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almost

英 ['ɔːlməʊst] 美['ɔlmost]
  • adv. 差不多,几乎

考试真题


True to her word, she was correct almost every time.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The phrase almost completes itself: midlife crisis.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The other day, he came home from school almost in tears.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

So they’re cheap almost everywhere.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Millions of irrigation wells have significantly lowered water tables in almost every state.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have  become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

Almost all companies recognise the importance of innovation today.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

They were subject to taxation almost everywhere.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

However, he'll need to do so without tripping the anti-jamming system, the details of which he almost certainly does not have access to.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

John, she almost whispered.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms—a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It sounds almost too good to be true.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Their ability to withstand almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

About 8% said they used the Internet as a way to escape problems, and almost 14% reported they "found it hard to stay away from the Internet for several days at a time

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Is it almost time to go home now?

出自-2013年12月听力原文

She has almost recovered from the cough.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

The next block was almost empty.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

And what's more, you use it every day, almost every moment of your life

出自-2012年6月听力原文

I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and figuring things out, more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and independent than he will ever be again in his schooling – or, unless he is very unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on 开始 it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

But almost any drug, when it's misused, can make a person think he needs it all the time.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Genuine criticism creates a precious opening for an author to become better on his own terms— a process that is often extremely painful, but also almost always meaningful.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

He says the prices this year have been so low that he has made almost no profit.

2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

his name was Marie-Antoine Careme, and he had appeared, one day, almost out of nowhere.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

In fact, evidence shows almost dogs stay with one partner their whole lives.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

In general, the study found that undergraduates were almost as likely as old people to make this mistake and men as likely as women.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

In the 1920s, Swiss psychologist Jean piaget proposed that children's cognitive abilities unfold naturally,like the blooming of a flower, almost independent of what else is happening in their lives.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

It almost never really rains as most people think.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Local media reports suggest Calbee and its main rival Koike-Ya are halting almost 50 products.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

2016年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Mail delivery service is still responsible for the completion of almost half of payments.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

People were coming out of a formal and almost victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Perception of sweet and salty foods dropped by almost individuals percent in a simulation of air travel.

2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

Rainier's family has ruled Monaco almost continuously since 1297.

2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Somewhat nostalgically, he quotes John Maynard Keynes' justly famous words of praise to the bookstore: "One should enter it vaguely, almost in a dream, and allow what is there freely to attract and influence the eye."

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕 鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word environment has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

They are almost as liable to depression as the high-risk group.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Their behaviors can be found in almost all teenagers on earth.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Technology is becoming bigger and more aspirational, and penetrating almost every aspect of our lives.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

As technology ( ' , and with it, work emails) seeps ( ' , 渗入 ) into every aspect of our lives, work-life balance has become an almost meaningless term.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Devils Tower, the first national monument in America, could almost be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Almost half of graduates—those who go on to earn less—will have a portion of their debt written off.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Almost half of the sites didn't get a passing grade and only 18 percent got an A or B.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

And on reflection, this is not surprising; the single word" environment" has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impos

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

As technology and with it, work emails seeps (渗入) into every aspect of our lives, work-life balance has become an almost meaningless term.

2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

BrightLine itV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

But she was so nervous that she kept forgetting what to say, and she spoke almost in a whisper.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Experts said that whether or not Apple loses this specific case, measures that it could put into place in the future will almost certainly be able to further limit the government's reach.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

For almost all white-collar jobs, email is the primary tool of corporate communication.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

For now, though, life prevails—even in a lake that kills almost everything it touches.

2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Having lived in Asia for almost 10 years now, I've seen various dieting tips come and go.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

his experiments resulted in a new style that was almost exactly opposite the accepted technique of the time.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

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 fact, almost every interview I've ever had was due to a connection—one that I've gained through pure determination, not a school brand.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

In order to achieve a successful outcome or reward, some level of risk is almost always essential.

2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-yearolds— are way down: little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first giv

2016年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

It's no wonder that new applications for the Internet of Things are moving ahead fast when almost every new device we buy has a plug on the end of it or a wireless connection to the internet.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; It was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Let's face it, it wasn't too long ago that the idea of working from anywhere and at anytime was some form of a distant utopian dream,and yet now we can perform almost any office-based task from any location in the world as long as we have access to the in

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Now, just about everyone has a smartphone, connected to the internet almost everywhere almost all the time.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Part of the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one-click patent, the online retail shopping and buying experience is filled with frictions.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

She beat the record by almost two hours, and her father rewarded her with a red sports car.

2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Smith says he'll provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Technology is becoming bigger and more aspirational, and penetrating almost every aspect of our lives.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly to derive from the ancient Viking tradition.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

The Mediterranean region is warm and sunny, and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost year round that people eat many times a day.

2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Trips that many adults would consider the adventure of a lifetime-treks in Borneo, a sports tour to Barbados-appear to have become almost routine at some state schools.

2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

We can see this in almost every large city worldwide.

2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Another nice thing is that you learn both new words and their use unconsciously, meaning that you will tend to use the words learned/learnt this way in conversations almost automatically.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 语法填空 原文

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

Boom towns grow from nothing almost overnight.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 题设

Erin had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was extremely grateful.

2019年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

He finds that if babies aged 18 months see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to open a door, almost all will immediately try to help.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

He owned a farm, which looked almost abandoned.

2015年高考英语广东卷 语法填空 原文

His black-and-white pictures present a world almost lost in time.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

His voice was almost gone and his heart was heavy.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 完形填空 原文

"I have worked there on and off for almost ten years," says gin.

2016年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

I think almost all the people in the town were there.

2019年高考英语全国卷3 完形填空 原文

I was almost knocked down recently by a cyclist riding on the pavement when there was a cycle lane right next to him.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It takes place almost every year all over the world.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

It's almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:"I didn't understand what you said about [main topic of the course] "or "I couldn't understand any of your lectures last week."

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

One day after school, while exploring the green woods of this magnificent mountain, I almost fell on a set of stairs.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.

2015年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

She'd look at me with those sad brown eyes of hers, beam her need, and then wait, trusting I would understand — which, strangely, I almost always did.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Since almost 3% of the metal is lost during reprocessing, we'd have to make an extra 10 cans each year.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

So I ran back home almost in the dark while trying not to get too scared.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to talking about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

2016年高考英语上海卷 语法填空 B 原文

The first commercially available driverless cars will almost certainly be fielded by ride-hailing services, considering the cost of self-driving technology as well as liability and maintenance issues.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The heat was unbearable--almost 125°F even in the shade of a cactus.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

These modern architectural masterpieces are so many that Hilversum almost feels like an open air museum.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

They were almost knee-deep when they realized it was a hot spring.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

You'll get in more questions, the discussion will be tailored to what you need most help on, and two-party communication is almost always more productive than committee work.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 主旨概括 原文

But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on default will become the norm.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

出自-2013年考研阅读原文

To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.

出自-2015年考研翻译原文

DeepMind has almost apologized.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Almost all of the interior detail is of cast iron or plaster; the use of wood was minimized to insure fire safety.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

But in late September 2009, officials reported there was significant flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the samples tested are the new swine flu, also known as A H1N1, not seasonal flu.

2010年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not link phone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on advertising, it has chosen an indirect method: there is no guarantee that DNT by default will become the norm.

2013年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

If the district finds homework to be unimportant to its students'academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a 2012 survey, 71 percent of tree-fruit growers and almost 80 percent of raisin and berry growers said they were short of labor.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It is curious that Stephen Koziatek feels almost as though he has to justify his efforts to give his students a better future.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.

2020年考研真题(英语二)翻译 Section Ⅲ

These habits have helped companies earn billions of dollars when customers eat snacks or wipe counters almost without thinking, often in response to a carefully designed set of daily cues.

2010年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Working with your hands is seen as almost a mark of inferiority.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions-like, say, tennis games.

2020年考研真题(英语一)翻译 Section Ⅲ