高考Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

儿童可能比科学家有更大的理解事物的能力。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

高考Motorheads have greater ability than office workers.

汽车司机比上班族有更大的能力。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

高考So, always try to live a little bit beyond your abilities—and you'll find your abilities are greater than you ever dreamed.

所以，总是试着活得比你的能力稍高一点，你会发现你的能力比你想象的要大。

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 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Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

建立一个孩子感受快乐的能力，而不是把快乐推到一边，这并不难。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级A study in Sweden indicated that kindergarten children who could play in a natural environment had less illness and greater physical ability than children used only to a normal playground.

瑞典的一项研究表明，能够在自然环境中玩耍的幼儿园儿童比只在普通游乐场玩耍的儿童患病率低，身体能力强。

2010年12月阅读原文

六级More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

十多年前，当时就读于范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先前知识应用于新环境的能力，而是他们称之为未来学习准备的素质。

2015年12月阅读原文

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More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b

十多年前，范德比尔特大学的认知科学家约翰·布兰斯福德（John Bransford）和丹尼尔·施瓦茨（Daniel Schwartz）发现，年轻人区别于儿童的不是保留事实或将先验知识应用于新情况的能力

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

高考And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

如果你手头有你的课堂讲稿或文章，你和教授将能够研究让你困惑的具体问题，而不仅仅是笼统地谈论内容。

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

高考If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to float on the sea?

如果钢比水重，为什么船能在海上漂浮？

2015年高考英语浙江卷 单项填空 原文

四级All girls schools tend to be smaller than coeducational schools, which means teachers would be able to tailor the materials to girl students' personal learning styles and interest.

所有的女子学校往往都比男女同校的学校小，这意味着教师可以根据女生的个人学习风格和兴趣定制教材。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

四级The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.

E-Kaia能够在不到两个小时内为手机完全充电。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力

六级In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

在竞争激烈的工作环境中，雇主能够利用技术向员工提出更高的要求，而不是以有利于他们的灵活性激励员工。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级"They were able to walk fester, had improved balance, and were also able to get up out of a chair faster than the control group," Starr says.

斯塔尔说：“与对照组相比，他们能够化脓行走，平衡能力得到改善，而且能够更快地从椅子上站起来。”。

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

在竞争激烈的工作环境中，雇主能够利用技术向员工提出更高的要求，而不是以有利于他们的灵活性激励员工。

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

今天的首席执行官，至少对美国的大公司来说，必须具备许多技能，而不仅仅是能够“管理公司”。首席执行官必须对金融市场有很好的认识，甚至可能对公司应该如何交易金融市场有很好的认识。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考And we'll pour about 30 percent more liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

我们将把大约30%的液体倒入一个又短又宽的玻璃杯，而不是一个又高又细的玻璃杯。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考But Lehanne's psychology café is about more than knowing oneself: It's trying to help the city's troubled neighborhood cafes.

但莱哈恩的心理咖啡馆不仅仅是了解自己：它试图帮助城市陷入困境的邻里咖啡馆。

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Competent adults know more about love than work.

有能力的成年人比工作更懂得爱。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

四级Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

六个月后，更多突然戒烟的人坚持戒烟超过五分之一，而另一组约为七分之一。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

我们开始热衷于食物的冒险，但我们对与人交往比对饮食更感兴趣。

2017年6月听力原文

四级I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

我想让事情变得更复杂，因为我建议老年人居住的设施可能比我们想象的要重要。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级People now care more about quality than quantity.

人们现在更关心质量而不是数量。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

它生产大约200万吨盐，运往美国东北部1500多个地方。

2016年12月听力原文

四级Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

烹饪真正的食物是最好的防御措施，更不用说你可能在家里吃的任何一餐都比你在餐馆吃的少200卡路里。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

普通挪威人的境况比普通美国公民好，但对气候变化的贡献约为普通美国公民的一半。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

这对那些气候脆弱的国家是不公平的，它的目标只是将气温升高控制在2℃以下，这只对不到4%的国家有利，而发达国家则负有唯一的责任，他们不必担心他们所消耗的食物和水。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

学生们有很多抱怨：偿还贷款的还款门槛将被冻结五年，这意味着低收入的毕业生必须开始偿还贷款；赡养费补助已经被贷款所取代，这意味着来自贫困家庭的学生比那些父母更富有的学生面临更高的债务。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

但美国研究人员悄悄抱怨预算限制，破冰船比俄罗斯少得多，限制了美国在南极洲的活动范围。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

我将要定义什么是爱，但我将要谈论的大多数实验实际上更多地关注吸引力而不是爱。

2016年12月听力原文

考研The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

首先也是更重要的是消费者越来越倾向于外出就餐：在家以外的地方，食品和饮料的消费量占总消费量的比例已从1995年的约32%上升到2000年的35%，预计到2005年将接近38%。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

在英国，超过一半的公共部门员工加入了工会，但只有约15%的私营部门员工加入了工会。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

也许出于故意，考虑如此漫长的时间尺度可能比考虑更近的未来更容易。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

一位研究人员表示：“我们估计，要么消除童工等重大劳动权利问题，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，其罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%。”。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

但如果决策者将工作重点重新放在改善福利上，而不仅仅是担心GDP数据，就可以避免预测的厄运，甚至可能看到进展。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研"We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials," says one

“我们估计，要么消除大量劳工权利问题，如童工，要么将企业捐赠增加20%左右，结果导致罚款通常比贿赂外国官员的典型惩罚低40%，”一位官员表示

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But mayors and councilors can only do so much about a problem that is far bigger than any one city or town.

但市长和议员们只能在一个比任何一个城市或城镇都严重得多的问题上有所作为。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考The low point of the sheet must be centered directly over, and no more than three inches above, the cup.

板材的低点必须直接位于杯的中心，且不得超过杯的上方三英寸。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

自1977年以来，我在国外的时间比在美国的时间多得多。

2015年12月听力原文

六级and some parents say they can manage the cost of a school trip abroad more easily than a family holiday.

一些家长说，他们可以比家庭度假更轻松地管理学校出国旅行的费用。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

杜克大学的研究人员仔细审查了160多份已发表的研究报告，发现没有强有力的证据表明这些方法中的任何一种都能产生重大影响。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Nothing makes me feel better than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, or music.

没有什么比呆在一个地方，全神贯注于一本书、一次谈话或音乐更让我感觉良好的了。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others.

许多人发誓，他们在一天中的某些时间比在其他时间更有效地吸收新信息。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研The climate change we are hastening could one day leave us with forests that emit more carbon than they absorb.

我们正在加速的气候变化有朝一日可能会给我们留下排放的碳超过吸收的森林。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

这项研究对2000多名年龄在18岁至60岁之间的健康成年人进行了跟踪调查。研究发现，某些心理功能，包括抽象推理、思维速度和解谜等，早在27岁时就开始变得迟钝。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级Already, by paying close attention to and interacting with the world and people around him, and without any school-type formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for years.

通过密切关注并与周围的世界和人们互动，在没有任何学校式的正式教育的情况下，他已经完成了一项比学校要求他做的任何事情，或比他多年来的任何老师都要困难、复杂和抽象得多的任务。

2010年6月听力原文

六级In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.

在美国，白尾鹿的数量比以往任何时候都要多，数量如此之多，以至于它们已经成为郊区的一种公害和健康隐患。

2013年12月听力原文

四级Sun School believes that the healthy growth of the child is more important than academic success

太阳学校认为孩子的健康成长比学业成功更重要

2012年12月听力原文

六级Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know-how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

在他们的家庭中，第一个勇敢面对高等教育世界的孩子来到校园时，几乎没有什么学术知识，比同龄人更有可能在毕业前辍学。

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级As a recent report from the National Academy of Sciences highlights, these satellites hold tremendous potential for making satellite-based science more accessible than ever before.

美国国家科学院（National Academy of Sciences）最近的一份报告强调，这些卫星在使基于卫星的科学比以往任何时候都更容易获取方面具有巨大潜力。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Although no form of matter yet discovered moves as fast as or faster than light, scientific experiments have already confirmed that accelerated motion causes a traveler's time to be stretched.

尽管目前还没有发现任何一种物质的运动速度比光速快，但科学实验已经证实，加速运动会延长旅行者的时间。

2011年6月听力原文

六级Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

手术、放疗或仔细监测对前列腺最有效吗，前列腺) 巨蟹座最新最昂贵的降胆固醇药物是否比其普通竞争对手更好？悬而未决的法案将花费额外的资金来加速这一努力。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapy (心理治疗) that urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather than fight them.

这篇论文为新形式的心理治疗提供了支持(心理治疗) 这促使人们接受他们的消极想法和感受，而不是与之抗争。

2010年6月阅读原文

六级Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-size-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nation's most selective.

几乎所有的申请材料都是在网上提交的，普通的申请表提供了一个一刀切的表格，被400多所学校接受，其中包括全国最具选择性的学校。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Minority Report American universities are accepting more minorities than ever

少数族裔报告美国大学比以往任何时候都接受更多的少数族裔

2011年6月阅读原文

高考People have better access to health care than they used to, and they're living longer as a result.

人们比过去更容易获得医疗保健，因此他们活得更长。

2017年高考英语北京卷 单项填空 原文

六级CubeSat researchers suggest that now's the time to ponder unexpected and unintended possible consequences of more people than ever having access to their own small slice of space.

CubeSat的研究人员认为，现在是时候考虑一下比以往任何时候都更多的人能够进入他们自己的一小块空间所带来的意想不到的后果了。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

批评家们对基因专利提出了三个主要论点：基因是自然的产物，所以它可能没有专利；基因专利抑制创新而不是奖励创新；专利的垄断限制了像Myriad这样的基因检测。

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

现在，英国一半以上的科研成果都是以开放获取的方式发表的：要么从发表之日起免费提供，要么支付一年或更长时间的费用，以便出版商在进入general rel之前获利

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔（Elsevier）声称发表了世界上25%的科学论文，去年盈利超过9亿英镑，而仅英国大学在2016年就花了2.1亿英镑让研究人员能够公开发表论文

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

与此同时，梅西百货一直在努力吸引那些对旅游或外出就餐更感兴趣的消费者，而不是新衣服或配饰。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研In my own research, complaints from women about their husbands most often focused not on tangible inequities such as having given up the chance for a career to accompany a husband to his, or doing far more than their share of daily life-support work like

在我自己的研究中，女性对丈夫的抱怨通常并不集中在有形的不平等上，比如放弃了陪丈夫工作的机会，或者做了远远超出她们日常生活支持工作份额的工作，比如

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia ( ' , 厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

她说，这尤其令人担忧，因为厌食症（'，厌食症) 根据国家心理健康研究所的数据，死亡人数比任何其他精神疾病都多。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

他说，2001年出生的高收入家庭和低收入家庭的孩子之间的成就差距比25年前出生的孩子大30-40%。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

根据皮尤的数据，超过四分之一的儿童生活在单亲家庭——这是历史最高水平，这些儿童生活在贫困中的可能性是与已婚父母生活在一起的儿童的三倍。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.

据该公司创始人理查德·罗斯奇克（Richard Rusczyk）称，去年在国际海事组织（IMO）参加比赛的六名美国队成员总共在该网站上学习了40多门课程。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting them, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

根据千年生态系统评估，可持续地管理生态系统比利用生态系统更有利可图。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

据生产非处方药包的Identigene首席运营官道格·福格（Doug Fog）介绍，自去年首次在没有处方的情况下提供PTK以来，已有6万多人购买了PTK。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

根据几项研究得出的结论，父母比没有孩子的夫妇更不幸福，单亲父母是最不幸福的。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研The largest firms in America and Britain together spend more than $15 billion a year on CSR, according to an estimate by EPG, a consulting firm.

根据咨询公司EPG的估计，美国和英国最大的公司每年在企业社会责任方面的支出总计超过150亿美元。

2016年考研阅读原文

四级E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.

电子书目前占全国图书销售总额的14%，增长速度远远快于图书销售总额。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级It is also easier for a dissatisfied company to give its account to another agency than it would be to fire their own advertising staff.

对一家不满的公司来说，向另一家代理机构提供账目比解雇自己的广告人员更容易。

2015年12月听力原文

六级While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

尽管绝非十全十美，但它比平均收入要全面得多，不仅考虑到人均消费的增长，还考虑到工作时间、预期寿命和不平等性的变化。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

他们的分析排除了这一可能性，即是企业的政治影响力，而不是企业的社会责任立场，导致了宽大处理：为政治活动做出更多贡献的公司不会收到更低的罚款。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

向可再生能源的转移在全世界范围内正在加速：它们现在占据了在线新能源的一半以上。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

这是著名的引文索引，也就是说一篇论文在科学文献中被引用的次数，假设一篇重要的论文被引用的次数比一篇小论文要多。

2020年考研真题（英语一）翻译 Section Ⅲ

考研While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our

虽然围绕我们的环境和我们对环境的责任的讨论仍然集中在购物女巫和吸管上，但我们忽视了权力平衡，这意味着作为“消费者”我们必须可持续地购物，而不是作为“公民”来购物

2019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，这两个指标最常用于预测大学表现。

2010年12月听力原文

高考And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

由于回收钢材的过程比制造新钢材污染少，我们还实现了以下显著节约；在能源使用方面——47%至74%；空气污染-85%；水污染中-35%；在用水方面——40%。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

然而，只有当我们对比我们自己的小自我更大的东西做出承诺时，我们才能实现意义，无论是对所爱的人，还是对某些道德观念。

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考The journey was intended to achieve more than what captain Robert Falcon Scott had done.

这次旅行的目的是要取得比罗伯特·法尔肯·斯科特船长所做的更多的成就。

2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考The real problem relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence(AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want.

真正的问题在于，人工智能（AI）可能变得非常擅长于实现我们真正想要的东西以外的东西。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考We can achieve a lot when we learn to let our differences unite, rather than divide us.

当我们学会让我们的分歧团结起来，而不是分裂我们时，我们可以取得很多成就。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 单项选择 原文

四级Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

绝大多数的调查结果表明，今天，美国梦的理念以及实现美国梦所需的条件与20世纪末的情况大不相同。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.

莎拉·约翰逊（Sara Johnson）承认，今天油价下跌给全球经济带来的好处可能低于过去。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级It's easier to find and acquire jamming equipment for some frequencies than it is for others.

与其他频率相比，发现和获取某些频率的干扰设备更容易。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing - Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5 billion, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp me

数字经济巨头们的力量和雄心是惊人的——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高档食品连锁店Whole Foods，但两年前Facebook支付了更高的价格收购WhatsApp me

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across—much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level.

爆炸留下了一个40多英里宽的洞，从地面任何地方都看不到。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds.

新的研究发现，在超过46000平方英里的加州森林中，直径超过2英尺的树木数量减少了50%。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

不到两年，它就高达近1400英尺，直径超过半英里。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

居住在城市和郊区的人表示，他们想尝试无人驾驶汽车的人数多于居住在农村地区的人。尽管有理由相信人们对自动驾驶汽车的兴趣正在全面上升，但一个人的年龄与自动驾驶汽车如何成为主流没有多大关系。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级As part of its 30 Ways in 30 Days program, It's asking communities across the country to help the more than 200 food banks and 61,000 agencies in its network provide low-income individuals and families with the fuel they need to survive.

作为其30天30条道路计划的一部分，它要求全国各地的社区帮助其网络中的200多家食品银行和61000家机构为低收入个人和家庭提供生存所需的燃料。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级More than 30 airports across the country now have therapy dogs.

全国30多个机场现在都有治疗犬。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

考研Across 18 trials each, the living rats were 52 percent more likely on average to set the social robot free than the asocial one.

在18次试验中，与社交机器人相比，活体老鼠释放社交机器人的几率平均高出52%。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

还有一个事实是，美国大公司比以往任何时候都更加全球化，供应链遍布更多的国家。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I encounter tend to act.

我读到人们比以往任何时候都更加分裂，但我遇到的人往往不是这样做的。

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

高考In that sense, I'm pretty sure volunteering is more of a selfish act than I'd freely like to admit.

从这个意义上说，我很确定志愿服务是一种自私的行为，我不愿意承认。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

也许父母的行为比过去更像父母。

2016年6月阅读原文