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Covering about two and a half acres, Pavlopetri’s three main roads [connected] some 50 rectangular buildings, all of which had open courtyards.

帕夫洛彼特里占地约两英亩半，三条主干道{{18}}了大约50座长方形建筑，这些建筑都带有露天庭院。

The study divided the pupils into two groups to find whether ____

该研究将学生分为两组，以考察____

It can be learned from the last two paragraphs that LUMI ____

从最后两段可以得知，LUMI____

Consulting firm Parks Associates predicts that legitimate US streaming services’ cumulative loss from piracy since 2022 will reach $113 billion in the next two years.

咨询公司Parks Associates预测，自2022年以来美国正规流媒体服务因盗版造成的累计损失将在未来两年内达到1130亿美元。

Yet despite two decades of strategies and a number of major health reforms, we have failed to make meaningful progress on any of these aims.

然而，尽管二十年来出台了各种战略、进行了多项重大医疗改革，我们在这些目标上都未能取得实质性进展。

According to the first two paragraphs, the NHS ____

根据前两段，NHS____

The nail hoard was discovered in 1960 in a four-metre-deep pit covered by two metres of gravel.

这批钉子于1960年在一个四米深的坑中被发现，坑上覆盖着两米厚的碎石。

The Romans buried the nails so deep that they would not be discovered for almost two millennia.

罗马人把钉子埋得很深，以至于近两千年都未被发现。

After writing two books about the history of inventions, one thing I’ve learnt is that while it is the enchantingly sophisticated technologies that get all the hype, it’s the cheap technologies that change the world.

在写了两本关于发明史的书之后，我明白了一件事：虽然备受追捧的是那些精妙迷人的复杂技术，但真正改变世界的却是廉价的技术。

Which of the following best summarises the last two paragraphs?

下列哪一项最能概括最后两段？

An infant born to a hunter-gatherer society could have more than ten caregivers — this contrasts starkly to nursery settings in the UK where regulations call for a ratio of one carer to four children aged two to three.

出生在狩猎采集社会的婴儿可能有十多位照料者——这与英国的托儿所形成了鲜明对比，英国的规定要求，对于两到三岁的儿童，照料者与儿童的比例为一比四。

According to the first two paragraphs, alloparenting refers to the practice of ____

根据前两段，异亲抚育指的是____的做法

What can be learned about Rutkowski from the first two paragraphs?

从前两段可以了解到关于鲁特科夫斯基的什么信息？

New AI technologies are particularly concentrated: Brookings’s Mark Muro and Sifan Liu estimate that just 15 cities account for two-thirds of the AI assets and capabilities in the United States.

新的人工智能技术尤其集中：布鲁金斯学会的马克·穆罗和刘思帆估计，仅15座城市就占据了美国三分之二的人工智能资产和能力。

The author mentions two books in Paragraph 1 to present ____

作者在第1段提到两本书是为了呈现____

What can be learned about Scopus from the last two paragraphs?

从最后两段可以了解到关于Scopus的什么信息？

Two centuries ago, the idea of preserving nature, rather than exploiting it, was a novel one to many U.S. settlers. One of the turning points in public support for land conservation efforts — and recognizing the magnificence of the Yellowstone region in particular — came in the form of vivid photographs.

两个世纪前，保护自然而非开发自然的理念，对许多美国定居者来说是一个新奇的想法。公众开始支持土地保护工作——尤其是认识到黄石地区的壮美——的转折点之一，是以生动照片的形式出现的。

It is trying to encourage people to sign two petitions, one calling for a ban on the sale of plastic grass and another calling for an “ecological damage” tax on such lawns.

它正在努力鼓励人们签署两份请愿书，一份呼吁禁止销售塑料草坪，另一份呼吁对这类草坪征收“生态破坏”税。

It can be learned from the last two paragraphs that teenagers ____

从最后两段可以得知，青少年____

Materials prices are already up 25% in the last two years.

过去两年里，材料价格已经上涨了25%。

What can be concluded about Generation Z from the last two paragraphs?

从最后两段可以得出关于Z世代的什么结论？

But a genuine partnership must be a two-way street.

但真正的合作关系必须是双向的。

It can be learned from the first two paragraphs that dark patterns ____

从前两段可以得知，暗黑模式____

Unexpected results have two benefits: you pretty quickly learn to deal with disappointment and realise that when one door closes, another opens.

意想不到的结果有两个好处：你会很快学会应对失望，并意识到一扇门关上时，另一扇门就会打开。

The two highly recommended lifestyle approaches are maintaining or increasing your [level] of aerobic exercise and following a Mediterranean-style [diet] that is high in fiber and eliminates highly processed foods.

两种被高度推荐的生活方式是：保持或提高有氧运动的{{19}}，以及遵循一种富含纤维、杜绝高度加工食品的地中海式{{20}}。

According to the first two paragraphs, CCT programs aim to ____

根据前两段，CCT计划旨在____

A one-hour flight is now billed as a two-hour flight.

一小时的航班现在被标为两小时的航班。

The trick is not only to [specify] just one or even two dimensions of the objective, but also to understand how to help people better [achieve] the objective.

诀窍不仅在于明确目标的一两个维度，还在于理解如何帮助人们更好地实现目标。

When Microsoft bought task management app Wunderlist and mobile calendar Sunrise in 2015, it picked up two newcomers that were attracting considerable buzz in Silicon Valley.

2015年，微软收购了任务管理应用Wunderlist和移动日历Sunrise，从而拿下了两家在硅谷备受关注的新公司。

They housed eight adult rats with two types of robotic rat — one social and one asocial — for four days.

他们把八只成年鼠与两种机器鼠——一种善于社交，一种不善社交——饲养在一起，为期四天。

When you find yourself well [off] a trail, but not in a completely [unfamiliar] area of land, you have to answer two questions: Which [way] is downhill, in this particular area?

当你发现自己远离了小径，但又并非身处一片完全陌生的区域时，你必须回答两个问题：在这一特定区域，哪个方向是下坡？

In France, shareholders who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn more voting rights in a company.

在法国，持有一家公司投资至少两年的股东有时可以在公司中获得更多投票权。

This year marks exactly two centuries since the publication of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley.

今年恰逢玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦——现代普罗米修斯》出版整整两百周年。

What problem should be addressed according to the first two paragraphs?

根据前两段，应当解决什么问题？

A new survey by Harvard University finds more than two-thirds of young Americans disapprove of President Trump’s use of Twitter.

哈佛大学的一项新调查发现，超过三分之二的美国年轻人不赞成特朗普总统使用推特。

Eight monumental curving staircases of granite with over 4,000 individually cast bronze balusters are capped by four skylight domes and two stained glass rotundas.

八座宏伟的花岗岩弧形楼梯配有4000多根单独铸造的青铜栏杆，其上方是四个天窗穹顶和两个彩色玻璃圆形大厅。

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

今天，单是当时创作的剧本数量，以及同时为这座拥有二十万居民的伦敦城写作的剧作家人数，就令我们惊叹不已。

The power and ambition of the giants of the digital economy is astonishing — Amazon has just announced the purchase of the upmarket grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.5bn, but two years ago Facebook paid even more than that to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service, which doesn’t have any physical product at all.

数字经济巨头的实力和野心令人震惊——亚马逊刚刚宣布以135亿美元收购高端连锁杂货店全食超市，而两年前脸书为收购WhatsApp即时通讯服务付出的代价甚至更高，而WhatsApp根本没有任何实体产品。

That would be the people who buy advertising from them — and Facebook and Google, the two virtual giants, dominate digital advertising to the disadvantage of all other media and entertainment companies.

客户是那些从它们那里购买广告的人——而脸书和谷歌这两大虚拟巨头主导着数字广告，损害了所有其他媒体和娱乐公司的利益。

Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, points to a study in the early 1980s that divided undergraduates into two groups: some were advised to set out monthly goals and study activities; others were told to plan activities and goals in much more detail, day by day.

《混乱：无序改变生活的力量》一书的作者蒂姆·哈福德提到20世纪80年代初的一项研究，该研究把大学生分成两组：一组被建议制定每月的目标和学习活动；另一组则被要求逐日、更加详细地规划活动和目标。

First two hours, now three hours — this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

先是两小时，现在是三小时——这是当局建议人们为赶国内航班提前到达机场的时间，至少在一些安检队伍越来越长的美国大型机场是这样。

In the last two paragraphs, the author suggests that ____

在最后两段中，作者暗示____

Dickens was born in Portsmouth, on England’s southern coast. His father was a clerk in the British Navy Pay Office — a respectable position, but with little social status. His paternal grandparents, a steward and a housekeeper, possessed even less status, having been servants, and Dickens later concealed their background. Dickens’s mother supposedly came from a more respectable family. Yet two years before Dickens’s birth, his mother’s father was caught stealing and fled to Europe, never to return. The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as “the young gentleman.” His father was then imprisoned for debt. The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dickens’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret. He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.

狄更斯出生于英格兰南部海岸的朴次茅斯。他的父亲是英国海军军饷处的一名职员——一个体面的职位，但社会地位不高。他的祖父母分别是管家和女管家，因为当过仆人，地位更低，狄更斯后来隐瞒了他们的出身。据说狄更斯的母亲出身于一个更体面的家庭。然而在狄更斯出生前两年，他的外祖父因偷窃被抓，逃往欧洲大陆，再也没有回来。家境日益贫困，迫使狄更斯在12岁时辍学，到沃伦鞋油作坊——一家鞋油厂——做工，在那里其他做工的男孩嘲笑他是“小绅士”。后来他的父亲因负债入狱。父亲入狱的屈辱和他在鞋油厂做工的经历成了狄更斯最大的创伤，也成了他最深的秘密。他甚至无法向妻子吐露这些事，尽管它们构成了他小说中未被承认的基础。

The opposition claims primary school pupils doing at least two hours of sport a week have nearly halved.

反对党称，每周至少进行两小时体育运动的小学生人数几乎减少了一半。

Mr. Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.

罗斯先生招收了三名社区大学的学生参加一个实习项目，起薪为每小时13美元，两年后涨到17美元。

At a worktable inside the transformer plant, young Jason Stenquist looks flustered by the copper coils he’s trying to assemble and the arrival of two visitors.

在变压器厂的一张工作台前，年轻的杰森·斯滕奎斯特面对他正试图组装的铜线圈和两位来访者的到来，显得有些慌乱。

Two years before graduating from secondary school, I took a sewing and design course thinking that I would move on to a fashion design course.

中学毕业前两年，我参加了一门缝纫与设计课程，想着以后会接着学时装设计课程。

Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

很可能，你的头像照片如今被人看到的次数比一二十年前多得多。

Young people who are still getting started in life were more likely than older adults to prioritize personal fulfillment in their work, to believe they will advance their careers most by regularly changing jobs, to favor communities with more public services and a faster pace of life, to agree that couples should be financially secure before getting married or having children, and to maintain that children are best served by two parents working outside the home, the survey found.

调查发现，与年长者相比，刚刚踏上人生道路的年轻人更有可能在工作中优先考虑个人成就感，更有可能相信定期换工作最能推进自己的事业，更喜欢公共服务更多、生活节奏更快的社区，更认同夫妻在结婚或生育之前应当经济上有保障，并坚持认为父母双方都在外工作对孩子最为有利。

According to the first two paragraphs, King Juan Carlos of Spain ____

根据前两段，西班牙国王胡安·卡洛斯____

Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions”.

两年前，鲁珀特·默多克的女儿伊丽莎白谈到了“我们如此多的机构普遍缺乏诚信，令人不安”。

According to the first two paragraphs, Elisabeth was upset by ____

根据前两段，令伊丽莎白不安的是____

(47) The United States is the product of two principal forces — the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.

(47) 美国是两种主要力量的产物——一是带着各种各样思想、习俗和民族特征的欧洲移民，二是改变了这些特性的新国家所产生的影响。

Another is to let students sit for the bar after only two years of law school.

另一种主张是让学生在法学院只读两年就可以参加律师资格考试。

As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

尽管有些科学家可能会抱怨这些新奖项，但有两点似乎是明确的。

Ground surveys allow archaeologists to pinpoint the places where digs will be successful. Most ground surveys involve a lot of walking, looking for surface clues such as small fragments of pottery. They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape. Archaeologists also may locate buried remains by using such technologies as ground radar, magnetic-field recording, and metal detectors. Archaeologists commonly use computers to map sites and the landscapes around sites. Two- and three-dimensional maps are helpful tools in planning excavations, illustrating how sites look, and presenting the results of archaeological research.

地面勘测使考古学家能够准确找出可以成功发掘的地点。大多数地面勘测需要大量步行，寻找诸如陶器碎片之类的地表线索。勘测通常还包括一定量的挖掘，在一片地域中选定的若干地点检测是否有埋藏物。考古学家还可以利用地面雷达、磁场记录和金属探测器等技术来确定地下遗存的位置。考古学家通常用计算机绘制遗址及其周边地貌的地图。二维和三维地图是规划发掘、展示遗址面貌以及呈现考古研究成果的有用工具。

These two academics use an array of behavioral research to show that the most rewarding ways to spend money can be counterintuitive.

这两位学者借助一系列行为研究表明，最能带来回报的花钱方式可能与直觉相悖。

It seems most people would be better off if they could shorten their commutes to work, spend more time with friends and family and less of it watching television (something the average American spends a whopping two months a year doing, and is hardly jollier for it).

看起来，如果大多数人能缩短通勤时间，多花时间陪伴亲友、少花时间看电视（美国人平均每年在这上面花掉整整两个月，却几乎没有因此更快乐），他们的状况会更好。

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable — meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that — and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

这些品牌鼓励注重时尚的消费者把衣服看作一次性用品——只打算穿到洗一两次为止，尽管它们并不会这样宣传——并且每隔几周就更新一次衣橱。

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

可能我们正在形成两个社会科学家群体：一个以学科为导向，在高度专业化的期刊上发表文章；另一个以问题为导向，在其他地方发表成果，例如政策简报。

Indeed, predictions have been [around] for two decades but have not yet come to fruition.

事实上，这类预言已经流传了二十年，却至今尚未成为现实。

In an essay entitled “Making It in America”, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: The average mill has only two employees today, “a man and a dog.

在一篇题为《在美国成功》的文章中，作者亚当·戴维森讲了一个来自产棉区的笑话，说明现代纺织厂的自动化程度究竟有多高：如今一家普通的纺织厂只有两名雇员，“一个人和一条狗。

We divide newcomers into two categories: legal or illegal, good or bad.

我们把新来者分为两类：合法的或非法的，好的或坏的。

We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.

我们需要让他们感到，家既可以在这里，也可以在那里，他们可以体面地同时属于两个国家。

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

当戈特曼博士真正想评估一对夫妇能否继续在一起时，他会邀请他们到他的海岛休养所进行时间长得多的评估：是两天，而不是两秒钟。

When Dr. Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together, he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation: two days, not two seconds.

当戈特曼博士真正想评估一对夫妇能否继续在一起时，他会邀请他们到他的海岛休养所进行时间长得多的评估：是两天，而不是两秒钟。

Two paradoxes exist throughout this credibility process.

在这一可信度确立的过程中始终存在两个悖论。

Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels.

花一点时间惊叹一下这些奇迹吧。

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

我称之为一场秘密战争，原因有二。

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

奥克兰大学的拉塞尔·格雷及其同事参照此前两次寻找语言普遍性的尝试，来考察语法的演变。

Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence.

接着，它把这种联系——哪怕是在两岁孩子身上——呈现为女孩不仅天真无邪，而且是天真无邪的证明。

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman’s risk of breast cancer.

一家联邦上诉法院推翻了先前的判决，裁定麦利亚德基因公司确实可以持有两个有助于预测女性乳腺癌风险的基因的专利。

Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

不到两周，他就首次与哈特福德金融服务集团的董事会进行了接洽，该集团于9月29日任命他为首席执行官兼董事长。

The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller — two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet — than those in their older neighbors along the city's Gold Coast.

例如，密斯在芝加哥湖滨大道建造的那些优雅高楼中的公寓——不到1000平方英尺的两居室——比该市黄金海岸沿线那些较老的邻近建筑中的公寓要小。

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.

20世纪30年代，弗兰克·劳埃德·赖特开始建造更朴素、更实用的房屋——通常约1200平方英尺——与他在19世纪90年代和20世纪初设计的那些铺展开来的两层楼房相比更为简约。