四级John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

AAA汽车工程和维修部总经理约翰·尼尔森（John Nielsen）表示，测试表明驾驶员可能高估了自己的能力。

2017年6月听力原文

六级Some experts even consider lying a developmental milestone, like crawling and walking, because it requires sophisticated planning, attention and the ability to see a situation from someone else5 s perspective to manipulate them.

一些专家甚至认为说谎是一个发展的里程碑，比如爬行和行走，因为它需要复杂的计划、注意力和从别人的角度来观察情况来操纵它们的能力。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

在人际影响基本原理的基础上，研究人员通过对人群进行数千次计算机模拟，操纵与人们影响他人的能力及其受影响倾向相关的变量，研究了社会影响的动态。

2010年考研阅读原文

六级It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

引人注目的运动员可以影响儿童的饮食行为，这并不奇怪，但科学家们能够量化这些支持在儿童环境中的普遍程度。

2016年12月听力原文

四级On Sunday, the castle’s owner John Gordon, 76, was forced to move out his property after the River Dee swept away about 60 feet of land, leaving the castle dangerously close to the river, according to the Scottish Daily Record.

根据苏格兰每日记录，周日，城堡的主人约翰·戈登（John Gordon），76岁，在迪河冲走了大约60英尺的土地后，被迫搬走了他的财产，使城堡危险地靠近河流。

2016年12月听力原文

四级It’s: why are the British so cold? And they’re talking about the British personality—the famous British reserve.

问题是：为什么英国人这么冷？他们在谈论英国人的性格，著名的英国保守派。

2016年12月听力原文

六级Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child’s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.

现在，一项始于新西兰约1000名儿童的新研究追踪了儿童低自控力如何预测健康不佳、金钱问题，甚至成年后的犯罪记录。

2016年6月听力原文

六级Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

这个理论的有趣之处在于，如果你只有三分之一或三分之二，你会得到什么？你有什么？如果三分之二不同，又有什么不同？这种理论的有趣之处在于，它产生了许多不同的组合，当你将它们分解并开始仔细观察时，它们会非常有趣。

2016年12月听力原文

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As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

当发现主张在社区中发挥作用时，关于所涉及的科学和技术的共享和相互竞争的信念之间的互动和对抗将个人的发现主张转变为社区可信的发现。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 207 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee’s safety and Entergy’s management- especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.

一系列事故，包括207年冷却塔部分倒塌和地下管道系统泄漏的发现，对佛蒙特扬基的安全和Entergy的管理提出了严重质疑，尤其是在该公司对管道做出误导性陈述之后。

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This type of integrity requires well-enforced laws in government transparency, such as records of official meetings, rules on lobbying, and information about each elected leader’s source of wealth.

这类廉洁要求政府透明度方面的法律得到严格执行，如官方会议记录、游说规则以及每位当选领导人的财富来源信息。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

如果一切进展如此顺利，那么为什么1700多万人投票支持英国脱欧，尽管有人警告说脱欧会对英国的经济前景造成什么影响？。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea’s peak rises above the bulk of our planet’s dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.

莫纳凯亚峰位于太平洋，位于我们星球稠密大气的大部分之上，那里的条件允许望远镜获得无与伦比的清晰图像。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研Beethoven’s habit of increasing the volume with an extreme intensity and then abruptly following it with a sudden soft passage was only rarely used by composers before him.

贝多芬的习惯是以极大的力度增加音量，然后突然用一段突然柔和的乐段，在他之前的作曲家很少使用这种习惯。

2014年考研翻译原文

考研Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

她继续强调自己的观点：“越来越明显的是，政府、媒体或企业缺乏目标和道德语言，可能会成为资本主义和自由最危险的因素之一。”。

2015年考研阅读原文

六级The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

正如您从标题和摘要中所看到的，今天讲座的目的是更详细地探讨中小企业面临的问题，这些问题至少部分是由于必须适应技术的快速发展。

2016年12月听力原文

考研The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March.

正如亚历山大·波利亚科夫（Alexander Polyakov）在3月份接受今年的奖项时所说，300万美元的基础物理奖确实是一个有趣的实验。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility( ' , CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

但即使你接受弗里德曼的前提，认为企业社会责任（CSR）政策是对股东资金的浪费，事情也可能不是绝对明确的。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter ,Elisabeth ,spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism ”in society should be profit and the market.

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的女儿伊丽莎白（Elisabeth）谈到“我们这么多机构中令人不安的诚信缺失”，她认为，诚信已经崩溃，因为人们普遍认为社会上唯一的“分类机制”应该是利润和市场。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研The charter’s main tool of enforcement is to deny access for designers and modeling agencies to Copenhagen Fashion Week ( ' , CFW), which is run by the Danish Fashion Institute.

该章程的主要执行工具是拒绝设计师和模特机构参加哥本哈根时装周（CFW），该时装周由丹麦时装研究所主办。

2016年考研阅读原文

六级It’s no accident that most gas station shave convenience stores attached.

大多数加油站都有便利店，这不是偶然的。

2016年12月听力原文

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

四级According to the firm’s vice-president of Marketing and Sales, We benefited from low expectations.

据该公司负责营销和销售的副总裁说，我们从低期望中获益。

2015年12月听力原文

考研According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

根据许多书籍和文章，新英格兰的领导人确立了美国知识生活中正在发展的、占主导地位的清教徒传统的基本主题和关注点。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研What’s not to like? Quite a lot, according to a handful of scientists quoted in the News Feature.

有什么不喜欢的？根据新闻特写中引述的一些科学家的说法，相当多。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研After a bruising encounter with Congress, America’s Financial Accounting Standards Board ( ' , FASB) rushed through rule changes.

在与国会激烈交锋后，美国财务会计准则委员会（FASB）匆忙通过了规则修改。

2010年考研阅读原文

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

考研They are acting because national governments-Britain s and others across Europe 一 have failed to do so.

他们之所以采取行动，是因为英国和欧洲其他国家的国家政府一 我们没有这样做。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

最近的一项研究试图通过观察美国《反海外腐败法》（“，FCPA”）下的贿赂起诉来区分它们。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

高等法院的判决说，审判麦克唐纳的法官没有告诉陪审团，陪审团只能看他的“官方行为”，或者前州长关于与其职责相关的“具体”和“未解决”问题的判决。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Count that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

联邦巡回法院的行动是在最高法院最近作出一系列决定之后作出的，这些决定缩小了对专利持有人的保护范围。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研In contrast to France’s actions, Denmark’s fashion industry agreed last month on rules and sanctions regarding the age, health, and other characteristics of models.

与法国的行动相反，丹麦时装业上个月就有关模特年龄、健康和其他特征的规定和制裁达成一致。

2016年考研阅读原文

六级Currently, there’s mounting criticism of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, which fights childhood obesity by encouraging youngsters to become more physically active, and it signed on singer Beyonce and basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, both of whom also endorse sodas which are a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.

目前，米歇尔·奥巴马的“让我们行动”运动受到越来越多的批评，该运动通过鼓励年轻人多运动来对抗儿童肥胖症，并与歌手碧昂斯和篮球运动员沙奎尔·奥尼尔签约，两人都支持汽水，汽水是肥胖症流行的主要原因。

2016年12月听力原文

考研Shakespeare’s life time was coincident with a period of extraordinary activity and achievement in the drama.

莎士比亚的一生与戏剧中一段非凡的活动和成就相吻合。

2018年考研翻译原文

考研But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

但有趣的是，我们想知道，我们每周看到的无压力、幸福感增强的父母形象是否在某种小的、潜意识的方式上导致了我们对实际体验的不满，就像我们中的一小部分人希望得到“瑞秋”可能会让我们看起来有点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

总体而言，欧洲食品和饮料批发市场的增长速度与零售市场的增长速度相同，但这些数据加起来掩盖了两个相反的趋势。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.

该杂志的内部编辑、现有评审编辑委员会或外部同行评审员将对稿件进行额外审查。

2015年考研阅读原文

考研Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

然而，令人遗憾的是，报告未能解决通识教育所面临危机的真实性质，可能弊大于利。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

尽管谷物仍然是英国和美国早餐消费者的最爱，但最近一项针对“成人”早餐谷物糖含量的调查发现，一些谷物含有超过每日推荐量的四分之三的免费谷物

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

很难想象，仅仅因为里斯和安吉丽娜让孩子看起来如此迷人，许多人就傻到想要孩子：大多数成年人都明白婴儿不是理发。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California’s advice.

如果法院听从加利福尼亚州的建议，它将是鲁莽的谦虚。

2015年考研阅读原文

六级People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give in to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, which affects the mind and cognitive function.

身体健康的人能够活过100年，最终会患上阿尔茨海默症等影响大脑和认知功能的疾病。

2016年12月听力原文

考研In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

在2006年的电影版《穿普拉达的魔鬼》中，梅丽尔·斯特里普饰演的米兰达·普里斯特利责骂她那不讨人喜欢的助手认为时尚不会影响她，Priestly解释了多年来助理毛衣的深蓝色是如何从时装秀到百货商店，再到这个可怜的女孩无疑是在廉价品箱里找到她的衣服的。

2013年考研阅读原文

四级Many of its 800 stores are likely to close following the company’s decision to call in administrators after an attempt to sell the business for a token £1 failed.

在试图以1英镑的代币出售该公司业务失败后，该公司决定聘请管理人员，此后，该公司800家店铺中的许多可能会关闭。

2015年12月听力原文

四级After mail service stops due to weather, the agency’s top priority is ensuring that employees are safe.

邮件服务因天气原因停止后，该机构的首要任务是确保员工的安全。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Good morning! America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

早上好美国的假日购物季从感恩节后的黑色星期五开始。

2017年6月听力原文

六级After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world’s largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.

雷曼兄弟（Lehman Brothers）破产后，世界上许多最大的银行都担心房地产泡沫的破裂会暴露风险贷款投资的风险。

2016年6月听力原文

六级One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

这一人群中阿尔茨海默病死亡人数上升的原因之一可能是，即使人们战胜了死于癌症等其他疾病的可能性，仍有可能患上这种疾病。

2016年12月听力原文

考研After all, that’s how education got started.

毕竟，教育就是这样开始的。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研After the Netherlands, Britain is Europe’s most crowed country.

英国是仅次于荷兰的欧洲人口最多的国家。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研Soon after his father’s release from prison, Dickens got a better job as errand boy in law offices.

父亲出狱后不久，狄更斯在律师事务所找到了一份更好的差事。

2017年考研阅读原文

四级This finding supported ConAgra’s decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

这一发现支持了康尼格拉的决定，即将该产品与其他高质量冷冻晚餐相比较，而不是作为一种饮食或健康食品。

2015年12月听力原文

考研Bob Herz, the FASB’s chairman, cried out against those who “question our motives.

美国财务会计准则委员会（FASB）主席鲍勃·赫兹（Bob Herz）大声反对那些“质疑我们动机”的人。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Enraged by Entergy’s behavior, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 last year against allowing an extension.

佛蒙特州参议院去年以26票对4票反对通过了延长投票期限的议案，因因因内瑞的行为而愤怒。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.

法院的裁决是在打击腐败和官员偏袒方面向前迈出的一步。

2017年考研阅读原文

六级But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

但到2014年，这一年龄组的阿尔茨海默病死亡率已经翻了一番多，从3.8%上升到8.5%，使进展性脑病成为百岁老人的第二大死因。

2016年12月听力原文

考研The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

自2002年该公司收购佛蒙特州唯一的核电站——弗农一座老化的反应堆以来，这场冲突就一直浮出水面。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

家庭日益贫困迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，在沃伦的涂黑仓库工作，这是一家鞋油厂，其他工人嘲笑他为“年轻绅士”

2017年考研阅读原文

四级Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.

官方通讯社称，该船的船主布兰登已被尼加拉瓜当局逮捕。

2017年6月听力原文

考研In those situations, it’s better to be more aggressive than less aggressive.

在这些情况下，更具侵略性比不具侵略性要好。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研That s because they inevitably put the costs of cleaning the air on to individual drivers-who must pay fees or buy better vehicles 一rather than on to the car manufacturers whose cheating is the real cause of our toxic pollution.

这是因为他们不可避免地把清洁空气的费用加在了个别司机身上，他们必须支付费用或购买更好的车辆一而不是汽车制造商，他们的欺骗才是我们有毒污染的真正原因。

2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研Enhanced security measures since then, combined with a rise in airline travel due to the improving Chicago’s O’Hare International.

此后加强了安全措施，再加上芝加哥奥黑尔国际机场（O'Hare International）的改善，航空旅行量增加。

2017年考研阅读原文

四级Meanwhile, there are complaints that poor service at London’s major airports is discouraging foreigners from doing business in Britain.

与此同时，有人抱怨说，伦敦主要机场糟糕的服务让外国人不敢在英国做生意。

2016年6月听力原文

四级Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.

有些，比如阿扎尔先生的塑料袋，对于它们是如何工作的，或者它们是否真的工作，都有争议。

2016年6月听力原文

四级And they all appear to be uninjured, said Jessica Verfuss, the emergency department’s Assistant Director.

急诊科助理主任杰西卡·弗福斯说，他们似乎都没有受伤。

2016年12月听力原文

六级There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

全国有60多万名专业社会工作者，我们都拥有社会工作学士学位、硕士学位或博士学位。

2016年12月听力原文

六级So if you have all three of these, intimacy, passion and commitment, in Sternberg’s theory you have love.

所以，如果你拥有这三样东西，亲密、激情和承诺，在斯滕伯格的理论中，你就拥有了爱。

2016年12月听力原文

六级Let’s say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you’ve ever experienced.

假设你开始头脑风暴，列出你经历过的所有情绪。

2016年12月听力原文

六级That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

这是所有形式的能源——石油、天然气、煤炭、核能、太阳能，甚至风能。

2015年12月听力原文

六级Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

部分热量直接使用或产生有用功；其余的则丢失或被拒绝，从发动机、发动机、锅炉和所有使美国车轮转动的耗能机械中辐射到大气中。

2015年12月听力原文

考研The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

联邦巡回法院发布了一项不寻常的命令，表示该案将由法院所有12名法官审理，而不是由三名法官组成的典型陪审团审理，它希望评估的一个问题是，它是否应该“重新考虑”其州街银行的裁决。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Allen‘s contribution was to take an assumption we all share-that because we are not robots we therefore control our thoughts-and reveal its erroneous nature.

艾伦的贡献是假设我们都同意，因为我们不是机器人，所以我们可以控制我们的思想并揭示它的错误本质。

2011年考研翻译原文

考研Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

正如令人困惑的各种人类求爱仪式都可能被视为性选择的形式一样，也许世界的语言、音乐、社会和宗教习俗甚至历史都受到普遍特征的支配。

2012年考研翻译原文

考研In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company’s record in CSR.

总之，该研究得出结论，尽管检察官只应根据案情评估案件，但他们似乎确实受到公司社会责任记录的影响。

2016年考研阅读原文

考研The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to UK`s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

大卫·格拉多尔（David Graddol）发现的这些变化都对英国向其他国家的人和更广泛的教育商业部门提供英语教学的机构提出了明确而重大的挑战。

2017年考研翻译原文

考研It does not include important factors such as environmental quality or education outcomes – all things that contribute to a person’s sense of well-being.

它不包括环境质量或教育成果等重要因素——所有有助于一个人幸福感的因素。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker’s allowance.

现在求职者的津贴要等七天。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级The mine, along New York’s Cayuga Lake, processes salt used for road treatment.

该矿位于纽约卡尤加湖沿岸，加工用于道路处理的盐。

2016年12月听力原文

六级The Cascadia Rising drill gives area residents and emergency responders a chance to practice what to do in case of a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami along one of the nation’s dangerous—and underestimated—faults.

卡斯卡迪亚上升演习为该地区居民和应急响应人员提供了一个机会，在该国一条危险且被低估的断层沿线发生9.0级地震和海啸时，他们可以练习如何应对。

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

与此同时，许多定居者的宗教信仰比丹麦人的要轻，正如一位牧师在与海岸沿线嘲笑他们不是为了宗教而来到新世界的人们对抗时所学到的那样。

2009年考研阅读原文

四级That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.

这就是为什么同样来自中亚的马如此喜欢苹果和胡萝卜。

2017年6月听力原文

四级And he’s also the author of three books.

他也是三本书的作者。

2015年12月听力原文

考研They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

他们还关注那些似乎能保护一个民族社会结构的重要仪式，例如正式表示儿童进入成年的入会仪式。

2009年考研阅读原文

考研The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

研究人员不仅绘制了这座城市广阔而华丽的仪式区域，还绘制了数百个普通人居住的简单公寓楼。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研But Mauna Kea is also home to some of the world’s most powerful telescopes.

但莫纳凯亚也是世界上一些最强大望远镜的所在地。

2017年考研阅读原文

考研That’s because Congress has always envisioned joint federal-state immigration enforcement and explicitly encourages state officers to share information and cooperate with federal colleagues.

这是因为国会一直设想联邦-州联合移民执法，并明确鼓励州官员与联邦同事分享信息和合作。

2013年考研阅读原文

考研They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea’s fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island’s inhabitants.

他们并不总是优先考虑保护毛纳凯亚脆弱的生态系统，或保护其对岛上居民的神圣性。

2017年考研阅读原文

六级Hello Jane.Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

你好，简。查尔斯，除其他外，你们被认为是美国蓝调大师之一，这是一个音乐成语，本质上是关于失去，特别是失去浪漫爱情。

2015年12月听力原文

六级Charles, among other things, you are regarded as one of the America’s great masters of the Blues, a musical idiom that’s essentially about loss, particularly the loss of romantic love.

查尔斯，除其他外，你们被认为是美国蓝调大师之一，这是一个音乐成语，本质上是关于失去，特别是失去浪漫爱情。

2015年12月听力原文

考研Among the commission’s 51 members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism.

该委员会的51名成员包括顶级大学校长、学者、律师、法官和企业高管，以及外交、电影制作、音乐和新闻界的知名人士。

2014年考研阅读原文

考研Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

当被问及是否有特定的论文推动了这一变化时，麦克纳特说：“设立‘统计委员会’的动机是广泛关注统计和数据分析在科学研究中的应用，也是科学提高我们发表的研究的再现性的整体动力的一部分。

2015年考研阅读原文

四级The boat, traveling between Nicaragua’s Big Corn Island and LittleCorn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

这艘船在尼加拉瓜的大玉米岛和小玉米岛之间行驶，周六在大岛附近翻船。

2017年6月听力原文

考研Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it’s just not fair.

银行抱怨道，他们的规定迫使他们报告巨额亏损，这是不公平的。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

欧洲最大市场的食品和饮料零售处于停滞状态，使得欧洲食品杂货零售商渴望获得增长机会。

2010年考研阅读原文

考研Nevertheless， as any biographer knows， a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

然而，正如任何传记作家所知，一个人的早年生活及其状况往往是给个人最好的礼物。

2011年考研翻译原文

四级Dogs, man’s best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.

狗是人类最好的朋友，它们有一个明确的策略来对付愤怒的主人——它们把目光移开。

2017年6月听力原文

六级She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

她算出她还需要三年才能以每月30美元的价格还清欠款。

2016年12月听力原文