四级Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

想想看，一个3岁的孩子沉浸在发现自己能在浴缸里沉什么、不能在浴缸里沉什么的快乐中，一个5岁的孩子沉浸在与她最好的朋友一起拼凑一连串毫无意义的词语的兴奋中，或者一个11岁的孩子完全沉浸在一部迷人的连环画中。

2015年12月阅读原文

考研Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

下载和消费文化需要高超的技能，但如果不能超越下载，就等于剥夺了人类的一个重要组成部分。

2012年考研阅读原文

六级The narrow strips of beach on which the turtles lay their eggs are being squeezed on one side by development and on the other by the threat of rising sea levels as the oceans warm.

海龟产卵的狭窄海滩一方面受到发展的挤压，另一方面受到海洋变暖时海平面上升的威胁。

2009年6月英语六级真题

四级There are now large strips of the country where daycare for an infant costs more than a tenth of the average married couple's income.

现在，在这个国家的大片地区，婴儿的日托费用超过了已婚夫妇平均收入的十分之一。

2014年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year-old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

想想一个3岁的孩子沉浸在发现自己能在浴缸里沉什么和不能沉什么的乐趣中，一个5岁的孩子因为和她最好的朋友一起说出一连串荒谬的话而激动不已，或者一个11岁的孩子完全沉浸在一部引人入胜的漫画中。

2015年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

考研They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth.

到目前为止，它们是科学家们探测到的最大、最遥远的物体：一条距离地球约150亿光年的巨大宇宙云带。

1998年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题