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英语四级真题
  • "There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world," says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • 92 were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • A new study finds that McDonald's posted its slowest drive-through times since this survey was first conducted 15 years ago.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • A number of companies have sprung up—GamEffective, Bunchball and Badgeville, to name a few—in recent years offering gamification platforms for businesses.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • About 80% of people 65 years and older have living children, and about 90% of them have frequent contact with their children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Although many of his specific conclusions have been 35 rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Although many of his specific conclusions have been rejected or modified over the years, his ideas inspired thousands of studies by investigators all over the world.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • And based on past experiences, it takes four to five years after economic recovery for unemployment to return to pre-crisis levels.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • At 8 years old, he worked as a kitchen boy for a restaurant in Paris in exchange for room and board.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • But even if people are able to economically support a retirement at 65, over thirty years of potential inactivity is harmful to cognitive (认知的) and emotional vitality.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But it is also important to look at the wider picture of what happens when so many people live for 100 years.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But the word "gamification" and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • California has been facing a drought for many years now, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Cracker Jacks has been "gamifying" its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-of-the-century steel magnate (巨头 Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Dori taught high school engineering for 11 years.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Even if those causes of death were eliminated, life expectancy would still not go much beyond 92 years.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Explaining what the data revealed, he said: "What you see is that even after three years, mental health is still better, which is unlike many other things that we think will make us happy." He observed that people living in green spaces were less stressed
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • For example, sleep duration has declined from some eight hours in the 1950s to seven in recent years.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Giorgio says he's never experienced the Rialto Bridge this way in all his 22 years.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • He estimated that the "comfort level" will increase considerably in five to ten years.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • He has been growing tea in the Kerugoya area for 40 years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • He says demand has boomed in the past couple of years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • However, Dr Mehmood Khan,chief scientific officer, said the company had doubled research and development spending in the past five years and was "committed to sustaining investment", adding that companies cannot cost-cut their way to increasing sales.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • However, the business had been in trouble for years.
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • I fell in love with it instantly and continued with ballet dancing for about ten years.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • If I stayed in the U.S., it'd take two years and cost at least 50,000 dollars in tuition alone.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends cruelly murdered three people.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)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 2014, UNESCO gave Italy two years to manage Venice's flourishing tourism or the city would be placed on another list—World Heritage In Danger, joining such sites as Aleppo and Palmyra,destroyed by the war in Syria.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In his teenage years, Careme fashioned eatable copies of the late 18th century's most famous buildings—cookies in the shape of ruins of ancient Athens and pies in the shape of ancient Chinese palaces and temples Sylvain Bailly.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • In many European countries,where diesel vehicles have become more common in recent years, that number reaches tens of thousands.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • In one US study that analysed the health data of 50,000 people over seven years, researchers found that those who made breakfast the largest meal of the day were more likely to have a lower body mass index BMI than those who ate a large lunch or dinner.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.
    2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • It has been brought on by years of eating anything he could get his hands on.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • It has existed for just a few years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • It's an administrative sham of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • It's expected to raise $410 million over the next five years, most of which will go toward funding a universal pre-kindergarten program for the city.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • I've been involved with pubs off and on for ten years.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Karraker and co-author Kenzie Latham analyzed 20 years of data on 2,717 marriages from a study conducted by Indiana University since 1992.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • king willem-Alexander of the Netherlands said that he recently ended his role as a regular "guest pilot" after 21 years with the national airlines fleet of now-outdated aircraft.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • life expectancy is increasing at two years for every decade.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts of Sudan and Ethiopia.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Long before television cooking shows, Careme walked readers through common kitchen tasks, instructing them to "try this for yourself, at home" as famous American Chef Julia Child might do, many years later.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • More than 1,000 years ago, they made three important geographical discoveries.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Natural disasters can wreck a community 5s infrastructure, disrupting systems for months or years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Research is converging on the conclusion that great accomplishment and even genius is typically the result of years of passion and dedication and not something that flows naturally from a gift.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • She describes how the definition of beauty has changed over the years and even from culture to culture.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • She's been working in Manchester for two years, and no one, not one of her colleagues had ever invited her to their home.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?
    2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • So, for example, my sister's birthday is December 9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years old.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The amount of nicotine that's delivered in every cigarette is 10 percent higher than it was six years ago, which means that it's easier to get hooked and harder to quit.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The land has been independent for over 300 years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The Maker Movement is rediscovering learning by doing, which is Dewey's phrase from 100 years ago.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力
  • The number of British films being made has declined in the past few years, according to new figures.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The Olympic got wrecked before the titanic did, but it was the only one to survive and maintain a successful career of 24 years.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The Perfect Essay Looking back on too many years of education, I can identify one truly impossible teacher.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.
    2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get a better picture of heat absorption from surface to seabed.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.
    2016年12月四级真题(第三套)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 young murderer remained on death row for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • They could be sold, but we want to save them for future years.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Thirty years after he imagined the city, Park's baby is close to 70 percent built, with 36.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373 students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading more strict, to determine how their mind-
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • We went there about ten years ago for our honeymoon.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • When Ted Komada started teaching 14 years ago at killip elementary, he didn't know how to manage a classroom and was struggling to connect with students.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • While height increased in Uganda and niger during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among l8-year-olds.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • While the public sees greater workplace equality between men and women now than it did 20-30 years ago, most believe more change is needed.
    2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • with costs falling and kitchen appliances becoming "status" items, owners are throwing away microwaves after an average of eight years.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Years ago, the government made money by selling public lands, but most of the best public lands have now been sold.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • You've been dating since your first year of university, so that six years now?
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
英语六级真题
  • "It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years", says Colin dixon of a digital-media consultancy.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • "The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world," read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to t
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come," said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association CT.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • "We're obligated to keep a pulse on the population for at least five years after the foxes are delisted," says Boser.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ those "unadaptable and untrained" workers.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • A handful of lawsuits have been filed in recent years against companies accused of using misleading environmental labels.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • After being dogged by technical delays for years, sir Richard Branson, virgin Galactic's founder, had recently suggested that a Spaceship Two craft would carry its first paying customers as soon as February 2015.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • After studying these products for several years, I wrote a book about how they do it.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • After three years of working in a petrol station and doing unpaid work I still hadn't managed to get an entry level job.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • After years of pleasing a fascinated audience across Europe with books of detailed descriptions and life-size paintings of familiar insects.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • All 67 participants were over 60 years of age, and both groups lost about the same amount of weight.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Although most people do not take out insurance on their young children, as the children become financially independent of the family, the emphasis on family financial security will shift from protection to saving for the retirement years.
    2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Although, over the years, Barbies had more than 180 different careers, including football coach, sign language teacher, ambassador, president and astronaut, her body shape hasn't changed much.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • And I'm going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • And over the years, my stubborn loyalty has been justified.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Bottom line, if you think you need more protein in your diet, consider these questions: Are you an extreme athlete; are you recovering from injury or surgery; or are you 60 years or older?
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • But after I moved to Tokyo and lived there for a number of years, I got used to having a pile of to-do lists.
    2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • But keeping those foxes from harm will occupy Boser and her colleagues for years to come.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • California has spent years preparing for "The Big One"—the inevitable earthquake that will undoubtedly unleash all kinds of havoc along the famous San Andreas fault (断层).
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product cl
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • Each featuring a different researcher, one of whom they'd met once two years earlier.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Electronics giants like Best Buy and Samsung have provided e-waste take-back programs over the past few years, which aim to refurbish (翻新) old electronic components and parts into new products.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Even five years ago most people faced a choice.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • For example, years when people spent more time with friends were better years for well-being and followed by better years.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • For years, nutritionists have recommended that pasta be kept to a minimum, to cut calories, prevent fat build-up and stop blood sugar shooting up.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • For years, smartphones, televisions, tablets, laptops and desktops have made up a huge part of the market and driven innovation.
    2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Gregg Rosen lost his job as a sales nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.
    2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • Having lived in Asia for almost 10 years now, I've seen various dieting tips come and go.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • historian Paul Lovejoy relates that the cultivation of kola nuts in West Africa is hundreds of years old.
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  • However, the "screen time" hypothesis, advanced by researchers such as Jean Twenge, is that electronic devices and excessive time spent online may have reversed these trends in recent years, causing problems for young people's psychological health.
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  • However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.
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  • If a fellow says "I'm 94 years old and I worked all my life", we need to realize, that is how he got to be 94, by staying involved.
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  • In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it.
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  • In a few short years, he turned the magazine on its head.
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  • In recent years, feminists, historians and artists have all praised Merian's tenacity, talent and inspirational artistic compositions.
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  • In recent years, many mid-sized cities have begun to adopt a middle-of-the-road approach incorporating the excitement and opportunity of large cities with small cities' quiet after midnight.
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  • In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.
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  • In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.
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  • Insurance can be purchased at a lower rate during the young years.
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  • Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.
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  • It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.
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  • It includes accounting for any piece of debris they plan to release over 5mm that might stay in orbit for 25 years or more.
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  • It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.
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  • It notes that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child's second birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.
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  • It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.
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  • I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.
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  • Looking back now, nine years later, I can't remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better.
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  • Mobile phone champion Nokia, one of Europe's biggest technology success stories, was no 26 exception, losing its market share in just a few years.
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  • More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016.
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  • More than seven years after it was originally supposed to open, it still stands empty.
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  • Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.
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  • My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear, that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60 years.
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  • Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years.
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  • Of course, as most of us forget memories from our first few years as we grow older, this early long-turn memories will likely be lost in subsequent years.
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  • On the exercise’s website, officials explain that the report they prepare during this rehearsal will inform disaster management for years to come.
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  • Once every three or four years, when conditions are right, the lake is covered with the pink birds as they stop flight to breed.
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  • One hundred years ago, "Colored" was the typical way of referring to Americans of African descent .
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  • Other churches were conserved in previous years.
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  • Our problems are "structural", and will take many years to solve.
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  • Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically for 130,000 years.
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  • Our world now moves so fast that we seldom stop to see just how far we have come in just a few years.
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  • Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50.
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  • Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
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  • Over the past few years, we have made dramatic breakthroughs.
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  • Over the years, Tim Joseph's partners have helped many dairy farmers to switch to grass-fed.
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  • Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.
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  • Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal supporters of the drive for more-open science.
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  • Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.
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  • Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.
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  • Scores in various well-being measures began to go downward among young Americans in recent years.
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  • Several years ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately care for themselves.
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  • since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.
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  • Staff from the Norwegian government have carried out conservation work on 10 of the churches over the past two years.
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  • The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.
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  • The carbon that we've put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years, so we have to cut back rapidly now, because it would take a long time to work its way through into a response by the atmosphere.
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  • The dot.com bust discredited most predictions of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report weak online sales.
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  • The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years.
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  • The impact of a basic discovery on human health can be exaggerated so that the public thinks a miraculous cure is a few months to years away when in reality the significance of the study is far more limited.
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  • The researchers also note the recession hit some years before we see the beginning of the well-being drop, and before the steepest well-being decline, which occurred in 2013.
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  • The show has been running for over ten years, and some of the actors are practically global super stars.
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  • The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn't been accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning.
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  • The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.
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  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years 81 percent.
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  • The video gaming industry has ballooned in recent years.
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  • These cultures have eating habits that developed over thousands of years.
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  • They can recover from months and years without water, depending on the species.
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  • They could have improved their financial situation and their physical and mental health situation 30 years later.
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  • This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.
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  • This is a very sensible way for an animal to make decisions in the wild and would have been very helpful for humans for thousands of years.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Noun
    1. a late time of life;
    "old age is not for sissies""he's showing his years""age hasn't slowed him down at all""a beard white with eld""on the brink of geezerhood"
    2. a prolonged period of time;
    "we've known each other for ages""I haven't been there for years and years"
    3. the time during which someone's life continues;
    "the monarch's last days""in his final years"