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Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在零食中放一个小奖品来游戏化零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头（“，巨头) 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，在工厂地板上写下上一班生产的钢材吨数，从而激励下一班工人击败上一班。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Just make sure you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar.

只要确保你得到的是真正的食物，没有添加大量的盐或糖。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary ( ' , 不爱活动的 ) lifestyle.

但是一项新的研究发现，还有另外一组青少年也有同样的精神症状：他们使用大量的媒体，睡眠不足，久坐不动，不爱活动的 ) 生活方式。

2016年12月阅读原文

高考The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

中国农业部发现，从2005年政府开始土壤测试计划，向农民提供具体的肥料建议到2011年，化肥使用量下降了770万吨。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

高考Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

其中近一半被填埋，多达1200万吨污染海洋。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

在一些地方，化肥价格比去年每公吨上涨了近50%，人类粪便是一种有吸引力的、而且经常是必要的替代品。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考However, I soon discover that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of camps among tons of rubbish.

然而，我很快发现，自从有报道称营地被成吨的垃圾包围以来，情况发生了很大变化。

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

六级In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darn ton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

哈佛大学图书馆馆长罗伯特·达恩·顿（Robert Darn ton）最近在《纽约书评》上发表的一篇文章中指出，由于这类书籍是我们所有人的共同资源，只有公共、非营利机构才有权控制它们。

2011年12月阅读原文

四级As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

随着地下水位下降和灌溉井干涸，中国作为世界上最大的小麦作物，自1997年达到1.23亿吨的峰值以来，已经下降了8%。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.

每年有10亿公吨的碳排放到大气中，使森林成为温室气体的主要来源。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级There are tons of on-campus job opportunities, and as a student, you’ll automatically be given hiring priority.

校园里有很多工作机会，作为一名学生，你会自动获得优先录用权。

2016年12月听力原文

高考While restaurants throw away tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of locked garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies.

尽管餐馆每年都会扔掉成吨的食物，但由于垃圾箱上锁、卫生法规或商业政策，大部分食物仍然无法进入。

2019年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

四级Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of

他补充说，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在“游戏化”其快餐食品，在里面放一个小奖品，以及世纪之交的钢铁巨头(巨头 据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，写下吨的数量

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

为什么这么多美国人吃成吨的加工食品，这些食品被正确地称为垃圾（“，垃圾 ) 而且真的应该贴上警告标签吗？这并不是因为新鲜食材很难买到。

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 metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases

每年有10亿公吨的碳排放到大气中，使森林成为温室气体的主要来源

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

在亚马逊地区的每个燃烧季节，边境定居者和开发商故意放火，每年排放近5亿吨碳，使巴西成为世界上温室气体排放量最大的五个国家之一。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Annually, the world generates 1.3 billion tons of solid waste.

全世界每年产生13亿吨固体废物。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world

在亚马逊地区的每个燃烧季节，边境定居者和开发商故意放火，每年排放近5亿吨碳，使巴西成为世界上温室气体排放量最大的五个国家之一

2013年6月阅读原文

六级My family has tons of camping gear

我们家有很多露营装备

2012年12月听力原文

四级Backing this up, recent data show that passenger cars in the UK emitted 69 million tons of CO2 in 2015.

最近的数据显示，2015年英国乘用车排放了6900万吨二氧化碳，这也印证了这一点。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级It is estimated that in 2014 the world produced some 42 million metric tons of e-waste discarded electrical and electronic equipment and its parts with North America and Europe accounting for 8 and 12 million metric tons respectively.

据估计，2014年，全世界产生了约4200万公吨的电子废弃物废弃电气和电子设备及其零件，北美和欧洲分别占800万公吨和1200万公吨。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically,it could eventually release 3.5-5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.

如果雨林的崩塌速度急剧加快，每年可能最终向大气释放35-50亿吨碳，使森林成为温室气体的主要来源。

2013年6月阅读原文

高考Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

人类每年生产超过3亿吨塑料。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级As a bonus, the hotel’s lower energy needs have reduced its annual carbon emissions by more than 200 metric tons.

此外，酒店较低的能源需求使其年碳排放量减少了200多公吨。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级Lighting eats up 20 percent of the world’s electricity, or the equivalent of roughly 600,000 tons of coal a day.

照明消耗了世界20%的电力，相当于每天大约60万吨煤炭。

2007年12月英语六级真题

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

六级What’s more, demand for animal products in developing countries is growing so fast that meeting it will require an extra 300 million tons of grain a year by 2050. yet the growth of cities and industry is reducing the amount of water available for agriculture in many regions.

此外，发展中国家对动物产品的需求增长如此之快，到2050年，每年需要额外3亿吨粮食才能满足这一需求。然而，城市和工业的发展正在减少许多地区可用于农业的水量。

2008年12月英语六级真题

六级She wound up defending herself on CNN (accompanied by her son) and on popular blogs like the buffing ton post, where her follow-up piece was ironically headlined “More From America’s Worst Mom.

她最终在美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）（由儿子陪同）和流行博客上为自己辩护，比如这篇精彩的帖子，讽刺的是，她的后续文章标题是“来自美国最糟糕的妈妈的更多”。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级From the “she’s an irresponsible mother” camp came: “Shame on you for being so careless about his safety,” in Comments on the buffing ton post.

来自“她是一个不负责任的母亲”阵营的人在buffing ton帖子的评论中说：“你对他的安全如此粗心，真可耻。”。

2009年6月英语六级真题

六级She also got heaps of praise for bucking the “helicopter parent” trend: “Good for this Mom,” one commenter wrote on the buffing ton post.

她还因打破“直升机家长”的潮流而获得了大量赞誉：一位评论者在buffing ton帖子上写道：“这对这位妈妈很好。”。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级The best they can tell us is that the space station, weighing 77 tons and as high as a 12 story building, will break into hundreds of pieces that will be scattered across a track 100 miles wide and 4,000 miles long.

他们能告诉我们的最好消息是，这个重达77吨、高达12层楼的空间站将分解成数百块碎片，散落在100英里宽、4000英里长的轨道上。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级What worries Richard Smith, the Skylab’s director, is the “big pieces” that will come through the atmosphere, Two lumps, weighing 2 tons each, and ten, weighing at least 1,000 pounds each, will come in at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour and if they crash on land they will dig holes up to 100 feet deep.

天空实验室主任理查德·史密斯担心的是将穿过大气层的“大块”，两块，每块重2吨，十块，每块至少重1000磅，将以每小时数百英里的速度进入，如果它们坠毁在陆地上，它们将挖出100英尺深的洞。

1994年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton.

每回收一吨废物，一个城市就避免为其处理付费，在纽约部分地区，这相当于每吨节省了100多美元。

2001年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级Farming ton, Utah, is a more pleasant community since a local girls' 4-H club improved Main Street.

犹他州的Farming ton是一个更令人愉快的社区，因为当地的女子4-H俱乐部改善了主街。

2013年 6月大学英语四级考试真题

四级Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾) should really carry warning labels?

为什么这么多美国人吃大量的加工食品，这种东西被正确地称为垃圾食品(垃圾) 真的应该贴上警告标签吗？

2015年12月英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级The result is falling water tables(地下水位) in countries with half the world’s people, including the three big grain producers——China, India and the U. S. As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China’s wheat crop, the world’s largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

结果是地下水位下降(地下水位) 在拥有世界一半人口的国家，包括三大粮食生产国——中国、印度和美国。

2016年6月大学英语四级真题（第2套)

四级Cracker Jacks has been “gamifying” its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of- the-century steel magnate（巨头）Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

他补充道，100多年来，Cracker Jacks一直在通过在里面放一个小奖品来“游戏化”其零食，而世纪之交的钢铁巨头(巨头）据说查尔斯·施瓦布经常来到他的工厂，把上一班的钢铁产量写在工厂的地板上，从而激励下一班的工人打败上一班。

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾) and should really carry warning labels?

为什么这么多美国人吃大量的加工食品，这种东西被正确地称为垃圾食品(垃圾) 真的应该贴上警告标签吗？

2020年7月大学英语四级真题

四级Just make sure you’re getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar.

只要确保你得到的是真正的食物，没有添加大量的盐或糖。

2020年7月大学英语四级真题