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

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，《老友记》是一部颇受欢迎的情景喜剧，只要轻敲遥控器，观众很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of "Friends", a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

近十年前，有人预测，流行情景喜剧《老友记》的观众只需轻敲遥控器，很快就能买到詹妮弗·安妮斯顿的毛衣。

2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

现在，一项始于新西兰约1000名儿童的新研究追踪了儿童低自控力如何预测健康不佳、金钱问题，甚至成年后的犯罪记录。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Social acceptance by peers in early childhood also predicted grades in fifth grade.

幼儿期同伴的社会接受度也能预测五年级的成绩。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

例如，在对3920名大学生的研究中，斯奈德博士和他的同事发现，新生在第一学期开始时的希望程度比他们的SAT分数或高中平均分数更能准确预测他们的大学成绩，这两个指标最常用于预测大学表现。

2010年12月听力原文

六级We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI.

当我们自己的思想被人工智能放大时，我们无法预测我们会取得什么成就。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

那么，在社区层面上，有哪些因素可以预测贫困儿童是否会在成年后的经济阶梯上上升呢？例如，是什么解释了为什么盐湖城大都会区是最有可能给穷人带来财富的100个最大大都会区之一，而亚特兰大大都会区是最不可能的地区之一？哈佛大学经济学家Raj Chetty指出了经济和种族隔离、社区密度、社区中产阶级的规模，学校的质量、社区的宗教信仰和家庭结构，他称之为向上流动的唯一最强关联。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

现在，一项始于新西兰约1000名儿童的新研究追踪了儿童低自控力如何预测健康不佳、金钱问题，甚至成年后的犯罪记录。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研"When Dr.Epley and Mr.Schoreder asked other people in the same train station to predict how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their ride would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York times summarizes.

《纽约时报》总结道：“当艾普利博士和斯科雷德先生要求同一火车站的其他人预测他们与陌生人交谈后的感受时，通勤者认为如果他们自己坐着，他们的旅程会更愉快。”。

2015年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

考研In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

在最后一个实验中，被鼓励预测观看不愉快图片后的感受的参与者不太可能选择观看这样的图片。

2018年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

六级nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advances and rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week.

90年前，主要经济学家预测技术进步和生产率提高将意味着每周工作15小时。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研With Britain voting to leave the European Union, and GDP already predicted to slow as a result, it is now a timely moment to assess what he was referring to.

随着英国投票退出欧盟，而GDP已经被预测会因此放缓，现在是评估他所指内容的时候了。

2017年考研阅读原文

四级In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

换句话说，当涉及到城市或其他任何事情时，很难预测未来。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级Cats use a causal-logical understanding of noise or sounds to predict the appearance of invisible objects, lead researcher Saho Takagi says in a press release.

首席研究员Saho Takagi在一份新闻稿中说，猫利用对噪音或声音的因果逻辑理解来预测看不见的物体的外观。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Cats use a causal-logical understanding of noise or sounds to predict the appearance of invisible objects.

猫利用对噪音或声音的因果逻辑理解来预测看不见的物体的外观。

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

到目前为止，机器很难模仿创造力，其任意性足以让计算机无法预测，但也不仅仅是简单的随机性。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研The sharp hit to growth predicted around the world and in the UK could lead to a decline in the everyday services we depend on for our well-being and for growth.

预计全球和英国的增长将受到严重冲击，这可能导致我们赖以生存和发展的日常服务下降。

2017年考研阅读原文

高考Then students were asked to predict what kind of relationship they were likely to build with their partners.

然后要求学生预测他们可能与伴侣建立什么样的关系。

2015年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

四级How can you predict where the ball you tossed will land?

你怎么能预测你抛的球会落在哪里？

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级While ones in physics say:" How can you predict where the ball you tossed will land?"

而物理学的人说：“你怎么能预测你扔的球会落在哪里？”

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of Cashpoints.

她发现自己花的钱确实少了很多，因为很难预测一个人需要多少现金。她一直在用现金点取款。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级However, may studies have found that feelings and thoughts don't necessarily predict behavior.

然而，梅的研究发现，感情和想法并不一定能预测行为。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研For example, Business Week predicted in 1975 that electronic means of payment would soon "revolutionize the very concept of money itself", only to reverse itself several years later.

例如，1975年《商业周刊》预测，电子支付手段将很快“彻底改变货币本身的概念”，但几年后却发生了逆转。

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

高考It's hard to predict when driverless cars will be everywhere on our roads.

很难预测无人驾驶汽车何时会在我们的道路上随处可见。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级While some economists predict continued recovery in the future, Baily says the only certainty is that banks are unlikely to make the same mistakes twice.

虽然一些经济学家预测未来经济将继续复苏，但贝利表示，唯一可以确定的是，银行不太可能再犯同样的错误两次。

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

六级B2B commerce, for example, didn't move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn't mean it won't do so over the next few decades.

例如，到2005年，B2B商务并不像许多人在2000年预测的那样主要在网上开展，甚至到2016年也没有，但这并不意味着它在未来几十年内不会这样做。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

四级For these reasons I think physical books will have a longer existence as a commercial product than some currently predict.

基于这些原因，我认为实体书作为商业产品的存在时间将比目前一些人预测的要长。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults?

那么，在社区层面上，有哪些因素可以预测贫困儿童是否会在成年后的经济阶梯上上升呢？

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Albert Einstein predicted this in 1905, when he introduced the concept of relative time as part of his Special Theory of Relativity.

阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦在1905年预言了这一点，当时他在狭义相对论中引入了相对时间的概念。

2011年6月听力原文

考研firms are now studying how genes interact, looking for correlations that might be used to determine the causes of disease or predict a drug's efficacy.

公司现在正在研究基因如何相互作用，寻找可能用于确定疾病原因或预测药物疗效的相关性。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance

例如，在对3920名大学生的研究中，斯奈德博士和他的同事发现，新生在第一学期开始时的希望程度比他们的SAT分数或高中平均分数更能准确预测他们的大学成绩，预测大学表现最常用的两个指标

2010年12月听力原文

四级The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didn't, because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce

人们普遍预测，这些电影会将直播影院赶出市场，但事实并非如此，因为影院被证明具有电影无法复制的品质

2014年6月阅读原文

六级Its impact is not easy to predict.

它的影响不容易预测。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级It is harder to predict how Mr Obama's proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.

很难预测奥巴马先生提出的对失败的医疗体系的改革会有什么结果。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级As predicted, the students with a growth mind-set felt that learning was a more important goal than getting good grades.

正如预测的那样，具有成长思维定势的学生认为学习比取得好成绩更重要。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Will it transform our ability to predict and make decisions about the future?

会吗

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（三）

六级It tries to predict the possible trends of global climate change.

它试图预测全球气候变化的可能趋势。

2016年12月六级（第一套）真题

六级But it’s not happening as experts predicted.

但这并没有像专家预测的那样发生。

2019.6六级真题第一套

六级”She predict that within 5 to 10 years fingers and toes will be regrown and limbs will start to be regrown a few years later.

“她预测，在5到10年内，手指和脚趾将再生，几年后四肢将开始再生。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级But if trends continue as predicted, they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.

但如果趋势如预测的那样持续下去，他们会发现大多数重症医院护理将由新的、缺乏经验的、有时培训不足的护士提供。

2007年6月英语六级真题

六级Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s.

也没有任何迹象表明20世纪90年代预测会发生代际战争。

2010年12月英语六级真题

四级While both groups did better than chance would predict, nearly half the participants in each group made the wrong choice two or more times.

虽然两组的表现都好于偶然性预测，但每组中近一半的参与者都做出了两次或两次以上的错误选择。

1996年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Transportation in the future won’t be limited to the ground; many people predict that traffic will quickly move to the sky.

未来的交通运输将不局限于地面；许多人预测交通将迅速向天空移动。

2005年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级It is harder to predict how Mr Obama’s proposed reforms to the failing health-care system will turn out.

很难预测奥巴马先生提出的对失败的医疗体系的改革将如何发展。

2013年6月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级Several hours after a meal, people's hunger levels were predicted not by how much they'd eaten but rather by now much food they'd seen in front of them---in other words, how much they remembered eating.

饭后几个小时，人们的饥饿程度不是通过他们吃了多少来预测的，而是通过他们现在看到的面前的食物量来预测的——换句话说，就是他们记得吃了多少。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第1套)

四级Several hours after a meal, people’s hunger levels were predicted not by how much they’d eaten but rather by how much food they’d seen in front of them—in other words, how much they remembered eating.

饭后几个小时，人们的饥饿程度不是通过他们吃了多少来预测的，而是通过他们看到面前的食物量来预测的——换句话说，就是他们记得吃了多少。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级The movies were widely predicted to drive live theater out of the marketplace, but they didn’t, because theater turned out to have qualities movies could not reproduce.

人们普遍预测，这些电影会将现场影院赶出市场，但事实并非如此，因为影院具有电影无法复制的品质。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级But it has yet to be admitted with overeating, even though one in four adults in this country is obese and that number is predicted to double by the year 2050.

但是，尽管这个国家四分之一的成年人肥胖，而且预计到2050年这个数字将翻一番，但它还没有被承认为暴饮过量。

2014年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级Anant Agarwal, an electrical engineer who is president of EdX, predicted that the instant-grading software would be a useful teaching tool, enabling students to take tests and write essays over and over and improve the quality of their answers.

EdX总裁、电气工程师Anant Agarwal预测，即时评分软件将是一种有用的教学工具，使学生能够反复参加考试和撰写论文，并提高答案的质量。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套)

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.

根据一项最新发表的研究，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）了解物理世界是如何运作的。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级“Cats use a causal-logical understanding of noise or sounds to predict the appearance of invisible objects,” lead researcher Saho Takagi says in a press release.

首席研究员Saho Takagi在一份新闻稿中说：“猫利用对噪音或声音的因果逻辑理解来预测不可见物体的外观。”。

2018年12月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套）

四级” while ones in physics say: “How can you predict where the ball you tossed will land?

而物理学中的人说：“你怎么能预测你扔的球会落在哪里？”？

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

四级” In other words, when it comes to cities—or anything else—it is hard to predict the future.

“换句话说，当涉及到城市或其他任何事情时，很难预测未来。

2019年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级“We keep pace with the movie industries so we can predict which charac-ters are going to be popular for the coming months,”Jayasekara says.

Jayasekara说：“我们与电影行业保持同步，这样我们就可以预测未来几个月哪些角色会很受欢迎。”。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

考研Science cannot really explain electricity, magnetism, and gravitation; their effects can be measured and predicted, but of their nature no more is known to the modern scientist than to Thales who first looked into the nature of the electrification of amber, a hard yellowish-brown gum.

科学无法真正解释电、磁和引力；它们的影响是可以测量和预测的，但现代科学家对其性质的了解并不比泰勒斯多，泰勒斯首先研究了琥珀（一种坚硬的黄褐色树胶）带电的性质。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研In general, the tests work most effectively when the qualities to be measured can be most precisely defined and least effectively when what is to be measured or predicted cannot be well defined.

一般来说，当要测量的质量可以最精确地定义时，测试最有效，而当要测量或预测的内容不能很好地定义时则最无效。

1995年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研It is also less than most forecasters had predicted.

这也低于大多数预测者的预测。

1997年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year.

在英国和日本，通货膨胀率比去年年底预测的低半个百分点。

1997年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Newton did because he was not trying to predict anything.

牛顿之所以这么做，是因为他没有试图预测任何事情。

1999年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Through his research, Pearson is able to put dates to most of the breakthroughs that can be predicted.

通过他的研究，皮尔森能够确定大多数可以预测的突破的日期。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Moreover, IQ tests do not necessarily predict so well once populations or situations change.

此外，一旦人口或情况发生变化，智商测试就不一定能很好地预测。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ was negatively correlated with leadership—that is, it predicted the opposite.

研究发现，当测试在低压力条件下进行时，智商可以预测领导能力，但在高压力条件下，智商与领导能力呈负相关——也就是说，它预测的恰恰相反。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment, Gordon says that by and large, “you could use today's data and feel fairly confident.

戈登说，如果你需要在不久的将来预测人类的身高来设计一台设备，总的来说，“你可以使用今天的数据，并感到相当自信。

2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题