【正文】 s enough to say, ‘ I gave at the office with taxes.’ Sweden or France：出現(xiàn)多個地點， 地點強對比， 有可能是考點所在 9. Which of the following can be concluded from Scott Walker39。s this new breed of social entrepreneurs ing out of Harvard Business School or failed dots, and they39。 9. The author quotes . Secretary General s remark in the last paragraph mainly to demonstrate that _________. (A) telephone is more important to the Web than the poor (B) digital revolution will be weled by the poor (C) the gap between the rich and the poor can be wider in the information age (D) half the world39。 “ I39。 另外，本句是對過去的描寫，隱藏了時間強對比的信息。連接，細節(jié)非常具體，不是重點部分，可以略看， More striking, though, is what the stories didn39。 第一段 Supermarket group Tesco, now the biggest retailer in the UK, rang up its first ￡ 1bn profit last year and yesterday claimed to be the fastest growing major retailer in the world. Now：時間強對比詞。 總結(jié)：前面簡單，后面濃縮。 Pregnant with one more baby than Wheeler and Berman wanted, Beasley says, she has received only 1, 000 of the 20, 000 they originally agreed to pay her. 本句中有很多數(shù)字，而數(shù)字往往是可以被忽略的。 參考資料《英語高級口譯全真試題集》 二 提高閱讀六大準備工作 詞匯 1) 基礎(chǔ) 8000 詞 參考資料： TOEFL 詞匯 2) 新聞詞： back 支持 hit 變得流行起來 讀攻略版 參考資料：《單挑》 專業(yè)詞 topic: society, politics, law, economy amp。 finance, ethics(bioethics, scientific breakthrough), terrorism, space research, arts and literature, entertainment, etc. infertility 不育癥 embryo 胚胎 germline geic manipulation 種系基因控制 IVF 試管受孕 4) 時事詞： annus horribilis 大災(zāi)年 、 恐怖 的年份 advergame 電玩游戲 5) 外來詞： oolong， chic， avantgarde, zeitgeist 句子結(jié)構(gòu) : 長句短讀 文章的結(jié)構(gòu) 句子生來不平等 關(guān)鍵是找到文章的主題和主線 出題位置預(yù)測 選項和題型分析 Scection2 常見題型： 細節(jié)題：例子功能題 詞義句義理解題 判斷題 推斷題 主旨題 閱讀題解題技巧： 做筆記 第二章 真題分析 一 2020 年 3 月 section2 Questions 1～ 5（全真試題集 P95） 重點在于分析文 章的主線和枝節(jié)信息 第一段 Helen Beasley says she did not set out to bee a surrogate mother. Helen Beasley 文章開頭出現(xiàn)的一個人物 文章中人物的作用： 文章的主角 Leading role 議論文中的 Example 被引用者的話 Quotation 東西方新聞報道焦點不同：西方新聞更愿意暴露社會上尖銳、新奇、有爭議的事件。 The fate of the twins she’ s carrying but does not want or have legal rights to will be decided by a California court, in one of the most bizarre surrogacy cases yet. Bizarre：奇怪 文章的第二段把案子的背景信息告訴了大家。 分隔：兩個破折號一定是分隔作用，第一個破折號總結(jié)、解釋前面的內(nèi)容，后面的破折號就是一個插入的作用。 The 700strong chain, once regarded as a downmarket pileithighandsellitcheap business, is raking in sales of nearly ￡ 23bn a year and producing a profit of ￡ 3m a day. Downmarket：底端市場 pileithighandsellitcheap 薄利多銷 rake in 賺取、獲得 Only one UK retailerMarks Spencerhas ever breached the ￡ 1bn barrier before and M S has since suffered an abouttturn in its fortunes. In made only ￡ 430m last year. abouttturn：大逆轉(zhuǎn) 第二段 Despite criticism from consumer groups and some farmers’ representatives, Tesco, which now accounts for ￡ 25 of every ￡ 100 spent on groceries in UK, insisted it was not making excessive profits. Despite：盡管 類似的詞 although、 though、 in spite, in spite of, ，重點部分在于主句。t say: What an extraordinary thing it is that people around the world suddenly have access— free access— to knowledge that would have been the envy of a university professor earlier in my own lifetime. 考點： although, though, even though, in spite of， despite, albeit 后面的內(nèi)容鄙視 What an extraordinary：感嘆句，這種奇怪的事情非常值得報道。 spiel 喋喋不休 “ easy” terms：優(yōu)惠條款 Owning an encyclopedia— or “ a set of encyclopedias” , as we used to say— was a pretty big deal for families of modest means, an unaffordable luxury for many of the folk in my hometown. And now it39。m starting to feel almost like I know the place, even though I39。s population will benefit from knowledge explosion 10. The last two paragraphs of the passage can be perceived as __________. (A) the summary of the whole passage (B) the introduction of the concept “ digital divide” (C) the prediction about America in the new century (D) the warning of issues behind technological progress 本題是結(jié)構(gòu)功能題 8. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) Both Compton39。re saying, ‘ I want to make big things happen.’ 對應(yīng)題目： 7. The author mentions Ronald Reagan39。s ment(Para. 3)? (A) Charities in European countries are run by the governmental department. (B)America should earnestly learn the practice of charity from France and Sweden. (C) European countries should learn from American charity. (D) The concept of American charity is different from that of European ones. To be sure, business and philanthropy are old bedfellows in the United States. The Rockefellers, the Carnegies and the Fords set the mold. But many were what Mark Dowie, author of American Foundations: An Investigative History, calls s. o. b. s patrons of symphonies, operas, ballets, and museums and hospitals where rich people go to die. The new foundations are more like quasipublic trusts progressive institutions of change, argues Dowie. The new movers and shakers of American charity are more likely to be flashy TV titans like Ted Turner. The story of how Turner gave away a billion is a founding legend of this class. In a cab on his way to make a speech at the United Nations, the cable titan, sick of official . reluctance to pay . dues, decided to pony up 1 billion himself. This shamed Washington and inspired imitators. It is a lot more personalityoriented in this culture of new wealth, says Ellen Dadisman, vice president of the Council on Foundations. It39。t think it39。s call for private charity to replace government largesse was greeted with hoots of liberal derisionand an outbreak of giving. Largesse：慷慨 Hoot：嘲諷 Derision：嘲諷 Outbreak：爆發(fā) The number of private foundations rose from 22, 000 in 1980 to 55, 000 today. They now dole out about