六级A scientific team is studying the thinking ability of eleven and half months old children.

一个科学小组正在研究11个半月大的儿童的思维能力。

2012年12月听力原文

四级Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

几乎一半的受访者表示，他们的公司要么处于重组中，要么即将开始。开始) 信息技术在大多数情况下，重组意味着更加重视团队。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

普通挪威人的境况比普通美国公民好，但对气候变化的贡献约为普通美国公民的一半。

2016年6月阅读原文

考研Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

同样不足为奇的是，只有大约一半的学生最终进入了研究生院担任教授。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

在英国，超过一半的公共部门员工加入了工会，但只有约15%的私营部门员工加入了工会。

2012年考研阅读原文

考研The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

用于学术研究的公共资金的增长加快了这一进程：1960年至1990年间，联邦研究补助金增加了四倍，但由于研究付出了代价，教师的教学时间减少了一半。

2011年考研阅读原文

高考Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

一半的员工说他们的老板不接受，只有35%的人说这是可以容忍的。

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研More than half of all British scientific research is now published under open access terms: either freely available from the moment of publication, or paywalled for a year or more so that the publishers can make a profit before being placed on general rel

现在，英国一半以上的科研成果都是以开放获取的方式发表的：要么从发表之日起免费提供，要么支付一年或更长时间的费用，以便出版商在进入general rel之前获利

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents.

这种疾病是危险的，因为它涉及一半的汽车事故。

2013年6月听力原文

高考The workers were not better organized, otherwise they would have accomplished the task in half the time.

工人们没有更好地组织起来，否则他们会在一半的时间内完成任务。

2019年高考英语天津卷 单项填空 原文

考研The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

向可再生能源的转移在全世界范围内正在加速：它们现在占据了在线新能源的一半以上。

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

不到两年，它就高达近1400英尺，直径超过半英里。

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

四级I recommend Harvard's 2011 "Pathways to Prosperity" report for more attention to the "forgotten half" (those who do not go on to college) and ideas about how to address this issue.

我建议哈佛大学2011年的“繁荣之路”报告更多地关注“被遗忘的那一半”（那些没有继续上大学的人）以及如何解决这个问题的想法。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration ( ' , FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

另一半人将不得不等待，因为美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）和国家运输安全委员会（National Transportation Safety Board）的主管部门将找出问题所在。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级The other half will have to wait, as authorities of America's Federal Aviation Administration FA and National Transportation Safety Board work out what went wrong.

另一半人将不得不等待，因为美国联邦航空管理局和国家运输安全委员会的主管部门将找出问题所在。

2015年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

四级Most kids and adults don't actually feel hungry when they eat half of their meal.

大多数儿童和成年人在吃了一半的食物后并不感到饥饿。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Both kids and adults felt satisfied with only half of their meal portions.

孩子和成年人都只对他们一半的膳食感到满意。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

由于不到一半的美国人说他们的烹饪水平处于中等水平，只有20%的人说他们的烹饪技能是高级的，因此危机在于信心。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

有句老话说，一半的广告预算被浪费了。问题是，没人知道是哪一半。

2013年考研阅读原文

高考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.

在进行了数百次测试后，研究人员注意到，猴子在超过一半的时间里会选择更高的值，这表明它们在进行计算，而不仅仅是记忆每个组合的值。

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

直到我们清楚地了解了至少六个这样的事实之后，晚餐才结束。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

高考They conduct between 30 and 40 workshops annually, focusing on half a dozen different plays, mostly for corporations, but also for government agencies.

他们每年举办30至40场研讨会，主要针对六种不同的戏剧，主要面向企业，也面向政府机构。

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone，with no intrusion on green belt.

伦敦特工斯特林·阿克罗伊德（Stirling Ackroyd）最近发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地可容纳50万套房屋，而不会影响绿化带。

2016年考研阅读原文

高考This is compared to half of students who had looked for a job by this time two years ago.

相比之下，两年前这个时候有一半的学生已经找到了工作。

2016年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文

六级We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around a million and a half years ago and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

我们可以从化石记录中做出一个很好的估计，人类大概在一百五十万年前进化出了裸露的皮肤，而与此同时，他们大部分都失去了皮毛。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

考研In 2015, the US Forest Service for the first time spent more than half of its $5.5 billion annual budget fighting fires——nearly double the percentage it spent on such efforts 20 years ago.

2015年，美国林业局首次将其55亿美元年度预算的一半以上用于灭火，几乎是20年前的两倍。

2017年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Two and a half centuries on, most countries impose some sort of tax on alcohol and tobacco.

两个半世纪过去了，大多数国家对烟酒征收某种税。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级She also knew from previous work conducted on birds and dolphins that these animals put half of their brains to sleep at a time so that they can rest while remaining alert enough to avoid predators.

她还从之前对鸟类和海豚进行的研究中了解到，这些动物一次会让一半的大脑进入睡眠状态，这样它们就可以休息，同时保持足够的警觉以躲避捕食者。

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.

一项研究显示，当你在一个新的地方睡觉时，你一半的大脑保持警觉，为危险做好准备。

2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

高考Half of all college students change their major at some point.

一半的大学生在某个时候换了专业。

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读表达 原文

四级All had the same number of calories over the day, but half had breakfast, while the other half did not.

所有人一天的卡路里含量都相同，但一半人吃早餐，而另一半人不吃。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级While bullying is parents' greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents.

尽管欺凌是父母最关心的问题，但近一半的低收入父母担心他们的孩子会被枪杀，而高收入父母中只有五分之一担心孩子会被枪杀。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

去年，尽管美国3500所大学遇到了种种麻烦，但仍有来自193个国家的50多万学生涌入。

2015年12月听力原文

六级About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.

全球约有一半的怀孕是意外怀孕。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Not surprisingly, up to half of all doctoral students in English drop out before getting their degrees.

毫不奇怪，多达一半的英语博士生在拿到学位之前就辍学了。

2011年考研阅读原文

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

截至2005年，有近50万来自世界各个领域的专业社会科学家在学术界内外工作。

2013年考研阅读原文

高考Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

其中近一半被填埋，多达1200万吨污染海洋。

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 开始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

几乎一半的受访者表示，他们的公司要么处于重组中，要么即将上台。开始 信息技术在大多数情况下，重组意味着更加重视团队。

2017年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.

邮件递送服务仍然负责完成几乎一半的付款。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

六级Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

几乎一半的毕业生——那些收入继续下降的人——将有一部分债务被注销。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

几乎一半的毕业生——那些收入继续下降的人——将有一部分债务被注销。

2016年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

六级Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

几乎一半的网站没有通过考试，只有18%的网站获得了a或B。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考More than half (53 percent) have breakfast alone and nearly half (46 percent) have lunch by themselves.

超过一半（53%）的人独自吃早餐，近一半（46%）的人独自吃午餐。

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

考研The London agents Stirling Ackroyd recently identified enough sites for half a million houses in the London area alone, with no intrusion on green belt.

伦敦特工斯特林·阿克罗伊德（Stirling Ackroyd）最近发现，仅在伦敦地区就有足够的场地可容纳50万套房屋，而不会影响绿化带。

2016年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

煤炭价格也很低，这是由于供应过剩和需求减少，特别是来自中国的需求，中国燃烧了世界一半的煤炭。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级But the other half of the name represents another ingredient, less infamous (名声不好的), perhaps, but also strangely potent: the kola nut.

但名字的另一半代表另一种成分，不那么臭名昭著(名声不好的), 也许，但也奇怪地强大：科拉坚果。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

六级We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

我们仍处于这个项目的探索阶段，尽管值得注意的是东亚人平均每晚睡眠比北美人少约一个半小时。

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

考研Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

尽管超过一半的哈佛大学本科生最终都在法律、医学或商业领域，但未来的医生和律师必须先攻读非专业文科学位，然后才能获得专业资格。

2011年考研阅读原文

六级More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

然而，其中更多的人将完全跳过这些计算，只在2017年的假期中使用电力：超过一半的美国工人每年没有用完分配给他们的所有假期。

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

高考But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

但每节课花在阅读上的时间有所减少，从每节课近一个小时或更多到近半个小时。

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级But now a systematic review and analysis of studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months.

但现在，加拿大研究人员对研究进行的系统回顾和分析发现，面食不仅不会导致体重增加，而且一周三餐可以帮助人们在四个月内减掉半公斤以上的体重。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级Roughly half of all federally-convicted animal fighters only get probation(缓刑).

大约一半被联邦政府定罪的动物斗士只得到缓刑(缓刑).

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

六级Half of the methane in the atmosphere is from animals

大气中一半的甲烷来自动物

2013年6月听力原文

考研The question of GDP and its usefulness has annoyed policymakers for over half a century.

半个多世纪以来，GDP及其效用问题一直困扰着决策者。

2017年考研阅读原文

高考The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50, 000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back.

这场战斗持续了半个多小时，在这段时间里，大约50000公斤西红柿被扔向任何移动、奔跑或反击的人或物。

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

六级Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

在过去的五年里，我注意到家长们回归到一种信念，即青少年需要长辈的指导，而不是20世纪后半叶流行的自由主义、随大流的育儿模式。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

在过去的五年里，我注意到家长们回归到一种信念，即青少年需要长辈的指导，而不是20世纪下半叶流行的自由主义的“随大流”育儿模式。

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

高考Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

2015年初，金恩花了五个月的时间探索该地区最偏远的角落，该地区位于亚马逊河雨林的边缘，其人口只有25万的一半居住在首都卡宴。

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

高考In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

事实上，据联合国教育、科学及文化组织联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）称，当今世界6000-7000种语言中有一半可能在下个世纪消亡。

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

高考Over a third of mums felt they needed more training and around half said they missed going out with friends.

超过三分之一的妈妈觉得他们需要更多的训练，大约一半的妈妈说他们错过了与朋友的约会。

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

然而，与德国人、意大利人和法国人相比，这算不了什么，他们在整个夏天的不同日子里熬夜了大约一个半小时观看世界杯。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.

研究人员在《自然-气候变化》在线版上报告说，自1865年以来，大约一半的海洋热量摄入发生在1997年。

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

六级They lost around half a kilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.

他们在平均12周的随访中减掉了大约半公斤。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级Those involved in the clinical trails on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates, one serving equaling around half a cup.

参与临床试验的人平均每周吃3.3份意大利面，而不是其他碳水化合物，一份相当于半杯左右。

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

六级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, lesseducated parents.

近一半的高收入大学毕业生家长在他们的孩子5岁前就让他们上了艺术课，而低收入、无魅力的家长中只有五分之一。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级As one person ironically put it in the comments section of Schwartz's online article, "As I was reading this very excellent article, I stopped at least half a dozen times to check my email.

正如一个人在Schwartz在线文章的评论部分讽刺地指出的那样，“当我阅读这篇非常优秀的文章时，我至少停了六次查看我的电子邮件。

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

考研The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

20世纪后半叶，一群天才、勇士、企业家和有远见的人努力创造了一台神奇的机器，它可以作为打字机和印刷机、工作室和剧院、画笔和画廊、钢琴和收音机、邮件和邮递员。

2012年考研阅读原文

高考Nasa is worried about two things: recovery time once astronauts return home, and, more importantly, how to maintain strength and fitness for the two and a half years or more that it would take to make a round-trip to mars.

Nasa担心两件事：宇航员回家后的恢复时间，更重要的是，如何在往返火星的两年半或更长时间内保持体力和健康。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

考研At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

然而，在青春期，大脑会关闭一半的能力，只保留那些在生命最初十年左右似乎最有价值的思维模式。

2009年考研阅读原文

高考Indeed, they made only half as many errors as those wearing their own clothes on the stroop test one way of measuring attention.

事实上，在stroop测试中，他们犯的错误只有穿着自己衣服的人的一半——这是一种测量注意力的方法。

2017年高考英语浙江卷（11月） 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Full-time employees who do have paid vacation days only use half of them on average.

有带薪假期的全职员工平均只使用其中的一半。

2016年12月阅读原文

六级The average American spends at least eight and a half hours a day in front of a screen.

美国人平均每天至少花八个半小时在屏幕前。

2012年12月阅读原文

高考Then, after two and a half years, the mother drove the young panda away.

两年半后，母亲把小熊猫赶走了。

2016年高考英语四川卷 语法填空 原文

六级Consumers in developed countries throw away nearly half of their food purchases because they tend to buy in excessive quantities

发达国家的消费者丢弃了近一半的食品，因为他们倾向于购买过多的食品

2013年12月阅读原文

四级If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

如果我们把一半的管理人员换成课堂教师，我们实际上可能会让我们的大多数班级恢复到每位教师20名或更少的学生。

2016年12月阅读原文

四级Sales in 2009 could be barely half of that.

2009年的销售额可能仅为这一数字的一半。

2013年6月阅读原文

六级Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

与其他群体相比，我认为在这65所学校中，这一群体的人数几乎不超过黑人男性运动员毕业人数的一半。

2017年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

四级He was trapped under a beam about 10 feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.

他被困在离地面约10英尺的一根横梁下近一个半小时。

2018年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

六级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.

近一半的高收入大学毕业生家长在他们的孩子5岁前让他们上艺术课，而低收入、教育程度较低的家长只有五分之一。

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

高考If you are time poor, you need run for only half the time to get the same benefits as other sports, so perhaps we should all give it/running a try.

如果你缺乏时间，你只需要跑一半的时间就可以获得与其他运动相同的益处，所以也许我们都应该尝试一下。

2018年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 原文

考研That's only a small share of the total acreage that could benefit, about half a million acres in all, so it will be vital to prioritize areas at greatest risk of fire or drought.

这只占可能受益的总面积的一小部分，总共约50万英亩，因此，将火灾或干旱风险最大的地区优先考虑是至关重要的。

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

高考California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor (因素).

本周二公布的一项研究显示，自20世纪30年代以来，加利福尼亚州已经失去了一半的大树，气候变化似乎是一个主要因素(因素).

2019年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级The result is falling water tables ( ' , 地下水位) in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

结果是地下水位下降（'，地下水位) 在人口占世界一半的国家，包括三大粮食生产国中国、印度和美国。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

在亚马逊地区的每个燃烧季节，边境定居者和开发商故意放火，每年排放近5亿吨碳，使巴西成为世界上温室气体排放量最大的五个国家之一。

2013年6月阅读原文

四级Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink of an eye?

一眨眼之间就花掉了，不是有点奇怪吗？

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

四级When he was about half a mile out from the dark, he felt a bit tired.

当他离开黑暗大约半英里时，他感到有点累。

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

四级Isn't it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink ( ' , 眨眼 ) of an eye? Doesn't a wallet—that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters? But I'll leave the economics to the experts.

在半个眨眼的时间里花掉它不是有点奇怪吗，眨眼 ) 一只眼睛？一个钱包，一个久负盛名的星期五晚上，让人愉悦、充满希望的肥胖感，难道不是很重要吗？但我将把经济学留给专家们。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Overall, the study found half the films and TV shows had no Asian speaking characters and more than one-fifth of them had no black characters with dialogue.

总的来说，研究发现一半的电影和电视节目没有讲亚洲人的角色，超过五分之一的电影和电视节目没有带对话的黑人角色。

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力u2002 Section B

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

他写了许多儿童书籍，其中近一半是在20世纪90年代出版的。

2015年高考英语重庆卷 单项填空 原文

考研At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

然而，在青春期结束时，大脑会关闭一半的能力，只保留那些在生命最初十年左右似乎最有价值的思维模式。

2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级One study recruited 200 obese adults to take part in a 16-week-long diet, where half added dessert to their breakfast, and half didn't.

一项研究招募了200名肥胖成年人参加为期16周的节食，其中一半在早餐中添加甜点，另一半不添加。

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

六级Declaring that one country is better than another in the way that it treats more than half its citizens means relying on broad strokes and generalities.

宣称一个国家在对待一半以上公民的方式上优于另一个国家，意味着依赖广泛的笔触和概括。

2013年12月阅读原文

六级Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world

在亚马逊地区的每个燃烧季节，边境定居者和开发商故意放火，每年排放近5亿吨碳，使巴西成为世界上温室气体排放量最大的五个国家之一

2013年6月阅读原文

高考But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

但是在接下来的一周里，设定一个目标，每次至少跑一英里半。

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 七选五 原文

高考But I haven't finished even half of it.

但我甚至还没完成一半。

2015年高考英语湖北卷 听力 原文

高考By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈).

到明年，我们接到的电话中有一半将是骗局(欺诈).

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

六级Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year.

今年上半年，支出下降了10%。

2016年6月阅读原文

六级Former George Washington University president Stephen Trachtenberg estimates that a typical college uses its facilities for academic purposes a little more than half the calendar year.

乔治华盛顿大学前校长斯蒂芬·特雷斯登伯格（Stephen Trachtenberg）估计，一所典型的学院在一个日历年的一半多一点的时间里将其设施用于学术目的。

2012年6月阅读原文

四级their production capacity has shrunk to less than half of the previous year

他们的生产能力已缩减到不到前一年的一半

2013年6月阅读原文

高考This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.

这就是到2100年，即使各国兑现巴黎最初承诺的减少碳排放量，气温仍将上升多少；这一上升仍可能使沿海城市陷入水下，并导致超过一半的物种灭绝。

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文