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The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.

这家初创公司的产品SentabTV使那些可能不习惯使用电脑的老年人能够通过电视和遥控器访问电子邮件、视频聊天和社交媒体。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.

互动电视广告，允许观众使用遥控器点击广告，已经推出多年。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

我们所有的项目都旨在促进贫困和偏远社区的发展。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.

Cablevision希望在明年初允许客户使用遥控器购买物品。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Is there any chance that Cardus's criticism will enjoy a revival? The prospect seems remote.

卡杜斯的批评有可能重获新生吗？前景似乎很遥远。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

2015年初，金恩花了五个月的时间探索该地区最偏远的角落，该地区位于亚马逊河雨林的边缘，其人口只有25万的一半居住在首都卡宴。

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

当我们要求青少年选择英雄时，他们通常选择一位年长的家庭成员，而不是一位遥远的公众人物。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.

狮子已经在非洲大部分地区消失了，但在过去的几年里，科学家们一直想知道这些大型猫科动物是否在苏丹和埃塞俄比亚的偏远地区生存。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south.

有些鸟飞得很远，包括一种从遥远的北方飞到遥远的南方的鸟。

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

高考One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by wakefield research for the it company citrix, most bosses are doubtful about remote working.

一个原因是，根据威克菲尔德研究公司（WakefieldResearch）为it公司citrix开展的一项针对办公室员工的最新调查结果，大多数老板对远程工作持怀疑态度。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Many young people, most of whom were well-educated, headed for remote regions to chase their dreams.

许多年轻人，其中大多数受过良好教育，前往偏远地区追逐梦想。

2016年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文

高考Whatever stage of life you're at, wherever you go and whatever project you do in gda, you'll create positive changes in a poor and remote community.

无论你处在人生的哪个阶段，无论你去哪里，无论你在gda做什么项目，你都会在一个贫穷而偏远的社区创造积极的变化。

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

四级A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas.

巴哈马群岛的一个偏远岛屿上发现了一种新的蛇。

2017年6月听力原文

六级For those of us lucky enough to live that long,2056 will be a world of almost perpetual youth, where obesity is a remote memory and robots become our companions.

对于我们这些有幸活那么久的人来说，2056年将是一个几乎永远年轻的世界，在那里，肥胖是遥远的记忆，机器人成为我们的伴侣。

2008年6月英语六级真题

六级When communications provider Inter-Tel researched the use of remote working solutions among smallue011 and medium sized UK businesses in April this year, it found that 28% more companies claimed to have introduced flexible working practices than a year ago.

今年4月，通信提供商Inter-Tel对英国中小企业使用远程工作解决方案进行了研究011，发现声称采用灵活工作方式的公司比一年前多28%。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级The UK network of Business Links confirms that it too has seen a growing interest in remote working solutions from small businesses seeking its advice, and claims that as many as 60-70% of the businesses that come through its doors now offer some form of remote working support to their workforces.

英国Business Links网络证实，寻求其建议的小企业也对远程工作解决方案越来越感兴趣，并声称多达60-70%的企业现在为其员工提供某种形式的远程工作支持。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Technology advances, including the widespread availability of broadband, are making the introduction of remote working a piece of cake.

技术进步，包括宽带的广泛使用，使远程工作的引入成为小菜一碟。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级One is the availability of broadband everywhere, which now covers almost all of the country (BT claims that, by July, 99.8% of its exchanges will be broadband enabled, with alternative plans in place for even the most remote exchanges).

一个是宽带无处不在，现在几乎覆盖了全国（英国电信声称，到7月，其99.8%的交换机将启用宽带，即使是最远程的交换机也有替代计划）。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Internet based telecoms, or VoIP (Voice over IP) to give it its technical title, is an interesting tool to any business supporting remote working.

基于互联网的电信，或VoIP（IP语音），对任何支持远程工作的企业来说都是一个有趣的工具。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Not necessarily because of the promise of free or reduced price phone calls (which experts point out is misleading for the average business), but because of the sophisticated voice services that can be exploited by the remote worker—facilities such as voicemail and call forwarding, which provide a continuity of the company image for customers and business partners.

这不一定是因为免费或降价电话的承诺（专家指出，这对普通企业来说是误导性的），而是因为远程工作者可以利用复杂的语音服务——语音邮件和呼叫转接等设施，为客户和业务合作伙伴提供了公司形象的连续性。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级The company, which needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure (基础设施) to provide connectivity with a new, second office, decided to introduce support for remote working at the same time.

该公司需要升级其IT基础设施(基础设施) 为了提供与新的第二办公室的连接，决定同时引入对远程工作的支持。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Although the firm was updating its systems anyway, the company spent 10-15% more per user to equip them with a laptop rather than a PC, and about the same to upgrade to a server that would enable remote staff to connect to the company networks and access all their usual resources.

尽管该公司无论如何都在更新其系统，但该公司为每位用户配备笔记本电脑而非个人电脑的费用增加了10-15%，升级到服务器的费用也增加了大约10%，这将使远程员工能够连接到公司网络并访问其所有常用资源。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级Financial recruitment specialist Lynne Hargreaves knows exactly how much her firm has saved by adopting a teleworking strategy, which has involved handing her company’s data management over to a remote hosting company, Dataset, so it can be accessible by all the company’s consultants over broadband internet connections.

财务招聘专家Lynne Hargreaves非常清楚她的公司通过采用远程工作策略节省了多少钱，该策略包括将公司的数据管理交给远程托管公司Dataset，以便公司的所有顾问都可以通过宽带互联网连接访问数据。

2009年12月英语六级真题

六级For the majority of students, the study of Chinese has become a remote memory.

对大多数学生来说，学习汉语已经成为遥远的记忆。

2010年6月英语六级真题

四级For most people the sea was remote, and with the exception of early intercontinental travelers or others who earned a living from the sea, there was little reason to ask many questions about it, let alone to ask what lay beneath the surface.

对大多数人来说，海洋是遥远的，除了早期的洲际旅行者或其他靠海洋谋生的人，没有什么理由问很多关于海洋的问题，更不用说问海底是什么了。

1990年1月英语四级真题

四级There are still some remote places in the world where you might find a public scribe to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee.

世界上仍有一些偏远的地方，你可能会找到一位公共抄写员为你做生意或社交写作，但需要付费。

1993年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye.

更好的是，佩利的远程扫描服务公司可以在作物问题肉眼可见之前检测到这些问题。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Ray Jackson, who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade.

最近从农业部退休的雷·杰克逊认为，到本世纪末，远程红外作物扫描可能会被采用。

1997年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.

这辆车安装了远程防盗系统(锁止器), 来自几英里外控制中心的无线电信号将确保小偷一旦关闭发动机，就无法再次启动。

2006年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级By opening the North American continent, highways have enabled consumer goods and services to reach people in remote and rural areas of the country, spurred the growth of suburbs, and provided people with greater options in term of jobs, access to cultural programs, health care, and other benefits.

通过开放北美大陆，高速公路使消费品和服务能够到达该国偏远和农村地区的人们手中，刺激了郊区的发展，并为人们提供了更多的就业选择、文化项目、医疗保健和其他福利。

2006年6月大学英语新四级(CET-4)真题

四级I have never hesitated to head for even the most remote of places.

我从未犹豫过要去哪怕是最偏远的地方。

2008年6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Before 1955, most white people were just shadowy presences in our world, vague figures of power like remote bosses at the mill or tellers at the bank.

1955年之前，大多数白人只是我们世界中的影子，模糊的权力人物，比如工厂的远程老板或银行的出纳员。

2014年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

考研Famous streets like Broadway and Fifth Avenue in an instant became as gloomy and uninviting as the most remote back streets.

百老汇和第五大道等著名的街道瞬间变得和最偏远的后街一样阴郁乏味。

1984年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies.

公司将其用作空中办公室，许多大都市地区将其用于警察工作，建筑和伐木公司以各种有利的方式使用它们，工程师将其用于选址和勘测，石油公司将其作为使海上和远程工作站可供工作人员和物资使用的最佳方式。

1987年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Rodriguez notes that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrants living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.

罗德里格斯指出，世界各地偏远村庄的儿童都是阿诺德·施瓦辛格和加思·布鲁克斯等巨星的粉丝，但“一些美国人担心，生活在美国的移民在某种程度上仍然不受国家同化力量的影响。

2006年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题