A 句：文中答案来源句；B 句：题干 +正确选项看着 A句背 B句；出题人的说话风格；改写习惯；尺度的把握，题感的培养；第一组：A 句： The most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets.B 句： One of the driving forces behind M&A wave is the greater customer demands Maximize the incomeA) increase the incomeB) Increase the purchasing power of the income Merger and AcquisitionAcquired Intuitive Cognitive Nature NurtureMadeBorn先天和后天的差别男人和女人的不同B 句： One of the driving forces behind M&A wave is the greater customer demands 第二组：A 句: The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed.B 句： To combine and become biggeris the typical trend of businesses today.第三组：A 句： It is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the ., when the Standard Oil Trust was broken up.竞争都是好的；垄断是不好的；It is not hard to imagine +结论B 句： The Standard Oil Trust might have threatened competition.第四组：A 句： A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career.High profileLow profile人：高调 / 低调物/ 事情：引人瞩目与否B 句： The writer was compelled by circumstances to leave her job.第五组：A 句： I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of thephilosophy of “ having it all, into” a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.B 句： The writer s experiment shows that downshifting helps her mold a new philosophy of lifeReshape =remold= transform= remaking=mold a new = remodel 第六组：A 句： Its not as hard for them to transform their thought processes as it is for older students.B 句： Cortina holds that early exposure to computer science makes it easier toremodel the way ofthinking.第七组：A 句： The high-schoolers get the same curriculum, but “we try to gear lessons toward things theyre interested in,” said Victoria Friedman, an instructor.B 句： In delivering lessons for high-schoolers, Flatiron has considered their interest.第八组：A 句： But the skills they learnhow to think logically through a problem and organize the resultsapply to any coding language, said Deborah Seehorn, an education consultant for the state of North Carolina.B 句： Deborah Seehorn believes that the skills learned at Flatiron will help students learn other computer languagesCoding language = computer languageEncode/ decode =processWasteful =unacceptable第九组：A 句： The younger they learn how computers think, how to coax=make the machine into producing what they want the earlier they learn that they have the power to do that the better.B 句： According to the last paragraph, Flatiron students are expected to become better prepared for the digitalized world第十组：A 句： The crash was a major reason the . Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) decided to formally list the bird as threatened.“The lesserprairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel AsheB 句： The major reason for listing the lesser prairie chicken as threatened is its drastically decreased population第十一组：A 句: Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat.B 句： It can be learned from Paragraph 3 that unintentional harm-doers will not be prosecuted if they agree to pay a sum for compensation第十二组：A 句： Overall, the idea is to let “ states remain in the drivers seat for managing the species,” Ashe said.B 句： According to Ashe, the leading role in managing the species is the states.第十三组：A 句：“ The federal government is giving responsibility for managing the bird to the same industries that are pushing it to extinction, ” says biologist Jay Lininger.B 句： Jay Lininger would most likely support environmental groups第十四组：A 句: Deep reading requires not just time, but a special kind of time which cantbe obtained merely by becoming more efficient.In fact, “ becoming more efficient” is part of the problemB 句： The usual time management techniques dontwork because what deep reading requires cannot be guaranteed第十五组：A 句：“ we feel a pressure to fill these different-sized bottles (days, hours, minutes) as they pass, for if they get by without being filled, we will have wasted them.”B句： The “ empty bottles ” metaphor illustratespeoplethat feel a pressure to make passing time fulfilling第十六组：A句： but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behavior helps us “ step outside timesflow” into “soul time.”B 句： Eberle would agree that scheduling regular times for reading helps achieve immersive reading第十七组：A 句：“