六级In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

在美国，高达百分之四十的食物没有食用，尽管事实上七分之一的美国家庭无法定期获得优质食物。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

高考The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

爆炸留下了一个40多英里宽的洞，从地面任何地方都看不到。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before.

我得知弗雷迪高中毕业后做了几份工作，仍然是我四十年前遇到的那个体贴的人。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 完形填空 原文

考研It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

对于四十岁以下的普通读者来说，很难想象在大多数大城市的报纸上都能找到高质量的艺术评论。

2010年考研阅读原文

六级Your working life lasts an average of forty years, so it's important to find a job you like and feel enthusiastic about.

你的工作生涯平均持续四十年，所以找到一份你喜欢并充满热情的工作是很重要的。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级I have enough trouble delivering bikes to shops only forty miles away, never mind five thousand miles.

我把自行车送到四十英里外的商店已经够麻烦的了，更不用说五千英里了。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级One free social networking website turned out to successful because it limited each posting to one hundred and forty characters

一个免费的社交网站之所以成功，是因为它将每篇帖子限制在140个字符以内

2013年12月阅读原文

高考They have lowered their co-levels in forty cities.

他们已经降低了40个城市的一氧化碳水平。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

六级Forty percent of that powers old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs — a 19th-century technology that wastes most of the power it consumes on unwanted heat.

其中40%为老式白炽灯泡供电——这是一种19世纪的技术，它将消耗的大部分电力浪费在不需要的热量上。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级An average of 16 teens die every day in motor vehicle crashes and nearly forty percent of those are caused by speeding.

平均每天有16名青少年死于机动车碰撞，其中近40%是由超速造成的。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级Already today, less than forty years later, as computers are relieving us of more and more of the routine tasks in business and in our personal lives, we are faced with a less dramatic but also less foreseen problem.

不到四十年后的今天，随着计算机越来越多地免除我们在商业和个人生活中的日常任务，我们面临着一个不那么引人注目但也不那么可预见的问题。

1989年1月英语四级真题