高考Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

儿童可能比科学家有更大的理解事物的能力。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

高考I found out that I have no artistic ability at all, and now I know for sure that I do not want to be an artist.

我发现自己根本没有艺术能力，现在我清楚地知道我不想成为一名艺术家。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

高考Motorheads have greater ability than office workers.

汽车司机比上班族有更大的能力。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

高考She also operates a website, where she shares her tips and recipes, with the goal of demonstrating that everyone has the ability to control what's on their plate.

她还开设了一个网站，分享她的秘诀和食谱，目的是证明每个人都有能力控制自己盘子里的食物。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

你学的越多，尝试的越多，你就越有能力控制你的饮食和日程安排。

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

我们这些穿着干净衬衫在办公室里工作的人没有汽车司机的能力。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

索尔特豪斯在一份新闻稿中说，这些模式表明，某些类型的心理灵活性在成年早期相对降低，但如果没有疾病，一个人拥有的知识量以及将知识与能力相结合的有效性可能会在整个成年期增加。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级I don't mean to imply that overall job growth doesn't have an impact on one's ability to land a job.

我的意思并不是说总体就业增长对一个人获得工作的能力没有影响。

2012年12月阅读原文

四级But in recent years the capital's culinary (烹饪的) scene has developed to the point that it is now confident of its ability to please the tastes of any international visitor.

但近年来首都的烹饪(烹饪的) 这一场景已经发展到现在，它有信心能够满足任何国际游客的口味。

2011年6月阅读原文

四级Analytical skills are our ability to understand and solve problems using Information we have available.

分析技能是我们利用现有信息理解和解决问题的能力。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级If you understand the material and have the ability to articulate your thoughts, they should be a breeze.

如果你理解材料并有能力表达你的想法，它们应该是轻而易举的事。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

这反过来又对它们的饮食产生重大影响，导致科学家推测，学习特定群体狩猎方法的能力可能会推动这些动物的基因发育。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

六级Many first-generation college-goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree.

许多第一代大学生对自己获得大学学位的能力表示怀疑。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The aim is to ensure that employees have an explicit tool to help them understand their own abilities and aspirations, determine career possibilities, and set (usually short-ter goals.

其目的是确保员工拥有明确的工具，帮助他们了解自己的能力和抱负，确定职业可能性，并设定（通常是短期）目标。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market.

出口正在增长，因为越来越多的外国人有能力购买我们生产和销售的东西。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级But that may have more to do with their ability to select the best students.

但这可能更多地与他们选择最好学生的能力有关。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级You believe you have leadership abilities and your boss put you in charge of a new work team.

你相信你有领导能力，你的老板让你负责一个新的工作团队。

2013年6月听力原文

六级given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

尼日利亚农业部长奥杜·奥格贝（Audu Ogbeh）警告说，这种害虫可能会给该国的粮食安全带来严重问题，因为这种蛾子也能攻击辣椒和土豆等作物。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Studies have found obesity is associated with impairments in cognitive functioning, as assessed by a range of learning and memory tests, such as the ability to remember a list of words presented some minutes or hours earlier.

研究发现，肥胖与认知功能受损有关，这是通过一系列学习和记忆测试评估的，例如记忆几分钟或几小时前出现的单词列表的能力。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级The company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception has not provided credible proof.

该公司可能非常乐观，但他们的机器检测欺骗的能力并没有提供可靠的证据。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.

它们缺乏蓄水结构，而且它们在岩石表面的存在使它们无法开采地下水，因此它们反而发展了改变新陈代谢的能力。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级We have the ability to connect seemingly different threads to solve problems we've never seen before.

我们有能力连接看似不同的线程来解决我们从未见过的问题。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

它能让我们对自己的生活有一个视角——不把自己看得太严肃，嘲笑自己，看到更大的图景，看到事情会发展。

2016年考研翻译原文

考研ministers should also look at creating greater certainty in the rental environment, which would have a significant impact on the ability of registered providers to fund new developments from revenues.

部长们还应考虑在租赁环境中创造更大的确定性，这将对注册供应商从收入中为新开发项目提供资金的能力产生重大影响。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

如果你手头有你的课堂讲稿或文章，你和教授将能够研究让你困惑的具体问题，而不仅仅是笼统地谈论内容。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

高考If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back, but no luck.

如果我能找到鸟巢，我也许能把它放回去，但运气不好。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to reach her yesterday.

否则，我昨天就无法联系到她了。

2017年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

高考Prinstein has also found that the qualities that made the neighbors want you on a play date-sharing, kindness, openness — carry over to later years and make you better able to relate and connect with others.

普林斯坦还发现，邻居们希望你在一起玩耍的特质——分享、友善、开放——一直延续到晚年，让你能够更好地与他人建立联系。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Then I'll be able to have dinner with my wife.

那我就可以和我妻子共进晚餐了。

2015年高考英语北京卷 听力 原文

高考This tension between what we feel we can have and " what we're seemingly able to have is the niggling suffering, the anxiety we feel.

我们能拥有的东西和“我们似乎能拥有的东西”之间的紧张关系是我们所感受到的琐碎痛苦和焦虑。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

他们需要摆脱感情用事（'，感情用事): 最成功的团队都有能够确定总体方向并立即采取行动的领导者。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级"As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen," says Nguyen. "In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voic

Nguyen说：“正如烟草所发生的那样，这需要文化的转变，但这是可以实现的。”就像医生过去吸烟，然后戒烟，并能和病人谈论它一样，我认为医生可以有更大的voic

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Generally, young women have had growing success in the paid labor market since 1960 and hence might increasingly be expected to be able to afford to live independently of their parents.

一般来说，自1960年以来，年轻妇女在有报酬的劳动力市场上取得了越来越大的成功，因此，人们可能越来越期望她们能够独立于父母生活。

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voice in it.

就像医生过去吸烟，然后戒烟，并且能够和病人谈论吸烟一样，我认为医生可以在这方面有更大的发言权。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Leaders have to be able to delegate and manage resources wisely—including staff expertise.

领导者必须能够明智地分配和管理资源，包括员工专业知识。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级Many scientists have studied the green sea slugs to confirm that they are actually able to create energy from sunlight.

许多科学家对绿色海蛞蝓进行了研究，以证实它们确实能够从阳光中产生能量。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism: the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

他们需要摆脱感情用事：最成功的团队都有能够确定总体方向并立即采取行动的领导者。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style.

许多人认为，当时的女设计师能够将自己的服装价值投射到一种新的风格中。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 热衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

政府表示，要获取一部iPhone的内容，需要法庭命令和苹果的帮助来编写新代码；在iPhone的早期版本中，这些版本是在苹果出现宗教信仰之前创建的热衷于 隐私，Fbi可能是abl

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级some schools have shown remarkable determination and ingenuity in ensuring that all their pupils are able to take up opportunities that may be truly life-changing.

一些学校表现出非凡的决心和创造力，确保所有学生都能抓住可能真正改变生活的机会。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."

对年轻人来说，如果不是这样的话，他们可能无法进入这个行业，“你可以在这里购买这片价值300万美元的土地，因为我向你保证，今天你会有1000头野牛。”

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研But as adults we also have the luxury of being able to control our own diaries and it's important that we schedule in time to enjoy the thing we love.

但作为成年人，我们也有能力控制自己的日记的奢侈，重要的是我们要及时安排时间来享受我们喜欢的东西。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

今天的首席执行官，至少对美国的大公司来说，必须具备许多技能，而不仅仅是能够“管理公司”。首席执行官必须对金融市场有很好的认识，甚至可能对公司应该如何交易金融市场有很好的认识。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Until now, many sellers that have a physical presence in only a single state or a few states have been able to avoid charging sales taxes when they ship to addresses outside those states.

到目前为止，许多只在一个州或几个州有实体存在的卖家在将货物运送到这些州以外的地址时能够避免收取销售税。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

考研We often hear media reports that an unauthorized hacker has been able to access a computer database and to alter information stored there.

我们经常听到媒体报道说，一名未经授权的黑客能够访问计算机数据库并更改存储在那里的信息。

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limited success, and expansion aboard.

大多数领先的零售商已经尝试过电子商务，但成效有限，并在海外扩张。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

艺术类学生生活得很好考虑到这些统计/数据/分析，艺术类学生不必担心自己的职业生涯，而是有一个可供选择的计划。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

高考At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

目前，世界上大约有6800种语言。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考But station residents have to be careful about staying in one place too long.

但是车站的居民必须小心不要在一个地方呆太久。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

梦想你是想读心术，看穿墙壁，还是拥有超人的力量，听起来可能很傻，但实际上它触及到了你生活中真正重要的核心。

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考E-mails are then sent to the bookcrossing to keep them updated about where their books have been found.

然后，电子邮件被发送到图书交叉点，让他们随时了解他们的书籍在哪里被找到。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

欧洲只有大约200种语言；美洲大约有1000人；非洲2400人；亚洲和太平洋地区可能有3200个国家，其中巴布亚新几内亚一国就占了800多个国家。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

更令人担忧的是，富国人民对互联网的迷恋已经让国际社会开始担心富国和穷国之间的“数字鸿沟”。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

流言蜚语还有第三个作用：它强化了人们应该如何行动的不成文、不成文的规则。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Having created nine such ice reserves, norphel calculates that he has stored about 200, 000m3 of water.

在建立了九个这样的冰储备之后，诺菲尔计算出他已经储存了大约20万立方米的水。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Her marriage with a serious music critic has drawn her to his world, so she is now crazy about classical music and will not miss any chance to attend a concert with her husband.

她与一位严肃的音乐评论家的婚姻将她吸引到了他的世界，因此她现在对古典音乐着迷，不会错过任何与丈夫一起参加音乐会的机会。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 信息匹配 题设

四级Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

然而，并不是每个有幻想倾向的人都会发展出HSAM，所以帕提斯认为一定是什么原因让他们对自己的过去思考了这么多。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.

无论哪种方式，我们都可以选择如何应对。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

Katherine喜欢Facebook的另一件事是，她在更新家庭信息时不必考虑时区。

2017年6月听力原文

四级may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

能更好地解决难题能更容易地记忆事物能更容易地进行抽象推理能更有效地利用他们所学的知识找到减缓我们心理衰退的方法找到提高记忆力的方法理解心理功能的复杂过程理解生理和心理之间的关系上周新闻中最重要的一件事是纳什维尔关于儿童教育需求的讨论日益增多。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness.

对于什么能给父母带来幸福，我们都有自己的想法。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.

这一概念有多种形式，学者和决策者对理想计划的形式、范围和成本存在争议。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Scholars and policymakers have different opinions about it.

学者和决策者对此有不同的看法。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

我想让事情变得更复杂，因为我建议老年人居住的设施可能比我们想象的要重要。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

在英国，排长队、航班延误和机场人满为患几乎成了人们谈论的话题，就像传统上抱怨天气一样。

2016年6月听力原文

四级The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

少吃多开心的秘诀可能早在几年前就被麦当劳破解了。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

如果你的院子里有一个指示牌，上面写着你所使用的装置，这将为他们指明正确的方向，尽管在这一点上，我们谈论的是一种高度有针对性的、半复杂的攻击，而不是构成大多数盗窃案的那种强行进入攻击。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

一些食品公司一直在努力降低加工食品中的卡路里含量，但这一努力并不热心，但却广为宣传，但标准的美国饮食与几乎所有专家都说我们应该吃的以植物为基础的健康饮食仍然是截然相反的。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

Rusczyk说：“这些数学圈不花钱，或者学生参与其中的成本很低，但你必须了解它们。”。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级The advent of new technologies has added about 4.

新技术的出现增加了大约4%。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

在低收入的城市和农村地区，没有参加过数学竞赛的历史的教师可能不知道像MathCounts这样的高等数学机会，而那些不知道的教师可能得不到支持，或者觉得没有受过训练来领导他们。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

例如，关于多学科知识库Dryad的最流行数据集之一是关于世界各地木材密度的数据集；已下载5700次。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

另一个对高等数学学生有影响力的反馈者是一个名为“问题解决艺术”的在线学校，它大约在13年前开始，现在有15000名用户。

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六级About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

到目前为止，大约有250名学生通过了该项目，该项目得到了杰克肯特库克基金会的资助。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

事实上，你可能听说过新的超级细菌，它们是由于过量使用抗生素而产生的抗抗生素细菌。

2017年6月听力原文

六级This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

该委员会主席乔恩·莱博维茨（Jon Leibowitz）表示：“这实际上是为了消除消费者在购买产品时和企业在销售产品时的困惑。”。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级They have doubt about current green certification.

他们对目前的绿色认证表示怀疑。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级One prevalent quality we have found in teens' statements about themselves, their friends and their families is a strikingly positive emotional tone.

我们在青少年对自己、朋友和家人的描述中发现的一个普遍的特点是一种非常积极的情绪基调。

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六级Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

报名者将不得不从自己的口袋中为许多服务支付更多的费用，这将鼓励他们重新考虑是否值得进行昂贵或重复的测试。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling our economy and our society.

从根本上说，这就是为什么说我们面临巨大的结构性问题的说法成倍增加的原因：它们提供了一个理由，让我们对正在削弱我们的经济和社会的大规模失业无所作为。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

可持续商业咨询公司首席执行官凯文·威廉（Kevin Wilhelm）表示：“大约每周有一次，我的客户会提出一份我从未听说过的新认证，我是从事这一行业的。”。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

现在，一项始于新西兰约1000名儿童的新研究追踪了儿童低自控力如何预测健康不佳、金钱问题，甚至成年后的犯罪记录。

2016年6月听力原文

六级We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

我们必须理解和思考其影响，并平衡这些伟大的创新与它们自然带来的潜在负面影响。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

学生们有很多抱怨：偿还贷款的还款门槛将被冻结五年，这意味着低收入的毕业生必须开始偿还贷款；赡养费补助已经被贷款所取代，这意味着来自贫困家庭的学生比那些父母更富有的学生面临更高的债务。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级So much of what CES has been about is the cool.

消费电子展的大部分内容都很酷。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Part of the work-life issue has to talk about uncertainty about the future.

工作生活问题的一部分是关于未来的不确定性。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

即使在购买了某种连接设备的人中，37%的人表示，他们在未来使用这些设备和服务时会更加谨慎。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

消费者对公司提供的产品越来越厌倦：埃森哲对28个国家的28000名消费者进行的调查发现，消费者对技术的热情已不如从前。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Stacy is going to walk you through the step-by-step process of becoming a social worker and Mill will tell you about the range of options you have once you get your social work degree, as well as the high standards of responsibility the social workers must adhere to.

斯泰西将带你一步一步地成为一名社会工作者，米尔将告诉你一旦你获得了社会工作学位，你可以选择的范围，以及社会工作者必须遵守的高标准责任。

2016年12月听力原文

六级Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

这个理论的有趣之处在于，如果你只有三分之一或三分之二，你会得到什么？你有什么？如果三分之二不同，又有什么不同？这种理论的有趣之处在于，它产生了许多不同的组合，当你将它们分解并开始仔细观察时，它们会非常有趣。

2016年12月听力原文

六级No one should have to live with what a Texas mother described as constant stress, tension, even fear about money.

任何人都不应该生活在德克萨斯州一位母亲所说的持续的压力、紧张甚至对金钱的恐惧之中。

2016年12月听力原文

考研When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

一万年前，当我们的祖先是猎人和采集者时，除了寻找食物，他们没有时间对任何事情感到好奇。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

这种DNA只能揭示一个或两个祖先的遗传信息，尽管举例来说，仅三代人之前，人们还有六位曾祖父母，或者四代人之前，还有14位曾曾祖父母。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

首先也是更重要的是消费者越来越倾向于外出就餐：在家以外的地方，食品和饮料的消费量占总消费量的比例已从1995年的约32%上升到2000年的35%，预计到2005年将接近38%。

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考研The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.

这类唱片的广泛使用给传统古典音乐会带来了危机。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

与以往一样，过去掌握着未来的关键：我们现在已经确定了足够多的塑造地球和我们物种历史的长期模式，以便对我们后代将面临的情况做出基于证据的预测。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

根据《2010年世界社会科学报告》，自2000年以来，全世界社会科学学生的数量每年增长约11%。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研Even the very phrase “jobseeker’s allowance” is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker” who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研As Nature has pointed out before, there are some legitimate concerns about how science prizes—both new and old—are distributed.

正如《自然》杂志此前指出的那样，人们对新旧科学奖的分配方式存在一些合理的担忧。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

布鲁克斯女士可能怀疑，也可能不怀疑她的记者是如何得到他们的报道的，但她没有提出任何问题，没有给出任何指示，也没有收到可追踪的、有记录的答案。

2015年考研阅读原文