高级口译阅读真题解析：第八章

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

7、Why does the author begin the article with the description of one's flying experience?

第7题是例子功能题：不需要看懂例子，重点是第二段的第一句：This is to compare the flying accident/experience with the global economic situation. Just as theflying accident, the worldwide economic slowdown will probably lead to a globaleconomic crisis without proper management and control.
 
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.

从本段看出，文章讲的不是飞行问题而是经济问题。

Why does the author begin the article with the description of one's flying experience?

This is to compare the flying accident/experience with the global economic situation.Just as the flying accident, the worldwide economic slowdown will probably lead to aglobal economic crisis without proper management and control.
 
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.

8、Explain the sentence from paragraph 4 "But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear."

第8题词义句义题：考句子功能，找上下文抽象句, 关键是体现时间强对比。

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.

8、Explain the sentence from paragraph 4 "But globalization, it turns out, has a reverse gear."

When the economy is good， the globalization has positive effects on it， but during bad times globalization also has the negative influences on it。

答题技巧：把时间强对比表现在自己的答案中，可以获取较高的分数。

9、Why does the author mention the Great Depression of the 1930s?

第9题词义句义题：体现类比
 
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.

9、Why does the author mention the Great Depression of the 1930s?

The author uses the comparison between the current economic situation and the 1930sgreat Depression in order to illustration a good lesson worth remembering, that is, asmall country financial crisis may lead to a global economic crash.

10、What do you know about the arguments over the $8 billion international rescue package for Argentina?

第10题描述题：要用简洁的文字描述清楚事件、观点

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.

Default　拖欠

Trigger　引发

10、What do you know about the arguments over the $8 billion international rescue package for Argentina?

Despite some people were strongly against the rescue package, the American government signed off the plan for Argentina which was in a debt crisis, because if defaulting, Argentina will  lose the confidence of investors, and hence this will trigger a real crash

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