考研The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century-the period when the United States emerged as an international power.

国家,战争,海军大楼,原名,，在十九世纪的最后四分之一和二十世纪的第一个四分之一，即美国作为一个国际大国崛起的时期，设有三个与制定和执行国家外交政策最密切相关的行政部门。

2018年考研阅读原文

四级Since the beginning of the twentieth century, more than sixty university members have won Nobel prizes.

自二十世纪初以来，已有60多名大学成员获得诺贝尔奖。

2003年6月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

考研The use of the motor is becoming more and more widespread in the twentieth century; as an increasing number of countries develop both technically and economically, so a larger proportion of the world’s population is able to buy and use a car.

在二十世纪，电动机的使用越来越广泛；随着越来越多的国家在技术和经济上的发展，世界上有更大比例的人口能够购买和使用汽车。

1989年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right; but, in the twentieth century, local studies have increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate, and reflect on, the wider geological picture.

因此，在十九世纪，地方地质研究本身就代表着有价值的研究；但是，在二十世纪，地方研究越来越为专业人士所接受，只有当它们纳入并反映更广泛的地质图景时。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforced by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century.

总体结果是业余爱好者更难进入专业地质期刊，裁判的广泛引入加强了这一结果，首先是19世纪的国家期刊，然后是20世纪的几家地方地质期刊。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Although the process of professionalisation and specialisation was already well under way in British geology during the nineteenth century, its full consequences were thus delayed until the twentieth century.

尽管19世纪英国地质学已经开始了专业化和专业化的进程，但其全部后果却被推迟到了20世纪。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研Two anthropologist-linguists, Franz Boas and Edward Sapir, were pioneers in describing many native languages of North and South America during the first half of the twentieth century.

两位人类学家和语言学家Franz Boas和Edward Sapir是二十世纪上半叶描述北美和南美许多本土语言的先驱。

2004年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题