六级But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

但挪威能保持其生活水平，同时将其排放量削减到摩洛哥甚至埃塞俄比亚的水平吗？这个问题在十几个环境问题和我们这个多样化的星球上反复出现，它将最终决定人类在追求经济复兴的同时是否生活在超出其生态手段的范围内。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

这个问题在十几个环境问题和我们这个多样化的星球上反复出现，它将最终决定人类在追求经济复兴的同时是否生活在超出其生态手段的范围内。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考These actions have greatly affected the ecological balance.

这些行动极大地影响了生态平衡。

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

最近的一项研究试图计算人类经济生态过度的程度，发现我们正在使用价值1.2地球的环境商品和服务，这意味着在某个时候债务将被收回，所有这些服务——地球为我们免费提供的服务——都将嘎然而止。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考The change in how coffee is grown from shade-grown production to full-sun production endangers the very existence of, certain animals and birds, and even disturbs the world's ecological balance.

咖啡种植方式的改变，从遮荫种植到全日照种植，危及了某些动物和鸟类的生存，甚至扰乱了世界的生态平衡。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Whether this is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall, is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.

这是否正确，如果是的话，生态斧头何时何地落下，很难精确地确定，这就是为什么政府和金融机构才刚刚开始将这些风险纳入经济计算的原因。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考How does an early-warning system help us maintain the ecological balance?

预警系统如何帮助我们维持生态平衡？

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

六级The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

我们的想法是，我们正在从你可能称之为地球的环境银行余额中拿出比它所能维持的更多的东西；我们的生活超出了我们的生态能力。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this "ecological overshoot of the human economy", and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,

最近的一项研究试图计算这种“人类经济生态超调”的程度，发现我们正在使用价值1.2地球的环境商品和服务，这意味着在某个时候债务将被收回，

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级She was the first to bring together insects and their habitats, including food they ate, into a single ecological composition.

她是第一个将昆虫和它们的栖息地，包括它们所吃的食物，整合成一个单一的生态组合的人。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考The cars that drove the American dream have helped to create a global ecological disaster.

推动美国梦的汽车帮助制造了一场全球生态灾难。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Some communities have even discussed the possibility of bringing wolves back into the ecological mix.

一些社区甚至讨论了将狼带回生态圈的可能性。

2013年12月听力原文

四级Instead, he asks you to "take a more ecological (生态的) view of your relationships with technologies and look for ways devices or media may be making specific tasks easier or faster but at the same time making your work and life harder. "

相反，他要求你“采取更环保的方式(生态的) 查看您与技术的关系，并寻找设备或媒体可能使特定任务更容易或更快，但同时使您的工作和生活更艰难的方式。"

2014年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）