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考官支招—BEC阅读难题解析
Reading PART ONE 在BEC Vantage 和Higher 中,Part one和Part two 是考生普遍反映难以应付的题型,这次我们就来解析一下第一个部分。根据考生的反映,问题主要集中在两个方面,一个是词汇的问题,即考生无法判断词汇的含义和与其相关的词汇,二是考生能够理解词汇,但是对于整体的段落含义无法明白,这是由于考生缺乏相关的商务背景知识。其实,这正体现得这道考题的考点,第一个是同义词,近义词的转换,第二个是需要考生进行总结。下面,我来具体帮助大家来解决这些难题。
如例题中的下划线部分: PART ONE Questions 1-8 · Look at the statements below and at the five newspaper items about different companies on the opposite page. · Which company (A, B, C, D or E) does each statement 1-8 refer to? · For each statement 1-8, mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet. · You will need to use some of these letters more than once. · There is an example at the beginning, (0).
那么下一个问题就是,选项这么长,怎么能记得住呢,如果每读到一段extract, 都要再从头到尾读一遍statement,那就非常浪费时间了,甚至可能答不完题目。这里要和大家说的是,请大家将选项中的关键字画出,之后只要锁定所画的关键字就可以了。在这道题目中我们可以看到每句话的关键词(下划线部分): 1 Shares in this company have stopped rising in value. 2 This company has again revised its growth targets downwards. 3 A problem experienced by this company has led to a change of personnel. 4 Suppliers may refuse to charge this company less for their goods. 5 A period of rapid growth immediately preceded a fall in this company’s share price. 6 This company’s reputation differs from that of its competitors. 7 This company is planning to operate from fewer sites. 8 A rise in the value of this company’s shares appears to depend on the success of its present strategy.
我们现在来看一下文章 A 请大家注意 …respect, considerable more than its peers in…, 这里的respect 大家可以联想到关键词 reputation, 而peers 大家可以想到 competitors,再看句意,说的是Angus这家公司在刚进入市场的时候,它的名声便和其他同行业的公司不同。因此,我们根据关键字的近义词判断 6 所指的是A. 接下来, the company’s recent warning that such growth is unlikely to be maintained has caused a leveling off in its share price. 这里请大家注意 level off 这个短语,如果这个短语的含义能够清楚,那么选项也就明白了。这个词组表达的含义是变平,这里就是停止增长,开始走平。这样我们马上就可以对应上关键词 shares stopped rising in value。因此 1 选择 A 最后一句话,说到投资人希望通过现在北美的扩张来带来收益和付给工人工资,以推高公司的股票,这对应了 8 。 B 这里提到了 further reducing the cost of raw materials by 15% is perhaps over-ambitious, given the resistance to the 5% cut the company imposed last year. 削减原材料成本就是要求供应商降价,而很难就说明供应商会拒绝,所以选项中的我么可以对应上 4 说到 improving manufacturing efficiency, including job cuts and plant closures,时, 指的是通过裁员和关闭工厂来控制成本,这正对应了7 中的关键字。 C 这里的选项是通过总结来判断出来的,最开始的股票价格为 405p,之后开始下跌到 64p,先升后降,选择 5 D 注意 the turmoil… and has resulted in the resignation of the director responsible for product and marketing. 动荡造成了一名主管的离职,属于人事变动,所以选择 3 E abandoned the targets it set only six months ago. Move away from … to more realistic figures. 这些词都对应了 2
张峥Gaby 资深商务英语讲师,拥有丰富口语、商务英语教学经验。对与商务词汇的积累与商务背景只是的解析有着自己读到的见解。Gaby注重在学习中锻炼学生的商务口语能力,希望学生们在商务场合能够更自信的与人交流。
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