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

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

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

四级Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.

那些居住环境更自然的人表现出19%的改善；那些在物质环境方面有同样改善，但风景不好的人只改善了4%。

2010年12月阅读原文

考研Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

即使在广泛使用的社交媒体出现之后，仍然存在一个金字塔式的生产，只有少数人上传材料，一个稍大的群体评论或修改该内容，还有很大一部分剩余内容可供消费。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级Surfing the Internet during class doesn't just steal focus from the educator; it also hurts students who're already struggling to grasp the material.

在课堂上上网不仅仅是从教育者那里窃取注意力；这也伤害了已经在努力掌握材料的学生。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读

考研The strategy also aims to ensure that carbon in woody material removed from the forests is locked away in the form of solid lumber or burned as biofuel in vehicles that would otherwise run on fossil fuels.

该战略还旨在确保从森林中移除的木质材料中的碳以固体木材的形式被锁定，或作为生物燃料在原本使用化石燃料的车辆中燃烧。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级As I was suffering through my week of anxiety, overthinking the material and guessing my grasp of it, I did some of my own polling among students and professors.

在我焦虑不安的一周里，我过度思考材料，猜测自己对材料的掌握，我自己在学生和教授中做了一些民意调查。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

有更多的资料可用，这意味着你可能会被大量的信息淹没。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 短文填空 原文

高考If you are arriving from overseas, bring no food, animal or plant material into the country.

如果您是从海外抵达，请不要携带食品、动物或植物材料入境。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Another team at Nagoya University in Japan has tested calcium compound as an energy storage material.

日本名古屋大学的另一个研究小组测试了钙化合物作为一种储能材料。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

人类的独特之处在于，他们不仅能够制造工具，而且能够转身利用工具创造多余的物质产品——绘画、雕塑和建筑——以及多余的体验——音乐、文学、宗教和哲学。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods—paintings, sculpture and architecture—and superfluous experiences—music, literature, religion and philosophy.

人类的独特之处在于，他们不仅能够制造工具，而且能够转身使用工具来创造多余的物质商品——绘画、雕塑、建筑和多余的体验——音乐、文学、宗教和哲学。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Rather, it's better to let the learners wrestle (较劲）with the material on their own for a while, refraining from giving them any assistance at the start.

相反，最好让学习者摔跤(较劲）有一段时间，他们自己处理这些材料，一开始不给他们任何帮助。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

相反，我们将测试的意义归因于我们可能称之为文本和上下文材料之间的相互作用：我们在文本的形式结构（尤其是其语言结构）中感知的各种组织或模式与各种背景、社会知识，我们对文本的信念和态度。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研Such background material inevitably reflects who we are.

这些背景材料不可避免地反映了我们是谁。

2015年考研阅读原文

高考Material thing from me and left me torn bare, an empty page at the end of a partly written book.

从我身上拿走了一件重要的东西，留下我撕破的光秃秃的，在一本半写半写的书的末尾有一页空白。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

六级Unfortunately, pieces of science journalism can also oversimplify and generalize their subject material to the point that the basic information conveyed is obscured or at worst, obviously wrong.

不幸的是，科学新闻也可能过分简化和概括其主题材料，以至于所传达的基本信息模糊不清，或者在最坏的情况下，显然是错误的。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研Even better would be to help elevate notions of beauty beyond the material standards of a particular industry.

更好的办法是帮助提升美的概念，使之超越特定行业的物质标准。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考Second, if other factors such as technology remain constant, economic growth and material expectations will fall well below recent standards and this could invite trouble.

其次，如果技术等其他因素保持不变，经济增长和物质预期将远低于近期标准，这可能会带来麻烦。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文

高考Every time light moves into a material with a new speed, it bends and scatters.

每次光线以新的速度进入材质时，都会发生弯曲和散射。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考That they could get material benefits from her never entered their minds.

他们从未想过他们可以从她那里得到物质利益。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级It can be hard to identify which parcels are carrying crucial items such as Social Security checks, but USPS and UPS try their best to prioritize sensitive material.

很难确定哪些包裹携带着社会安全检查等重要物品，但USPS和UPS会尽最大努力优先处理敏感物品。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

考研The fashion industry knows it has an inherent problem in focusing on material adornment and idealized body types.

时尚界知道，关注材料装饰和理想化的体型是一个固有的问题。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考So hoof on over to an office hour and have some one-on-one face time with someone who'll help you master the material and improve your grade, to boot.

所以，到办公室去走走，和一个能帮你掌握材料、提高成绩的人进行一对一的面对面交流。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

高考Others build a large, clear mass of non-living jelly-lie material and spread themselves over it.

其他人则用大量无生命的果冻材料建造一个大而清晰的体量，并在上面铺开。

2015年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级So now, the main challenge was to find the right material for printing clothes with, I mean the material you feed the printer with.

所以现在，主要的挑战是找到合适的材料来打印衣服，我的意思是你给打印机提供的材料。

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level.

但现在许多研究发现，当课堂材料变得更难吸收时，学生会长期保留更多的课堂材料，并在更深层次上理解课堂材料。

2013年12月阅读原文

高考Ground water evaporates and collects on the sheet until small drops of water form, run down the material and fall off into the cup.

地下水蒸发并聚集在板材上，直到形成小水滴，顺着材料流下并落入杯中。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Creating products out of raw materials creates much more waste material, up to 100 times more, than the material contained in the finished products.

用原材料制造产品会产生比成品中所含材料多得多的废料，高达100倍。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Correct! A hundred percent of our raw material comes from Romania.

对的我们百分之百的原材料来自罗马尼亚。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研Here was the raw material of houses and furniture, ships and potash, dyes and naval stores.

这里曾是房屋和家具、船只和钾盐、染料和海军仓库的原材料。

2015年考研翻译原文

六级This means minors enjoy material benefits and legal protections that would have been the envy of those living in the past.

这意味着未成年人可以享受到物质利益和法律保护，而这正是那些生活在过去的人所羡慕的。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级In fact, the slugs use the genetic material so well that they pass it on to their future generations.

事实上，蛞蝓很好地利用了这种遗传物质，它们将其遗传给了后代。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研Yet satisfaction with these material purchases wears off fairly quickly.

然而，对这些物质购买的满意程度很快就会消退。

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Finally, other people may give us instrumental support—financial aid, material resources, and needed services—that reduces stress by helping us resolve and cope with our problems.

最后，其他人可能会给我们工具性的支持——财政援助、物质资源和所需的服务——通过帮助我们解决和应对问题来减轻压力。

2000年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.

回收还通过创造就业机会刺激当地经济，并通过提供更精细的原材料来削减生产回收产品的行业的污染控制和能源成本。

2001年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In the study, teachers were not told the amount of sleep students received when completing weekly performance reports, yet they rated the students who had received eight hours or less as having the most trouble recalling all the material, learning new lessons and completing high-quality work.

在这项研究中，老师们没有被告知学生在完成每周表现报告时的睡眠时间，但他们认为睡眠时间不超过8小时的学生在回忆所有材料、学习新课程和完成高质量工作方面最困难。

2006年12月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级This week Wal-Mart is set to announce a major initiative aimed at helping cotton farmers go organic: it will buy transitional(过渡型的) cotton at higher prices , thus helping to expand the supply of a key sustainable material .

本周，沃尔玛将宣布一项旨在帮助棉农实现有机化的重大举措：将购买过渡性产品(过渡型的) 棉花价格上涨，从而有助于扩大一种关键的可持续材料的供应。

2009年6月英语四级考试真题

四级When new or difficult material is presented, almost all listeners are faced with a challenge because human speech lacks the stability and permanence of the printed word.

当出现新的或困难的材料时，几乎所有的听众都面临着挑战，因为人类的语言缺乏印刷单词的稳定性和持久性。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

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

“如果你理解材料并有能力表达(说出) 你的思想，它们应该是微风。

2017年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级Researchers have found that students who sign up to tutor others work harder to understand the material, recall it more accurately and apply it more effectively.

研究人员发现，报名辅导他人的学生更努力地理解材料，更准确地回忆材料，并更有效地应用材料。

2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)

四级In fact, the slugs use the genetic material so well that they pass it on to their future generations .

事实上，蛞蝓很好地利用了遗传物质，从而将其遗传给了后代。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级Robert Stickgold, one of the Harvard researchers, suggests that studying right before bedtime or taking a nap following a study session in the afternoon might increase the odds of dreaming about the material.

哈佛大学的研究人员之一Robert Stickgold认为，睡前学习或下午学习后小睡会增加做梦的几率。

2020年7月大学英语四级真题

考研A mineral is a material that is mined, not grown.

矿物是开采而非种植的材料。

1984年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The capacity to use a raw material depends on various factors, such as means of access, methods of extraction, and techniques of processing.

使用原材料的能力取决于各种因素，如获取手段、提取方法和加工技术。

1984年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研In a material way they did not do badly either.

在物质方面，他们也做得不错。

1990年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air may enter the leaf as a gas but is dissolved in water in the leaf before it is combined with a part of the water to form simple sugars—the base material from which the plant body is mainly built.

来自空气的二氧化碳（CO2）可能以气体的形式进入叶片，但在与一部分水结合形成单糖之前，它会溶解在叶片中的水中，单糖是植物主体主要构建的基础材料。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of.

广告比我能想到的任何其他力量都更能为社区带来物质利益。

1995年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Practice (or review) tends to build and maintain memory for a task or for any learned material.

练习（或复习）倾向于建立和保持对任务或任何学习材料的记忆。

1995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

考研When a continental plate come to rest over a hot spot, the material rising from deeper layers creates a broad dome.

当大陆板块停在热点上时，从深层上升的物质会形成一个宽阔的圆顶。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Once you have a first draft on paper, you can delete material that is unrelated to your thesis and add material necessary to illustrate your points and make your paper convincing.

一旦你有了初稿，你可以删除与论文无关的材料，并添加必要的材料来说明你的观点，使你的论文具有说服力。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Many writers prudently store their data on disks and print their pages each time they finish a draft to avoid losing any material because of power failures or other problems.

许多作者谨慎地将数据存储在磁盘上，并在每次完成草稿时打印页面，以避免因电源故障或其他问题而丢失任何材料。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题