六级It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

很明显，它已经不存在了；曾经强大的纽芬兰舰队现在疯狂地在海底搜寻螃蟹。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在零食中放一个小奖品来游戏化零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头（“，巨头) 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，在工厂地板上写下上一班生产的钢材吨数，从而激励下一班工人击败上一班。

2016年12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The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.

这只动物在17楼的窗户边休息了很长时间后爬上了楼顶。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级When your child throws her spoon on the floor for the sixth time as you try to feed her, and you say, "That's enough! I will not pick up your spoon again!" The child will immediately test your claim.

当你试图喂孩子时，孩子第六次把勺子扔到地板上，你说：“够了！我不会再拿起你的勺子了！”孩子会立即测试你的要求。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

六级Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

就国际碳价格下限达成协议将是这一进程的良好起点。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考The floors of all campus buildings are equipped with manual fire alarm systems which include fire alarm pull stations and pipes.

所有校园建筑的楼层都配备了手动火灾报警系统，包括火灾报警拉站和管道。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级Mail that was already processed in New Orleans facilities was moved to an upper floor so it would be protected from water damage.

已经在新奥尔良处理过的邮件被移到了一层楼上，这样它就不会受到水的破坏。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级In order to describe human beings he should keep the palm of his hand at a right angle to the floor.

为了描述人类，他应该保持手掌与地板成直角。

2014年6月听力原文

四级If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is reserved for the description of animals

如果他保持手掌与地板平行，就像在他自己的文化中，当他说出一个孩子的身高时，他很可能会受到笑声的欢迎，在哥伦比亚，这个手势只用于描述动物

2014年6月听力原文

高考Fire extinguishers are located on each floor and in each apartment.

每个楼层和每个公寓都有灭火器。

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

她借用了工厂车间的效率原则，并将其应用到厨房的家务活中。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form.

朗是英国最著名的陆地艺术家，他的石头圈，一个由波蒂谢德海滩的紫色岩石组成的完美圆环，布置在画廊的地板上，代表了这一形式优雅、精致的一面。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

建筑业主面临着一个选择：要么将建筑的第一层改为地下室，第二层改为主层，要么将整个建筑提升到新的街道高度。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考One day, Glenn Furst's mother put oil on the kitchen floor just before the inspector entered their house.

一天，格伦·弗斯特的母亲在巡查员进入他们家之前把油涂在厨房地板上。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级There is no point saying you run marathons, if you are going to be out of breath arriving at the interview on the second floor.

如果你在二楼面试时会上气不接下气，那么说你跑马拉松是没有意义的。

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago.

这当然产生了一个新的问题：在芝加哥，几乎每栋建筑的第一层都被泥土掩埋了。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级The man was collecting building materials when the first floor collapsed underneath him.

该名男子在收集建筑材料时，一楼倒塌在他脚下。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

高考The large color decision in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors.

房间的大颜色决定与墙壁、天花板和地板有关。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

考研The Navy Department moved into the east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and marquetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.

1879年，海军部迁入东翼，在那里，精心制作的墙壁、天花板模板和镶嵌地板装饰着秘书办公室。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won't have much of a chance to contaminate it.

一个城市食物神话认为，如果食物在地板上停留几秒钟，污垢和细菌就不会有太多机会污染它。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Wondering if food is still OK to eat after it's dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience.

怀疑食物掉在地板上后是否还可以吃是一种很常见的经历。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考Instead of a courtyard room, I'd like a room with a view, preferably on an upper floor.

我想要一间能看到风景的房间，最好是在楼上，而不是庭院房间。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 听力 原文

四级If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is reserved for the description of animals.

如果他保持手掌与地板平行，就像在他自己的文化中，当他说出一个孩子的身高时，他很可能会受到笑声的欢迎，在哥伦比亚，这个手势只用于描述动物。

2014年6月听力原文

四级He's a difficult man, and I think there's been some trouble on the shop floor.

他是个很难相处的人，我想车间里发生了一些麻烦。

2016年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级It depends on just how many bacteria can make it from floor to food in a few seconds and just how dirty the floor is.

这取决于几秒钟内有多少细菌从地板传播到食物，以及地板有多脏。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考They dropped off onto the floor.

他们掉到了地板上。

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

四级They also reported that 87% of people asked either would eat or had eaten food fallen on the floor.

他们还报告说，87%的被调查者要么会吃，要么已经吃了掉在地板上的食物。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级It reached the 23rd floor, and it's legend continued to grow on social media with every floor it climbed.

它爬到了23楼，它的传奇在社交媒体上不断成长，每爬一层楼。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级In fact it was a potato pancake, and it fell on the stovetop, not on the floor.

事实上，那是一个土豆煎饼，它掉在炉子上，而不是地板上。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Trawlers (which drag large nets through the water and along the ocean floor) and long line fishers (which can deploy thousands of hooks on lines that can stretch for miles) take a heavy toll on turtles.

拖网捕鱼者（在水中和海底拖动大网）和长线捕鱼者（可以在绵延数英里的线上部署数千个钩子）对海龟造成了沉重的伤害。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor.

在把脚放在地板上之前，先在床边坐一分钟。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级Imagine you are waiting for an elevator and it stops two floors above for longer than usual.

想象一下，你在等电梯，电梯在两层楼上停的时间比平时长。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Nursing at Beth Israel also involves a decentralized (分散的) nursing administration; every floor, every unit is a self-contained organization.

Beth Israel的护理也涉及分散(分散的) 护理管理；每一层、每一个单元都是一个独立的组织。

1993年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the past our own blocks of flats have been associated with the lower-income groups and they have lacked the obvious provisions, such as central heating, constant hot water supply, electrically operated lifts from top to bottom, and so on, as well as such details, important notwithstanding (然而), as easy facilities for disposal of dust and rubbish and storage places for baby carriages in the ground floor, playgrounds for children on the top of the buildings, and drying grounds for washing.

过去，我们自己的单位与低收入群体有联系，缺乏明显的规定，如集中供暖、持续热水供应、电动升降机等，以及这些细节，尽管很重要(然而), 作为处理灰尘和垃圾的简易设施，一楼的婴儿车存放处，建筑物顶部的儿童游乐场，以及洗涤的干燥场。

1995年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级” You look down at the floor, at the indicator lights, anywhere but into another passenger’s eyes.

“你往下看地板，看指示灯，任何地方都只能看到另一名乘客的眼睛。

1996年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in libraries, offices and museums.

我自己也曾在公共汽车、汽车、飞机和船上打盹；在地板和床上；以及图书馆、办公室和博物馆。

1998年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级On the floor lay three dead chickens.

地板上躺着三只死鸡。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The authors of the Ambio study examined samples of the upper layers of soil taken from the same sites of 30 forest floors in New England, New York and Pennsylvania in 1980 and in 1990.

Ambio研究的作者检查了1980年和1990年从新英格兰、纽约和宾夕法尼亚州30个森林地面的同一地点采集的上层土壤样本。

2005年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Cracker Jacks has been “gamifying” its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of- the-century steel magnate（巨头）Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充道，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在里面放一个小奖品来“游戏化”其零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头(巨头）据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，把上一班的钢铁产量写在工厂的地板上，从而激励下一班的工人打败上一班。

2016年12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An urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won’t have much of a chance to contaminate it.

一个城市食物神话认为，如果食物只在地板上停留几秒钟，污垢和细菌就不会有太多机会污染它。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级So is five seconds on the floor the critical threshold（门槛）that separates a piece of eatable food from a case of food poisoning?

因此，在地板上停留5秒是关键阈值吗(门槛）将一块可食用的食物与食物中毒病例区分开来？

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Wondering if food is still OK to eat after it’s dropped on the floor is a pretty common experience.

想知道食物掉在地板上后是否还能吃是一种很常见的经历。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级It’s harder to pin down the origins of the oft-quoted five-second rule, but a 2003 study reported that 70% of women and 56% of men surveyed were familiar with the five-second rule and that women were more likely than men to eat food that had dropped on the floor.

人们很难确定经常被引用的五秒钟规则的起源，但2003年的一项研究报告称，70%的受访女性和56%的受访男性熟悉五秒钟规则，女性比男性更有可能吃掉在地板上的食物。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级So what does science tell us about what a few moments on the floor means for the safety of your food?

那么，科学告诉我们，在地板上的几分钟对你的食物安全意味着什么呢？

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Clarke and her colleagues introduced bacteria to floor tiles（瓷砖）and then placed cookies on the tiles for varying times.

克拉克和她的同事将细菌引入地砖(瓷砖）然后在瓦片上放置不同时间的cookie。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级It looks like what’s at issue is less how long your food stays on the floor and much more how contaminated with bacteria that patch of floor happens to be.

看起来问题不在于你的食物在地板上停留的时间，而在于那块地板恰好被细菌污染了多少。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级Should you eat food fallen on the floor then?

那你应该吃掉在地板上的食物吗？

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）

考研Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, powerless to do anything; lifts stopped working, so that even if you were lucky enough not to be trapped between two floors, you had the unpleasant task of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs.

火车拒绝移动，车上的人坐在黑暗中，无能为力；电梯停止工作，所以即使你很幸运没有被困在两层楼之间，你也要完成一项令人不快的任务，那就是找到下数百层楼梯的路。

1984年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Africa and South America, for example, are moving away from each other as new material is injected into the sea floor between them.

例如，非洲和南美洲正在相互远离，因为新材料被注入它们之间的海底。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题