高考In recent years, however, young upper middle-class people in London, have begun to adopt some regional accents, in order to hide their class origins.

然而，近年来，伦敦的年轻中上层阶级开始采用一些地区口音，以隐藏他们的阶级出身。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

在皮尤调查中，年收入在3万至7.5万美元之间的中产阶级家庭在抚养子女的社区质量、参加课外活动和参与子女教育等问题上正好处于工人阶级和高收入父母之间。

2017年6月阅读原文

考研But in the medium term,middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.

但从中期来看，中产阶级工人可能需要很多帮助才能适应。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研Many first-generation students "struggle to navigate the middle-class culture of higher education, learn the 'rules of the game, 'and take advantage of college resources," they write.

他们写道，许多第一代学生“努力探索高等教育的中产阶级文化，学习‘游戏规则’，并利用大学资源。”。

2015年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

考研But many middle-class occupations-trucking, financial advice, software engineering - have aroused their interest, or soon will.

但许多中产阶级的职业——卡车运输、金融咨询、软件工程——已经引起了他们的兴趣，或者很快就会引起他们的兴趣。

2018年考研阅读原文

考研But many middle-class occupations一trucking, financial advice, software engineering一have aroused their interest, or soon will.

但许多中产阶级的职业一卡车运输、财务咨询、软件工程一已经引起了他们的兴趣，或者很快就会引起他们的兴趣。

2018年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

但是，这样的竞赛——绝大多数由来自中产阶级和富裕家庭的亚裔和白人学生主导——会变得更加多样化吗？许多社会和文化因素在决定哪些有前途的学生走上国际数学认可的道路上发挥着作用。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse?

但是，这样的竞赛——绝大多数由来自中产阶级和富裕家庭的亚裔和白人学生主导——会变得更加多样化吗？

2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

考研Davidson's article is one of a number of pieces that have recently appeared making the point that the reason we have such stubbornly high unemployment and declining middle-class incomes today is largely because of the big drop in demand because of the Gre

戴维森的文章是最近出现的一系列文章之一，这些文章指出，我们今天失业率居高不下，中产阶级收入下降，主要是因为Gre导致的需求大幅下降

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

六级Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

安妮特·拉罗（Annette Lareau）说，中产阶级和高收入的父母将他们的孩子视为需要精心培养的项目。她对这一主题的开创性研究发表在她的《不平等的童年：阶级、种族和家庭生活》一书中。

2017年6月阅读原文

高考However, the 1995 pop song 'common people' puts forward the view that though a middle-class person may 'want to live like common people' they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

然而，1995年流行歌曲《普通人》提出的观点是，尽管中产阶级可能“想像普通人一样生活”，但他们永远无法欣赏工人阶级生活的现实。

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

六级In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activitie

在皮尤调查中，年收入在3万到7.5万美元之间的中产阶级家庭在抚养孩子的社区质量、参加课外活动等问题上正好处于工人阶级和高收入父母之间

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

四级Before printing arrived, a Bible cost more than a middle-class house.

在印刷之前，一本圣经的价格比中产阶级的房子还要高。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping- stone to middle-class mobility.

这些学生需要在大学期间培养技能和知识，如果他们想把自己的学位作为中产阶级流动的垫脚石。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility.

如果这些学生想把自己的学位作为中产阶级流动的垫脚石，他们需要在大学期间培养技能和知识。

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

考研"I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said. "I don't think people are capable of that anymore. "

施耐德说：“我仍然在一个中上层阶级家庭长大，父母没有大学文凭。”我认为人们再也无法做到这一点了。”

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

四级Central heating was present in every upper-and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

到19世纪下半叶，中央供暖系统已普及到每一个中上层阶级家庭。

2014年6月阅读原文

六级Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.

与此同时，收入不平等日益加剧，与此同时，大学学历对于赚取中产阶级工资的重要性也越来越高。

2017年6月阅读原文

六级Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckerman’s anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans.

小威尔伯·罗斯（Wilbur Ross Jr.）回应了祖克曼对美国中产阶级所面临的痛苦斗争的愤怒。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders.

换言之，随着超级富豪越来越富有，如果美国中产阶级继续在经济上挣扎，那么将越来越难以维持对商品、服务和资本跨境自由流动的政治支持。

2007年12月英语六级真题

六级And many middle-class parents have gotten used to managing their children’s time and shuttling them to various enriching activities, so the idea of letting them out on their own can seem like a risk.

许多中产阶级父母已经习惯于管理孩子的时间，让他们参加各种丰富多彩的活动，所以让他们自己出去的想法似乎是一种风险。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级It’s the average American middle-class family who’s being priced out of the market.

普通的美国中产阶级家庭被价格挤出了市场。

2009年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级For my entire adult life, a good education has been the most important thing for middle-class households.

在我的整个成年生活中，良好的教育一直是中产阶级家庭最重要的事情。

2013年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级Central heating was present in every upper- and middle-class home by the second half of the 19th century.

到19世纪下半叶，每个上层和中产阶级的家庭都有中央供暖。

2014年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第2套）

四级What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class.

她说，白人中产阶级父母并不总是明白，新移民在推动孩子进入中产阶级方面感受到了多大的压力。

2018年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套)

四级But in recent years,housing prices have skyrocketed, the region's rich and poor have seg-regated,and middle-class jobs have disappeared.

但近年来，房价飙升，该地区的贫富分化，中产阶级的工作岗位消失。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

考研While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline——after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late’80s——and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.

虽然在美国，这一趋势始于对经济衰退的反应——在80年代末裁员导致的大规模裁员之后——并且仍然与节俭政治有关，但在英国，至少在我认识的中产阶级中，我们有不同的理由寻求简化我们的生活。

2001年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

考研During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realties.

在过去的一代人中，曾经可以依靠辛勤工作和公平竞争来保持经济安全的美国中产阶级家庭已经被经济风险和新的现实所改变。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题

考研From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders.

从中产阶级家庭的角度来看，可以理解的是，这在很大程度上不像是行使更多经济责任的机会，而更像是金融风险大规模转移到他们已经负担过重的肩上的可怕加速。

2007年全国硕士研究生招生考试英语试题