六级Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

石黑浩先生，你有没有在二手书店找到过你的书？根据一项关于种族和教育公平的研究，全国黑人运动员的大学辍学率令人震惊。

2017年6月听力原文

四级One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

一个原因是，现在有更多的国家是石油生产大国，因此遭受油价下跌影响的国家在全球经济中所占份额更大。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

根据一项关于种族和教育公平的研究，全国黑人运动员的大学辍学率令人震惊。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

到了该迈出这一步的时候，他们会采取行动，立即放弃不再符合他们目的的东西。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

此外，其他因素也在给油价带来下行压力：石油输出国组织（OPEC）战略行为的变化、伊朗出口的预计增长、全球需求（尤其是新兴市场需求）的缩减、美国石油消费的长期下降、，以及一些替代品的驱油。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Some viewers of her cooking show, The French Chef, insist they saw Child drop lamb on the floor and pick it up, with the advice that if they were alone in the kitchen, their guests would never know.

她的烹饪节目《法国厨师》的一些观众坚持认为，他们看到孩子把羊肉扔在地板上捡起来，并建议说，如果他们一个人在厨房，他们的客人永远不会知道。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.

工资一直是最大的威慑因素，因为有家庭的人往往觉得他们无法承受大学工作时工资的下降。

2010年12月阅读原文

高考After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings.

之后，我觉得有必要进一步探索，于是决定顺便去参加ASL俱乐部的一次会议。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 完形填空 原文

四级This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

这一转变的主要原因是选择在35岁之前浪漫定居的美国年轻人比例急剧下降。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

这一事件的转变主要是由于选择在成年前浪漫定居的美国年轻人比例急剧下降。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

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

考研Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语博士生在拿到学位之前就辍学了。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

“随身携带一本书”实际上也能起作用，只要你能经常涉猎，那么阅读就成了你暂时浮出水面处理事务的默认状态，然后再放下。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.

许多人谈到劳工部6月份报告的28.8万个新工作岗位，以及失业率下降到6.1%，这是个好消息。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

戴维森的文章是最近出现的一系列文章之一，这些文章指出，我们今天失业率居高不下，中产阶级收入下降，主要是因为Gre导致的需求大幅下降

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

但现在，加拿大研究人员对研究进行的系统回顾和分析发现，面食不仅不会导致体重增加，而且一周三餐可以帮助人们在四个月内减掉半公斤以上的体重。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt.

作者记录了在每天减少3克盐摄入后，每年减少多达120000例心脏病、66000例中风和99000例由高血压引起的心脏病发作。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.

这项技术已经成功地应用于海外，但美国唯一的其他公共机器人车库却很麻烦，因为技术问题导致车辆掉落和车辆被困。

2013年6月听力原文

考研And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

在欧洲，一些人对取消社会科学研究的特定资助类别并将其纳入可持续发展的跨领域主题的提议大动干戈。

2013年考研阅读原文

六级For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

例如，当被问及今年是否会购买一部新智能手机时，只有48%的人表示愿意——比2015年下降了6个百分点。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级The authors documented an annual drop of as many as 120,000 cases of heart disease, 66,000 instances of stroke and 99,000 heart attacks caused by high blood pressure after a 3-g-per-day reduction in salt

作者记录了在每天减少3克盐摄入后，每年减少多达120000例心脏病、66000例中风和99000例由高血压引起的心脏病发作

2013年6月阅读原文

考研Dr simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one before that, then the score for the next applicant would drop by an average of 0.075 points.

simonsohn博士发现，如果前一位候选人在每日一系列受访者中的得分比前一位候选人高出0.75分或更多，那么下一位申请人的得分将平均下降0.075分。

2013年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple's massively successful brick-and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon's small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-fashioned retailers awake at night.

不仅仅是无人驾驶飞机在你家门口扔下新的内衣，苹果巨大成功的实体和玻璃零售店以及亚马逊朝着同一方向迈出的小步应该让老式零售商在晚上保持清醒。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考I guess that's because some people drop out of his class.

我想那是因为有些人从他的课上退学了。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 听力 原文

高考If you drop that, you begin to feel a little "dead" inside because you're "dropping" you.

如果你把它扔了，你会开始觉得里面有点“死”，因为你正在“扔”你。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support.

由于缺乏教学支持，许多学生退出了在线课程。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

但是无人驾驶汽车的拥有量可能会随着价格的下降而增加，更多的人会对这项技术感到满意。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.

研究人员还注意到，在我们看到幸福感开始下降的几年前，以及在2013年出现最严重的幸福感下降之前，经济衰退就已经开始了。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods

SAT成绩在1963年开始下降；如今，平均有30%的学生没有在四年内完成高中学业，这一数字在贫穷的城市社区上升到50%

2012年6月阅读原文

四级Carpets, for instance, seem to be slightly better places to drop your food than wood or tile.

例如，地毯似乎比木头或瓷砖更适合放置食物。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Drop in bias Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise to popularity

夏洛茨维尔弗吉尼亚大学的一个偏向性的布莱恩·诺塞克，使用类似的测试来管理一个隐含的偏倚网站，也观察到自从2007年1月以来，700000位访问者的偏向率有了一个小的下降，这可以通过奥巴马的流行来解释。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.

对黑人的偏见经历了不同寻常的下降。

2010年6月阅读原文

高考The impact of dropping birth rate on developing countries may not be but disastrous.

出生率下降对发展中国家的影响可能不是灾难性的，而是灾难性的。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 题设

四级When an object did not drop out of the bottom of a rattling container, they looked at it for a longer time than they did when the container behaved as expected.

当一个物体没有从一个发出卡嗒卡嗒声的容器底部掉出来时，他们观察它的时间比容器按预期运行时长。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级A drop in oxygen pressure can cause headaches in certain individuals.

氧气压力下降可能会导致某些人头痛。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

四级Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced radical change on the industry.

饮食习惯的改变，包括起泡饮料消费量的急剧下降，迫使该行业发生了根本性的变化。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级That's what happens when you're the world's biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked.

这就是当你是世界上最大的债权人时会发生的事情：你可以给出这样的暗示，如果这些暗示被泄露，这些暗示本身就足以造成国际经济混乱。

2012年12月阅读原文

四级It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more convenient than waiting until Sunday for the telephone rates to drop.

这比打长途电话便宜，也比等到星期天才降低电话费方便得多。

2010年12月听力原文

六级This is in comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the total yogurt and kefir market according to natural and organic market research company SpiNS.

与之相比，根据天然和有机市场研究公司SpiNS的数据，酸奶和开菲尔的总市场份额下降了不到1%。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考It would never win a prize in a cooking competition, but it was surprisingly edible, and we drank up every last drop of soup.

它永远不会在烹饪比赛中获奖，但它令人惊讶地可以食用，我们喝光了每一滴汤。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

SAT成绩在1963年开始下降；如今，平均有30%的学生没有在四年内完成高中学业，这一数字在贫穷的城市社区上升到50%。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally

为什么那个男人说她会偶尔向别人扔几杯茶

2011年6月听力原文

考研If my training intensity remains the same, but I'm constantly hungry and dropping weight, this is a sign that I need to increase my daily caloric intake.

如果我的训练强度保持不变，但我一直在减肥，这就是我需要增加每日卡路里摄入量的原因。

2019年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考The reason for the explosion is not that people have been reproducing like rabbits, but that people have stopped dropping dead like flies.

爆炸的原因不是人们像兔子一样繁殖，而是人们不再像苍蝇一样倒毙。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

六级Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out

通常，他们会负债累累，或者一两年后就无力偿还债务，必须退出

2011年6月阅读原文

四级If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky high divorce rate.

如果大萧条可以作为指导的话，我们可能会看到我们天高的离婚率有所下降。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级bring about a drop in the divorce rate

使离婚率下降

2012年6月阅读原文

高考I can drop you off on my way.

我可以在路上让你下车。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

高考Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic-breakups, trouble at home, even dropping out-that a person would rather keep secret.

通常，流言蜚语会传播关于某个话题的信息，比如分手、家里的麻烦，甚至是一个人宁愿保守秘密的退学。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级Uh, you can either drop it off at my class or bring it to my office.

你可以把它放在我的课堂上，也可以带到我的办公室。

2014年6月听力原文

四级Jack asked me to drop off this report.

杰克让我把这份报告交给他。

2012年12月听力原文

四级I was about to drop statistics before they helped me out.

在他们帮助我之前，我正要放弃统计数据。

2011年6月听力原文

四级However, some parents are concerned that it encourages their children to drop litter so they can watch the birds to pick it up.

然而，一些家长担心这会鼓励他们的孩子扔垃圾，这样他们就可以看着鸟儿捡垃圾了。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.

通常，他们会负债累累，或者一两年后就无力偿还债务，必须退出。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级Why do some students drop out after a year or two according to the author

为什么一些学生在一两年后就辍学了

2011年6月阅读原文

六级He is going to drop the physics course

他打算放弃物理课程

2013年12月听力原文

六级What about dropping you at the south gate and I'll find parking somewhere else.

把你送到南门，我会在别的地方找到停车场。

2013年6月听力原文

六级The technology has been successfully applied overseas, but the only other public robotic garage in the United States has been troublesome, dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems

这项技术已经成功地应用于海外，但美国唯一的其他公共机器人车库却很麻烦，因为技术问题而导致车辆掉落和被困

2013年6月听力原文

六级Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?

为什么那个男人说她会偶尔向别人扔几杯茶？

2011年6月听力原文

六级Look, I'm terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, but it is rather important.

听着，保罗，我非常抱歉周五这个时候来拜访你，但这很重要。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级First-Generation College-Goers： Unprepared and Behind Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education come on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

第一代大学生：没有准备和落后

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题（一）

六级(Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop. )

（一旦大型发行商联合转换，芯片成本应该会下降。）

2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（三）

六级For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes--a six-point drop from 20 And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

例如，当被问及今年是否会购买新的智能手机时，只有48%的人表示会，比20人下降了6个百分点

2016年12月六级（第一套）真题

六级The researchers also note that the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the wellbeing drop, and before the steepest wellbeing decline, which occurred in 20 The researchers conclude that electronic communication was the only adolescent activity that increased at the same time psychological wellbeing declined.

研究人员还指出，经济衰退发生在我们看到幸福感开始下降的几年前，也发生在20年来最严重的幸福感下降之前

2019年12月六级真题（第1套）

六级Le Bohec said: " Unless current greenhouse gas emissions drop, 70 percent of king penguins-1 million breeding pairs-will be forced to relocate their breeding grounds, or face extinction by 2100. "

Le Bohec说：“除非目前的温室气体排放量下降，否则到2100年，彭金王一百万对繁殖后代中的70%将被迫迁移繁殖地，否则将面临灭绝。”

2019年12月六级真题（第3套）

六级But Nature is indifferent to human notions of fairness, and a report by the Fish and Wildlife Service showed a worrisome drop in the populations of several species of North Atlantic turtles, notably loggerheads, which can grow to as much as 400 pounds.

但大自然对人类的公平观念漠不关心，鱼类和野生动物管理局的一份报告显示，北大西洋几种海龟的数量出现了令人担忧的下降，尤其是红海龟，它们可以长到400磅。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级"That's an unusually large drop," Plant says.

普兰特说：“这是一个异常大的降幅。”。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级Drop in bias Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise to popularity.

偏差下降

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级That’s what happens when you’re the world’s biggest creditor: you get to drop hints like that, which would be enough by themselves to create international economic chaos if they were ever leaked.

当你是世界上最大的债权人时，就会发生这种情况：你可以透露这样的暗示，如果这些暗示被泄露，就足以造成国际经济混乱。

2012年12月英语六级真题

四级If they don’t, we should drop them and move to something else”.

如果他们不这样做，我们应该放弃他们，转而做其他事情”。

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级They typically gaze at each other for about 3 seconds at a time, then drop their eyes down for 3 seconds, before letting their eyes meet again.

他们通常一次凝视对方约3秒，然后放下眼睛3秒，再让眼睛再次相遇。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Burnout has been described as dropping or quitting of an activity that was at one time enjoyable.

倦怠被描述为放弃或放弃一项曾经令人愉快的活动。

2001年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级When the auto enters the highway system, a retractable (可伸缩的) arm will drop from the auto and make contact with a rail, which is similar to those powering subway trains electrically.

当汽车进入高速公路系统时，一个可伸缩的(可伸缩的) 手臂会从汽车上掉下来，与轨道接触，这类似于为地铁列车供电。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级“A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago,” says Zelinski, “may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox.

泽林斯基说：“一个能背诵30年前体育统计数据的人，可能不会记得把一封信投进邮箱。”。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Sticking to the low end of government estimates, the National Resources Defense Council says there may be no more than 3.2 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of ANWR, a drop in the bucket that would do virtually nothing to ease America’s energy problems.

国家资源保护委员会坚持政府估计的低端，表示ANWR沿海平原的经济可采石油可能不超过32亿桶，这只是杯水车薪，对缓解美国的能源问题几乎没有任何帮助。

2005年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.

在英国，自1997年以来，此类技术已帮助车辆相关犯罪下降了31%。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级But in recent years, a growing chorus(异口同声)of critics has begun pressuring schools to drop the practice.

但近年来，越来越多的人(异口同声)批评人士已经开始向学校施压，要求他们放弃这种做法。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级That’s one reason Allegheny College doesn’t plan to drop merit aid entirely.

这也是阿勒格尼学院不打算完全取消奖学金的原因之一。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our skyhigh divorce rate.

如果以大萧条为指导的话，我们可能会看到我们极高的离婚率下降。

2012年6月英语四级考试真题

四级The federal government has started dropping money out of airplanes.

联邦政府已经开始从飞机上撤资。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级While it’s possible bike-share will cause a drop in business, Crooks allowed that the idea is a positive step forward for New York City.

虽然共享单车可能会导致业务下降，但克鲁克斯承认，这一想法对纽约市来说是向前迈出的积极一步。

2014年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

四级When it’s time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what’s no longer serving their purpose.

当该做出飞跃的时候，他们会采取行动，立即放弃不再符合他们目的的东西。

2017年6月大学英语四级真题 (第3套)

四级When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick it up within five seconds?

当你把一块食物掉在地板上时，如果你在五秒钟内把它捡起来，真的可以吃吗？

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级And it’s not just dropping food on the floor that can lead to bacterial contamination.

不仅仅是食物掉在地板上会导致细菌污染。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级The potential for safer cars means accident statistics would drop: some 94% of road accidents in the U. S. involve human error.

汽车更安全的潜力意味着事故统计数据将下降：美国约94%的道路事故涉及人为失误。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Some retailers warned Cocalis that they’d drop the brand if it came out with an electric bike.

一些零售商警告Cocalis，如果该品牌推出电动自行车，他们将放弃该品牌。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研Computer-analyzed marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop.

计算机分析的营销报告可以帮助决定现在要强调哪些产品，为未来开发哪些产品，以及放弃哪些产品。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研D. C. , dropping out of the top 10.

D.C.，跌出前十名。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研“Frustration against this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild.

“对这种事情的沮丧会导致孩子们辍学并疯狂奔跑。

2000年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研There are a number of bestselling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletter’s, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid- ‘90s equivalent of dropping out.

对于那些想简化生活的人来说，有很多畅销的降档自助书籍；有一些时事通讯，如The Tightwad Gazette，为数十万美国人提供了从回收保鲜膜到自制肥皂的有用提示；甚至还有一些支持团体支持那些想在90年代中期实现相当于辍学的目标的人。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题