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

四级Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

经济学家亚当·斯密（Adam Smith）曾写道，糖、酒精和烟草都是不属于生活必需品的商品，几乎已成为普遍消费的对象，因此，它们是极受欢迎的征税对象。

2016年12月阅读原文

考研It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.

一年后，她成为了一家小型互联网商品交易所的负责人。

2011年考研阅读原文

四级Consumers will spend their savings from cheap oil on other commodities.

消费者将把从廉价石油中节省下来的钱花在其他商品上。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities.

它导致了商品价格的自由下跌。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级The rising tide of trade is also good news for people who work in trade-sensitive businesses, especially those that produce commodities for which global demand sets the price – agricultural goods, mining, metals, oil.

贸易潮的上升对那些从事贸易敏感行业的人来说也是个好消息，尤其是那些生产全球需求决定价格的商品的行业农产品、采矿、金属和石油。

2011年12月阅读原文

六级In the grass fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market.

在草食制中，农民也不会受到国际商品市场上剧烈波动的牛奶价格的影响。

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级White believes our notions of a more child-centered, it’ a way of talking about treating our children like commodities(商品).

怀特认为，我们的观念更以儿童为中心，这是一种把我们的孩子当作商品对待的方式(商品).

2008年12月英语四级考试真题

四级"Sugar, alcohol and tobacco," economist Adam Smith once wrote," are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation. "

“糖、酒和烟草，”经济学家亚当·斯密曾写道，“这些商品根本不是生活必需品，已经成为几乎普遍消费的对象，因此，它们是非常受欢迎的税收主体。”

2016年12月大学英语四级真题（第2套）

考研If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product.

另一方面，如果生产更多的商品能够降低成本，这将倾向于增加卖方-生产商提供的供应，从而降低价格，允许更多的消费者购买该产品。

1994年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题

考研The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago.

《经济学人》的大宗商品价格指数与一年前相比基本保持不变。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.

1973年，商品价格上涨了70%，1979年上涨了近30%。

2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研But many shippers complain that for heavy bulk commodities traveling long distances, such as coal, chemicals, and grain, trucking is too costly and the railroads therefore have them by the throat.

但许多托运人抱怨说，对于长途运输的重型大宗商品，如煤炭、化学品和粮食，卡车运输成本太高，因此铁路公司对它们穷追不舍。

2003年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题