四级Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

今天，关于这个问题有一个严肃的问题：是否应该对处决罪犯设定最低年龄限制？换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？。

2015年12月听力原文

高考Corrado, a translator for the army during wwii, was killed in action in Europe.

科拉多是二战期间军队的翻译，他在欧洲战场上阵亡。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

这一行动源于周二发布的联邦法院命令，要求苹果帮助联邦调查局解锁去年12月在加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺杀害14人的两名攻击者之一使用的iPhone。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级The Tunisian government said Monday that 45 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a town near the border with Libya.

突尼斯政府星期一说，枪手袭击了靠近利比亚边境的一个城镇，造成45人死亡。

2016年12月听力原文

四级Officials of the Tunisian government are especially worried after dozens of tourists were killed in the attack in Tunisia last year.

突尼斯政府官员尤其担心去年在突尼斯发生的袭击中有数十名游客丧生。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

四级The Tunisian government said Monday that 45 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a town near the border with Libya.

突尼斯政府星期一说，枪手袭击了靠近利比亚边境的一个城镇，造成45人死亡。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

四级In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?

换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Under the plan, for example, the agency said it would not prosecute landowners or businesses that unintentionally kill, harm, or disturb the bird, as long as they had signed a range-wide management plan to restore prairie chicken habitat.

例如，根据该计划，该机构表示，只要土地所有者或企业签署了一项恢复草原鸡栖息地的广泛管理计划，就不会起诉无意中杀死、伤害或干扰该鸟的土地所有者或企业。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Measles, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was nearly wiped out in the united states 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine.

麻疹曾一度每年导致450名儿童死亡，甚至更多儿童致残。14年前，由于MMR疫苗的普遍使用，麻疹在美国几乎被消灭。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级The surest way to kill it is to leave it alone.

杀死它最可靠的方法就是让它自己呆着。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

自2010年以来，干旱和昆虫已经在加利福尼亚州杀死了1亿多棵树木，其中大部分是在2016年，野火烧毁了数十万英亩。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets.

许多农民反对这项计划，因为他们担心狼会杀死他们的农场动物或宠物。

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级He had a terrible temper, and once threatened to kill another child.

他脾气很坏，曾威胁要再杀一个孩子。

2015年12月听力原文

四级He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

他估计，舒适度将在五到十年内大幅提高3）一名雪地摩托车手杀死了一只狗，打伤了多只狗，这似乎是在阿拉斯加州的伊迪塔罗德比赛中对参赛者的蓄意攻击。

2017年6月听力原文

高考The most recent powerful nino, in 1997-98, killed around 21, 000 people and caused damage worth $36 billion around the globe.

最近一次强大的尼诺现象发生在1997-98年，在全球范围内造成约21000人死亡，价值360亿美元的损失。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

但邮政特殊利益集团似乎已经扼杀了它，至少在众议院是如此。

2018年考研阅读原文

四级One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

一名摩托雪橇司机在阿拉斯加的伊迪塔罗德比赛中故意袭击了参赛者，造成一条狗死亡，多条狗受伤。

2017年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

高考People believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain.

人们相信有一个持久的供应，并杀死了数千人，商业猎人吸引他们到小空地与粮食。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考"Young birds are often attracted to the warm road surface and get killed by the traffic." Biology student Hannah tells the broadcaster.

生物系学生汉娜告诉广播公司：“年轻的鸟类经常被温暖的路面吸引，并被交通堵塞致死。”。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 听力 原文

高考The coyotes killed a large percentage of the park' s red foxes, and completely drove away the park' s beavers.

郊狼杀死了公园里大部分的红狐，并且完全赶走了公园里的海狸。

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to kill bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate.

我和食物的关系非常糟糕：我用它来消除不好的感觉，让自己感觉更好，并庆祝。

2017年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

六级Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.

巴西在1984年开设了一个研究站，但2012年的一场大火导致两名海军成员死亡，而同年一艘满载柴油的巴西驳船在基地附近沉没。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls, says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.

Chasin说，最让我感动的一次会议是针对黑人妇女和黑人女孩的国家暴力，他解释说，在一个房间里，人们写下了因此而被杀害的人的名字。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

因为如果你在一个故事中以一个明亮的基调开始，突然意识到你在谈论一些在车祸中丧生的人，那真是太遗憾了。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

高考But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

但他们必须在疯狂的猎手维克多·奎特梅因（victor Quartermaine）之前找到这只兔子，维克多·奎特梅因不顾一切地想要杀死它。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind theblasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70people.

去年7月，索马里青年党说，他们是乌干达首都爆炸案的幕后黑手，这次爆炸造成70多人死亡。

2015年12月听力原文

四级Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind the blasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70 people.

去年7月，索马里青年党说，他们是乌干达首都爆炸事件的幕后黑手，这次爆炸造成70多人死亡。

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

六级If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.

如果这种方法奏效，它可以为博茨瓦纳和其他地方的农民提供一种低成本、可持续的工具来保护他们的牲畜，并提供一种保护狮子不被杀死的方法。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级If the method works, it could provide farmers in Botswana-and elsewhere -with a low-cost, sustainable tool to protect their livestock, and a way to keep lions safe from being killed.

如果这种方法奏效，它可以为博茨瓦纳和其他地方的农民提供一种低成本、可持续的工具来保护他们的牲畜，并提供一种保护狮子不被杀死的方法。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

XA0灾害流行病学研究中心的一项研究发现，在1980年至2007年间，近8400次自然灾害夺走了200多万人的生命。

2016年6月听力原文

高考If he didn't, his body temperature would get very low, which could quickly kill him.

如果他不这样做，他的体温会变得很低，这可能会很快杀死他。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

考研But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

但是，不要费心去消除旧习惯；一旦这些程序的痕迹进入海马体，它们就会留在那里。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they're there to stay.

但是，不要费心去消除旧习惯；一旦这些程序的痕迹进入大脑，它们就会留在那里。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Kenyan police say one person was killed and 26 injured in an explosion at a bus station in central Nairobi.

肯尼亚警方说，内罗毕市中心一个汽车站发生爆炸，造成一人死亡，26人受伤。

2015年12月听力原文

四级And while TV didn't kill movies, it did kill second-rate pictures, shorts, and cartoons.

虽然电视并没有扼杀电影，但它确实扼杀了二流电影、短片和动画片。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级They would also terrorize and kill dogs and cats which is not what the suburban dwellers have in mind.

他们也会恐吓和杀害猫狗，这不是郊区居民的想法。

2013年12月听力原文

高考For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

在过去的两年里，戈登的学生们一直在研究在零重力下杀死细菌的方法，他们认为他们已经接近解决方案了。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Dog-fighting victims are tortured and killed for profit and "sport," yet their criminal abusers often receive a 28 minimal sentence for causing a lifetime of pain.

斗狗的受害者为了利润和“运动”而被折磨和杀害，但他们的犯罪虐待者往往因为造成终生痛苦而被判最低刑罚28年。

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级Under the first law, a robot could not harm a dangerous gunman, but under the zeroth law, a robot could kill the gunman to save others.

根据第一条法律，机器人不能伤害危险的持枪歹徒，但根据第零条法律，机器人可以杀死持枪歹徒以拯救他人。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that within a short period of time, there was no one around to infect

埃博拉病毒是如此致命，死亡速度如此之快，以至于在很短的时间内，周围没有人可以感染

2013年6月听力原文

考研She adds, however, that "to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one."

然而，她补充道，“做出决定就是扼杀除一种可能性之外的所有可能性。”

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The wolves would kill deer of course.

狼当然会杀死鹿。

2013年12月听力原文

六级They would eventually kill off the deer.

他们最终会杀死这只鹿。

2013年12月听力原文

四级So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the device's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.

那么当一艘法国潜艇(潜水艇) 五天后检测到该装置的寻的信号，这一发现标志着在确定造成152名乘客死亡的悲剧原因方面迈出了一大步。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级The experiment is based upon the idea that farmers who're protecting their herd from lions would shoot and kill lions in an effort to protect their livestock.

这项实验基于这样一种想法，即保护牛群不受狮子伤害的农民会射杀狮子，以保护他们的牲畜。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级The prediction is that we will have found a source of inexbaustible, safe, green energy, and that science will have killed off religion.

预测是，我们将找到一种不可阻挡的、安全的、绿色的能源，科学将扼杀宗教。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级“This,science will kill religion-not by reason challenging faith but by offering a more practical,uniwersal and rewarding moral frameworkfor human interaction.

“这一点，科学将扼杀宗教，不是因为理性挑战信仰，而是因为它为人类互动提供了一种更实用、更统一、更有益的道德框架。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级For example, two women were vacationing in Longboat Key while they were floating on the rubber boat along the shore, a water scooter crashed into them and kill them.

例如，两名妇女在Longboat Key度假时，她们漂浮在岸边的橡胶船上，一辆水上摩托车撞向她们，导致她们死亡。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级Also water scooter operators have been killed or seriously injured in collisions with other water craft.

此外，水上滑板车操作员在与其他水上船只的碰撞中死亡或严重受伤。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级25 years ago, Ray Anderson, a single parent with a one-year-old son witnessed a terrible accident which took place when the driver of a truck ran a red light and collided with the car of Sandra D. The impact of the collision killed Sandra instantly.

25年前，有一个一岁儿子的单亲家长雷·安德森目睹了一起可怕的事故，当时一辆卡车的司机闯红灯，与桑德拉·D的汽车相撞。碰撞的冲击力使桑德拉当场死亡。

2007年6月英语六级真题

六级“With Wi-Fi (fast, wireless internet connections) popping up all over the place, even on trains, our fee-earners can be productive as they travel, and between meetings, instead of having to kill time at the shops,” he adds.

他补充道：“随着Wi-Fi（快速无线互联网连接）在各地涌现，甚至在火车上，我们的收费者在旅行和会议间隙都可以提高效率，而不必在商店消磨时间。”。

2009年12月英语六级真题

四级More than 30,000 drivers and front seat passengers are killed or seriously injured each year.

每年有30000多名司机和前排乘客死亡或严重受伤。

1989年1月英语四级真题

四级A cyclist must drive s if everybody around him wanted to kill him.

如果一个骑自行车的人周围的人都想杀了他，他就必须开车。

1989年1月英语四级真题

四级Instead the sportsmen set off to test their skill against prey that were no longer essential to their survival, to be sure, the kill may have been eaten, but there were other, much simpler ways of obtaining a meaty meal.

相反，运动员们开始测试他们对抗猎物的技能，这些猎物对他们的生存不再重要，可以肯定的是，猎物可能已经被吃掉了，但还有其他更简单的方法可以获得肉类食物。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级“But it’s easy to kill creativity by giving rewards for poor performance or creating too much anticipation for rewards.

“但对糟糕的表现给予奖励或对奖励产生过多的期望，很容易扼杀创造力。

1997年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级When the dogs eventually catch the fox they kill it or a hunter shoots it.

当狗最终抓到狐狸时，它们会杀死它，或者猎人射杀它。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Say Ketunnel or I will kill you.

说凯图内尔，否则我就杀了你。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Many times the man screamed, “Say Ketunnel, or I’ll kill you.

这个人多次尖叫：“说凯图内尔，否则我就杀了你。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级” In the chicken house, there were four old chickens, waiting to be killed for Sunday’s dinner.

“在鸡舍里，有四只老鸡，等着被宰杀，准备周日的晚餐。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The parrot was screaming at the fourth, “Say Ketunnel, or I’ll kill you.

鹦鹉在第四声尖叫：“说凯图内尔，否则我就杀了你。”。

2002年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级It is hard to track the blue whale, the ocean’s largest creature, which has almost been killed off by commercial whaling and is now listed as an endangered species.

蓝鲸是海洋中最大的生物，几乎被商业捕鲸杀死，现在被列为濒危物种。

2002年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级“Some people consider the hydrogen bomb a very fatal weapon which could kill somebody.

“有些人认为氢弹是一种非常致命的武器，可能会导致人员死亡。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The spokesman said, “Hydrogen bombs don’t kill people—people kill people.

这位发言人说：“氢弹不会杀人，而是会杀人。

2004年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Many useful and harmless species of wildlife are thoughtlessly killed by the uninformed person who is out with a gun to kill whatever flies within range.

许多有用且无害的野生动物物种都是被不知情的人轻率地杀死的，他们拿着枪出去杀死范围内的任何苍蝇。

2005年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The impact killed her 2-year-old daughter.

撞击导致她2岁的女儿死亡。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级You may feel miserable, but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold.

你可能会感到痛苦，但实际上你美妙的身体正在尽一切努力来消除寒冷。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级The virus stays in you longer, because your body doesn’t develop a way to fight it and kill it.

病毒在你体内停留的时间更长，因为你的身体没有办法对抗和杀死它。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级But for many years, her husband suffered from mental illness and he killed himself in 1963.

但多年来，她的丈夫一直患有精神疾病，并于1963年自杀。

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级And while TV didn’t kill movies, it did kill second-rate pictures, shorts, and cartoons.

虽然电视并没有扼杀电影，但它确实扼杀了二流电影、短片和动画片。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级“One of the sessions that moved me the most was state violence on black women and black girls,” says Chasin, explaining that in one room, people wrote down the names of those killed because of it.

查辛说：“最让我感动的一次会议是对黑人妇女和黑人女孩的国家暴力。”他解释说，在一个房间里，人们写下了因此而被杀害的人的名字。

2019年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in vital organs.

在非常高的水平下，辐射可以通过杀死重要器官中的大量细胞来彻底杀死动物或人类。

1982年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright.

当只有少数细胞被击中时，如果它们被彻底杀死，就会出现这种情况。

1982年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient.

近年来，医生们利用这一原理来证明使用高剂量吗啡来控制绝症患者的疼痛是合理的，尽管增加剂量最终会导致患者死亡。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研“We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death.

“我们不把这些死亡称为凶杀案，因为医生并不打算杀死他们的病人，尽管他们冒着死亡的风险。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Do you remember all those years when scientists argued that smoking would kill us but the doubters insisted that we didn’t know for sure?

你还记得那些年吗？科学家们认为吸烟会杀死我们，但怀疑者坚持说我们不确定？

2005年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators (animals that kill and eat other animals) in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation.

根据他们在《自然》杂志上发表的最新论文，在一个新的渔场中，大型捕食者（杀死和吃掉其他动物的动物）的生物量在开始开采后的15年内平均减少了80%。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研But don’t bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the brain, they’re there to stay.

但是，不要试图改掉旧习惯；一旦这些程序的痕迹进入大脑，它们就会一直存在。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one.

然而，她补充道，“做出决定就是扼杀除一种可能性之外的所有可能性。”。

2009年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题