真题例句：

• In the past few years, an increasing number of people and organisations have begun coming up with plans to counter this trend.

  在过去的几年里，越来越多的人和组织开始提出计划来应对这一趋势。

  [2021年 浙江卷 阅读理解]

• Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point.

  多年来，已经有许多不同的技术来帮助设计师接近这一重要的点。

  [2018年 全国卷1 阅读理解]

• There are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

  还有许多其他的原因可以解释为什么你想种花。

  [2016年 全国卷2 阅读理解]

真题例句：

• For example, over the centuries, they have simulated (模拟) dialogues in a number of ways.

  比如，几个世纪以来，教科书已经通过多种方式模拟了对话。

  [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]

• A little extra height brings a number of advantages, says Elio Riboli of Imperial College.

  帝国理工学院的Elio Riboli说，稍高一点会带来很多好处。

  [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]

• That means that everyone will, at some point in their life, have to make a number of major reinvestment in their skills.

  这意味着每个人在人生的某个节点，都必须做出许多重大的技能再投资。

  [2019年 CET4 阅读理解]

• The figures include a number of costs associated with air pollution.

  这些数字包括了与空气污染有关的一些成本。

  [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]

• \There could be a number of reasons,\ he said, \for example, people do many things to make themselves happier: they strive for promotion or pay rises, or they get married.

  他说：“可能有很多原因，例如，人们做了很多令自己开心的事情：他们努力争取升职或加薪，或者结婚。”

  [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]

• The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.

  他指出，另一个选择就是他们的学区将会成为下一个帕罗奥多(Palo Alto)。在帕罗奥多，十几岁的学生们承受着巨大的压力，人们认为这是过去六年里导致多起学生自杀事件的原因。

  [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]

• The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.

  随着马萨诸塞州牛顿市(Newton，Massachusetts)和帕罗奥多(Palo Alto)等地的学校报告了多起学生自杀事件，许多知名学区的学生备受压力一事近年来得到关注。

  [2018年 CET4 阅读理解]

真题例句：

• The researchers looked at time spent in a number of activities that could plausibly be driving the weeing decline.

  研究人员研究了花费在许多活动上的时间，这些活动有可能是导致衰落的原因。

  [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]

• You weren't born with attitudes.They're all learned, and this happens in a number of ways.

  态度并不是与生俱来的。态度是后天习得的，依靠多种途径习得。

  [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]

• A number of pioneers from the technology industry have expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.

  来自科技行业的许多先驱表达了他们对超级智能 AI 可能对人类造成的破坏的担忧。

  [2019年 CET6 阅读理解]