高考Large brains for their bodies and the ability to walk upright are two characteristics of human beings.

人类的两大特点是大脑体积大，身体发达，走路直立。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 题设

六级Ruel says in the 1980s Thailand was able to reduce child undernourishment by recruiting a large number of volunteers to travel the countryside teaching about health and nutrition.

鲁埃尔说，在20世纪80年代，泰国通过招募大量志愿者到农村进行健康和营养教育，减少了儿童营养不良。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

但好消息是，关于家里的颜色，你实际上只需要做三种决定：小决定、中决定和大决定。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

但是，像特雷蒙酒店这样的六层砖结构的大型重型建筑呢？

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Researchers from the University of Connecticut Health Center asked the residents a large number of questions about their quality of life, emotional well-being and social interaction, as well as about the quality of the facilities.

康涅狄格大学健康中心的研究人员向居民们询问了他们的生活质量、情绪健康和社会交往以及设施的质量问题。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

近五个世纪以来，鳕鱼的大量供应，鳕 鱼) 为该行业提供了丰富的原材料，该行业在鼎盛时期雇用了约40000人，维持了纽芬兰的整个社区。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考When condors eat dead bodies of other animals containing lead, they absorb large quantities of lead.

当秃鹰吃掉其他含铅动物的尸体时，它们会吸收大量的铅。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

韩国在这里拥有最先进的基地，它正在增加磷虾的捕捞量，磷虾), 在南大洋发现了大量的海洋生物，而俄罗斯最近挫败了在这里建立世界上最大的海洋保护区之一的努力。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

近五个世纪以来，大量的鳕鱼供应为这个行业提供了丰富的原材料，该行业在鼎盛时期雇用了约40000人，维持了纽芬兰的整个社区。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Although these may not seem like large effects, the impact of early attention problems continued throughout the children's academic careers.

虽然这些可能看起来影响不大，但早期注意力问题的影响在儿童的整个学术生涯中持续存在。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

四级"You'll want an iPad just so you can wear this " is the slogan for one of the new lab coats designed with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.

“你会想要一台iPad，这样你就可以穿上它”是一款新的实验服的口号，这款实验服设计有大口袋，可容纳平板电脑。

2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

根据咨询公司EPG的估计，美国和英国最大的公司每年在企业社会责任方面的支出总计超过150亿美元。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

18世纪和19世纪的书面记录中描述的羊群如此之大，以至于它们在天空中盘旋数小时。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级The production and application of fertilisers and pesticides account for the largest part of energy use in the modern industrialised agricultural process.

在现代工业化农业过程中，化肥和杀虫剂的生产和应用占能源使用的最大部分。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级they have borrowed too heavily and accumulated too large amounts of debt

他们借了太多的钱，积累了太多的债务

2013年6月阅读原文

四级This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

这是很难实现的，就像现在许多大公司的情况一样，大部分员工是临时承包商。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考You are very likely to come across large wild animals, too.

你也很可能遇到大型野生动物。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

还有一个事实是，美国大公司比以往任何时候都更加全球化，供应链遍布更多的国家。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

马尔科姆·阿拉杜尔（Malcolm Aladuell）在其著作《引爆点》（The Tipping Point）中指出，社会流行病在很大程度上是由极少数特殊个体（通常被称为影响者）的行为所驱动的，这些人具有不同寻常的信息、说服力或良好的人际关系。

2010年考研阅读原文

六级Because of their smaller size, most keep hours that allow people to enjoy themselves, then have some quiet after midnight, as opposed to large major cities like New York, where the buzz of activity is ongoing.

由于其面积较小，大多数城市都会安排时间让人们尽情享受，然后在午夜后有一些安静，而不像纽约这样的大城市，那里的喧闹声仍在持续。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families.

富裕国家的现代城市生活不能很好地适应大家庭。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级In processing foods after the agricultural stage, there are large additional uses of water that need to be tackled in a world of growing demand.

在农业阶段之后的食品加工中，水的大量额外使用需要在需求不断增长的世界中加以解决。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those unadaptable and untrained workers.

几年后，大规模的国防建设最终提供了足以满足经济需要的财政刺激，工业界突然急于雇用那些不适应和未经培训的工人。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.

几年后，大规模的国防建设终于提供了足以满足经济需要的财政刺激，工业界突然急于雇用那些“不适应和未经培训”的工人。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研A large part of evaluation is calling out bad arguments, but we also need to admit good arguments by opponents and to apply the same critical standards to ourselves.

评估的很大一部分是挑出不好的论据，但我们也需要承认对手的好论据，并对自己适用同样的批评标准。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

六级In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.

近年来，许多中等城市开始采取中间路线，将大城市的兴奋和机遇与小城市午夜后的宁静结合起来。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

那么，在社区层面上，有哪些因素可以预测贫困儿童是否会在成年后的经济阶梯上上升呢？例如，是什么解释了为什么盐湖城大都会区是最有可能给穷人带来财富的100个最大大都会区之一，而亚特兰大大都会区是最不可能的地区之一？哈佛大学经济学家Raj Chetty指出了经济和种族隔离、社区密度、社区中产阶级的规模，学校的质量、社区的宗教信仰和家庭结构，他称之为向上流动的唯一最强关联。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考It's not all that hard to build an advanced and large vocabulary.

建立一个高级的、大量的词汇表并不难。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 语法填空 原文

高考We assume that a large brain makes huge advantages.

我们认为大脑大会带来巨大的优势。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

六级As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice

年轻时，他开始在有生之年步行数万英里，南至佛罗里达，西至加利福尼亚，北至阿拉斯加，在那里，读者们在一大片浮冰上进行了一次漫长而令人毛骨悚然的冒险

2013年6月听力原文

六级Although large companies could easily set up their own advertising departments, write their own advertisements andbuy media space themselves, they tend to use the services of largeadvertising agencies.

虽然大公司可以很容易地建立自己的广告部门，自己写广告，自己购买媒体空间，但他们倾向于使用大型广告公司的服务。

2015年12月听力原文

六级You should never use any over-the-counter drug on a regular, continued basis, or in large quantities, except on your doctor's advice.

除非得到医生的建议，否则您不应定期、持续或大量使用任何非处方药。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

雷曼兄弟（Lehman Brothers）破产后，世界上许多最大的银行都担心房地产泡沫的破裂会暴露风险贷款投资的风险。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Twenty years ago, the Urban Land Institute defined the two types of cities that dominated the US landscape: smaller cities that operated around standard 9-5 business hours and large metropolitan areas that ran all 24 hours of the day.

20年前，城市土地研究所（Urban Land Institute）定义了主导美国景观的两类城市：大约9-5个工作小时的小城市和全天24小时运行的大城市。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的Liqa Raschid Sally说，废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级"There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers," said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

领导这项研究的liqa Raschid Sally说：“废水农业在帮助和伤害大量城市消费者方面有很大的潜力。”。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture lead by international corporations.

这是一种不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业限制的方法。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

四级As far as sunken planes go, this airbus A0 is the largest intentionally sunk aircraft ever.

就沉没飞机而言，这架空中客车A0是有史以来最大的故意沉没飞机。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

四级The world's largest aircraft has taken to the skies for the first time.

世界上最大的飞机首次升空。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

高考Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the java dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.

一篮篮完美的红色草莓，爪哇豆咖啡车红色的侧面；最重要的是西红柿：惊人的，大的，柔软的，圆形的红色西红柿。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Because unabridged dictionaries contain nearly all English words, they are large and heavy.

因为未删节的词典包含几乎所有的英语单词，所以它们又大又重。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 任务型读写 原文

六级But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

但在过去的几年里，尤其是在这一年中，我们开始看到公司从最大的屏幕尺寸、最小的外形尺寸或最亮的物体，转向所有这些设备在消费者生活中实用的功能。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

地中海地区气候温暖，阳光充足，几乎全年都有大量新鲜水果和蔬菜供应，人们每天要吃很多次。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级We can see this in almost every large city worldwide.

我们可以在世界上几乎每一个大城市看到这一点。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

然而，尽管全世界已有20亿人在饮食中添加昆虫，但消费者的厌恶感在许多西方国家仍然是一大障碍。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

四级Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior.

机器人还可以从关于人类行为的大量数据中绘制图案来学习价值。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

此外，大量公共资金用于道路建设。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级And although you don't read about this much, the United States is also a large exporter of oil products, selling about 2 million barrels of petroleum products per day to about 90 countries.

虽然你不怎么了解，但美国也是一个石油产品出口大国，每天向大约90个国家出售约200万桶石油产品。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy's, Target; and Nordstrom's dropped.

在大型传统零售商中，沃尔玛最近公布的业绩最好，导致其股价飙升，而梅西百货则是Target；诺德斯特罗姆也掉了下来。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults.

2009年4月底，当墨西哥当局注意到健康成年人中异常大量的住院和死亡时，疫情引起了全球关注。

2010年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考It costs a large amount of money.

这要花一大笔钱。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

高考Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

研究人员发现了少量的脂肪，以及大量的石头和残存的小路。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

高考Something rare is worth a large amount of money.

稀罕的东西值一大笔钱。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

高考These animals consumed large amounts of vegetation, which reduced plant diversity in the park.

这些动物消耗了大量的植被，降低了公园的植物多样性。

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants.

今天，学者们对餐馆进行了大量有益的研究。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens.

第二大公共资金用于教育和培训我们的公民。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste.

此外，这一数字并没有反映出大量土地、能源、化肥和水也在食品生产过程中流失的事实，而这些食品最终只是作为废物。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

另一个令人担忧的问题是，使用电子支付手段会留下包含大量个人数据的电子痕迹。

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考And Britain is by far the largest importer of tea in the world.

英国是世界上最大的茶叶进口国。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

考研Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

这类食品服务运营商的范围从快餐机到大型机构餐饮企业，但这些企业中的大多数在业内被称为“horeca”：酒店、餐厅和咖啡馆。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

欧洲最大市场的食品和饮料零售处于停滞状态，使得欧洲食品杂货零售商渴望获得增长机会。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研However, none of these requirements should deter large retailers ( ' , and even some large food producers and existing wholesalers) from trying their hand, for those that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe stand to reap considerable gains.

然而，所有这些要求都不应阻止大型零售商（甚至一些大型食品生产商和现有批发商）尝试，因为那些掌握欧洲批发商复杂性的人将获得可观的收益。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

需求主要来自两个来源：独立的夫妻食品杂货店，与大型零售连锁店不同，它们太小，无法直接从生产商那里购买；以及食品服务运营商，它们在消费者不在家吃饭的情况下为他们提供服务。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考The first unique human characteristic is that humans have extraordinarily large brains compared with other animals.

人类的第一个独特特征是，与其他动物相比，人类的大脑特别大。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

六级"We want to improve the quality of animal health and make it easier for farmers to maintain large landscapes where animals roam free," says Sukkarieh.

Sukkarieh说：“我们希望提高动物健康的质量，让农民更容易维护动物自由活动的大型景观。”。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the principles of pasture management.

通过定期的区域教育会议、大型年会、个人农场参观和数千个电话，安伯格夫妇传递牧场管理的原则。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧 一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

2015年另一个看起来很重要的趋势是美国最大的人口群体千禧一代（“，千禧 一代), 将继续推迟买房。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Werbach gives the example of several Disneyland hotels in Anaheim, California, which used large digital leaderboards to display how efficiently laundry workers were working compared to one another.

Werbach举了加利福尼亚州阿纳海姆的几家迪斯尼乐园酒店为例，这些酒店使用大型数字排行榜来显示洗衣工人之间的工作效率。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, millennials, will continue to put off buying a house.

2015年的另一个重要趋势是，美国最大的人口群体千禧一代将继续推迟买房。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考There are an extremely large number of ants worldwide.

全世界有数量极其庞大的蚂蚁。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

与此同时，随着经济衰退越来越严重，人们越来越焦虑。

2010年考研阅读原文

四级Textbook publisher Pearson is the largest publisher—of any kind—in the world.

教科书出版商皮尔逊是世界上最大的出版商。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The big questions are which, if any, of the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shoppi

最大的问题是，如果有的话，十年或二十年后哪些大型传统零售商仍将出现，因为他们已经成功地改造了自己，哪些新的零售商将在主要街道甚至shoppi经营繁忙的商店

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级In recent years, a growing body of research has shown that our appetite and food intake are influenced by a large number of factors besides our biological need for energy, including our eating environment and our perception of the food in front of us.

近年来，越来越多的研究表明，除了我们对能量的生理需求外，我们的食欲和食物摄入还受到许多因素的影响，包括我们的饮食环境和我们对面前食物的感知。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

鲁宾诺夫说：“如果我们能够帮助学生进入更多的此类校园，帮助学生理解这些校园是现实的、方便的场所，让他们更频繁地申请这些学校，并最终入学，我们将提高成功率。”，列举了从大型国立机构到小型私立学校的各种学院。

2015年12月阅读原文

高考Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

追踪北极熊种群的现代方法仅在20世纪80年代中期才开始使用，而且在大面积范围内持续进行的成本很高。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 原文

高考Most radio stations settled in the large villas in the leafy areas of the town.

大多数广播电台都设在该镇绿叶茂盛地区的大别墅里。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Tall poles, placed in large training areas, teach the birds to stay clear of electrical lines by giving them a painful but undeadly electric shock.

在大型训练区放置的高杆子，通过给鸟儿一次痛苦但不必要的电击，教导它们远离电线。

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级When the body realizes the muscles are hurt, the response is to increase blood flow to the area and increase body heat, damaged cells are then cleaned up and the body sends cells specially designed to break down the large muscle fiber fragments.

当身体意识到肌肉受伤时，反应是增加流向该区域的血液流量，增加体温，然后清除受损细胞，身体发送专门设计的细胞，以分解大块肌肉纤维碎片。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Tom, one of the things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town.

汤姆，游客们注意到的关于哈罗盖特的一件事就是在市中心有一大片开阔的公园。

2012年6月听力原文

六级There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas

像格林维尔这样的小镇上没有多少暴力犯罪，或者至少没有大城市地区那么多

2011年6月听力原文

考研How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.

当地面上看不见任何东西时，考古学家如何知道在哪里找到他们正在寻找的东西？通常，他们会对大片地形进行调查和取样（'），进行测试挖掘，以确定挖掘将产生有用信息的位置。

2014年考研阅读原文

六级Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty.

他认为，不平等是危险的，不仅因为贫富差距过大看起来不太好，而且因为不平等本身破坏了向上流动性，使穷人更难摆脱贫困。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级But this is a real-life argument before a Supreme Court that has a well-earned reputation for looking out for the interests of large corporations

但这是最高法院在现实生活中的一场辩论。最高法院因关注大公司的利益而享有盛誉

2013年12月阅读原文

四级So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.

太平洋如此之大，覆盖了地球表面的30%，其变暖所产生的特定能量足以引发全球一系列天气变化。

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

考研At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.

在公元600年左右的鼎盛时期，这座城市是世界上最大的人类住区之一。

2014年考研阅读原文

高考The early morning sees the arrival of large trucks with tomatoes—official fight-starters get things going by casting tomatoes at the crowd.

清晨，满载西红柿的大卡车驶来。正式的战斗开始者通过向人群投掷西红柿来推动战斗。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, "the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

当她抬头看着她生命中的三个新人类——小的、中的和大的——时，她算了算，“中等的那个是群体中的吸盘。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

随着地下水位下降和灌溉井干涸，中国作为世界上最大的小麦作物，自1997年达到1.23亿吨的峰值以来，已经下降了8%。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级By and large, these are very nice kids, and as the band The Who used to sing, The kids are alright.

总的来说，这些都是非常好的孩子，作为乐队的成员，他们过去唱歌，孩子们都很好。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Perhaps most significant, according to Mannaz, is the increasing interest large companies have in more collaborative management models, such as those prevalent in Scandinavia, which seek to integrate the hard and soft aspects of leadership and encourage delegated responsibility and accountability.

Mannaz认为，也许最重要的是大公司对更具协作性的管理模式越来越感兴趣，比如斯堪的纳维亚半岛的管理模式，这种模式寻求整合领导力的硬方面和软方面，并鼓励授权责任和问责制。

2011年6月阅读原文

四级Large companies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new businesses.

大公司很难进入新市场，因为存在将现有资产投入新业务的诱惑。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

在农业方面(",，农业的 ), 前工业化时期的欧洲，你想早起，开始与日出工作，休息一下，吃最大的饭菜，然后你回去工作，太平洋大学历史教授Ken Albala说。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考They are completely fearless and will readily take on a creature much larger than themselves, attacking in large groups and overcoming their target.

他们完全无所畏惧，会轻易地对付比自己大得多的生物，成群结队地攻击并战胜目标。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考It attracted a large number of visitors.

它吸引了大量的游客。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

高考The concert was broadcast live and attracted the largest one night audience in the history of television up to that time.

音乐会现场直播，吸引了当时电视史上最多的一夜观众。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatina—the world's largest food fight.

每年8月的最后一个星期三，西班牙的布诺镇都会举办世界上规模最大的食品大战。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级MegaFace's creators say it's the largest publicly available facial-recognition dataset out there.

MegaFace的创建者说，这是目前最大的公开人脸识别数据集。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级The reason for constructing the buildings from wood is probably that ideally proportioned straight and slender timber was available in large quantities in Scandinavia's vast pine forests.

用木材建造这些建筑的原因可能是斯堪的纳维亚广阔的松林中有大量比例理想的笔直细长木材。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck.

平均而言，这两百万块巨石的重量相当于一辆大型皮卡车。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文