考研Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

这些花园似乎回应或产生的另一种冲动或需求是如此内在，以至于我们几乎从未意识到它对我们的持续要求。

2013年考研翻译原文

高考As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

她说，随着世界的扩大，孩子们在网上与他人进行比较的方式“在自我认同、自信和自我发展能力方面都具有巨大的破坏性”。

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

但安德森认为，看电视的时间与阅读能力无关。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office.

尤其是数字技术、电子邮件和智能手机大大提高了员工在传统办公室之外的工作效率。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

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

高考Part of this ability is that they can infer what others know or are thinking.

这种能力的一部分是他们可以推断出别人知道或在想什么。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考Regardless of your choice of course, you'll develop your language ability both quickly and effectively.

不管你选择什么课程，你都会快速有效地发展你的语言能力。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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Such a view, however, fails to explain the ability of some works of art to excite the human mind across cultures and through centuries.

然而，这种观点无法解释某些艺术作品在跨文化和跨世纪中激发人类思维的能力。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读E 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

四级The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

报告作者指出，美国未能投资基础设施不仅影响房地产市场的健康，也影响我们保持全球竞争力的能力。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

团队建设技能供不应求：德勤报告称，在他们接触的高管中，只有12%的人认为他们了解人际网络中的合作方式，只有21%的人对他们建立跨职能团队的能力充满信心。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

AAA汽车工程和维修部总经理约翰·尼尔森（John Nielsen）表示，测试表明驾驶员可能高估了自己的能力。

2017年6月听力原文

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They had negative views of effort, believing that having to work hard was a sign of low ability.

他们对努力持否定态度，认为必须努力工作是能力低下的表现。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级The author's experiment shows that students with a fixed mind-set believe having to work hard is an indication of low ability.

作者的实验表明，思维定势固定的学生认为必须努力学习是能力低下的表现。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Mistakes crack their self-confidence because they attribute errors to a lack of ability, which they feel powerless to change.

错误会打击他们的自信心，因为他们把错误归因于缺乏能力，而他们感到无力改变。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

特别是，将糟糕的表现归因于缺乏能力比认为缺乏努力更能抑制动机。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mindset said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

把一个坏的等级归因于他们自己的能力缺乏，那些有固定心态的人说他们将来会学习更少，试着不再去接受这个主题，并在将来的考试中考虑作弊。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

另一组无助的孩子仅仅因为他们在较容易的问题上取得了成功而得到奖励，但并没有提高他们解决数学难题的能力。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.

孩子能够深深地专注于某件事，并从中获得强烈的快乐，这是成年人余生都在努力恢复的能力。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级The ability to draw upon every available tool and insight—picked up from science, arts, and technology—to solve the problems of the future, and take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves, will be helpful to them and the United States

利用从科学、艺术和技术中获得的每一种可用工具和洞察力来解决未来问题的能力，以及利用当前机会的能力，将有助于他们和美国

2014年6月阅读原文

四级The importance of non-financial firms will accordingly rise, along with their ability to attract the best talent.

非金融企业的重要性将随之上升，它们吸引最佳人才的能力也将随之上升。

2013年6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The ability to sleep in one chunk (整块时间) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego

一块睡的能力(整块时间) 夜间睡眠随着年龄的增长而减少，但我们需要的睡眠量并没有改变，”Drummond博士在圣地亚哥举行的美国科学进步协会会议上说

2011年6月阅读原文

四级Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.

他们抵抗几乎任何灾难的能力使他们看起来像漫画书中的人物。

2010年6月阅读原文

四级Attributing a bad grade to their own lack of ability, those with a fixed mind-set said that they would study less in the future, try never to take that subject again and consider cheating on future tests.

把一个坏的等级归因于他们自己缺乏能力，那些头脑定型的人说他们将来会学习更少，试着再也不学那个科目，在将来的考试中考虑作弊。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross functional teams.

团队建设技能供不应求：德勤报告称，在他们接触的高管中，只有12%的人认为他们了解人际网络中的合作方式，只有21%的人对他们建立跨职能团队的能力充满信心。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

最新的《国家期刊》民意调查询问了受访者关于美国梦的情况，他们需要什么来实现自己的目标，以及他们是否觉得自己在很大程度上控制了自己的成功能力。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级The team found that exerciser educed the speed of rapid eye movements by about 8%, preventing their ability to capture new visual information.

研究小组发现，锻炼者使眼球快速运动的速度降低了约8%，阻止了他们捕捉新视觉信息的能力。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

四级What kind of ability do analytical skills refer to in the passage?

文章中的分析技能指的是什么样的能力？

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

认知衰退是指随着年龄的增长，学习新技能或回忆单词、姓名和面孔的能力的丧失。

2016年6月听力原文

六级The college students had cultivated the ability to ask questions, the cornerstone of critical thinking.

大学生培养了提出问题的能力，这是批判性思维的基石。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

全球经济也不能原谅识字、数学和科学能力日益薄弱的美国劳动力。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.

这条信息不是要让不良行为正常化，而是要将其边缘化，比如说，如果一个人再买一辆SUV，就会降低我们独立于能源的能力。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year college, an admissions committee was content to ask for a sample of applicants'chool papers to assess their writing ability

20世纪30年代，只有十分之一的美国人拥有四年制大学的学位，招生委员会满足于要求申请人提供一份学校论文样本，以评估他们的写作能力

2013年12月阅读原文

六级In the old days, applicants only had to submit a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability

在过去，申请者只需提交一份学校论文样本就可以显示他们的写作能力

2013年12月阅读原文

六级help employees make the best use of their abilities to achieve their career goals

帮助员工充分利用自己的能力实现职业目标

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life.

大量的工作、医院和教育，以及摆脱农民农业生活无聊的能力吸引着移民到城市。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级What we want to encourage in these students is an active intellectual experience, in which they develop the wide range of complex reasoning abilities required of good lawyers.

我们希望鼓励这些学生进行积极的智力体验，培养优秀律师所需的各种复杂推理能力。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Professor Robert Summers at Cornell Law School banned laptop computers from his thinks qualified lawyers need to possess a broad array of complex reasoning abilities

康奈尔大学法学院的罗伯特·萨默斯（Robert Summers）教授在他的著作中禁止使用笔记本电脑。他认为，合格的律师需要具备广泛的复杂推理能力

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The school keeps the money, but the kid leaves with loads of debt and no degree and no ability to get a better job

学校留着钱，但孩子离开时背负着沉重的债务，没有学位，也没有能力找到更好的工作

2011年6月阅读原文

六级At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities.

目前，选择候选人的标准相当狭窄，比如之前的学术和职业表现，以及分析和解决问题的能力。

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A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

一个科学小组正在研究11个半月大的儿童的思维能力。

2012年12月听力原文

六级They believe that the nerve endings in the left side of the brain develop faster in girls than in boys, and it is this side of the brain that strongly influences an individual's ability to use language and remember things

他们认为，女孩大脑左侧的神经末梢比男孩发育得更快，正是这一侧大脑强烈地影响着一个人使用语言和记忆事物的能力

2012年12月听力原文

六级A 2016 study found that users had a "consistently positive attitude" about the giraff robot's ability to enhance communication and decrease feelings of loneliness.

2016年的一项研究发现，用户对giraff机器人增强交流和减少孤独感的能力持“一贯积极的态度”。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级But, for most people, lying gets limited as we develop a sense of morality and the ability to self-regulate.

但是，对大多数人来说，随着我们道德感和自我调节能力的发展，撒谎变得有限。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

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However, they're more cautious about sharing information with nonmembers, as the organization guards against others developing the ability to hiJack and take control of their satellites.

然而，他们在与非成员共享信息时更为谨慎，因为该组织防范其他人发展劫持和控制其卫星的能力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.

皮亚杰认为，一旦青少年进入工作世界，他们新获得的形成假设的能力使他们能够创造出过于理想的表象。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级Psychologists call them "masters of deception", those rare individuals with a natural ability to tell, with complete confidence, when someone is telling a lie.

心理学家称他们为“欺骗大师”，当有人说谎时，这些人天生就有能力完全自信地说出谎言。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级So we evolve the ability to sweat plentifully and lost most of our fur.

因此，我们进化出大量出汗的能力，失去了大部分皮毛。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

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 big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

巨大的好处不仅在于容纳如此巨大且快速增长的数据量，还在于能够运行实时数据分析以提取可操作和持续的知识。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

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The very lack of a recovery period is dramatically holding back our collective ability to be resilient and successful.

正是由于缺乏一个恢复期，我们的集体恢复力和成功能力受到了极大的阻碍。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级When Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought chronically sleep-restricted people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed improvements in the ability of insulin to process

加州大学洛杉矶分校睡眠研究人员兼医学教授刘教授将长期睡眠受限的人带到实验室进行一个周末的睡眠，期间他们每晚记录大约10个小时的睡眠，结果显示胰岛素的处理能力有所提高

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

考研A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the forested future.

然而，缺乏正规教育并不限制发展中国家劳动力为森林覆盖的未来大幅提高生产力的能力。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

在人际影响基本原理的基础上，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响他人的能力及其受影响倾向相关的变量，研究了社会影响的动态。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

大型零售商必须了解这些差异，才能确定欧洲批发市场的哪些细分市场，在这些细分市场中，他们的特殊能力可能会击败规模较小但根深蒂固的竞争对手。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

为了鼓励创新和竞争，该报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对教师的资助，鼓励学者将他们的学习成果用于应对当今的巨大挑战。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

最近一项关于各国及其将增长转化为福祉的能力的年度研究揭示了这一问题。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future.

然而，缺乏正规教育并不限制发展中国家劳动力在可预见的未来大幅提高生产率的能力。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with trying situations involving your children.

一个更实际的目标是，在面对涉及孩子的艰难处境时，尽你最大的能力，尽量做到宽容和沉着。

2020年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

根据普林斯顿大学的研究，人们仅仅根据你的长相，在十分之一秒的时间内就可以评估你的能力、可信度和喜欢的能力。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

基于这一关于人际影响的基本事实，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响能力相关的许多变量，研究了社会影响的动态

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But a boost in the storage capacity of batteries is making their ability to keep power flowing around the clock more likely.

但是，电池存储容量的提高使其更可能24小时保持电力流动。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Even as we humans count on forests to soak up a good share of the carbon dioxide we produce, we are threatening their ability to do so.

即使我们人类指望森林吸收我们产生的大量二氧化碳，我们也在威胁他们这样做的能力。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研In a 2019 survey of University of Georgia students, meanwhile, the career office found the most desirable trait in a future employer was the ability to offer secure employment followed by professional development and training, and then inspiring purpose.

在对乔治亚大学学生进行的2019次调查中，职业办公室发现未来雇主最有希望的特质是提供稳定就业的能力，其次是专业发展和培训，然后是鼓舞人心的目的。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研In fact, the ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when confronted by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.

事实上，面对压力时，情绪调节或保持情绪控制的能力是所有生活技能中最重要的一项。

2020年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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

考研To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of "deep work"—the ability to focus without distraction.

为了克服过分强调忙碌的陷阱，《深度工作：分心世界中专注成功的规则》一书的作者卡尔·纽波特建议养成“深度工作”的习惯——不分心专注的能力。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

为了鼓励创新和竞争，报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对teac的资助

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考And the good morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, finn, 13.

这位《早安英国》节目主持人说，她能够在自己家里把学到的很多东西付诸实践，为14岁的山姆和13岁的芬恩的儿子们做饭。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考As the smallest child of his family, Alex is always longing for the time when he should be able to be independent.

作为家中最小的孩子，亚历克斯总是渴望自己能够独立的时间。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 单项填空 原文

高考But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

但他提供了几年的时间，在这几年里，农民们也许能够找到其他适应的方法。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考I was able to buy it a little over a year ago because I had my relatives give me money for my birthday instead of clothes that wouldn't fit.

一年多前，我买了它，因为我的亲戚给了我生日礼物，而不是不合身的衣服。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考If certain kinds begin to disappear from the ocean, Dutkiewicz said, it will change the type of fish that will be able to survive.

Dutkiewicz说，如果某些种类的鱼开始从海洋中消失，它将改变能够生存的鱼的种类。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Instead, computer users are developing stronger transactive memories; that is, people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.

相反，计算机用户正在开发更强的交互记忆；也就是说，人们正在学习如何组织大量信息，以便日后能够访问这些信息。

2015年高考英语安徽卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Many rock bands were able to follow in the footsteps of the beatles.

许多摇滚乐队能够追随披头士乐队的脚步。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her life as well.

她也能将她的新智慧转移到生活的其他方面。

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

高考Some 60, 000 novels were published during the victorian age, from 1837 to 1901; today a casual reader might be able to name a half-dozen of them.

从1837年到1901年，维多利亚时代出版了约6万部小说；今天，一个随便的读者也许能说出其中的六个。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

高考Students should be able to extend the logic of each to their particular circumstance.

学生应该能够将每种逻辑扩展到他们的特定情况。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考The professor doesn't remember the comments he or she wrote on your individual piece of work, though he or she will be able to recall them after just a brief glance at your work.

教授不记得他或她对你的个人作品所写的评论，尽管他或她只需简单地看一眼你的作品就能回忆起来。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

高考You will be able to take part in a number of activities from canoeing to wild camping on Dartmoor.

你将能够参加许多活动，从独木舟到达特摩尔野营。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级When you can quote a specific number like a fifth of the patients were able to quit, that's compelling.

当你可以引用一个具体的数字，比如五分之一的患者能够戒烟，这是令人信服的。

2017年6月阅读原文

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A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

只有极少数人能够记住他们生活中的几乎每一个细节。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级You are not really going to be able to understand all of the dimensions of this plan.

你不可能真正理解这个计划的所有方面。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级You are not going to be able to control the dimensions of this plan.

您将无法控制此平面的尺寸。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

真正批评的亲密本质意味着谁能够给予批评，也就是说，有人非常了解你，向你展示你的精神生活是如何阻碍优秀写作的。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

对我来说，这是我第一次，而且我只希望是，遇到了作家的阻碍——三年来我什么都没能创作出来。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级They'll be able to answer the questions of students who are in their class directly via the interactive book.

他们将能够通过互动书直接回答课堂上学生的问题。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $

此外，学生将能够购买课文的各个部分，而不是购买整个内容，每个章节的成本仅为$

2013年6月阅读原文

四级With culinary improvement in recent years, London's restaurants are now able to appeal to the tastes of

近年来，随着烹饪技术的进步，伦敦的餐馆现在能够迎合顾客的口味

2011年6月阅读原文

四级When submerged, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft.

当被淹没时，它们还能从20000英尺深处发出信号。

2010年6月阅读原文

四级According to a newly published study, cats seem to be able to predict the location of hiding prey (猎物) using both their ears and an inborn (天生的) understanding of how the physical world works.

根据一项新发表的研究，猫似乎能够预测隐藏猎物的位置(猎物) 用他们的耳朵和天生的(天生的) 理解物理世界是如何运作的。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级After some adjustments, and sufficient time, jill was able to answer the students’ questions correctly 97% of the time.

经过一些调整和足够的时间，吉尔能够在97%的时间里正确回答学生的问题。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级But even if people are able to economically support a retirement at 65, over thirty years of potential inactivity is harmful to cognitive (认知的) and emotional vitality.

但是，即使人们能够在65岁时从经济上支持退休，超过30年的潜在不活动对认知能力是有害的(认知的) 和情感活力。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B