一、Section 5解题原则

先看题目—再定位关键词—最后找到答案，改写原文用自己的语言表达

注意：10－20％题目很难，适当放弃

二、Section 5题型分析

1．细节题：考细节内容或功能

最典型的是例子功能题

2．词义句义理解题：

Section 5中词义句义理解题的考法往往是考句子在上下文的功能，要求考生从上下文中归纳答案。

3．定义题：

在上下文中找答案，把握回答的套用句式：A is kind of B，which means……

注意：细节题、词义句义理解题、定义题是相对容易，需要考生努力得分的。

4. 描述题：

标志词：introduce，describe，give a brief summary，what do you know about sth.？

要求考生用简洁的语言概括一段内容，重点考查考生的概括能力。答案长度以20－30字为宜。

5．解释题：

常常让考试解释analogy，comparison，metaphor

解释题比较难，学员如果能力有限，可以考虑放弃

注：前三种题型简单，多拿分，后两种比较难，10道题目答案很明显的至少有8题，考生避免求全心理，可以考虑放弃一些过难的题目。答案长度以20－30字为宜。

第八章 section 5的答题技巧

2002年3月 section5 7－10

Reading Objectives: 学会section 5的答题技巧，辩明题型，先读题目，后定位并改写答案

Think of yourself flying across the country. An engine starts sputtering; cause for alarm, sure, but the pilot does that folksy number—"Aw, shucks, little problem here"—and assures you the others can take the strain. Then a second engine goes out; the sweat trickles down your neck, but your reckon you'll make it to the ground safely. But if the third, and then the fourth, flame out

Think of通常会引出一个具体的例子

flame out突然冒火

The global economy hasn't crashed just yet. But a world—wide slowdown is giving analysts everywhere a bad case of the jitters. The key reason: this, says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International, is "the first synchronized downturn since the 1980s," when high interest rates squeezed the world economy like an orange. During the last U.S. recession, 10years ago, Europe was in its post—cold war euphoria, while the Asian economies were the stuff of miracle. By the time a financial crisis declared the Asian tigers in 1997—98, the U.S. economy was in the middle of its technology boom.

This time around, both the U.S. and German economies are flatlining, while that of Japan continues its slow, downward spiral. The Japanese unemployment rate has risen to 5%, while the Nikkei stock market index last week touched lows not seen since 1984. The world's three most powerful engines are out of juice. Worry.

Why are this year's economic woes so widespread? Blame globalization, the increase in cross—border trade and investment, that has bound the world economy closer together than ever before. In good times, globalization spreads the wealth. The astonishing growth of the U.S. economy in the lat 1990s spilled over into countries from Taiwan (which makes the microchips that power your computer) to Ireland (a prime destination for U.S. firms outsourcing manufacturing). But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear. Once it was plain—by last winter—that technology firms had vastly overestimated demand, the consequent retrenchment spread far beyond the Bay Area. Last week, for example, Baltimore Technologies, the jewel in Ireland's high—tech sector, slashed jobs in an effort to achieve profitability.

Signs of global recession inevitably conjure up thoughts of the last time the whole world went to hell in a hand basket: the Great Depression of the 1930s.In truth, we're a long way from breadlines, and policymakers understand the forces that move the economy today much better than they did then. But one lesson of the 1930s is worth remembering. In an interconnected world, points out Jeffrey Garter, dean of the Yale school of management, a small spark can start a huge conflagration. In 1930 it looked as if the consequences of the 1929market crash might be contained; it was the collapse in 1931of the Austrian bank Creditanstalt that turned a market correction into a worldwide slump. Similarly, the global financial crisis of 1997—98 started with the devaluation of the Thai bath—though Thailand's whole economy is about the size of Kentucky's.

That's one reason why, after much dickering, the Administration last week signed off on an $8 billion international rescue package for Argentina (an economy about the size of North lending tax dollars paid by American plumbers and retail clerks to a country that careens from one debt crisis to the next. But in the end, as Goldman Sachs' Hormats puts it, "pragmatism triumphed over ideology." If Argentina had defaulted on its debt, investors might have pulled out of other emerging markets, triggering a real crash. In a nervous world, It's best to avoid anything that leads to a loss of confidence. Might anything else tip the mood from mere gloom to catastrophe? "A huge amount," says Yale Garten, "is hinging on the American consumer." In today's planes, one really strong engine can get you safely to your destination. But expect a bumpy ride.

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