四级Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

你们能在其他地方复制硅谷吗，或者它有什么独特之处吗？若它在其他国家很难复制，这并不奇怪，因为你们也不能在我们大多数人中复制它。

2015年12月阅读原文

六级Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri

世界上四分之三的火烈鸟从裂谷的其他盐湖飞过来，在特定水位时出现的盐晶岛上筑巢一太高了，鸟儿就不能筑巢；太低了，食肉动物就可以移动

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

考研In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

在另一个案例中，美国考古学家雷内·百万（Rene Million）和乔治·考吉尔（George Cowgill）花了数年时间系统地绘制了墨西哥山谷中的整个特奥蒂瓦坎（Teotihuacan）城市的地图，该城市靠近现在的墨西哥城。

2014年考研阅读原文

六级There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

对于他们来说，科学领域的工作并不多，所以他们会去华尔街和硅谷，将他们的分析技能应用到更实际、更有益的工作中。

2010年12月阅读原文

高考The proposal attempts to deal with what some call the "death valley" of autonomous vehicles: the grey area between semi-autonomous and fully driverless cars that could delay the driverless future.

该提案试图解决一些人称之为自动驾驶汽车“死亡谷”的问题：半自动和完全无人驾驶汽车之间的灰色地带，这可能会推迟无人驾驶汽车的未来。

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

四级In contrast, California, home of Silicon Valley, recently proposed far more restrictive rules that would require human drivers be ready to take the wheel, and ban commercial use of self-driving technology.

相比之下，硅谷所在地加利福尼亚州最近提出了限制性更大的规定，要求驾驶人做好驾驶准备，并禁止商业使用自动驾驶技术。

2019年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

四级If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

如果你能让一万人从硅谷搬到布法罗，布法罗就会变成硅谷。

2015年12月阅读原文

四级If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

如果你能让一万人从硅谷搬到布法罗，布法罗就会变成硅谷。

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

考研Carter sifted through rubble in the Valley of the Kings for seven years before he located the tomb in 1922.

卡特在国王谷的瓦砾中筛选了七年，然后在1922年找到了陵墓。

2014年考研阅读原文

六级But, Kapur notes, none of us like to fail, no matter how often Silicon Valley entrepreneurs praise the beneficial effects of an idea that fails or a start-up company that crashes and burns.

但是，卡普尔指出，我们中没有人喜欢失败，不管硅谷的企业家们多么频繁地赞扬一个失败的想法的有益效果，或者一家初创公司的倒闭和倒闭。

2013年12月阅读原文

考研Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally fell into its deep valley in 1911.

奥杜瓦峡谷是坦桑尼亚早期的原始人遗址，1911年，一位蝴蝶猎手发现了它，他真的掉进了峡谷深处。

2014年考研阅读原文

四级The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Chub, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.

硅谷的个人计算革命和颠覆性创新理念部分源于20世纪70年代中期在加利福尼亚州门罗公园（Menlo Park）的一个车库里创立的自制电脑Chub。

2019年6月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

四级Could you reproduce silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?

你能把硅谷复制到其他地方吗，或者它有什么独特之处吗？

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

六级If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley

如果今天发生这样的地震，从落基山脉到大西洋都能感觉到，密西西比河谷的大部分城市都会被夷为平地

2010年6月听力原文

高考I work with volunteers for wildlife, a rescue and education organization at bailey arboretum in locust valley.

我和野生动物志愿者一起工作，这是蝗虫谷贝利植物园的一个救援和教育组织。

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

六级Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum (高粱) and wheat doubled between 1983 and 198 Nobel Prize For his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 19 Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 am, but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65km west of Mexico City.

然而，玉米、高粱的产量(高粱) 小麦在1983年到198年间翻了一番

2013年6月六级考试真题（三）

六级It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated (膨胀) with the Internet bubble.

它于1998年建立在硅谷的一个车库里，并充气(膨胀) 互联网泡沫。

2007年6月英语六级真题

六级If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

如果今天发生这样的地震，从落基山脉到大西洋都会有震感，密西西比河谷的大部分城市都会被夷为平地。

2010年6月英语六级真题

六级There aren’t many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical—and rewarding—efforts.

科学领域的工作对他们来说并不多，所以他们去了华尔街和硅谷，将他们的分析技能应用到更实际、更有回报的工作中。

2010年12月英语六级真题

四级Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the atmospheric sound and lightning that can accompany those rains, it’s still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.

尽管四月没有给我们带来我们都希望的降雨，尽管中央山谷通常不会经历伴随降雨而来的大气声音和闪电，但父母能够回答年轻人关于雷电的问题仍然很重要。

1994年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The view over a valley of a tiny village with thatched (草盖的) roof cottages around a church; a drive through a narrow village street lines with thatched cottages painted pink or white; the sight in parts of England.

一个茅草屋小村庄的山谷景色(草盖的) 教堂周围的屋顶小屋；开车穿过一条狭窄的乡村街道，街道两旁是涂成粉红色或白色的茅草屋；英格兰部分地区的景象。

1999年1月大学英语四级(CET-4)真题

四级The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: Silicon Valley was intentionally created by Stanford University, and Route 128 outside Boston has long housed companies spun off from MIT and Harvard.

大学科学和工业应用之间的联系通常是间接的，但有时非常明显：硅谷是斯坦福大学有意创建的

2007年12月大学英语四级考试真题

四级For as long as anyone could remember, we could out hunt, out shoot, and out swim the white boys in the valley.

只要有人记得，我们就可以在山谷里胜过白人男孩的狩猎、射击和游泳。

2014年12月英语四级考试真题（第1套）

四级An adopted child, growing up in Silicon Valley, Mr. Jobs displayed those traits early on.

作为一个在硅谷长大的养子，乔布斯很早就表现出了这些特质。

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级Mr. Jobs dropped out of Reed College after only a semester and traveled around India in search of spiritual enlightenment, before returning to Silicon Valley to found Apple with his friend, Stephen Wozniak, an engineering wizard (奇才).

乔布斯仅仅一个学期就从里德学院退学了，他周游印度寻求精神启蒙，然后回到硅谷，和他的朋友、工程奇才斯蒂芬·沃兹尼亚克一起找到了苹果(奇才).

2015年6月大学英语四级考试真题（第3套)

四级What does it take to make a Silicon Valley?

硅谷需要什么？

2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley.

斯坦福和伯克利让出了硅谷。

2015年12月大学英语四级考试真题(第3套)

四级The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of Silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Club, Which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.

硅谷的个人计算革命和颠覆性创新哲学在一定程度上源于20世纪70年代中期在加利福尼亚州门洛帕克的一个车库里成立的自制电脑俱乐部的创立。

2019年6月大学英语四级真题（第3套）

四级As Silicon Valley has become home to more successful companies, the flood of people to the area has caused housing prices to skyrocket.

随着硅谷成为更多成功公司的所在地，该地区的大量人口导致房价飙升。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级With Silicon Valley in its backyard, it certainly has the chance to do so.

硅谷就在它的后院，它当然有机会这样做。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）

四级“ I think there is a broad consciousness in the Valley that we can do better than to leave thousands of our neighbors behind through a period of extraordinary success,” San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said.

圣何塞市长萨姆·利卡多说：“我认为，山谷里有一种广泛的意识，那就是我们可以做得更好，而不是在一段非凡的成功时期里把成千上万的邻居抛在后面。”。

2020年12月大学英语四级真题（第1套）