六级More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级The traits that characterise him are very contradictory to the racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated," says Ashby Plant of Florida State University.

佛罗里达州立大学的阿什比·普兰特（Ashby Plant）说：“他身上的特点与黑人好斗、没有受过教育的种族成见非常矛盾。”。

2010年6月阅读原文

高考The model T Ford was built at the piquette plant in Michigan a century ago, with the first rolling off the assembly line on september 27, 1908.

福特T型车于一个世纪前在密歇根州的皮奎特工厂制造，第一辆车于1908年9月27日下线。

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.

第一座核电站的破坏通常更严重，但相对而言，邻居更安全，因为他们听到了警报，知道该怎么办。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考These chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm.

这些化学物质来自工厂的受伤部位，似乎是一个警报。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

但是在过去的十年里，降雨量的减少使他能够种植高利润的作物。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the most promise in the Ebro Delta and Europe's other two main rice-growing regions—along the Po in Italy, and France's Rhone.

2018年，农民将在埃布罗三角洲和欧洲其他两个主要水稻种植区种植最有希望的品种，这两个地区分别位于意大利的波河沿岸和法国的罗纳河沿岸。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

六级Also last year, Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa, a tough-as-nail South African plant with lily-like flowers, and she says that a genome is on the way.

同样在去年，Farrant和同事发表了另一个候选植物Xerophyta viscosa的详细分子研究，这是一种结实的南非植物，开着百合般的花，她说基因组正在研究中。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

高考Medical research often makes use of the forests' plant and animal life, and the destruction of such species could prevent researchers from finding cures for certain diseases.

医学研究经常利用森林中的动植物，而这些物种的破坏可能会阻止研究人员找到某些疾病的治疗方法。

2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

考研In 2006, the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant’s license be subject to Vermont legislature’s approval.

2006年，该州更进一步，要求该工厂许可证的任何延期必须得到佛蒙特州立法机构的批准。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研In 2006, the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant's license be subject to Vermont legislature's approval.

2006年，该州更进一步，要求该工厂许可证的任何延期必须得到佛蒙特州立法机构的批准。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever.

在一项将发表在《实验社会心理学杂志》上的研究中，普兰特的研究小组在奥巴马狂热的高峰期对229名学生进行了测试。

2010年6月阅读原文

考研As a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he's trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.

作为变压器厂内的一张工作台，年轻的Jason Stenquist被他试图组装的铜线圈和两位来访者的到来弄得心慌意乱。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

相反，该公司已经做了它长期以来承诺的事情，它不会在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州规则的合宪性，这是保持其佛蒙特扬基核电站运行的绝望努力的一部分。

2012年考研阅读原文

高考When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn't sit quietly.

当多叶植物受到攻击时，它不会安静地坐着。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级When investors put up money to build, say, a nuclear power plant, they expect to earn that money back over the planned life of the plant, which is typically between 40 and 60 years.

当投资者出资建造（比如）核电站时，他们希望在核电站的计划寿命（通常为40到60年）内收回这笔钱。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研The idea arose because of the perplexing behavior of the women in the plant.

这个想法的产生是因为工厂里的女人们令人困惑的行为。

2010年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef

这因作物而异，从植物作物的3卡路里到牛肉生产的35卡路里不等

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

法兰特和其他从事复活业务的人去年聚在一起，讨论用作实验室模型的最佳复活植物品种。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级billion coal-burning energy plant.

亿的燃煤能源工厂。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining

一个多世纪过去了，探险家们争先恐后地将国旗插在世界的最底层。在未来的几十年里，这块大陆应该作为一个科学保护区受到保护，免受军事活动和采矿等入侵

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself.

也许第一株植物只是发出痛苦的叫声，或是向它自己的枝干发送信息，所以，实际上，它是在自言自语。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Dakota Gasification of North Dakota captures CO2 at a plant that converts coal into synthetic natural gas.

北达科他州的达科他气化公司在一家将煤转化为合成天然气的工厂捕获二氧化碳。

2012年6月阅读原文

考研Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

相反，该公司已经做了它长期以来承诺不会做的事情：在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州规则的合宪性，作为保持其佛蒙特扬基核电站运行的绝望努力的一部分。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级One of the student inventors, Camellia Rupcich, says the device changes the energy released from the plant into low-level power to charge phones.

学生发明家之一Camellia Rupcich说，该装置将从核电站释放的能量转化为低电平电能，为手机充电。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

六级Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

美国的一些燃煤电厂已经运行了70多年！美国最古老的持续运行的商业水力发电厂位于纽约哈德逊河上，并于1898年投入商业运行。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson river, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

美国最古老的持续运行的商业水力发电厂位于纽约哈德逊河上，并于1898年投入商业运行。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont's only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Bowman cannot plant the seeds without Monsanto's consent.

未经孟山都同意，鲍曼不能播种。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研In 1924 America's National Research Council sent two engineers to supervise a series of experiments at a telephone parts factory called the Hawthorne Plant near Chicago.

1924年，美国国家研究委员会派出两名工程师在芝加哥附近一家名为霍桑工厂的电话零件厂监督一系列实验。

2010年考研真题（英语一）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级This varies dramatically depending on crop, from three calories for plant crops to 35 calories in the production of beef.

这因作物而异，从植物作物的3卡路里到牛肉生产的35卡路里。

2013年12月阅读原文

高考It's a plant's way of crying out.

这是植物叫喊的方式。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级Her time-lapse videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.

她拍摄的关于植物复苏的延时视频看起来像是有人在播放一盘倒转的植物死亡录像带。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do.

多年来，大规模裁员和工厂关闭吸引了大量的头条新闻和公众辩论，而且偶尔也会这样。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by that process.

工厂只使用该过程产生的一小部分能量。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

六级As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey, then rubber, and finally enter a glass-like state that is the most stable state that the plant can maintain, Farrant says.

法兰特说，随着植物的干燥，这些资源首先具有蜂蜜的特性，然后是橡胶，最后进入玻璃状状态，这是植物能够维持的最稳定状态。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考If you love helping the environment, plant trees or pick up litter.

如果你喜欢保护环境，可以种树或捡垃圾。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

六级It will also be necessary to understand what sort of yield farmers might expect and to establish the plant's safety.

还有必要了解农民可能期望的产量，并确定工厂的安全性。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever

在一项将发表在《实验社会心理学杂志》上的研究中，普兰特的研究小组在奥巴马热的高峰期对229名学生进行了测试

2010年6月阅读原文

六级He excelled in studies and received his PhD in plant pathology (病理学）and genetics in 19 From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington.

他在研究方面表现出色，并获得了植物病理学博士学位(病理学）和遗传学

2013年6月六级考试真题（三）

六级The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the is on ’s , and it went into commercial service in 189 As Vaclav Smil points out, “All the forecasts, plans, and anticipations cited above have failed so miserably because their authors and promoters thought the transitions they hoped to implement would proceed unlike all previous energy transitions, and that their progress could be accelerated in an unprecedented manner.

年代最古老的连续运行的商业水力发电厂，于189年投入商业服务

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题（二）

六级Also last year, Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa, a tough-as-nail south African plant with lily-like flowers, and she says that a genome is on the way.

同样在去年，Farrant和同事发表了一项关于另一种候选植物粘干叶藻的详细分子研究，粘干叶虫是一种坚韧如指甲的南非植物，开着百合花

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

六级"The traits that characterise him are very contradictory to the racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated," says Ashby Plant of Florida State University.

佛罗里达州立大学的Ashby Plant说：“他身上的特点与黑人好斗、未受过教育的种族刻板印象非常矛盾。”。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级Sting in the tail Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models.

尾部刺痛

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级"That's an unusually large drop," Plant says.

普兰特说：“这是一个异常大的降幅。”。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级This suggests that Obama was strongly on their mind, says Plant.

普兰特说，这表明奥巴马在他们心中有着强烈的想法。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级However, his preliminary results suggest that change will be much slower coming than Plant's results suggest.

然而，他的初步结果表明，变化将比Plant的结果显示的要慢得多。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级Though Plant's findings were more positive, she too warns against thinking that racism and racial inequalities are no longer a problem.

尽管普兰特的发现更为积极，但她也警告不要认为种族主义和种族不平等不再是问题。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级"Over time he might become his own entity," says Plant.

普兰特说：“随着时间的推移，他可能会成为自己的实体。”。

2010年6月英语六级真题

四级But curiosity, a keen eye, a good memory and enjoyment of the animal and plant world do not make a scientist: one of the outstanding and essential qualities require is self-discipline, quality I lack.

但好奇心、敏锐的眼光、良好的记忆力和对动植物世界的享受并不能成为一名科学家：自律是我所缺乏的一种杰出而基本的品质。

1992年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city.

其目的是找出如果在城外建一个回收废物的工厂，可以提供多少这些原材料。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber as well.

这家工厂不仅可以回收钢铁、铅和铜等金属，还可以回收纸张和橡胶。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Kudzu was once thought to be a helpful plant.

葛根曾经被认为是一种有益的植物。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级But the plant soon spread to places where it wasn’t wanted.

但这种植物很快就蔓延到了不需要它的地方。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The plant loves the warmth of the south, but the south surely doesn’t love it.

这种植物喜欢南方的温暖，但南方肯定不喜欢它。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级In fact, all the classes did not prepare me for my battles with the machine I ran in the plant, which would jam whenever I absent-mindedly put in a part backward or upside down.

事实上，所有的课程都没有让我为与工厂里运行的机器的战斗做好准备，每当我心不在焉地把零件倒过来或倒过来时，机器就会卡住。

2012年12月大学英语四级真题试卷（1）

四级Well, those dividing lines come crashing down with the discovery of a sea slug(海姑蛹）that’s truly half animal and half plant.

嗯，随着海蛞蝓的发现，这些分界线崩溃了(海姑蛹）这真的是一半动物一半植物。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研One summer something did go wrong with the power plant that provides New York with electricity.

一年夏天，为纽约供电的发电厂确实出了问题。

1984年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Before the new computerized equipment was introduced, there were 940 workers at the plant.

在引进新的计算机设备之前，工厂有940名工人。

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研A plant follow-up survey showed that one year after the layoffs only 38% of the released workers found new employment at the same or better wages.

一项工厂后续调查显示，裁员一年后，只有38%的下岗工人以相同或更好的工资找到了新工作。

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研C. R. Barnes has suggested that it is as proper to term the plant a water structure as to call a house composed mainly of brick a brick building.

C.R.Barnes建议，将植物称为水结构，就像将主要由砖组成的房屋称为砖建筑一样恰当。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Certain it is that all essential processes of plant growth and development occur in water.

可以肯定的是，植物生长发育的所有基本过程都发生在水中。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The mineral elements from the soil that are usable by the plant must be dissolved in the soil solution before they can be taken into the root.

植物可以使用的土壤中的矿物元素必须溶解在土壤溶液中，然后才能被吸收到根部。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研They are carried to all parts of the growing plant and are built into essential plant materials while in a dissolved state.

它们被带到生长中的植物的各个部位，并在溶解状态下被构建成基本的植物材料。

1991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Actively growing plant parts are generally 75 to 90 percent water.

积极生长的植物部分通常含有75%至90%的水分。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The actual amount of water in the plant at any one time, however, is only a very small part of what passes through it during its development.

然而，植物在任何时候的实际水量都只是其发育过程中经过的水量的一小部分。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The processes of photosynthesis, by which carbon dioxide and water are combined—in the presence of chlorophyll (叶绿素) and with energy derived from light—to form sugars, require that carbon dioxide from the air enter the plant.

光合作用的过程，二氧化碳和水在叶绿素的存在下结合在一起(叶绿素) 利用来自光的能量形成糖，需要空气中的二氧化碳进入植物。

1991年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题