adults

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英语四级真题
  • But by senior year, two-thirds have moved up to physics," says Gilbert "Our kids are coming to school in part because they know there are adults here who know them and care for them.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • The popular notion that older people need less sleep than younger adults is a myth, scientists said yesterday.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Our data suggests that older adults would benefit from continuing to get as much sleep as they did in their 30s
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • The new CNS Spectrums study was based on results of a nationwide telephone survey of more than 2,500 adults.
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • Studies show that for adults there is no danger, but children can develop loss of vision if they have glasses inappropriate for their eyes.
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • It will gradually weaken the eyes of adults
    出自-2011年6月听力原文
  • "We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too," Werbach says.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • A child's ability to become deeply absorbed in something, and derive intense pleasure from that absorption, is something adults spend the rest of their lives trying to return to.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • A previous Pew Research Center analysis projected that as many as one-in-four of today's young adults may never marry.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • A variety of factors contribute to the long-run increase in the share of young adults living with their parents.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Adults tend to talk about learning as if it were medicine: unpleasant, but necessary and good for you.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Among young adults, living arrangements differ significantly by gender.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • And given the weak job opportunities facing young adults, living at home was part of the private safety net helping young adults to weather the economic storm.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Children do not think the way adults do.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Dating back to 1880, the most common living arrangement among young adults has been living with a romantic partner, whether a spouse or a significant other.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Even more interesting is that the promise of a future reward was enough to make adults choose the smaller portion.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • For young adults without a bachelor's degree, as of 2008 living at home with their parents was more prevalent than living with a romantic partner.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I want to make sure that older adults are still able to enjoy their old age, and that they're not spending time in hospital with infections, feeling unwell and being generally weak.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • In 2014, for the first time in more than 1 years, adults aged 18 to were slightly more likely to be living in their parents' home than they were to be living with a spouse or partner in their own household.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In addition, a growing share of young adults may be avoiding marriage altogether.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In addition, trends in both employment status and wages have likely contributed to the growing share of young adults who are living in the home of their parents, and this is especially true of young men.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In most of our work, when we're looking at older adults who've got an illness, we always have to have health controls.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Initially in the wake of the recession, college enrollments expanded, boosting title ranks of young adults living at home.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • It's worth nothing that the overall share of young adults living with their parents was not at a record high in 2014.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • 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.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Some 14% of young adults lived alone, were a single parent or lived with one or more roommates.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The Great Recession and modest recovery has also been associated with an increase in young adults living at home.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The thing that sets children apart from adults is not their ignorance, nor their lack of skills.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • They found that the majority of both kids and adults opted for a half-sized portion when combined with a prize.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • We know that as we get older, it's easier for us to get infections, so older adults have more chances of falling ill.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Yet moments like this one are just the kind of intense absorption and pleasure adults spend the rest of their lives seeking.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Young adults who went to college or graduate school were doing pretty well.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service.
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Countries that have a shortage of young adults will be less willing to commit them to military service
    出自-2010年12月阅读原文
  • Each group consisted of around 120 adults of similar age and education, and the test assessed their language skills.
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • MS is the biggest crippler of young adults.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • It is the biggest crippler of young adults
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • The Polytechnic is all adults and mostly preparation for exams like the Cambridge certificates.
    出自-2010年6月听力原文
  • "Make mathematics more available," Draujlcova says. Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences."
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • "The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth,but not adults, more likely to take risks," Steinberg and Gardner concluded.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • For example, one study found healthy adults assigned to a high-fat diet for five days showed impaired attention, memory, and mood compared with a low-fat diet control group.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • In a 2005 study, psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author, psychologist Margo Gardner, then at Temple, divided 6 people into three age groups: young adolescents, with a mean age of 14; older adolescents, with a mean age of 19
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In adults, excessive use of some pain-killing drugs may cause severe kidney damage.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • In contrast, adults behaved in similar ways regardless of whether they were on their own or observed by others.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as recommended by sleep experts.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation b
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Older adults need to take in more protein to keep their muscles strong.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Pipitone claims that healthy adults need not spend money on protein supplements.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults?
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Such courses, Hacker argues, are a remedy for the numerical illiteracy of adults who have completed high-level math like algebra but are unable to calculate the price of, say, a carpet by area.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Terrie Moffitt of Duke University and her research colleagues found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • That suggests that catch - up sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep 32 deprivation causes, which is encouraging, given how many adults don't get the hours they need each night.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • The brains of teenagers, but not adults, showed greater activity in two regions associated with rewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The children of the study are now adults in their thirties.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The startup's product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The study involved ordinary adults watching video clips of babies nine months or younger.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Their desire for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their school work or of driving adults crazy.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • They found that students with more potential earned more as adults, and the reverse held true as well, no matter where they went to school.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • They scanned the brains of teens and adults who were playing a virtual driving game designed to test whether players would brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students — young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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