Part B: Ordering Utterances (2010)
Directions:
For Questions 41-45, choose the most suitable paragraphs from the list A-G and fill them into the numbered boxes to form a coherent text. Paragraph E has been correctly placed. There is one paragraph which does not fit in with the text. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Answer Sheet
答案解析 (Answers & Analysis)
41. [B] 首段定位。 文章的主题是关于欧洲的食品饮料批发市场。B段从零售业(Retail sales)的停滞(standstill)入手,引出了大型零售商在后院忽视的一个巨大机会:批发市场(the wholesale food and drink trade)。这是典型的问题引出式首段。
42. [F] 数据举例支撑。 B段提出了“巨大的盈利机会”,F段首句以 "For example" 开头,用具体的数据(268 billion, 40 percent)支撑说明批发市场的巨大规模,并在段末提到该行业有利于整合(consolidate)。
43. [D] 总结与转折。 经过B和F段的论述,D段首句进行阶段性总结:"All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale..."。而在D段的后半部分,笔锋一转,指出各大国家市场存在重大差异(important differences),并强调需要“新技能和不熟悉的商业模式(New skills and unfamiliar business models are needed too)”。
44. [G] 让步与建议衔接。 D段末尾提出了进入批发市场的高要求(需要新技能等)。G段首句立刻用 "However, none of these requirements should deter large retailers..." 进行衔接,"these requirements" 完美指代了D段末尾的新技能和新商业模式要求,鼓励零售商不要退缩。
[E] 固定位。 E段首句 "Despite variations in detail..."(尽管细节上有差异)与D段中提到的“各个国家市场的巨大差异(important differences)”形成逻辑上的呼应与让步。E段重点分析了批发市场的两大需求来源,并在段尾抛出一个悬念:这些数据掩盖了“两个相反的趋势(two opposing trends)”。
45. [A] 趋势解谜与收尾。 E段末尾留下悬念“两个相反的趋势”,A段首句立刻回答:"The first and more important is the consumers growing preference for eating out...",直接点明了第一个重要趋势(外出就餐增加),段落后半部分接着指出了“与此同时(Meanwhile)”人们倾向于在家吃饭的第二个趋势。逻辑严丝合缝。