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times, why blame it on the supermarkets? Other macro factors are more important. Farm profits are extremely cyclical and in recent years the strong pound and the travails associated with BSE have been the main issues.” A spokesman for the pany 公司官方发言人的观点一定是正方观点 In other words：换句话说 margin expansion：边际利润扩张 ripoff：敲竹杠 in as much as：因为 macro factors：宏观因素 Cyclical：周期性的 Travails： 艰难 BSE =MCD：疯牛病 第六段 But a spokeswoman for the National Consumer Protection Council said: “ It is high time Tesco cut their prices more and gave the customers more benefit from their profits” , while Michael Hart, of the Small And Family Alliance, accused the supermarkets of being a “ new food baronial class” . The Liberal Democrats’ agriculture spokesman, Colin Breed, called for the appointment of a retail regulator “ who would not be in the pockets of the supermarkets.” But 说明观点发生变化 National Consumer Protection Council：消费者保护协会 Small And Family Alliance：小家庭农场联合会 Liberal Democrats：自由民主党人 注意： Reading Objectives: 正反论证，做好笔记 baronial class：贵族阶层 But the National Farmers’ Union, while admitting that some of its members would find the earnings “ hard to prehend” , backed the pany. Spokeswoman Helen Lo said farmers hit by crises like BSE and foot and mouth should work with the big grocers, rather than “ wage a war” on them. She said: “ I think the way forward is to get farmers to muscle together to make a better profit for themselves, and they should look at efficiencies of operations.” Tesco is driving its growth through international expansion, and now operates 65 hypermarkets abroad, mostly in central Europe and Asia. Sales at those stores climbed to nearly ￡ 3bn last year and they produced profits of ￡ 74m. At home, the group last year sold ￡ 45m of DVD players and TVs, extended its clothing range put 8,00 new nonfood products on its shelves. Hypermarket 超大型超市 Mr. Leahy outlined plans to spend ￡ 1bn opening more Tesco outlets in the UK this year. He intends to double both the number of Tesco Express stores on Esso forecourts to 100 and the number of Tesco Extra hypermarkets to around 45. The expansion plans are expected to create 20,000 new jobshalf in the UKmeaning Tesco’ s worldwide payroll will rise to 260,000. The Tesco. grocery home delivery business also brings in profits. The online grocer is now the biggest etailer in the world. Its 1m registered users 70,000 weekly shoppers spend ￡ 6m a week. 1. This passage is mainly about . (A) a parison of supermarket groups in Britain (B) criticism of supermarkets from consumer groups (C) Tescon’ s growth through international expansion (D) Tesco’ s first ￡ 1bn profit growth and its consequent reponses 主题题解题原则： 篇幅原则：篇幅越长越有课程是主题 抽象原则 2. Which of the following shows the right order of supermarkets according to the profits they made last year? (A) Marks Spencer, Sainsbury, Safeway, Asda, Tesco (B) Tesco, Sainsbury, Marks Spencer, Asda, Safeway (C) Asda, Tesco, Sainbury, Safeway, Marks Spencer (D) Safeway, Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, Marks Spencer 3. Which of the following parties or anizations sympathizes with Tesco? (A) The Liberal Democrats (B) The National Consumer Protection Council (C) The National Farmers’ Union (D) The Labour Party 4. The expression “ in the pockets of” from the sentence “ The Liberal Democrats’ agriculture spokesman, Colin Breed, called for the appointment of a retail regulator ｀ who would not be in the pockets of the supermarkets＇ ” . (Para. 6) can be replaced by . (A) in line with (B) in the control of (C) in support of (D) in opposition to 5. According to the passage, all of the following contribute to Tesco’ s profit growth EXCEPT . (A) implementation of its marginexpansion policy (B) expansion of markets abroad (C) fast grow of etailing business (D) improvement of service and quality Reading Objectives: 正反论证，做好笔记 第四章 真题分析 三 2020 年 3 月 section2 6－ 10 Questions 6～ 10 Reading Objectives: 进一步理解时间强对比的写法，理解 example 的功能 You saw the stories of the embarrassment at Encyclopedia Britannica last week as the pany39。 s highly advertised free Web site was jammed into nonfunctioning. Encyclopedia Britannica：大英百科全书 jam：堵塞，拥挤 nonfunctioning.：瘫痪 句子的主体： the stories of the embarrassment The stories were of some 10 million hits a day clogging the site, . britannica.。 of three separate apologies given to would be users of the free reference service。 of promises to get the thing up and running, perhaps as early as this week. 考点： 分号引出并列（细节） 三个细节用。 连接，细节非常具体，不是重点部分，可以略看， More striking, though, is what the stories didn39。 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. 考点： although, though, even though, in spite of， despite, albeit 后面的内容鄙视 What an extraordinary：感叹句，这种奇怪的事情非常值得报道。 have access to=have=be accessible to 第一段典型结构： anecdote/story（轶事）引出主题，目的是讲道理，跳过故事不看。 若在文章出现例子，则看其上下文 相关题目解析： 6. The author cites the example of Encyclopedia Britannica at the beginning of the passage mainly to show that ________. (A) its Web site is the target of millions of hackers (B) the Web site can be repaired soon (C) it is one of the major signs of knowledge explosion (D) it is the symbol of the arrival of encyclopedic age Example 题分两种：考 example 的 function 或者 content， section 2 考前者较 多，遇到这种题目不要留恋细节内容，要看上下文比较抽象和概括的内容。 小帖士：如果文章是一个小故事，我们应该关注隐藏在故事背后的深层抽象道理。 As for ordinary people, I remember how the encyclopedia salesmen would e around with their sample volumes, their memorized spiels and their offers of “ easy” terms if you39。 d only sign up for Compton39。 s or World Book. 本句也是细节描写，可以略读。 另外，。