Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The amount of training they received.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The helpless ones believe intelligence is a fixed characteristic: you have only a certain amount, and that's that.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Setting a limit on the amount of sugar or salt in their products.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

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.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

For example, some drink manufacturers have cut the amount of sugar in their beverages.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Studies have shown, for instance, that eating in front of the TV ( or a similar distraction) can increase both hunger and the amount of food consumed.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Each interactive textbook is a media-heavy experience built from the ground up, and you can tell that it takes a respectable amount of manpower to put together each one.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

They also calculated the cost savings emerging from the amount of disease that would be avoided because of lower blood pressure

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The residents are billed by "net metering": they pay for the amount of power they tap off the grid, less the kilowatts (千瓦) they feed into it.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

They are only charged for the amount of power they consume on rainy days

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

they have borrowed too heavily and accumulated too large amounts of debt

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The ability to sleep in one chunk (整块时间) overnight goes down as we age but the amount of sleep we need to function well does not change," Dr Drummond told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Diego.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

That's different from person to person, but the amount of sleep we had at 35 is probably the same amount as we need at 75.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

That way, you see and hear more: and your mind responds gratefully to the greater amount of wildness in your life.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

An enormous amount of energy and resources went into the construction of those houses.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

The amount of sleep that each person needs varies.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

The amount of sleep for each person is similar

出自-2014年6月听力原文

It is easy to study the amounts and kinds of food that people consume

出自-2012年12月听力原文

"These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

A 4-year-old may 27 protest that a sister has more fruit juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the 28 amount of juice.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

A different interpretation is possible when the actual amount of information acquired by the user is taken into account.

2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

And they target a small amount of money.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

Back in June, the Federal Communications Commission fined AT&T $100 million over accusations that the carrier secretly reduced wireless speeds after customers consumed a certain amount of data.

2017年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

Japanese laws limit the amount of imported potatoes that can be used in Japanese-made products.

2018年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

On the other side are parents like Mike jia, one of the thousands of Asian-American professionals who have moved to the district in the past decade,who said Aderhold's reforms would amount to a "dumbing down,"of his children's education.

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 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

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 birds will be encouraged to clean the park through the use of a small box that delivers a small amount of bird food.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

The next largest amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

There's an endless amount of scientific data proving that dogs can develop strong bonds with their owners.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

They reported bacteria were transferred from the tiles to the cookies within five seconds, but didn't report the specific amount of bacteria that made it from the tiles to the food.

2018年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

This is 10 times the amount this new microwave oven study estimates for annual emissions for all the microwave ovens in the EU.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

While cereal remains a firm favourite among breakfast consumers in the UK and US, a recent investigation into the sugar content of "adult" breakfast cereals found that some cereals contain more than three-quarters of the recommended daily amount of free s

2019年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

And when it comes to the hyper-connected super-smart world that technology firms are painting for us, it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over the massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized, customized solutions that companies need to improve their services.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Unfortunately for them ( ' , and often the taxpayers), our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia ( ' , meaning it takes a lot of energy to set them moving), and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste.

出自-2013年12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

The average amount of time students now take to complete an undergraduate degree has stretched to six years and seven months as students interrupted by work, inconvenienced by unavailable classes, or lured by one more football season find it hard to graduate

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

In the meantime, the amount of CO2 in the air is rapidly approaching the limits proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

However, scientists say that the scale of CO2 emissions will require vast amounts of long-term storage.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

One of five students arrives at college today with Advanced Placement (AP) credits amounting to a semester or more of college level work.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

But we have never built a?spreadsheet?(电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

This is the amount of calories you might expect to have in an evening meal, not in a drink.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

The London Bank and their agents who had been negotiating with the kidnappers have not said whether any amount of money has been paid.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"Supplying power to trains in this way would offer the shortest distance from well to wheels," he says, "with the least amount of energy lost."

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

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 going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

In 2001, for example, the Environmental Protection Agenc restricted the type and amount of lead that could be present in paint and soil to homes and child-care facilities after concerns were raised about lead poisoning.

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

In the end, the amount paid for premiums is about the same.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

It is quite easy for one to take in the recommended amount of protein.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

So we make a point of never publicizing of the amount of money we make.

2016年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

The big benefit will not only be in the housing of this enormous and rapidly growing amount of data, but will also be in the ability to run real time data analytics to extract actionable and ongoing knowledge.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

The biggest and most exciting challenge of this technology is how to creatively leverage this ever-growing amount of data to deliver cost savings, improvements and tangible benefits to both businesses and citizens of these smart cities.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

The value of a recovery period rises in proportion to the amount of work required of us.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

They found that adolescents who spent a very small amount of time on digital devices—a couple of hours a week—had the highest well-being.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

This could reduce the amount of steel needed to make everything from automobiles to buildings and bridges.

2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

This week the Italian government passed legislation that aimed to dramatically reduce the amount of food wasted in the country.

2017年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Unfortunately for them and often the taxpayers, our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier : they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia meaning it takes a lot of energy to se

2015年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

When considering the amount of insurance for the mother with dependent children, substitute child care is a need that should be planned for until the children can care for themselves.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Although the job takes a significant amount of time, most students agree that the experience is worth it.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 单项选择 原文

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

2019年高考英语浙江卷 听力 原文

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

2018年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Coastal areas will be warmer and can expect a fair amount of sunshine in the morning.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 听力 原文

Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

He can't help checking even at inappropriate times like when we are eating in a restaurant and I am talking to him! he behaves as if any small amount of boredom can make him feel the need to check his phone even when he knows he shouldn't.

2015年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species - including species they did not directly attack.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It costs a large amount of money.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

It exists in milk in great amount.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

It starts with saving an amount equaling 1 dollar in week 1, 2 dollars in week 2, 3 dollars in week 3, and continues right through the year until 52 dollars in week 52.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

One of the most important factors that influenced their satisfaction as volunteers was the amount of suffering they experienced in their volunteer positions.

2015年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Other cultures may use silence in other ways, particularly when dealing with conflicts among people or in relationships of people with different amounts of power.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Project managers evaluate the performance of the team members in terms of what they produce for projects, rather than the amount of time they spend on them.

2016年高考英语上海卷 完形填空 原文

Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

Researchers found small amounts of fat, as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Something rare is worth a large amount of money.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Then I asked him if he had cut down the amount of feed he had given the chickens.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（10月） 完形填空 原文

There is a lot more material available, which means you may be overwhelmed with the amount of information.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 短文填空 原文

These animals consumed large amounts of vegetation, which reduced plant diversity in the park.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Those given night milk, which contained 10 times the amount of melatonin, were less active and less anxious than those fed with the milk collected during daytime, according to the study published in the Journal of Medicinal Food.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

To decrease the amount of rubbish and to protect the environment, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

To some extent you can control the amount of stress in your life.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

Today $8 or $10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Today, scholars have generated large amounts of instructive research about restaurants.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

While these are small in significant amounts, at the end of the year, you will have enough for an emergency fund, family celebration or holiday.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

The problem is not necessarily the amount of available funding.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the Senate where someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

2013年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Neuroscientist Bonnie Augeung found that the hormone oxytocin increased the amount of eye contact from men toward the interviewer during a brief interview when the direction of their gaze was recorded.

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

This is why researchers generally regard so-called moral guilt, in the right amount, to be a good thing.

2019年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ