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

六级The notion of space tourism took hold in 2001 with a $20 million flight aboard a Russian spacecraft by Dennis Tito, a millionaire engineer with an adventurous streak.

2001年，丹尼斯·蒂托（Dennis Tito）乘坐一艘俄罗斯宇宙飞船，耗资2000万美元，成为一名富有冒险精神的百万富翁工程师，太空旅游的概念开始深入人心。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.

野生胡萝卜大概在3.6亿年前和其他开花植物一起进化而来。

2017年6月听力原文

四级It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

它生产大约200万吨盐，运往美国东北部1500多个地方。

2016年12月听力原文

六级About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

大约1.838亿人将在感恩节后的第一个星期一“网络星期一”购物。

2017年6月听力原文

六级About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

大约1.36亿人将在感恩节周末购物。

2017年6月听力原文

六级Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

麦格纳，一家广告公司，估计它今年将价值约1.38亿美元。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

如果一切进展如此顺利，那么为什么1700多万人投票支持英国脱欧，尽管有人警告说脱欧会对英国的经济前景造成什么影响？。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研Between 1908 and 1915, about 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed.

1908年至1915年间，约700万人抵达，约200万人离开。

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Yet he also empowered millions of people by giving them access to cutting-edge technology.

然而，他也通过让数百万人获得尖端技术而赋予他们权力。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

一些社区已经同意共享在线遗传学家，例如，在GenBank存储库（“，库), 天文学家习惯于从斯隆数字巡天望远镜（Sloan Digital Sky Survey）获取星系和恒星的图像。斯隆数字巡天望远镜已观测到约5亿个天体，但这些仍然是例外，而不是规则。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

为了获得数以百万计的新客户，保险公司将有强烈的动机在交易所进行销售。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级It's a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time.

这是一个复杂的系统，其中数据被复制到多个中间设备，通常是为了在数百万人试图同时访问服务时加快对文件的访问。

2010年12月听力原文

六级And about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can't control their own fertility.

大约有2亿到2.15亿妇女无法获得她们想要的节育手段，因此她们无法控制自己的生育能力。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

从故意破坏物品的小案件到更严重的犯罪案件,，比如酒后驾车的车祸或银行抢劫案，但弗洛伦斯必须报告所有这些违规行为，从从从宿舍每个开锁的房间拿走打字机的小偷到从大学博物馆偷走价值100万美元艺术品的小偷。

2011年6月听力原文

六级Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关 的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.

每年有近220万人死于与腹泻有关的疾病，与腹泻相关 的) 根据世卫组织的统计，疾病。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

面对水资源短缺和化肥成本不断上升，发展中国家的农民正在使用未经处理的污水（“，下 水道污水) 根据一份新的报告，灌溉和施肥近4900万英亩的农田，这可能不是一件坏事。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

今年年初，居住在意大利的外国人达到456万，占意大利总人口6060万的7.5%，移民子女在意大利出生人口中所占比例越来越大。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

2015年有600万名患者，这是基于一项模糊的协议，该协议对患者的权利及其对隐私的期望考虑得太少。

2018年考研阅读原文

六级Algorithms that were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when confronted with 1 million images.

例如，在处理13000个图像数据库时，95%正确的算法在处理100万个图像时，准确率约为70%。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.

它正在污染数百万英亩的农田。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.

该公司的自动驾驶汽车在美国各州行驶了100多万英里，迄今为止只报告了轻微事故。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级Esperanto is used internationally across language boundaries by at least 1 million people, particularly in specialized fields.

世界语在国际上被至少100万人跨语言使用，特别是在专业领域。

2010年6月听力原文

六级It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

这是一个严峻的现实，你可以有一个人每年只赚13000美元左右，而在整个城市另一个人却赚了数百万美元。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Other efforts to increase the use of electric vehicles include plans to build over 1 million hybrid and electric car battery charging stations across the country.

增加电动汽车使用的其他努力包括计划在全国建立100多万个混合动力和电动汽车电池充电站。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

四级On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

在需求方面，这些趋势包括每年增加7000多万人，越来越多的人希望进入食物链，消费-72-高谷物密集型肉制品，以及大规模转移（“，转向) 将美国粮食用于生产生物燃料。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion of U.S. grain to t

在需求方面，这些趋势包括每年增加7000多万人，越来越多的人希望进入食物链，消费高度粮食密集型的肉制品，以及美国粮食大量转移到美国

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级It is reported that 49 million Americans are unsure of where they will find their next meal What's most surprising is that 36% of them live in households where at least one adult is working.

据报道，4900万美国人不确定下一顿饭在哪里吃。最令人惊讶的是，其中36%的人生活在至少有一名成年人在工作的家庭中。

2012年6月阅读原文

高考But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

但人类在整整200万年的时间里享受着所有这些优势，在此期间，他们仍然是弱小的边缘生物。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

六级The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

新技术的出现使原油市场每天增加约420万桶，导致全球供应过剩。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级millions of bees have died in South Carolina during aerial insect-spraying operations that were carried out to combat the Zika virus.

在南卡罗来纳州，为抗击寨卡病毒而进行的空中昆虫喷洒行动导致数百万蜜蜂死亡。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change.

报告说，除了死亡人数外，气候变化还严重影响着3.25亿人的生活，这些人主要生活在穷国。

2011年6月阅读原文

高考After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

在投资100多万美元重建大楼后，我们于2008年开始制作一整季的戏剧表演、爵士音乐会和全年艺术教育节目。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

四级Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

早在6月份，美国联邦通信委员会就对AT&T公司处以1亿美元的罚款，理由是该公司在客户消费了一定数量的数据后秘密降低了无线速度。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

高考Wang collected more than 7 million abandoned bricks of different ages.

王收集了700多万块不同年代的废弃砖块。

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

该机构在最新的全球就业趋势报告中说，预计今年的失业人数将从2.1亿人到近2.4亿人不等。

2016年6月听力原文

考研The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone，with no intrusion on green belt.

伦敦特工斯特林·阿克罗伊德（Stirling Ackroyd）最近发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地可容纳50万套房屋，而不会影响绿化带。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考Some language experts believe that 10000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 1200 languages between them.

一些语言专家认为，一万年前，当世界上只有五百万到一千万人口时，他们之间可能会说1200种语言。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Thus humans who lived a million years ago, despite their big brains and sharp stone tools, lived in constant fear of meat-eating animals.

因此，生活在一百万年前的人类，尽管他们有着巨大的大脑和锋利的石器，却一直生活在对肉食动物的恐惧之中。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

四级The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

50年前启动的联邦领先计划已经为3000多万儿童提供了服务。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

而事实是，自从70年前青霉素（最早的抗生素之一）首次在临床上使用以来，抗生素就已经拯救了数百万人的生命。

2017年6月听力原文

六级We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

我们可以从化石记录中做出一个很好的估计，人类大概在一百五十万年前进化出了裸露的皮肤，而与此同时，他们大部分都失去了皮毛。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

高考The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

中国农业部发现，从2005年政府开始土壤测试计划，向农民提供具体的肥料建议到2011年，化肥使用量下降了770万吨。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

四级In order to go ahead with this idea, we need 2 million dollars.

为了实施这个想法，我们需要200万美元。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

六级Even in June of 2007, when the economy was still moving ahead, job growth was only 132,000, while turnover was 4.7 million!

即使在2007年6月，当经济仍在向前发展时，就业增长只有13.2万，而营业额为470万！

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级millions die early from air pollution each year.

每年有数百万人死于空气污染。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级5 million people died prematurely from outdoor air pollution in 2015.

2015年有500万人因室外空气污染而过早死亡。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

四级The aircraft cost 25 million pounds and can carry heavier loads than huge jet planes while also producing less noise and emitting less pollution.

这架飞机耗资2500万英镑，可以承载比大型喷气式飞机更重的载荷，同时产生更少的噪音和排放更少的污染。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

高考A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

一个和我一起玩了数百万次的邻居女孩出现了，她那闪亮的新自行车上挂着一个完全一样的篮子，上面已经有了所有的铃铛和口哨。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

去年，尽管美国3500所大学遇到了种种麻烦，但仍有来自193个国家的50多万学生涌入。

2015年12月听力原文

考研As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

截至2005年，有近50万来自世界各个领域的专业社会科学家在学术界内外工作。

2013年考研阅读原文

六级In the US, the House of Representatives Science Committee has approved a bill allocating $10 million a year to studying energy-related behaviour.

在美国，众议院科学委员会批准了一项法案，每年拨款1000万美元用于研究能源相关行为。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研This allows the TSA wants to enroll 25 million people in PreCheck.

这使得TSA希望在PreCheck中注册2500万人。

2017年考研阅读原文

高考Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

其中近一半被填埋，多达1200万吨污染海洋。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.

几乎每个州都有数百万口灌溉井大大降低了地下水位。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考In the United States alone, over 100 million cell-phones are thrown away each year.

仅在美国，每年就有超过1亿部手机被丢弃。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级million of them in 2012 alone.

仅2012年就有100万人。

2013年12月阅读原文

四级If current trends continue, then by 2050 there will be more than a million in the, US alone.

如果目前的趋势继续下去，那么到2050年，仅美国就将超过100万。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级In the UK alone, there are around 30 million cars.

仅在英国，就有大约3000万辆汽车。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer from the illness.

仅美国就有近900万人患有这种疾病。

2013年6月听力原文

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

考研The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

伦敦特工斯特林·阿克罗伊德（Stirling Ackroyd）最近发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地可容纳50万套房屋，而不会影响绿化带。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change

报告说，除了死亡人数外，气候变化还严重影响着3.25亿人的生活，这些人主要生活在穷国

2011年6月阅读原文

六级BSkyB, Britain's biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with interactive ads.

英国天空广播公司，英国最大的卫星电视服务公司，已经为900万客户提供互动广告。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Such prox1fgrams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.

当然，这样的项目可能会很昂贵，但与已经为那些没有特殊支持几乎没有机会毕业的孩子投资的数百万奖学金和助学金相比，成本很低。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级By 1500 some 20 million volumes had already been printed.

到1500年，已经印刷了大约2000万册。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

四级About a million bottles are bought every minute, not only by thirsty tourists but also by many of the 2.1 billion worldwide who live with unsafe drinking water.

每分钟大约有100万瓶水被购买，不仅是口渴的游客，而且全世界21亿生活在不安全饮用水中的许多人也购买。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

四级For example, even with significantinvestments, such as the $93 million for wind energy development included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources such as wind and bio-fuels comprise only about 1% of the market today

例如，即使有重大投资，如《美国复苏和再投资法案》中包含的9300万美元风能开发，重要的替代能源，如风能和生物燃料，也只占当今市场的1%左右

2011年12月阅读原文

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

高考The bone structure of our ancestors developed for millions of years to support a creature that walked on all fours and has a relatively small head.

我们祖先的骨骼结构发展了数百万年，以支持一种四肢行走、头部相对较小的生物。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

高考Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

对于100多万最有资格的农场工人和管理者来说，另一个挑战是一条不存在的公民之路。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

在另一个案例中，美国考古学家雷内·百万（Rene Million）和乔治·考吉尔（George Cowgill）花了数年时间系统地绘制了墨西哥山谷中的整个特奥蒂瓦坎（Teotihuacan）城市的地图，该城市靠近现在的墨西哥城。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级The insect-spraying over the weekend left more than 2 million bees dead on the spot in Dorchester County, South Carolina, where four travel-related cases of zika disease have been confirmed in the area.

上周末在南卡罗来纳州多尔切斯特县喷洒的昆虫导致200多万只蜜蜂当场死亡，该地区已确认4例与旅行有关的寨卡病病例。

2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级There are currently around 155, 000 registered hybrid and electric vehicles on German roads, dwarfed by the million gasoline and diesel cars driving there now.

目前，德国公路上大约有155000辆注册的混合动力和电动汽车，与目前在德国行驶的数百万辆汽油和柴油汽车相比相形见绌。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

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For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.

例如，联合国儿童基金会估计，由于厄尔尼诺现象最严重，非洲约有1100万儿童面临饥饿、疾病和水资源短缺，厄尔尼诺) 几十年来的天气现象。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Tell the person you're sorry and explain that you have a million things to do and then ask if the two of you can talk at a different time.

告诉对方你很抱歉，并向他解释你有很多事情要做，然后询问你们是否可以在不同的时间交谈。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考Frogs living near brightly lit highways suffer nocturnal light levels that are as much as a million times brighter than normal, throwing nearly every aspect of their behavior out of joint, including their nighttime breeding choruses.

生活在灯火通明的高速公路附近的青蛙夜间的亮度比正常情况高出一百万倍，几乎使它们行为的各个方面都失去了协调，包括它们夜间繁殖的合唱。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Human control of fire goes back far enough (over a million years) that evolution could have produced a genetic leaning towards fire as a central aspect of human life.

人类对火的控制可以追溯到足够远的地方（超过一百万年），进化可能产生了一种倾向于火的基因，将火作为人类生活的一个中心方面。

2014年6月阅读原文

四级The American Trucking Association lists approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the U.S.

美国卡车协会列出了美国大约350万名职业卡车司机。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

报告警告说，在过去三年中，2亿贫困工人有可能加入每天生活费不足两美元的行列。

2016年6月听力原文

考研The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

化石记录显示，许多物种已经生存了数百万年——那么为什么我们不应该呢？从更广泛的角度来看我们物种在宇宙中的位置，很明显我们有很好的机会生存几十年，甚至几百年，甚至几千年。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级There are close to one million nerve fibres that connect the eyeball to the brain, as of yet it is impossible to attach them all in a new person.

有将近一百万条神经纤维将眼球和大脑连接起来，到目前为止，还不可能将它们全部连接到一个新人身上。

2011年6月听力原文

高考Sports team owners spend millions of dollars attracting top talent.

运动队老板花费数百万美元吸引顶尖人才。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide.

截至2007年8月，瑞典家具连锁店宜家在全球售出了100多万个厨房。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级million people who wanted and were available for work hadn't looked within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed

在过去的四周内，数百万想要工作并能找到工作的人没有找工作，甚至不再被列为失业者

2012年12月阅读原文

六级The music service This Is My Jam helps people navigate the tens of millions of tracks now available instantly via Spotify and iTunes.

音乐服务This Is My Jam帮助人们浏览现在通过Spotify和iTunes即时提供的数千万首曲目。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those initial doses were of the Flumist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, hear

2009年10月初将提供300多万剂，尽管这些初始剂量中的大多数是Flumist鼻喷雾剂类型，不建议孕妇、50岁以上的人或呼吸困难的人使用

2010年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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

六级Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

根据一份新的报告，面对水资源短缺和化肥成本上升，发展中国家的农民正在使用未经处理的污水灌溉和施肥近4900万英亩的农田，这可能不是一件坏事。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply.

每天向原油市场供应200万桶，导致全球供应过剩。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one month's supply.

储存在路易斯安那州地下的大型盐穴中，这一储备被称为战略石油储备，目前拥有6亿多桶石油，大致相当于一个月的供应量。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

据估计，极端天气条件已危及数百万非洲儿童的生命。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Was it because of the growing attraction of the Internet, video games and endless TV channels? Never disconnecting from work? No matter how it happened, millions of Americans are putting their health, quality of life and even length of life in danger.

是因为互联网、视频游戏和无穷无尽的电视频道的吸引力越来越大吗？永远不要脱离工作？不管发生了什么，数百万美国人正在把他们的健康、生活质量甚至生命长度置于危险之中。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related diseases, according to WHO statistics.

据世卫组织统计，每年有近220万人死于腹泻相关疾病。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.

它已成为世界上阅读量最大的杂志，每月以17种语言和41种不同版本售出2800万份。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

这家零售巨头表示，今年糟糕的财务表现促使其开始实施4亿美元的成本削减措施。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

这些小生物以无私奉献的方式在地球上生存了超过1.4亿年，比恐龙的生存时间要长得多。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.

事实证明，即使在就业增长接近于零的今天，每月仍有400多万求职者被雇佣。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

这只占可能受益的总面积的一小部分，总共约50万英亩，因此，将火灾或干旱风险最大的地区优先考虑是至关重要的。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ