As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
Hesiod offers an idea — which you very often find in some of the world's great religions, in the Judeo-Christian tradition and in Islam and others — that in some sense, when you hurt another human being, you hurt yourself.
2016年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
It would just require a shift in the education world's mindset.
2015年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
On New Year's Eve, Russians have the world's latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a.m.
2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
The biggest challenge here is irrigation, which consumes 70% of the world's fresh water.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
The fossil hall, which displays some of the world's oldest and largest fossil specimens, receives more than 2 million visitors each year.
2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A
The three environmental trends—the shortage of fresh water, the loss of topsoil and the rising temperatures—are making it increasingly hard to expand the world's grain supply fast enough to keep up with demand.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
The world's largest aircraft has taken to the skies for the first time.
2018年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A
We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.
2016年6月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
But these waterways seem minute in comparison to the world's two lengthiest rivers—the Nile and the Amazon.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B
Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.
2017年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B
Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
In a survey of 54 of the world's leading brands, almost all of them reported that consumers are showing increasing care about sustainable lifestyles.
2019年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
In the other comer is the world's most valuable company, whose chief executive, timothy Cook, has said he will appeal the court's order.
2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B
Industrial fishing for krill in the unspoilt waters around Antarctica is threatening the future of one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new report.
2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
It has become the world's most widely read magazine, selling 28 million copies each month in 17 languages and 41 different editions.
2018年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C
It is home to one of the world's finest marine ecosystems,with more than 1,300 species of fish and 700 species of coral.
2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A
Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.
2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C
Palau also established the world's first shark sanctuary in 2009.
2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A
The board game Go(围棋) took over from chess as a new test for human thinking in 2016, when a computer beat one of the world's leading professional Go players.
2019年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
The lake's landscape is bizarre and deadly—and made even more so by the fact that it's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos are born.
2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
The persistent haze over many of our cities is a reminder of the polluted air that we breathe, over 80% of the world's urban population is breathing air that fails to meet World Health Organisation guidelines.
2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A
The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.
2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
Three-quarters of the world's flamingos fly over from other salt lakes in the Rift Valley and nest on salt-crystal islands that appear when the water is at a specific level一too high and the birds can't build their nests, too low and predators can move bri
2017年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C
About thirty percent of the world's exports of tea makes its way to London.
2015年高考英语全国卷1 听力 原文
By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.
2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Furthermore, around 50% of the world's population live in regions where the figure is now below the replacement level.
2017年高考英语江苏卷 任务型阅读 原文
Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.
2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
In addition, new coffee-growing techniques are poisoning the water locally, and eventually the world's groundwater.
2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
On the last Wednesday of every August, the Spanish town of Bunol hosts Ea Tomatina—the world's largest food fight.
2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文
Riding a horse through the flooded waters of Botswana's Okavango Delta must rank as one of the world's most exciting wildlife journeys.
2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds.
2016年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
Some of the world's most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and new orleans to celebrate the first annual international Jazz day.
2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
The change in how coffee is grown from shade-grown production to full-sun production endangers the very existence of, certain animals and birds, and even disturbs the world's ecological balance.
2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
The dark cloud above one of the world's toughest criminal neighbourhoods simply disappeared for a few days.
2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文
The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.
2015年高考英语陕西卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
The median number(中位数) of speakers is a mere 6000, which means that half the world's languages are spoken by fewer people than that.
2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
They are created by the world's greatest artists.
2015年高考英语重庆卷 阅读理解 阅读E 选项
Visit the city with over 2, 000 years of history and bath abbey, the royal crescent and the costume museum, stonehenge is one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5, 000 years.
2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读D 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
A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the foreseeable future.
2009年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
But Mauna Kea is also home to some of the world's most powerful telescopes.
2017年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
It remains the world's largest trading block.
2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.
2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the?past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium—television—and television is defined by downloading.
2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
Overdressed is the fashion world's answer to consumer-activist bestsellers like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's dilemma.
2013年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
While fossil fuels – coal, oil, gas – still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.
2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
within weeks the world's two biggest auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.
2010年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ