During the second half of the 20th century, grain prices rose dramatically several times.

2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

the 20th century a highway, car, truck century—and the 21st century will increasingly be an aviation century, as the globe becomes increasingly connected by air, " Kasarda says.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

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

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

since the middle of the 20th century, though, things have turned the opposite way—these days, punishing hours at your desk, rather than days off, are seen as the mark of someone important.

2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them.

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the

2011年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work, Hagel says.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new person

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and rad

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ