

现在，为了降低婴儿猝死综合症的风险，美国儿科学会建议母亲不要和婴儿睡在同一张床上，而是睡在同一个房间里。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级The effect holds for all causes of death, whether illness, accident or self-harm.

该效应适用于所有死亡原因，无论是疾病、事故还是自残。

2010年12月阅读原文

高考The annual death rate for adult condors has dropped from 38% in 2000 to 5%.

成年秃鹰的年死亡率已从2000年的38%下降到5%。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Three hundred years after her death, Merian will be celebrated at an international symposium in Amsterdam this June.

梅里安去世三百年后，今年6月将在阿姆斯特丹举行的一次国际研讨会上庆祝她。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?

换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级The leading causes of death in this age group are also changing.

这个年龄组的主要死亡原因也在发生变化。

2016年12月听力原文

六级In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

近年来，美国百岁老人中活到100岁或以上的死亡率有所下降，从2008年到2014年，女性和男性的死亡率分别下降了14%和20%。

2016年12月听力原文

六级But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

但到2014年，这一年龄组的阿尔茨海默病死亡率已经翻了一番多，从3.8%上升到8.5%，使进展性脑病成为百岁老人的第二大死因。

2016年12月听力原文

四级Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.

在允许死刑的36个州中，30个允许处决未成年人。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级Americans have always argued about the death penalty.

美国人一直在争论死刑。

2015年12月听力原文

四级The team conducted a computer-based analysis to determine the impact a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt intake on rates of heart disease and death.

研究小组进行了一项基于计算机的分析，以确定每天减少3克盐摄入量对心脏病和死亡率的影响。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

这是旅程中的一个阶段，当人们感到青春消失，前景变窄，死亡临近。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

早在他去世之前，新闻品味就已经发生了变化，后现代主义读者对他所擅长的、装潢华丽的维克瓦尔德式散文几乎毫无用处。

2010年考研阅读原文

六级But insurance will be cold comfort following the failure on October 31st of VSS Enterprise, resulting in the death of one pilot and the severe injury to another.

但在VSS Enterprise于10月31日发生故障，导致一名飞行员死亡，另一名飞行员严重受伤后，保险将被冻结。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

在科学和宗教思想高度紧张的时期提出这样一个理论被打上了异端的烙印，任何继续传播这些谎言的异端都将被处以监禁甚至死刑。

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The reaction to his death, with people leaving candles and flowers outside Apple stores and politicians singing praises on the internet, is proof that Mr Jobs had become something much more significant than just a clever money-maker.

人们在苹果店外留下蜡烛和鲜花，政客们在互联网上高唱赞歌，人们对乔布斯之死的反应证明，乔布斯已经成为一个比仅仅是一个聪明的赚钱者更重要的人物。

2012年12月阅读原文

高考Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

汉娜的住处分为几个区域，当天气寒冷到在户外睡觉可能意味着死亡时，为人们提供庇护所。

2017年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

高考The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

该提案试图解决一些人称之为自动驾驶汽车“死亡谷”的问题：半自动和完全无人驾驶汽车之间的灰色地带，这可能会推迟无人驾驶汽车的未来。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

内维尔·卡杜斯（Neville Cardus）于1917年为《曼彻斯特卫报》（Manchester Guardian）撰稿，直到1975年去世前不久，他现在只以写板球比赛论文而闻名。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

到莎士比亚二十五岁时，莱利、皮尔和格林已经制作出既流行又有文学价值的喜剧；基德写了一部悲剧，这部悲剧挤满了深坑；马洛把诗歌和天才带到了共同的舞台上——自从欧里庇得斯死后，他们就没有在这个舞台上扮演任何角色。

2018年考研翻译原文

考研And the ban on ultra-thin models seems to go beyond protecting models from starving themselves to death – as some have done.

对超薄模型的禁令似乎超出了保护模型免于饿死的范围——正如一些人所做的那样。

2016年考研阅读原文

六级It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn't a simple battle to the death between bricks and clicks.

越来越清楚的是，零售业的再创新不是一场简单的砖块和点击之间的殊死之战。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级They break routines, because autopilot is death.

他们打破常规，因为自动驾驶就是死亡。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

巴特继续说，中年人可以看到远处的死亡，但在还有时间的时候，他们会有分寸地匆忙完成新的大事。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.

化学测试显示，在她去世前的两年里，她每两个月就要搬家一次。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly upholstered vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

早在他去世之前，新闻品味就已经发生了变化，后现代主义读者对他所擅长的装饰华丽的维克瓦尔德式散文几乎没有什么用处。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975, is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

内维尔·卡杜斯（Neville Cardus）于1917年为《曼彻斯特卫报》（Manchester Guardian）撰稿，直到1975年去世前不久，他现在只以写板球比赛论文而闻名。

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Dance expresses love and hate, joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.

舞蹈表达爱与恨、喜与悲、生与死，以及其间的一切。

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考"I knew it was the difference between life and death," says Taylor.

“我知道这是生与死的区别，”泰勒说。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.

即使消除这些死亡原因，预期寿命也不会超过92岁。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a "measured haste" to get big new things done while there is still time.

巴特继续说，中年人可以看到远处的死亡，但在还有时间的时候，他们会“有分寸地匆忙”完成新的大事。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Since tobacco is one of the biggest causes of premature death in the UK, a measure that tames the habit even by a fraction is worth trying.

在英国，烟草是导致过早死亡的最大原因之一，因此，一项能够将吸烟习惯控制在一小部分的措施值得一试。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考Now it occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.

现在他想到他的农场有很大的潜力，奶牛的死是一种运气。

2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 原文

高考The miracle of 1511 took place during six freezing works called the winter of death.

1511年的奇迹发生在六次被称为死亡之冬的冰冻工程中。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级In 2000, the top five causes of death for centenarians were heart disease, stroke, flu, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease.

2000年，百岁老人的五大死因是心脏病、中风、流感、癌症和老年痴呆症。

2016年12月听力原文

六级But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.

但它的表面已经被一片二氧化碳海洋煮熟和干燥，被失控的温室效应所吞噬。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Through careful preparation, the death toll from a super tropical storm in November 2007 was less than 3, 500.

经过精心准备，2007年11月一场超级热带风暴造成的死亡人数不到3500人。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

高考Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

布鲁克斯将这一点带到了他的一个角色的死亡。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

四级There may be some matters of life and death or highest principle, which might justify such a risk, but there aren't many things that fall in this category.

可能有一些生死攸关的问题或最高原则，可以证明这样的风险是合理的，但这类事情并不多。

2011年12月阅读原文

四级For example, 10 bacteria or less of an especially deadly strain of bacteria can cause severe illness and death in people with compromised immune systems.

例如，一种特别致命的细菌株中10种或更少的细菌可导致免疫系统受损的人患上严重疾病和死亡。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级That pushed flu from the third leading cause of death to the fifth.

这使得流感从第三大死因上升到第五大死因。

2016年12月听力原文

四级In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison.

在美国，州长有权将死刑改为终身监禁。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级The death of a small child would have no effect upon the income of the family.

小孩的死亡对家庭收入没有影响。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

高考But pronouncing the death of class is too early.

但是宣布阶级灭亡还为时过早。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良)and heat-related health problems.

研究发现，受人类影响的气候变化正在提高包括营养不良在内的疾病的全球死亡率(营养不良)以及与热有关的健康问题。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级Consistently, research shows that communicating with others promotes health, whereas social isolation is linked to stress, disease, and early death.

一直以来，研究表明与他人交流促进健康，而社会孤立与压力、疾病和早逝有关。

2010年6月听力原文

高考She had requested the community to tum it into a museum upon her death.

她要求社区在她死后把它改建成博物馆。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Contrary to many people's prediction of its death, the film industry survived.

与许多人对其死亡的预测相反，电影业幸存了下来。

2014年6月阅读原文

高考Only five years after Steve Jobs' death, smart-phones defeated conventional PCs in sales.

史蒂夫·乔布斯去世仅仅五年后，智能手机的销量就超过了传统的个人电脑。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

四级In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.

在南卡罗来纳州，一名被定罪的杀人犯因在未成年人时期犯下的罪行被判处死刑。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

高考The death of Russians may result in a shrinking population, which would damage its economic future.

俄罗斯人的死亡可能导致人口减少，这将损害其经济未来。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

高考One of the executives gathered at the Aspen Institute for a day-long leadership workshop using the works of Shakespeare was discussing the role of brutus in the death of julius caesar.

一位高管聚集在阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute），利用莎士比亚的作品举办为期一天的领导力研讨会，讨论布鲁图斯（brutus）在朱利叶斯·凯撒（julius caesar）之死中所扮演的角色。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Still, the people who exercise 150 minutes a week did pretty well, too, lowering their death risk by 14%.

然而，每周锻炼150分钟的人也做得很好，他们的死亡风险降低了14%。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

高考The study showed that people who put in 300 minutes a week of exercise had a 20% lower risk of death due to heart disease.

研究表明，每周锻炼300分钟的人死于心脏病的风险降低20%。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

四级There seems to be more of a taboo (禁忌) about talking about money than about death

似乎有更多的禁忌(禁忌) 谈论金钱胜过谈论死亡

2011年12月阅读原文

四级Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming

由于全球变暖，疾病死亡率上升

2011年6月阅读原文

四级So if something happens to their food source, they have a way of not starving to death until they find more algae to eat.

因此，如果它们的食物来源发生了变化，它们有办法不饿死，直到它们找到更多的海藻来吃。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级The young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.

这个年轻的杀人犯在死囚牢房里呆了十年，他的律师向州长上诉。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Premature death rates resulting from smoking have declined.

吸烟导致的过早死亡率有所下降。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级On the other hand, the death rate from flu dropped from 7.4% in 2000 to 4.1% in 2014.

另一方面，流感死亡率从2000年的7.4%下降到2014年的4.1%。

2016年12月听力原文

六级John Rother, the AARP's head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.

美国退休人员协会政策和战略负责人约翰·罗瑟（John Rother）指出，研究表明，在其他条件相同的情况下，继续工作的人的死亡率低于退休同龄人。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级Don't risk injury or death beacuse of over-confidence or lack of knowledge.

不要因为过于自信或缺乏知识而冒受伤或死亡的风险。

2012年12月听力原文

六级Flamingos, however, are the only species that actually makes life in the midst of all that death.

然而，火烈鸟是唯一一种在死亡中真正创造生命的物种。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.

她拍摄的关于植物复苏的延时视频看起来像是有人在播放一盘倒转的植物死亡录像带。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级There's a flip side, however, as partners are more likely to become ill or die in the couple of years following their spouse's death, and caring for a spouse with mental disorder can leave you with some of the same severe problems.

然而，这也有另一面，因为伴侣在配偶去世后的几年内更可能生病或死亡，而照顾有精神障碍的配偶也会给你带来同样严重的问题。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming.

由于全球变暖，疾病死亡率上升。

2011年6月阅读原文

四级The effect holds for all causes of death, whether illness, accident or self-harm

该效应适用于所有死亡原因，无论是疾病、事故还是自残

2010年12月阅读原文

六级18、 They scare whales to death.

18、 它们吓死了鲸鱼。

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（三）

六级According to Child Trends, a nonprofit research group, between 1980 and 2003 death rates dropped by 44 percent for children aged 5 to 14 and 32 percent for teens aged 15 to 19.

根据非营利研究组织“儿童趋势”的数据，1980年至2003年间，5至14岁儿童的死亡率下降了44%，15至19岁青少年的死亡率降低了32%。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级Figures are not yet available but it is believed that the death toll could be as high as 300, with hundreds more injured.

目前还没有数据，但据信死亡人数可能高达300人，另有数百人受伤。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级John Rother, the AARP’s head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.

美国退休人员协会政策和战略负责人John Rother指出，研究表明，在其他条件相同的情况下，仍在工作的人的死亡率低于退休同龄人。

2010年12月英语六级真题

四级Wearing a seat belt saves lives; it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.

系安全带可以挽救生命；它可以将你的死亡或重伤几率降低一半以上。

1989年1月英语四级真题

四级Tigers fight to death only when a tigress is defending her young, or when a tiger is guarding a tigress from the attentions of other males.

老虎只有在母老虎保护幼崽的时候，或者当老虎保护母老虎不受其他雄性注意的时候，才会拼死搏斗。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The sudden illness or death of farmers, farm workers, and others exposed to sufficient quantities of pesticides is very sad and should not occur.

农民、农场工人和其他接触足够数量农药的人突然生病或死亡是非常可悲的，不应该发生。

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the old day, children were familiar with birth and death as part of life.

在过去，孩子们熟悉出生和死亡是生活的一部分。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级This is perhaps the first generation of American youngsters (年轻人) who have never been close by during the birth of a baby and have never experienced the death of a family member.

这也许是美国第一代年轻人(年轻人) 他们在婴儿出生时从未靠近过，也从未经历过家庭成员的死亡。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级This deprives (剥夺) the dying patient of significant family members during the last few days of his life and it deprives the children of an experience of death, which is an important learning experience.

这剥夺了(剥夺) 重要家庭成员的临终病人在生命的最后几天，它剥夺了孩子们的死亡体验，这是一种重要的学习体验。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级We found out that patients who had been dealt with openly and frankly were better able to cope with the approach of death and finally to reach a true stage of acceptance prior to death.

我们发现，接受过公开和坦率治疗的患者能够更好地应对死亡的临近，并最终在死亡前达到真正的接受阶段。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthquake scientists had good news to report: The damage and death toll (死亡人数) could have been much worse.

1994年洛杉矶发生强烈地震后，地震科学家有好消息要报告：损失和死亡人数(死亡人数) 可能会更糟。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Even if stressful events are dangerous, many—like the death of a loved one—are impossible to avoid.

即使压力事件是危险的，许多事件——比如亲人的死亡——也是无法避免的。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级A recent study, published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association, offers a picture of how risky it is to get a lift from a teenage driver, Indeed, a 16-year-old driver with three or more passengers is three times as likely to have a fatal accident as a teenager driving alone, By contrast, the risk of death for drivers between 30 and 59 decreases with each additional passenger.

上周发表在《美国医学会杂志》上的一项最新研究显示，从十几岁的司机那里搭便车的风险有多大。事实上，一名16岁的司机带着三名或三名以上的乘客发生致命事故的可能性是一名独自驾驶的青少年的三倍。相比之下，30至59岁之间的驾驶员的死亡风险随着每增加一名乘客而降低。

2003年9月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The authors also found that the death rates for teenage drivers increased dramatically after 10 p. m. , and especially after midnight, with passengers in the car, the driver was even more likely to die in a late-night accident.

作者还发现，青少年司机的死亡率在晚上10点后急剧上升，尤其是在午夜之后，车上有乘客，司机更有可能死于深夜事故。

2003年9月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Robert Foss, a scientist at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, says the higher death rates for teenage drivers have less to do with “really stupid behavior” than with just a lack of driving experience.

北卡罗来纳大学公路安全研究中心的科学家Robert Foss表示，青少年司机死亡率较高与其说是“非常愚蠢的行为”，不如说是缺乏驾驶经验。

2003年9月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级About 10-15 percent of these heart operations end in death or damage to the heart or other organs.

大约10-15%的心脏手术以死亡或心脏或其他器官损伤告终。

2005年12月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The doctors said the chance of death for patients who took aspirin would fall by 67%.

医生表示，服用阿司匹林的患者死亡几率将下降67%。

2005年12月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The death rate on highways is half that of all other U. S. roads (0.86 deaths per 100 million passenger miles compared to 1.99 deaths per 100 million on all other roads).

高速公路的死亡率是美国所有其他道路的一半（每1亿乘客英里0.86人死亡，而所有其他道路每1亿人死亡1.99人）。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级But the Greek church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death.

但希腊教会反对这种做法，他们认为人们燃烧的地方只有地狱，所以焚烧尸体违背了希腊人死后生存的理念。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级After her husband’s death, Catherine operated the newspaper.

丈夫去世后，凯瑟琳经营这家报纸。

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级” After her death, the employees of the Washington Post wrote, “The world without Catherine would not be the same at all.

在凯瑟琳去世后，《华盛顿邮报》的员工写道：“没有凯瑟琳的世界将完全不同。

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Besides, the ultimate cost is far greater: it is called premature death.

此外，最终的代价要大得多：这被称为过早死亡。

2008年12月英语四级考试真题

四级There’s a flip side, however, as partners are more likely to become ill or die in the couple of years following their spouse’s death, and caring for a spouse with mental disorder can leave you with some of the same severe problems.

然而，也有另一面，因为伴侣在配偶去世后的几年里更有可能生病或死亡，而照顾患有精神障碍的配偶可能会给你带来一些同样严重的问题。

2010年12月英语四级考试真题

四级It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.

研究发现，受人类影响的气候变化正在提高全球营养不良等疾病的死亡率(营养不良) 以及与热相关的健康问题。

2011年6月英语四级考试真题

四级There seems to be more of a taboo (禁忌) about talking about money than about death.

似乎有更多的禁忌(禁忌) 谈论金钱而不是死亡。

2011年12月英语四级考试真题

四级As our special report in this issue (printed before Mr Jobs’s death) explains, innovation used to spill over from military and corporate laboratories to the consumer market, but lately this process has gone into reverse.

正如我们本期的特别报道（在乔布斯去世前印刷）所解释的那样，创新曾经从军事和企业实验室渗透到消费市场，但最近这一过程发生了逆转。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题（2）

四级It may seem that these elderly people are trying to cheat death.

这些老年人似乎在试图欺骗死亡。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级Men, like women, report crying at the death of a loved one and in response to a moving religious experience.

男人和女人一样，在亲人去世时哭泣，这是对感人的宗教经历的回应。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级The development of self-consciousness and the notion of individual identity, or ego; storytelling about the origins of the world, the creation of humanity and life after death; and the ability to feel others, sadness—all were critical parts of the neurobiological changes that made us human.

自我意识的发展和个人身份的概念，或自我；讲述世界的起源、人类的创造和死后的生活；感受他人的能力，悲伤——所有这些都是使我们成为人类的神经生物学变化的关键部分。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）