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英语四级真题
  • The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Waiters should be paid by employers instead of customers.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic ( ' , 官僚的) mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification ( ' , 快乐 ) so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you're watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems? These focuses are not so different from the things in which they delight.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as little as $
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The bid went instead to Fuji, which exploited its sponsorship to win a permanent foothold in the marketplace
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Instead he was keenly interested in product design and aesthetics (美学), and in making advanced technology simple to use.
    出自-2012年12月阅读原文
  • put their money together instead of keeping it separately
    出自-2011年12月阅读原文
  • If we ask Americans why they eat with knives and forks, or why their men wear pants instead of skirts, or why they may be married to only one person at a time, we are likely to get similar and very uninformative answers: "Because it's right.
    出自-2013年12月听力原文
  • I wish we'd gone to the beach instead.
    出自-2010年12月听力原文
  • Actually, I'm on holiday with my family in Thailand at the moment, although I wish it were with my friends instead.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rath
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But I'm here to tell you that instead of focusing on doing what we love, I think we should focus on loving what we do.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Having a person, instead of a computer, reach out to you is particularly important in combating that sense of isolation.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • I offer a simple proposition in response: Many of our problems—class attendance, educational success, student happiness and well-being—might be improved by cutting down the bureaucratic mechanisms and meetings and instead hiring an army of good teachers.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings 瘾 and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead of trying to get children to work hard, why not focus on getting them to take pleasure in meaningful, productive activity, like making things, working with others, exploring ideas, and solving problems?
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead, he wants to show that nature itself can teach us to take care of the environment.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Instead, it may highlight your inability to delegate effectively.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead, topping the list of reasons, about four-in-ten Americans point to a double standard for women seeking to climb to the highest levels of either politics or business, where they have to do more than their male counterparts to prove themselves.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Sometimes its employees are released from their daily jobs for weeks and spend their time interacting in the innovation facility instead.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • That's the vision of a hotel chain that plans to send digital keys to guests' phones via an app instead of making them check in and get the traditional plastic swipe cards.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The assumption is that children shouldn't chat in the classroom because it hinders hard work; instead, they should learn to delay gratification so that they can pursue abstract goals, like going to college.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.
    2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The general consensus is that the best ones avoid mindless violence, and instead focus on strategy and challenge us to solve problems and achieve broad goals.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • These are processes that you are developing so that you are able, over time, to tackle more interesting problems, more challenging problems 一 problems that require many people instead of one person, and many skills instead of one.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • What has changed, instead, is the relative share adopting different ways of living in early adulthood, with the decline of romantic coupling pushing living at home to the top of a much less uniform list of living arrangements.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
英语六级真题
  • Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Instead, some in Africa and Asia are seeing their first lightbulbs illuminated by the power of sunlight stored in batteries.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Flexibility resulting from the use of digital devices benefits employers instead of employees.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • She decided to take lunch to work instead.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avastin, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Instead of normalising the undesirable behaviour, the message needs to marginalise it, for example, by stating that if even one person buys yet another SUV, it reduces our ability to be energy-independent.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • In their evolution, humans have learned to pay attention to the most urgent issues instead of long-term concerns.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Yet virtually no providers of goods or services rely on this alone, butuse paid advertising instead.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Instead of having a literal meaning, it docs something - conveying an attitude — just like the -ed ending conveys past tense rather than "meaning.
    出自-2014年6月阅读原文
  • When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue - that it has instead shifted to immigrants
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • According to Ruth Milkman, American craftsmanship, instead of disappearing, is being taken up by immigrants.
    出自-2013年6月阅读原文
  • The Three-Year Solution Hartwick College, a small liberal-arts school in upstate New York, makes New York, makes this offer to well prepared students: earn your undergraduate degree in three years instead of four, and save about 543,000—the amount of one year's tuition and fees
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of protecting speech and encouraging diversity and innovative thinking, the tenure system often stifles(压制)them: younger professors must win the approval of established colleagues for tenure, encouraging like-mindedness and sometimes inhibiting the free flow of ideas
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of taking 30 credits a year, these students take 40.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • But a bigger problem may be that poor high schools often send their students to colleges for which they are "undermatched": they could get into more elite, richer schools, but instead go to community colleges and low-rated state schools that lack the resources to help them.
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • Instead of directly saying no to your boss, you should find out what is in your boss's mind
    出自-2011年6月阅读原文
  • There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces.
    出自-2010年6月阅读原文
  • Those who are thinking their time did reverse spending time socializing instead of working.
    出自-2014年6月听力原文
  • What does the woman suggest they do instead of paying the South Theater Company's travel expenses?
    出自-2013年6月听力原文
  • "I'm going to leave it to those who are in mathematics to work out the ways to make their subject interesting and exciting so students want to take it," Hacker says. "All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • All that I ask is that alternatives be offered instead of putting all of us on the road to calculus.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • And instead of showing just the typical pair of eggs in a hummingbird nest, she painted four.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • And when we get off the plane, instead of being depleted, we feel recovered and ready to return to the performance zone.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But it's said to no longer contain kola nut extract, relying instead on artificial imitations to achieve the flavour.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Companies that have long focused on hardware now have to think of ecosystems instead to give consumers practical solutions to their everyday problems.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Customers can bring shoes of any brand into an Adidas store to be shredded and turned into alternative fuels for energy creation instead of being burned as trash.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: "If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • From now on, when someone asks you how your life is, try responding with words like "exciting" and "fun", instead of the culture norm that says "busy".
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Instead of discarding their old worn-out jeans, customers bring them in to be renewed.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead of narrowing our focus, like negative emotions do, positive emotions affect our brains in ways that increase our awareness, attention and memory.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Instead, Hacker is pushing for more courses like the one he teaches at Queens College: Numeracy 101.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University's NYU campus.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught in several ways, especially if one is visual.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Instead, Rodriguez solicits residents' advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead, they perform routine and laborious tasks, freeing nurses up to attend to patients with immediate needs.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead, they receive a fixed rate, which is typically about $825 for a standard four-hour vocal session.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Instead, thoughts make sense only in reference to the individuals' external world.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It's likely you prefer to feel happy instead of sad or confident instead of insecure.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Now, imagine the same dinner, but instead of checking their phone, the person belches—loudly.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Now, instead of swimming upstream, we relax, sleep, watch movies, or listen to music.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Once you get out of there, you become that part, only you're using music instead of dialogue.
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • Researchers are already asking if motor vehicle use has reached its peak and will decline, but transport planners have yet to catch up with this trend, instead of laying new roads to tackle traffic jams.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • So it's a welcome change that people are studying instead the future of intelligence.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyon
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The dataset they used did not include economic data, so instead the researchers looked at whether the 2013-16 well-being decline was tracking economic indicators.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • They lack water-storing structures, and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater, so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • 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.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Try to not have lunch at your desk, but instead spend time outside or with your friends一not talking about work.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time we didn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travelling or on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they're trying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how well students learn instead of just a preference.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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  • Adverb
    1. in place of, or as an alternative to;
    "Felix became a herpetologist instead""alternatively we could buy a used car"
    2. on the contrary;
    "rather than disappoint the children, he did two quick tricks before he left""he didn't call; rather (or instead), he wrote her a letter""used English terms instead of Latin ones"