were

英[w?(r)]
美[w?]

基本釋義

是,在(are的過去式)

實用例句

Issues such as these were not really his concern.

他其實并不關(guān)心諸如此類的問題。

柯林斯例句

The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents.

救援人員因風(fēng)浪太大而被迫中斷工作。

柯林斯例句

They were knocking around together for about a year.

他們交往大概有一年了。

柯林斯例句

My cuticles were split and ragged, and my nails unevenly bitten.

我指甲根部的表皮龜裂粗糙,指甲被咬得參差不齊。

柯林斯例句

I picked first all the people who usually were left till last.

我先挑出了所有通常留到最后的人。

柯林斯例句

More people would be attracted to cycling if conditions were right.

如果天氣適宜,會有更多的人被吸引到騎自行車的行列中來。

柯林斯例句

They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.

他們打算繞著小島逆潮航行。

柯林斯例句

Their replies were no more than grunts of acknowledgement.

他們所謂的回答不過是表示承認(rèn)的咕噥罷了。

柯林斯例句

Charles and I were closeted in his study for the briefing session.

我和查爾斯在他的書房里閉門開簡介會。

柯林斯例句

Their ears were still attuned to the sounds of the London suburb.

他們依然很熟悉倫敦市郊的喧鬧聲。

柯林斯例句

The crowds had been soaked and were now nicely drying out.

這群人都渾身濕透,現(xiàn)在謝天謝地快晾干了。

柯林斯例句

The company treated me as though I were skiving.

公司對待我的態(tài)度就好像是我上班時溜號了似的。

柯林斯例句

The governors were joined by Mr Hunter and his management team.

亨特先生及他率領(lǐng)的管理小組加入了州長們的隊伍。

柯林斯例句

It would be difficult to find two men who were more dissimilar.

很難找到彼此間差異更大的人了。

柯林斯例句

For her, books were as necessary to life as bread.

對她來說,書就像面包一樣,是生活必需品。

柯林斯例句

真題例句

"As what happened with tobacco, this will require a cultural shift, but that can happen," says Nguyen. "In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voic

2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

"The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting," says Reimann.

2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

116 brands were looked at for this study.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

200 college kids were taught to play some unfamiliar video games.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

92 were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

A 16th century castle in Scotland is close to collapsing after lumps of soil were washed away by floods, threatening its foundations.

2016年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

A 2009 University of British Columbia study of women with an eating disorder who were taught to knit found that learning the craft led to significant improvements.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat's owner hilario Blandon.

2017年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

A lot has changed since we were last in school.

2017年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

A review of 54 studies found that eating breakfast can improve memory, though the effects on other brain functions were inconclusive.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

A study of the University of Chicago I Pad project found that patients got tests and 34 treatments faster if they were cared for by I Pad-equipped residents.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

According to Leslie, those who ridiculed former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his 2002 remark that we have to be wary of the unknown unknowns were mistaken.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Actually, I'm on holiday with my family in Thailand at the moment, although I wish it were with my friends instead.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.

2015年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

After four months, the patients using the computerized CBT programs had no improvement in over the patients who were only getting usual care from their doctors.

2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall, USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received or time.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

After Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, mail facilities were set up in dozens of locations across the country in the two weeks that USPS was unable to provide street delivery.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

After Hurricane Katrina interrupted routine delivery, temporary mail service points were set up.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

After making a stop for a few hours at a British station on the edge of Antarctica, the two workers were flown to the southernmost Chilean city of Punta Arenas.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

After taking appropriate measures to contain the RF interference to our test lab, we tested the attack out for ourselves, and were able to verify that it's possible with the right equipment.

2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

All in all, the Olympic class ships were marvels of sea engineering, but they seemed cursed to suffer disastrous fates.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 開始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didn't boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later.

2015年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Among college graduates, in 2014 46% were married or living with a partner, and only 19% were living with their parents.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Among her respondents, 54 percent of those who were clinically depressed said that knitting made them feel happy or very happy.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

And men were in jeans, and could wear their hair long too.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

And there were small towns, and New York wasn't that far away.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

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.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Before Allred knew it, New Mexico State police officers were among the many stopping by,helping them reach a total of $568.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

Both options were priced the same.

2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

But as with any study of this kind, it was unclear if that was the cause—or if breakfast-skippers were just more likely to be overweight to begin with.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

But if aging were recognized as a disease, he said, "It would attract funding and change the way we do health care. What matters is understanding that aging is curable."

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

2016年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

But other passengers were largely safe from infection.

2019年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

But the mother said she and other parents were never told about the problem.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

But when the food was in contact with tile or wood, 48-70% of bacteria were.

2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

But when the mice were well-fed, they stayed in areas of the cage that were considered "safe".

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

By 2014, % of 18- to -year-olds who had not completed a bachelor's degree were living with their parents while % were living with a spouse or partner.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

By and large, people felt that their actions and hard work—not outside forces—were the deciding factor in how their lives turned out.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

By contrast, a Danish tax on foods high in fats was abandoned a year after its introduction, amid claims that consumers were avoiding it by crossing the border to Germany to satisfy their desire for cheaper, fattier fare.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Careme's cooking displays became the symbol of fine French dining, they were plentiful, beautiful and imposing.

2018年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Competency tests were introduced in 1935.

2016年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Davida Herzl, Aclima's boss, says they have revealed pollution highs on days when San Francisco's transit workers went on strike and the city's inhabitants were forced to use their cars.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Defense minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video-supervision system on its border with Libya.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力

Despite being unaware that there were two types of instruction, teachers reported significant motivational changes in 27% of the children in the growth mindset workshop as compared with only 9% of students in the control group.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Dutt says they were not able to evaluate the actual scientific qualifications of the applicants using the data in the files.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Earlier this morning, the office asked for the public's help to measure their speed results, saying consumers deserved to get the speeds they were promised.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

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

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.

2016年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Fortunately for him, the beach life guards were quickly on the scene to stop him from drowning.

2019年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed, and less stressed people made more sensible decisions and communicated better.

2018年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

He wanted to "set the standard for beauty in classical and mode cooling, and prove to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world", as he wrote in his papers.

2018年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Her expectations were high — impossibly so.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

However, none of them were prepared to comment on this study or discuss the detailed nicotine content of their products.

2016年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

However, when the mice were well-fed but thirsty, they opted to drink, according to the study.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

I designed an eight-session workshop for 91 students whose math grades were declining in their first year of junior high.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

I guess you were not aware to any of these, right?

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section B

If city leaders were more accountable to their residents, they might favour projects designed to help them more.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

If that income were better taxed, it might provide the revenue for better infrastructure.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

If you were like most children, you probably got upset when your mother called you by a sibling's name.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

In 1962, 50% of Americans were married by age 21.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In 2012, 125 students at Harvard were caught up in a scandal when it was discovered they had cheated on a take-home exam for a class entitled "Introduction To Congress".

2017年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In 2013, 62 British films with a budget over £500,000 were produced, compared with 87 in 2011, figures from the British Film Institute showed.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

In 2014, 28% of young men were living with a spouse or partner in their own home, while 35% were living in the home of their parent s.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In 2014, more young women 16% than young men 13% were heading up a household without a spouse or partner.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In 2014, only 71% of 18- to -year-old men were employed.

2019年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

In a review of 14 studies that looked at physical activity and academic performance, investigators found that the more children moved, the better their grades were in school, particularly in the basic subjects of math, English and reading.

2016年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

In Beijing, one registration office had about 300 couples seeking to get married the day after the changes were announced, rather than the usual number of between 70 and 80.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

In fact, vaguely-stated possibilities of winning a prize were more effective than options with hard odds included.

2016年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

2019年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

In her study, participants were randomly assigned to two groups.

2017年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.

2017年6月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

In one experiment, the mice were both hungry and thirsty.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

In one US study that analysed the health data of 50,000 people over seven years, researchers found that those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index BMI than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.

2019年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

In the same way physicians used to smoke, and then stopped smoking and were able to talk to patients about it,I think physicians can have a bigger voice in it.

2018年12月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In the second experiment meant to pit the mice's hunger against their fear, hungry mice were placed in a cage that had certain "fox-scented" areas and other places that smelled safer but also had food.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer.

2016年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

It must have been very crowded when you were there.

2018年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

It turned out that, when the mice were hungry, they ventured into the unsafe areas for food.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

It turns out that the cats were remarkably smart about what would happen when a container was tipped over.

2018年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

It was interesting to see such a strange sight, but there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

2015年12月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

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.

2017年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

millions of bees have died in South Carolina during aerial insect-spraying operations that were carried out to combat the Zika virus.

2018年6月四級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

Most of these dated back to the 1960s and 70s and were in a poor state of repair.

2015年12月四級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

2017年6月四級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Most urban Africans live in slums migrants are often not much better off than they were in the countryside.

2017年12月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

2016年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Officials of the Tunisian government are especially worried after dozens of tourists were killed in the attack in Tunisia last year.

2016年12月四級真題(第二套)聽力

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered "eggs" that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

2017年6月四級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Participants were balanced across the three groups for age, sex, educational background, severity and duration of depression, and use of antidepressant.

2019年6月四級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

"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.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

30 people were present, and all, except me, me from the island called McClure in the nation of nut.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

A 2001 study cataloged all the ways in which the term " Black " carried connotations 涵 義 that were more negative than those of " African American. "

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

A mere generation ago, parent-child relations were described as "the generation gap".

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Algorithms that were right 95% of the time when they were dealing with a 13,000-image database, for example, were accurate about 70% of the time when confronted with 1 million images.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

An analysis of car sales in Germany found that cars with gills that were upturned like smiles sold best.

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

And then at adulthood, IFPri has actually demonstrated that children who were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large margin, by 46 percent.

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 熱衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

And while the Portuguese took part in the trade, ferrying nuts down the coast along with other goods, by 1620, when English explorer Richard Jobson made his way up the Gambia, the nuts were still peculiar to his eyes.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Anyway, the next night we were all given another foreign speciality.

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

Articles were to be short, readable and uplifting.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

At a time when natural history was a valuable tool for discovery, Merian discovered facts about plants and Insects that were not previously known.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

At least the slides were good, that is, until the bulb in the projector blew, and she had to finish the talk with no illustrations.

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

At the base of a mountain in Tanzania Gregory rift, Lake Natron burns bright red, surrounded by the remains of animals that were unfortunate enough to fall into the salty water.

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

But consumers' preferences were already shifting toward touch-screen smartphones.

2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

But the other team members were working as hard and long as he was.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

But when our diverse team of researchers from six different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known, we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done, including one we ourselves completed on language divers

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

By the late 19th Century, kola nuts were being shipped by the tonne to Europe and the US.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Children were not always raised so differently.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Children with attention problems in early childhood were 40% less likely to graduate from high school, says a new study from Duke University.

2018年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Cialdini conducted a study in San diego in which coat hangers bearing messages about saving energy were hung on people's doors.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

City University of New York CUNY, Rutgers University, and Indiana University were out of reach as were mississippi State and the University of Alabama, where I would have to pay out-of-state fees.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

CucinTech was a company who were very much following the pack, doing what everyone else was doing, and getting rapidly left behind.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

During the tour, tuition fees were discussed.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

For decades, many downtown cores in small to mid-sized cities were abandoned after work hours by workers who lived in the suburbs.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

For instance, DeWalt discovered that many contractors were holding on to their old tools, even if they no longer worked, because they were expensive purchases and it was hard to justify bringing them in to recycle.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

From the early 1960s, local authorities were required to plan health and welfare services.

2018年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Further, the more their computer gave them problems, the more likely the respondents were to report that it had its own "beliefs and conscientiousness".

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Half were instructed to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips 30 sealed.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A

He laid off several hundred workers; especially hard hit were the blue- and pink-collar departments such as subscription fulfillment.

2018年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

He said although more fishing was taking place nearer penguin colonies it was often happening later in the season when these colonies were empty.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: It is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; It has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there i

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

However, higher doses of screen time were clearly associated with lower happiness.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

However, the largest known wooden churches were built from the 1130s onwards.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Humans cannot, and would die if their legs were exposed for any length of time.

2017年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

I never really understood why so many girls were such big fans of her.

2019年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section A

I thought the French were all good cooks.

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem of emissions pretty quickly.

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

If you've ever started a sentence with, "If I were you…" or found yourself scratching your head at a colleague's agony over a decision when the answer is crystal-clear, there's a scientific reason behind it.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section A

In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

In 2008 and 2009, class-action lawsuits were filed against SC Johnson for using "Greenlist" labels on its cleaning products.

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

In 2008, Cuba was hit by five successive hurricanes, but only seven people were killed.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

In contrast, adults behaved in similar ways regardless of whether they were on their own or observed by others.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

In fact, when Twenge previously used this data to suggest a screen time effect, some commentators were quick to raise this problem.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and j

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In one experiment, people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute desires to various gadgets.

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex c

2015年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

In the observational studies we found that some of the B vitamins were beneficial.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

It is most certainly shaped by a person's culture as well as how they were raised in their childhood.

2019年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

It suggests the children remember the researcher they've met just one time when they were only one-year-olds.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

It works for things as boring as archaeological museums, where people were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

It's true that if total employment were higher, it would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from .

2015年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; It was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

2016年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

like many first-generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs.

2015年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Many dairy farmers were persuaded to switch to grass-fed when they saw its advantage in terms of profits.

2019年12月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

More than 90 meters of cable were incorrectly installed.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state building

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Most early books were printed in Latin, but the market for Latin was limited, and in its pursuit of larger markets, the book trade soon produced translations into the national languages emerging at the time.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

Mothers who slept in the same room as their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, had poorer sleep than mothers whose babies slept elsewhere in the house: They woke up more frequently, were awake approximately 20 minutes longer per night

2016年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

Movement out of city centers was widespread, and downtown tenants were predominantly made up of the working poor.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

My school didn't come pre-packaged like the more popular options, so we were left to take care of ourselves, figuring out city life and trying to complete degree programs that no one was championing for us to succeed in.

2018年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section B

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section C

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, less-educated parents.

2017年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Of the 300 employees participating in the study, those who experienced high levels of telepressure were more likely to agree with statements assessing burnout, like "I've no energy for going to work in the morning", and to report feeling fatigued and unfo

2016年12月六級真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B

Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

One useful tip is that things are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were when you learned them.

2017年6月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

2017年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

2016年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Technologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums, but failed to prevent their escape.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

Other churches were conserved in previous years.

2019年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section C

Other needles were slipped into my left wrist and, strangely, into my right arm, and then into both my closed eyelids.

2018年6月六級真題(第二套)聽力 Section C

Participants in the study were separated into two groups—one group was asked to eat 30 grams of protein per meal in the form of whole foods.

2019年12月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

2019年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section C

Playing sounds into the right ears stimulating the left hemispher of 27 volunteers was more likely to wake them up than if the noises were played into their left ears.

2017年6月六級真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

Publishers were interested only in books that would sell fairly quickly in sufficient numbers to cover the costs of production and make a profit.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

right from the start, book printing and publishing were organized on capitalist lines.

2017年12月六級真題(第一套)聽力 Section B

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

2016年6月六級真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C

According to the text, the mice fed with daytime milk were more anxious.

2016年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 題設(shè)

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

2016年高考英語上海卷 語法填空 A 原文

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

All around her, people were suffering, especially the elderly.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

At the bottom of the paper were these words:" see what you can do when you keep trying? "

2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

At the university of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 完形填空 原文

Before the 1830s, most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $8 to $10 a year.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

2018年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb to new stimulation, new ideas.

2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

But he later said, "those two books were my companions by day, and under my pillow at night."

2017年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

But he said that they were all nice people and he couldn't imagine any of them had done that.

2015年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

But no matter how rich they were, Dawson was never comfortable.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

But our funds were limited, and none of the houses in our price range seemed satisfactory.

2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

But so had those who were high in status.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

2018年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

But then we got an official letter and we were blown away.

2019年高考英語全國卷2 語法填空 原文

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

By the end of the first chapter, requests were coming from the back seat: "Please read a little louder."

2016年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文

By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

By year three, the rabbits and the groundhog were back.

2015年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文

Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags.

2017年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Children aged 8 to 10 were "starting to feel happy" when others liked their posts.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Conditions were so bad that it was impossible for him to find the trail again.

2016年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and were too violent for use at the table.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

Each time you get a headache, write down the date, the time, and what you were doing and feeling before your headache started.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 聽力 原文

Early forms of cake were simply a kind of bread, so this tradition hits its roots in the custom of sharing bread.

2015年高考英語安徽卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 原文

Egypt and Babylon were both tyrannies, one very powerful man ruling over helpless masses.

2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Engineering graduates were more likely to have started their job search already, and to have accepted a job.

2016年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

Even the youngest children in the class were attracted by the story.

2016年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文

Female Australian superb fairy wrens were found to repeat one sound over and over again while hatching their eggs.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

For breakfast, we were able to eat papaya and other fruits from their trees in the backyard.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 語法填空 原文

For example, snowmen were a phenomenon in the middle ages, built with great skill and thought.

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

For many who made it to Dawson, however, the rewards were worth the difficult trip.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

For the next two weeks, the Holdens were heartbroken.

2015年高考英語陜西卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Fourteen wolves were caught in Canada and transported to the park.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental united states, but they were gradually displaced by human development.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Guy Harvold, 24, had picked up the students and three course leaders from Gatwick Airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to meet their host families.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 完形填空 原文

He used to tell me that readers were leaders, and encouraged me to read all I could.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 聽力 原文

He wrote many children' s books, nearly half of which were published in the 1990s.

2015年高考英語重慶卷 單項填空 原文

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

2016年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Her husband and daughter were united as one.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 選項

Her times were not exactly impressive, but even so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Here's how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment: in their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Horses were fairly useful in Chicago.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 選項

How would you like it if you were watching your favorite TV program and someong came into the room and just shut it off without asking you?

2015年高考英語浙江卷 單項填空 原文

However, her dad reminded her that sugary treats were bad for her teeth.

2019年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

However, the railway quickly proved to be a great success and within six months, more than 25, 000 people were using it every day.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 語法填空 原文

However, these plans were abandoned because of financial problems.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

However, those in the 10 to 12 age group were "concerned with how many people like their posts", suggesting a "need" for social recognition that gets stronger the older they become.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

I carefully extended a long carrot, with a keen eye on those teeth, and before long, there were times I would have the groundhog sitting next to a rabbit, both munching on carrots.

2015年高考英語四川卷 完形填空 原文

I encountered many hikers who were headed to a distant camp-ground with just enough time to get there before dark.

2018年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

I guess the answer is, we were fighting for survival, protecting and providing for those we loved.

2015年高考英語天津卷 閱讀表達 原文

I saw there were two instructors on board and a man lying across the middle.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

I think almost all the people in the town were there.

2019年高考英語全國卷3 完形填空 原文

I was thrilled! I arrived early at byron bay where we were supposed to meet.

2018年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

I wonder how he would react if I were to read my newspaper out loud on the train, I have never had the courage to do it, though.

2015年高考英語重慶卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

If humans were truly at home under the light of the moon and stars,we would go in darkness happily,the midnight world as visible to us as it is to the vast number of nocturnal species on this planet.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

If I were you, I would tell her to stop.

2016年高考英語全國卷1 聽力 原文

If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(10月) 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

If she had been aware that the mushroom were poisonous, she would not have picked them for dinner.

2015年高考英語湖北卷 句子填空 原文

If something were wrong,someone would have called you.

2017年高考英語浙江卷(11月) 聽力 原文

In 1812, the year Charles Dickens was born, there were 66 novels published in Britain.

2018年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文

In 1988 there were only 600 recycling programs; today in 1995 there are about 6, 600.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

In 2004 , when my daughter Becky was ten, she and my husband, Joe, were united in their desire for a dog.

2015年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In addition, the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food.

2017年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.

2016年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In Greece, in Athens, a little city in a little country, there were no helpless masses.

2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.

2014年高考英語全國卷1 閱讀理解 閱讀B 題設(shè)

In the late 1980s, the last few condors were taken from the wild, and there are now more than 150 flying over California and nearby Arizona, Utah and Baja in Mexico.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Inside were the "verbs" shirt and a note from Freddy's mother.

2017年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

Inspections were a regular part of lighthouse living, and a keeper's reputation depended on results.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

Interviews were repeated at ages 25, 31 and 47.

2016年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

It gave him a feeling of warmth and made him feel that they were home at last.

2015年高考英語北京卷 完形填空 原文

It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little.

2016年高考英語上海卷 語法填空 B 原文

It was when we were returning home that I realized what a good feeling it was to have helped someone in trouble.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 單項選擇 原文

It would not matter if these misjudgments were just a matter of people's opinions.

2019年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

It's widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by sliding them on smooth paths.

2015年高考英語四川卷 閱讀理解 閱讀E 題設(shè)

Joe Simpson and Simon Yates were the first people to climb the west face of the siula grande in the andes mountains.

2014年高考英語全國卷2 完形填空 原文

John Lennon and Paul McCartney were named composers of the year.

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Kate, whose sister I shared a room with when we were at college, has gone to work in Australia.

2018年高考英語天津卷 單項填空 原文

Many of Natalie's friends had lost their homes and were living far away.

2016年高考英語北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

2016年高考英語全國卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Many rock bands were able to follow in the footsteps of the beatles.

2019年高考英語浙江卷 閱讀理解 七選五 原文

Many visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types.

2018年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀C 原文

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

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 單項填空 原文

Minutes after the last movie ended yesterday at the plaza theater, employees were busy sweeping up popcorns and gathering coke cups.

2017年高考英語全國卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀B 原文

More generally, the Internet functions as if it were my memory.

2016年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

Moth, meanwhile, after an initial struggle, found his symptoms were strangely reduced by their daily tiring journey.

2018年高考英語江蘇卷 完形填空 原文

My fiance and I were excited about shopping for our first home.

2015年高考英語天津卷 完形填空 原文

My husband and I were thinking of buying something.

2015年高考英語湖南卷 聽力 原文

"If we were really bold, we might even begin to think of high-calorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising, product placement and sponsorship of sport events," he said.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

"So if you're overpaying for print, you could feel like you were helping," Peretti said.

2016年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

"The ancient Hawaiians were astronomers," wrote Queen liliuokalani, Hawaii's last reigning monarch, in 1897.

2017年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

After several decades, the same data were subjected to econometric analysis.

2010年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Among the children who had not been tricked, the majority were willing to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership.

2018年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

An awareness that they were being experimented upon seemed to be enough to alter workers' behavior by itself.

2010年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

And if Peretti were in charge at the times?

2016年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

2013年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

At Boston College, for example, you would have to complete an extra year were you to switch to the nursing school from another department.

2017年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But Dr Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big picture was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with.

2013年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

But in March 2010 a judge ruled that genes were unpatentable.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news breaks, even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the views they afforded and the elegance of the buildings' details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.  

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Companies had won patents for isolated DNA for decades-by 2005 some 20% of human genes were patented.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Contrary to the descriptions on record, no systematic evidence was found that levels of productivity were related changes in lighting.

2010年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Customers were generally responsible for paying the sales tax to the state themselves if they weren't charged it, but most didn't realize they owed it and few paid.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

Despite attempts by the Church to strong-arm this new generation of logicians and rationalists, more explanations for how the universe functioned were being made, and at a rate that the people-including the Church -could no longer ignore.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Dr Kroo and his team modeled what would happen if three passenger jets departing from Los Angeles San Francisco and Las Vegas were to assemble over Utah,assume an inverted V-formation, occasionally change places so all could have a turn in the most favour

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Evidence shows that 60,000 extra new homes could be built over the next five years if the cap were lifted, increasing GDP by 0.6%.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

first, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one.

2014年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

For one trial, each participant was shown a pile of pens that the researcher claimed were from a previous experiment.

2018年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

For the low-sympathy kids, how much they shared appeared to turn on how inclined they were to feel guilty.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly tended to live shorter lives.

2009年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

his biographies of James Walt, Richard Arkwright and Josiah Wedgwood were held up as beacons to guide the working man through his difficult life.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children's caregivers—and all families, Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.

2013年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

If the trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa were alive today, he would probably represent civil servant.

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

In a final experiment, participants who were encouraged to predict how they would feel after viewing an unpleasant picture were less likely to choose to see such an image.

2018年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In a Swiss study, researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their counterparts who inhaled something else.

2018年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In fact, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, since human beings thrive off of social connections.

2015年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

2011年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

It had its origins in the great outdoors, but the results were as gallery-bound as the paintings of Turner and Constable.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote that the previous decisions were flawed.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

Last April, for example, the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for "inventions" that are obvious.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons—both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

2017年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Many said that unemployment, while extremely painful, had improved them in some ways; they had become less materialistic and more financially prudent; they were more aware of the struggles of others.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

mies' sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

millennials remember their father and mother both were laid off.

2017年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those initial doses were of the Flumist nasal spray type, which is not recommended for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, hear

2010年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Most of the first-generation students were recipients of Pell Grants, a federal grant for undergraduates with financial need, while this was true only for 8.6 percent of the students with at least one parent with a four-year degree.

2015年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Nor was there any evidence that those who self-enhanced the most were doing so to make up for profound insecurities.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized I0 years ago.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Offering up such a theory during a time of high tension between scientific and religious minds was branded as heresy, and any such heretics that continued to spread these lies were to be punished by imprisonment or even death.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

On July 29th they were relieved, at least temporarily.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come down with a cold, and the researchers calculated that the stress-reducing effects of hugging explained about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.

2017年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Pyle was famous for covering the human side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were gained or what towns were captured or liberated.

2012年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Researchers measured people's cortisol, which is stress marker, while they were at work and while they were at home and found it higher at what is supposed to be a place of refuge.

2015年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Scientific method, reductionism and the questioning of Church ideals was to be encouraged, as were ideas of liberty, tolerance and progress.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

sixty toddlers were each introduced to an adult tester holding a plastic container.

2018年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Star watchers were among the most esteemed members of Hawaiian society.

2017年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Such actions to seek knowledge and to understand what information we already knew were captured by the Latin phrase "sapere aude" or "dare to know", after Immanuel Kant used it in his essay An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Sure enough, firms'investment and R&D intensity were correlated with the happiness of the area in which they were headquartered.

2016年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The "Case Study Houses" commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts and Architecture magazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the "less is more" trend.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The 17th and 18th centuries were times of radical change and curiosity.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The apartments in the elegant towers mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller-two-bedroom units under 1, 000 square feet-than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The first executive offices were constructed between 1799 and 1820.

2018年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The history of the EEOB began long before its foundations were laid.

2018年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The Industrial Revolution didn't go so well for Luddites whose jobs were displaced by mechanized looms, but it eventually raised living standards and created more jobs than it destroyed.

2018年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they'd feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

2016年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The Nobels were, of course, themselves set up by a very rich individual who had decided what he wanted to do with his own money.

2014年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The robots rats were quite minimalist, resembling a chunkier version of a computer mouse with wheels-to move around and colorful markings.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

The same people were used in both samples.

2015年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

2013年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

The study also found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity.

2015年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

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.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Then the kids were handed chocolate coins, and given a chance to share them with an anonymous child.

2019年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

There are reports that some military aircraft flew in formation when they were low on fuel during the Second World War, but Dr. lissaman says they are unsubstantiated.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

There were pickwick coats and pickwick cigars, and the plump, spectacled hero, Samuel pickwick, became a national figure.

2017年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

These men believed in journalism as a calling, and were proud to be published in the daily press.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

They were impressionable kids during the crash of 2008, when many of their parents lost their jobs or their life savings or both.

2020年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.

2010年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

This would be reasonable if it were not for the fact that scientists can easily arrange to cite themselves in their future publications, or get associates to do so for them in return for similar favours.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles reacted more enthusiastically to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, suggesting that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around.

2011年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to see that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.

2015年考研真題(英語一)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activit

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

2010年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Twenty-seven students were told which pens were electrified; another twenty-seven were told only that some were electrified.

2018年考研真題(英語二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Until this century, university libraries were not very price sensitive.

2020年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Up until a few decades ago, our visions of the future were largely -- though by no means uniformly-glowingly positive.

2013年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less well educated.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When Hoffa's Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

2012年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10, 000 years ago, they didn't have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

2009年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

While the researchers assumed that the well-structured daily plans would be most effective when it came to the execution of tasks, they were wrong: the detailed daily plans demotivated students.

2018年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Whole new realms of understanding—from gender to race to cultural studies—were opened up as scholars unpicked the multiplicity of lost societies.

2012年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public servi

2016年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions-like, say, tennis games.

2020年考研真題(英語一)翻譯 Section Ⅲ

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