六级Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

然而，一旦这些植物开始生长，它们似乎就不能保持在茎或叶中按代谢暂停按钮的能力。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级They may be able to handle a drought of some length, and many people use the term "drought tolerant" to describe such plants, but they never actually stop needing to consume water, so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.

它们可能能够应对一定长度的干旱，许多人用“耐旱”一词来形容这种植物，但它们从来没有停止过用水，所以Farrant更愿意称它们为抗旱植物。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

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In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

在纽约市大多数无家可归的花园里，植物的实际种植是不可行的，但即便如此，这些构图似乎也常常表现出一种尝试，即材料的安排、色彩的安排、小水池、花瓣或树叶以及填充动物的频繁出现。

2013年考研翻译原文

六级She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.

她正在努力寻找一种方法，从适应极端干旱气候的稀有野生植物中提取特征，并将其用于粮食作物。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Native plants are coming back, and the fox once again bound about carefree.

当地的植物又回来了，狐狸再次无忧无虑地四处游荡。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

高考Scientists find from their studies that plants can protect themselves against insects.

科学家从他们的研究中发现，植物可以保护自己免受昆虫的侵害。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 题设

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

六级The Nature Conservancy has declared war on a multitude of invasive species here, from sheep to plants to the aggressive Argentine ant.

自然保护协会已经向这里的许多入侵物种宣战，从绵羊到植物，再到侵略性的阿根廷蚂蚁。

2018年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

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What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, vocs for short.

植物从空气中吸入的是一种称为挥发性有机化合物（简称vocs）的化学混合物。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 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There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.

有很好的理由解释为什么作物不使用干燥防御系统。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

六级At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

与此同时，海水还杀死了贪婪的巨型苹果蜗牛，这是一种以水稻幼苗为食的外来害虫。

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

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

高考Until we don't stop climate change, many animals and plants in the world will be gone.

除非我们不停止气候变化，否则世界上许多动植物都将消失。

2018年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 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

六级Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.

然而，在世界各地沙漠中的这些和类似的构造上，一些凶猛的植物已经适应了在不断变化的条件下生存。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

考研When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

当我们失去了绿色、植物和树木时，我们大多数人都会陷入精神的低潮，这通常归咎于某些心理状况，直到有一天，我们发现自己在花园里，感觉到这种表情消失了，仿佛被施了魔法。

2013年考研翻译原文

六级She received assistance naming plants, making sketches and referencing the work of others.

她得到了命名植物、绘制草图和参考他人作品的帮助。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out vocs when being attacked.

科学家发现，所有种类的植物在受到攻击时都会释放出挥发性有机化合物。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 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

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time.

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力。

2013年6月阅读原文

高考Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away.

有些植物排出有气味的化学物质来驱赶昆虫。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get.

早在1983年，杰克·舒尔茨（Jack Schultz）和伊恩·鲍德温（Ian Baldwin）两位科学家报告说，幼小的枫树被昆虫叮咬后会散发出一种邻近植物可以闻到的特殊气味。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考The plants get ready to fight back.

植物准备反击。

2017年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

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

六级In the seed world, that makes them rare, because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.

在种子世界里，这使得它们非常罕见，因为大多数开花植物的种子都非常健壮。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.

它们中的许多都是相同的，它们调节种子如何在仍然附着在其亲本植物上的情况下变得耐旱。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

在写《变形记》之前，梅里安花了几十年时间记录欧洲的植物和昆虫，并在一系列书籍中发表。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考Still others may simply enjoy being outdoors and close to plants.

还有一些人可能只是喜欢呆在户外，靠近植物。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 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The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因图谱) published last year by a Chinese team.

昆士兰岩紫罗兰是迄今为止研究得最好的复活植物之一，具有一份基因组草案(基因图谱) 去年由一个中国团队出版。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级The big difference between "drought-tolerant" plants and these tough plants: metabolism.

“耐旱”植物和这些坚韧植物的最大区别在于：新陈代谢。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考Big serving bowls and plants can easily makes us fat.

大的碗和植物很容易让我们发胖。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

无论是从进口石油向国内石油的过渡，还是从燃煤发电向天然气发电厂的过渡，政客们都喜欢夸夸其谈。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.

例如，亚马逊工厂的碳排放量超过1000亿吨，相当于15年的排气管和烟囱排放量。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级billion coal-burning energy plant.

亿的燃煤能源工厂。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级The slugs can manufacture chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight, and hold these genes within their body.

蛞蝓可以制造叶绿素，一种植物中的绿色色素，从阳光中获取能量，并将这些基因保存在体内。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

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

四级That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time

这让我们避免在高峰使用时间建造昂贵的电厂或购买昂贵的电力

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Resurrection plants, defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of water per gram of dry mass, are different.

复活植物，定义为那些能够从每克干物质含水量少于0.1克的情况下恢复的植物，是不同的。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

六级"The yield is never going to be high," Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa

法兰特说：“产量永远不会很高”，因此这些植物的目标不是爱荷华州试图从高产田榨取更多现金的农民，而是需要帮助才能在像目前南非这样的干旱中生存的自给自足的农民

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

但一旦这些植物耗尽了它们储存的储备或挖出地下供应，它们就会停止生长并开始死亡。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

高考Keep to the track, where one exists, so you lessen the chance of damaging fragile plants.

保持跟踪，在有跟踪的地方，这样你就减少了破坏脆弱植物的机会。

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

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

高考Some people may think that a garden is no more than plants, flowers, patterns and masses of color.

有些人可能认为一个花园不过是植物、花朵、图案和大量的色彩。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 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

四级Some desalination plants exist where feasible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs.

一些海水淡化厂在可行的情况下存在，但运行成本高，需要经常维修。

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

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

高考Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

由于植物生长需要一段时间，他开始砍伐树木来出售木材。

2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 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

六级Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought; others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.

一些植物储存了大量的水来帮助它们度过干旱；另一些则把根深深地扎入地下水源。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级Many different kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.

许多不同种类的植物已经发展出抵御干旱的策略。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California

加州大学伯克利分校（UC Berkeley）经济学家大卫·卡德（David Card）指出，最直接从移民的低成本劳动力中获利的是企业和雇主——比如内布拉斯加州的肉类加工厂，或者加利福尼亚州的农业企业

2011年6月阅读原文

六级At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and Insects that were not previously known.

在自然史是一个有价值的发现工具的时代，美利安人发现了以前未知的植物和昆虫的事实。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy.

当我们想到动物和植物时，我们有一个很好的方法将它们分成两个不同的组：一个将阳光转化为能量，另一个必须吃食物才能产生能量。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级It captures the energy which plants produce during photosynthesis, a process of converting sunlight into energy.

它捕获植物在光合作用过程中产生的能量，光合作用是将阳光转化为能量的过程。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

六级Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments, botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.

就像医学研究人员用老鼠来测试人类医疗的想法一样，植物学家用相对容易在实验室或温室环境中生长的植物来测试他们对相关物种的想法。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

六级It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

这不仅是对人类种群的研究，也是对非人类物种种群的研究，包括流感病毒、肠道细菌、食用植物、喜爱或提供肉类的动物。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today.

此外，当时使用石油的家庭和发电厂的比例高于今天。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

加州大学伯克利分校（UC Berkeley）经济学家大卫·卡德（David Card）指出，从移民的低成本劳动力中最直接获利的是企业和雇主——比如内布拉斯加州的肉类加工厂，或者加利福尼亚州的农业企业。

2011年6月阅读原文

高考It ends abruptly at 3, 000 meters, giving way to lands of low growing plants.

它在3000米处突然终止，让位于低矮植物生长的土地。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 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Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.

极端的条件会产生非常坚韧的植物。

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Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

然而，一旦它们开始生长，这些植物似乎就不会

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

六级What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants' response to dryness.

Farrant和其他人在过去二十年中发现

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

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 yield is never going to be high,"Farrant says, so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cash out of high-yield fields, but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa.

Farrant说：“产量永远不会高。”因此，这些工厂将不会针对试图榨取更多现金的爱荷华州农民

2018 年 6 月6级真题第2套

六级At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and insects that were not previously known.

在自然史是一种有价值的发现工具的时候，梅里安发现了以前未知的植物和昆虫的事实。

2018年12月6级真题第二套

六级Phasing old bulbs out by 2030 would save the output of 650 power plants and avoid the release of 700 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year.

到2030年逐步淘汰旧灯泡将节省650座发电厂的产量，并避免每年向大气中释放7亿吨碳。

2007年12月英语六级真题