高考We who labor in clean shirts in offices don't have the abilities that motorheads have.

我们这些穿着干净衬衫在办公室里工作的人没有汽车司机的能力。

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级Another group of helpless children who were simply rewarded for their success on easier problems did not improve their ability to solve hard math problems.

另一组无助的孩子仅仅因为他们在较容易的问题上取得了成功而得到奖励，但并没有提高他们解决数学难题的能力。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don't is their ability to stay motivated

但找到工作的人和没有找到工作的人的区别在于他们保持积极性的能力

2012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

高考The crowne plaza hotel in copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator.

哥本哈根皇冠假日酒店将为任何一位能够使用连接到发电机的健身自行车为酒店发电的客人提供免费用餐。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

他们需要摆脱感情用事（'，感情用事): 最成功的团队都有能够确定总体方向并立即采取行动的领导者。

2017年6月阅读原文

四级The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

真正批评的亲密本质意味着谁能够给予批评，也就是说，有人非常了解你，向你展示你的精神生活是如何阻碍优秀写作的。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级They'll be able to answer the questions of students who are in their class directly via the interactive book.

他们将能够通过互动书直接回答课堂上学生的问题。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级He stood out in three ways－as a technologist, as a corporate （公司的）leader and as somebody who was able to make people love what had previously been impersonal, functional gadgets.

他在三个方面脱颖而出——作为一名技术专家，作为一名公司(公司的）作为一个领导者，他能够让人们喜欢上以前不受人欢迎的功能性小玩意。

2012年12月阅读原文

四级The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

真正批评的亲密本质意味着谁能够给予批评，也就是说，有人非常了解你，向你展示你的精神生活是如何阻碍优秀写作的。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism: the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

他们需要摆脱感情用事：最成功的团队都有能够确定总体方向并立即采取行动的领导者。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

尽管如此，琼斯在能够进入更多精英大学的第一代学生中只占一小部分，这些大学通常以丰厚的经济资助和第一代学生的高毕业率而闻名。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级It's a rare thing for anybody to be able to change who they really are.

对于任何人来说，能够改变自己的真实面目是一件非常罕见的事情。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级Meanwhile, there're few who're willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major, so the value of one more of those people is very high.

同时，很少有人愿意并且能够从事需要石油工程专业的工作，因此，这些人中再多一个的价值非常高。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is, "You can purchase this $3 million piece of land here, because I'm guaranteeing you today you'll have 1, 000 Bison on it."

对年轻人来说，如果不是这样的话，他们可能无法进入这个行业，“你可以在这里购买这片价值300万美元的土地，因为我向你保证，今天你会有1000头野牛。”

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

高考After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

在船上开始悬挂特别的旗帜，表明检查员在船上之后，看守人的家人就开始玩游戏，看谁能首先注意到船。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考A listener in China, Wang ming, who is about to get an engineering degree, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs.

即将获得工程学学位的中国听众王明想知道美国大学毕业生是如何找到工作的。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

高考A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, urging antitrust反垄断regulators to step in to check those who control its flow.

一种新的商品带来了一个高利润、快速增长的行业，促使反垄断反垄断监管者将介入，检查控制其流量的人。

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考Get smart about the people who you spend your time with.

对与你共度时光的人要聪明一点。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 阅读理解 七选五 原文

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Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

为什么有些学生在遇到困难时会放弃，而另一些不太熟练的学生会继续努力学习？我很快发现，答案之一在于人们对自己失败原因的信念。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级The students who held a fixed mind-set, however, were concerned about looking smart with less regard for learning.

然而，持有固定思维定势的学生担心自己看起来聪明，而不太重视学习。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

Kevin Werbach解释道：“游戏化是指了解什么使游戏具有吸引力，以及游戏设计师如何在游戏中创造出色的体验，并将这些经验应用到工作场所和教育等其他环境中。”，在美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院任教的游戏化专家。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

例如，谈论或多或少与生俱来的数学天才会让学生产生固定的思维定势，但对热爱数学并发展出惊人技能的伟大数学家的描述会产生一种成长的思维定势。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

作为一个以写饮食为生的人，我不能告诉你比尔·佩里的第一件事，也不能告诉你他卖的啤酒是否那么好。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

这不正是反对加工垃圾和支持手工烹饪的人群吗？这一代人不是说他们关心自己的健康和地球的福祉吗？如果这些确实是许多年轻人的价值观，那么他们的行为与他们的信仰不符。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.

今天，关于这个问题有一个严肃的问题：是否应该对处决罪犯设定最低年龄限制？换言之，被定罪的杀人犯在未满18岁时杀人，是否应该被判处死刑？。

2015年12月听力原文

六级There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

通常有两个父母，他们花很多时间给孩子们读书，担心他们的焦虑程度和繁忙的日程安排。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

在低收入的城市和农村地区，没有参加过数学竞赛的历史的教师可能不知道像MathCounts这样的高等数学机会，而那些不知道的教师可能得不到支持，或者觉得没有受过训练来领导他们。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级I think about some of the students who took advantages of their opportunities in a university.

我想到了一些学生，他们利用在大学的机会。

2017年6月听力原文

六级I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial.

我记得和一位年轻的律师交谈过，她即将开始她的第一次陪审团审判。

2017年6月听力原文

六级Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.

关于厨房设计的许多当代想法可以追溯到另一位美国人克里斯蒂娜·弗雷德里克，她致力于提高家庭主妇的工作效率。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

这可能是不对的，但不承认这一点的离校生有可能在上大学时做出错误的决定。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

83%的美国员工对工作感到压力——比一年前的73%有所上升——他们说，低薪酬和不合理的工作量是他们的头号压力源。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

即使在购买了某种连接设备的人中，37%的人表示，他们在未来使用这些设备和服务时会更加谨慎。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

这是一件严肃的事情，即使是那些轻描淡写的评论家，比如萧伯纳和纽曼，也可以相信他们知道他们在说什么。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

这种被劫持的媒体与赚来的媒体相反：一项资产或活动成为消费者、其他利益相关者或对品牌或产品做出负面指控的活动家的人质。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

就连在《泰晤士报》上鼓吹任命吉尔伯特的托马西尼也称他为“一位谦逊的音乐家，身上没有令人敬畏的指挥家的神气”。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

在科学是如何完成的理想化版本中，关于世界的事实等待着使用科学方法开展工作的客观研究人员观察和收集。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研Social scientists who complain about a lack of funding should not expect more in today’s economic climate.

在当今的经济环境下，抱怨资金短缺的社会科学家不应该期望得到更多。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研Even the very phrase “jobseeker’s allowance” is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker” who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

你的阅读是如何进行的？显然，你试图理解，从识别单个单词的意义和找出它们之间的关系的意义上来说，利用你对英语语法的明确知识（'，41），你开始推断文本的上下文，对于insta4ce来说，通过决定涉及什么样的言语事件：谁在说话，给谁，何时何地。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研Calls to disassemble all telescopes on Mauna Kea or to ban future development there ignore the reality that astronomy and Hawaiian culture both seek to answer big questions about who we are, where we come from and where we are going.

要求拆除毛纳基亚所有望远镜或禁止未来发展的呼声忽视了一个现实，即天文学和夏威夷文化都试图回答关于我们是谁、我们来自哪里以及我们要去哪里的重大问题。

2017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A Harvard Business School study found that observers consistently rated those who were frank about themselves more highly, while those who hid lost trustworthiness.

哈佛商学院（Harvard Business School）的一项研究发现，观察者一贯认为那些对自己坦诚的人的评价更高，而那些隐瞒真相的人则失去了可信度。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Even the very phrase "jobseeker's allowance" is about redefining the unemployed as a "jobseeker" who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

即使是“求职者津贴”这个词也意味着将失业者重新定义为一个“求职者”，他或她没有通过缴纳国家保险金获得福利的基本权利。

2014年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate.

但是研究金钱和幸福之间关系的经济学家一致发现，在一定的收入水平以上，两者之间并不存在可靠的相关性。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Even the children who had above average self-control as pre-schoolers could have benefited from more self-control training.

甚至那些在学龄前阶段自控能力高于平均水平的孩子也可以从更多的自控能力训练中获益。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

六级Just like drones before them, miniature satellites are beginning to fundamentally transform our conceptions of who gets to do what up above our heads.

就像前面的无人驾驶飞机一样，微型卫星正开始从根本上改变我们的观念，即谁能在我们头顶上做什么。

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

美国公共部门唯一年薪远高于25万美元的员工是大学体育教练和美国总统。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250, 000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

美国公共部门唯一年薪超过25万美元的员工是大学体育教练和美国总统。

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级In the absence of societal pressures to maintain pair-bonds, O'Sullivan suggests that romantic love has increasingly come to be seen as the factor that should determine who we stay with and for how long.

在没有维持夫妻关系的社会压力的情况下，O'Sullivan认为，浪漫的爱情越来越被视为决定我们与谁相处以及相处多久的因素。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

当这些水用于农业灌溉时，农民有可能吸收致病细菌，生吃和未洗农产品的消费者也是如此。

2016年6月阅读原文

高考The students benefiting most from college are those who are totally engaged in academic life, taking full advantage of the college's chances and resources.

从大学中受益最多的学生是那些完全投入学术生活，充分利用大学机会和资源的学生。

2019年高考英语北京卷 语法填空 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The trouble is, for many of the researchers who'd like to design systems to address these challenges, massive datasets for experimentation just don't exist—at least, not in formats that are accessible to academic researchers.

问题是，对于许多希望设计系统来应对这些挑战的研究人员来说，用于实验的海量数据集根本不存在，至少没有学术研究人员可以访问的格式。

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

高考This year, 25310 students who have accepted places in higher education institutions have put off their entry until next year, according to statistics on university entrance provided by the university and college admissions service ucas.

根据大学和大学招生服务机构ucas提供的大学入学统计数据，今年有25310名接受高等教育的学生推迟到明年入学。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Those who had watched Obama's acceptance speech as the Democrats' presidential candidate performed just as well, on average, as the white subjects.

那些观看过奥巴马作为民主党总统候选人的就职演说的人，平均而言，表现和白人一样好。

2010年6月阅读原文

四级That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country.

这意味着用户不仅可以访问他们的同学和Facebook朋友的笔记，还可以访问全国各地购买该书的任何人的笔记。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级But the code to access the program cost $120—a big sum for Harper, who had already put down $450 for textbooks, and had rent day approaching.

但是访问该项目的代码花费了120美元——这对哈珀来说是一笔大数目，他已经为教科书支付了450美元，而且租赁日即将到来。

2018年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级People who do not have access to a good listener may not only be denied the opportunity to heighten their self-awareness, but they are also denied valuable feedback as to the validity and acceptability of their inner thoughts and feelings.

无法接触到好的倾听者的人可能不仅被剥夺了提高自我意识的机会，而且还被剥夺了关于其内心想法和感受的有效性和可接受性的宝贵反馈。

2012年12月阅读原文

六级It follows a specific individual, such as a doctor or nurse, who can use it to record and access patient data.

它跟踪特定的个人，如医生或护士，他们可以使用它记录和访问患者数据。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）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

四级College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

例如，与教育程度较低的人相比，大学毕业生对无人驾驶汽车特别感兴趣：59%的大学毕业生表示他们愿意使用无人驾驶汽车，而高中或以下学历的人中，这一比例为38%。在人的生命重要的地方，这并不一定能减少交通事故。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

“意外发现”一词是霍勒斯·沃尔波尔在1854年的一封信中创造的，出自一个关于三位王子的故事，他们总是意外地发现他们不想寻找的东西。

2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

从故意破坏物品的小案件到更严重的犯罪案件,，比如酒后驾车的车祸或银行抢劫案，但弗洛伦斯必须报告所有这些违规行为，从从从宿舍每个开锁的房间拿走打字机的小偷到从大学博物馆偷走价值100万美元艺术品的小偷。

2011年6月听力原文

六级For example, Aspirin is seldom thought of as dangerous, but there are many reports of accidental poisoning of young children who take too many Aspirin pills as well as the possible development of Reye's syndrome in children with the flu.

例如，阿司匹林很少被认为是危险的，但有许多报告称，服用过多阿司匹林药片的幼儿意外中毒，以及患有流感的儿童可能患上雷氏综合症。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

四级Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.

那些居住环境更自然的人表现出19%的改善；那些在物质环境方面有同样改善，但风景不好的人只改善了4%。

2010年12月阅读原文

四级Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York, according to Marcia Lynch, Public Information Officer at Tompkins County’s Emergency Response Department.

据汤普金斯萨克郡紧急响应部门的公共信息官员玛西娅·林奇（Marcia Lynch）介绍，周四上午，17名矿工被困在纽约兰辛附近的嘉吉岩盐矿地下电梯中，救援工作正在进行。

2016年12月听力原文

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Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关 的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.

每年有近220万人死于与腹泻有关的疾病，与腹泻相关 的) 根据世卫组织的统计，疾病。

2016年6月阅读原文

四级But you both need to know what you're doing, who's paying what into the joint account and how much you keep separately.

但你们两个都需要知道自己在做什么，谁在联名账户中支付了多少，以及你们各自保留了多少。

2011年12月阅读原文

考研A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

一位名叫约翰·丹的裁缝在16世纪30年代末移民到英国，他留下了一份关于他离开英国原因的报告，上面写满了标语。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

许多美国人将陪审团制度视为关键民主价值观的具体体现，包括所有符合最低年龄和文化素质的公民都有同等资格担任陪审团成员的原则；陪审员应该是独立的

2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Students who are accustomed to living in dorms.

习惯于住在宿舍的学生。

2012年6月听力原文

高考Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics, put it this way: if we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere.

控制论领域的创始人诺伯特·维纳（Norbert Wiener）是这样说的：如果我们为了达到我们的目的而使用一个我们无法有效干预其运作的机械机构。

2017年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

四级Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can achieve based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes?

谁愿意被告知，基于你无法控制的东西，比如你的基因，你所能取得的成就是有限的？

2010年12月阅读原文

四级miguel Maeda, 42, who has a master's degree and works in public health,was the first in his family to go to college, which has allowed him to achieve a sense of financial stability his parents and grandparents never did.

42岁的miguel Maeda拥有硕士学位，从事公共卫生工作，他是家里第一个上大学的人，这让他获得了父母和祖父母从未有过的经济稳定感。

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级That's partially because it appears people who set realistic goals actually work more efficiently, and exert more effort, to achieve those goals.

部分原因是，似乎那些设定了现实目标的人为了实现这些目标而更加高效地工作，付出了更多的努力。

2012年6月阅读原文

六级According to Stephen Covey, leaders who hope to achieve outstanding success need first of all to manage themselves

据斯蒂芬·科维（Stephen Covey）说，希望取得卓越成功的领导者首先需要自我管理

2011年12月阅读原文

考研But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

但是，诺贝尔基金会的每名获奖者的三个获奖者的限制，他们每个人仍然必须生活，已经长时间地被现代研究的合作性质所超越，这将被证明是在承认希格斯玻色子的发现时被忽略的不可避免的争吵。

2014年考研阅读原文

六级If you tell an acquaintance you are a grandfather who recently lost his wife and who does volunteer work on weekends, several elements of your self-image are bought to light — the roles of grandparent, widower and conscientious citizen.

如果你告诉一个熟人，你是一位祖父，最近失去了妻子，周末做义工，你的自我形象中有几个因素值得注意——祖父母、鳏夫和尽职尽责的公民。

2013年6月听力原文

考研For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

然而，对于一种社会流行病的发生，每个受影响的人都必须影响他或她自己的熟人，而熟人又必须反过来影响他们的熟人，依此类推；而其他人对这些人的关注程度与最初的影响力没有多大关系。

2010年考研阅读原文

高考Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

记录坦格米语和文化只是都灵的一个起点，都灵试图将印度、尼泊尔、不丹和中国的喜马拉雅山脉地区的其他语言和口头传统包括在内。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 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That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country

这意味着用户不仅可以访问他们的同学和Facebook朋友的笔记，还可以访问全国各地购买该书的任何人的笔记

2013年6月阅读原文

六级But if you look at who walks across the stage for a diploma, it's still largely the white, upper-income population.

但如果你看看谁走在舞台上获得文凭，大部分还是白人高收入人群。

2011年6月阅读原文

六级It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.

这是一个严峻的现实，你可以有一个人每年只赚13000美元左右，而在整个城市另一个人却赚了数百万美元。

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研Across the Atlantic came successive groups of Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Scots, Irishmen, Dutchmen, Swedes, and many others who attempted to transplant their habits and traditions to the new world.

横跨大西洋的是一批又一批的英国人、法国人、德国人、苏格兰人、爱尔兰人、荷兰人、瑞典人和其他许多人，他们试图将自己的习惯和传统移植到新世界。

2015年考研翻译原文

四级If you act like someone who expects a fair request to be granted, chances are it will be granted

如果你表现得像一个期待公平请求被批准的人，那么很有可能它会被批准

2010年6月听力原文

六级But students who surfed the web during class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACT scores, suggesting that even the academically smartest students are harmed when they're distracted in class.

但在课堂上上网的学生无论ACT成绩如何，考试成绩都较差，这表明即使是学习最聪明的学生在课堂上分心时也会受到伤害。

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读

考研In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

马尔科姆·阿拉杜尔（Malcolm Aladuell）在其著作《引爆点》（The Tipping Point）中指出，社会流行病在很大程度上是由极少数特殊个体（通常被称为影响者）的行为所驱动的，这些人具有不同寻常的信息、说服力或良好的人际关系。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

唯一的主要反对意见来自法官安东宁·斯卡利亚，他为《外国人和煽动叛乱法》的国家特权提供了更有力的辩护。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级So we will side with the majority of the people of Philadelphia who oppose this tax and take legal action to stop it.

因此，我们将站在大多数费城人的一边，他们反对这项税收，并采取法律行动阻止它。

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级That's not to say that risk is always good, but it is related to taking action, whereas decision fatigue assuredly leads to inaction and the possible chagrin of a decision maker who might otherwise prefer a new course but is unfortunately hindered.

这并不是说风险总是好的，但它与采取行动有关，而决策疲劳无疑会导致决策者无所作为和可能的懊恼，否则决策者可能更喜欢新的课程，但不幸的是受到阻碍。

2018年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

这一行动源于周二发布的联邦法院命令，要求苹果帮助联邦调查局解锁去年12月在加利福尼亚州圣贝纳迪诺杀害14人的两名攻击者之一使用的iPhone。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken's habitat.

特别是，他们呼吁与西方州政府建立更紧密的合作关系，这些州政府往往对联邦政府的行动感到不安，他们还呼吁与控制着大约95%草原鸡栖息地的私人土地所有者建立更紧密的合作关系。

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ