High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.
2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.
2016年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oil-producing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.
2016年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C
This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nations 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.
2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.
出自-2014年6月阅读原文
Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕）and age profile.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Analyzing data from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, among others, and consulting with experts and academics, we measured 28 factors to come up with our rankings.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文
Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (学徒) programs for high school students.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
Then, in 1973, the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to stop selling oil to the United States.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations.
出自-2013年6月阅读原文
What can the West's overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞长的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia?
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.
2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.
2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C
Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poison-free food.
2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
International Labour Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B
Many major donors and the United Nations are targeting hunger-relief programs at pregnant women and young children.
2015年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C
Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.
2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
The nations participating at COP are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.
2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C
This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.
2016年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文
If nations could only keep the initial promises of the Paris Agreement, what would happen by the year 2100?
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设
If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be 0.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 题设
In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.
2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Nations would not need to tighten their emissions targets.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项
This is how much temperatures would rise by 2100 even if nations live up to the initial Paris promises to reduce carbon emissions; this rise could still put coastal cities under water and drive over half of all species to extinction.
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
This is the most ambitious goal for temperature rise set by the Paris agreement, after a push by low-lying island nations like Kiribati, which say limiting temperature rise to ?
2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
Unesco united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization recently set April 30 as a day to raise awareness of Jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying voice across cultures.
2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
You might think that developing nations would make up the loss especially since 80% of the world's people now live in such nations, but you'd be wrong.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文
During the late 1990s, national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate-varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, i
2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that
2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
So what Kennedy was referring to was that while GDP has been the most common method for measuring the economic activity of nations, as a measure, it is no longer enough.
2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.
2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ