her with two options: to terminate one fetus as requested or terminate both and still get paid.
本句也是并列说明，可以略看。
第六段
Unwilling to do either, Beasley tried to compromise option of seeking other potential parent.
从本句看出，本段开始的内容将是主人公“寻找出路”的地方。
She says both sides offered candidates but fought over what-if anything-the newcomers would pay Wheeler and Berman for their in-vitro fertilization and donor-egg expenses.
-if anything- 破折号的作用：
1、 解释：用浅显的语言说明复杂的内容。 2、 总结：前面简单，后面浓缩。
3、分隔：两个破折号一定是分隔作用，第一个破折号总结、解释前面的内容，后面的破折号就是一个插入的作用。
In Britain the matter would have been simpler. There, surrogate mothers have full legal rights to the babies they bear for at least the first six weeks. But since the contract was signed in California, Beasley, now living in San Diego, supported by her lawyer there, is suing to sever the couple?s rights over the children and claim unspecified damages.
Britain、California：地点强对比往往会蕴含着考点
By last Thursday the blood was so bad that Berman had the man who came to serve her with papers thrown out of her office building. Blood：脾气
本句内容非常具体，不会成为考点。
第七段
This very pubic debacle has surrogacy supporters pretty steamed too. \only victims I see in this case are those babies and surrogate parenting itself, \Shirley Zager, director of the Illinois-based Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, herself a surrogate mother.
Shirley Zager, director of the Illinois-based Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy, herself a surrogate mother. 从语者的经历和头衔可以推测出语者的支持倾向
According to law professor Rhode, changes of heart happen in only 4 out of every 10, 000 legal surrogate arrangements; however, such cases usually involve the surrogate mom wanting to keep her offspring after they?re born
And even though they have been through a lot together, Beasley has no such plans for the twins. \the means, \ending will have to wait.
1. According to the passages, Helen Beasley became a surrogate mother mainly because______.
(A) she wanted to have a daughter of her own (B) she liked to be a voluntary egg donor
(C) she had much sympathy for those childless families (D) she needed the money from surrogate parenting 答案来源：
When she bought her first computer and did some research on the Internet, the tales of childless couples she came across broke her heart, she says, and made her think of going one step further, as some 20, 000 surrogate moms do each year in the U.S. \本题是细节题，可以从上下文找到答案。
2. The word \in the sentence \was a lengthy e?mail row between the two sides\
(A) negotiation (B) argument (C) communication (D) dialogue
3. It can be found from the passages that the contract between Beasley and Wheeler and Berman_____.
(A) was unfair to the surrogate mother
(B) was quite comprehensive and accepted by both parties (C) did not include clauses related to multiple pregnancy
(D) specified the reduction of payment in case of multiple pregnancy (B) Comprehensive与第三段关键词extensive形成呼应
注意：类似这样的题目一定优先选择主题相符的答案，这是非常的主题原则。
4. According to the passage, Beasley refused to terminate one of the fetuses out of all the following reasons EXCEPT that____.
(A) her high blood pressure would lead to danger in operation (B) both of the twin fetuses would face the risk of being lost
(C) the termination would be too late after week 13 of her pregnancy (D) the decision to reduce fetuses was cruel and unethical 答案来源第五段
5. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? (A) Beasley is going to keep the twins herself. (B) Both sides are seeking potential parents.
(C) The laws concerning surrogate mothering are different in the two countries.
(D) The case is quite unusual compared with most other surrogate cases. 总结：
答题技巧：分清主题和细节(数字，例子，引用，etc.)，做好笔记
第三章 真题分析 二
（全真试题集P72）
阅读技巧：
抓主题，具体细节如名人的话、数字、头衔可以跳读。
本篇文章的阅读关键在于抓住主题。
第一段
Supermarket group Tesco, now the biggest retailer in the UK, rang up its first ￡1bn profit last year and yesterday claimed to be the fastest growing major retailer in the world.
Now：时间强对比词。
The 700-strong chain, once regarded as a downmarket pile-it-high-and-sell-it-cheap business, is raking in sales of nearly ￡23bn a year and producing a profit of ￡3m a day.
Downmarket：底端市场
pile-it-high-and-sell-it-cheap薄利多销 rake in 赚取、获得
Only one UK retailer-Marks Spencer-has ever breached the ￡1bn barrier before and M S has since suffered an aboutt-turn in its fortunes. In made only ￡430m last year. aboutt-turn：大逆转
第二段
Despite criticism from consumer groups and some farmers? representatives, Tesco, which now accounts for ￡25 of every ￡100 spent on groceries in UK, insisted it was not making excessive profits. Despite：尽管
类似的词although、though、in spite, in spite of, etc.引导让步状语从句，重点部分在于主句。
Chief executive Terry Leahy said the chain was making only just over ￡3 profit from every ￡100 purchase and deputy chairman David Reid said the growth had been driven by “better service, quality and value for money”. 有具体数字和“牛人”的具体内容可以忽略。
本段只需特别关注关键句insisted it was not making excessive profits.
第三段
The supermarket has also benefited from the lackluster performance of some of its rivals, especially Sainsbury. Also：引出另外一个关键原因 Lackluster：缺乏光泽
Unitl 1995 Sainsbury was bigger than Tesco,but it last reported profits were barely half Tesoco?s ￡1bn. Safeway, which made ￡236m last year, is turning itself into a new breed of small-scale hypermarket while Asda, with ￡330m profit last year, appears to have lost some of its momentum since its takeover by the American Wal-Mart discount chain. Tesco?s ￡1.05bn profit, which was generated in the year to the end of February, is 12% up on last year. Sales were up 11.9%. 本句用数字证明和对手进行比较。
第四段
Earlier this year-in the wake of a two-year competition commission inquiry which cleared the supermarkets of making excessive profits-Tony Blair accused the supermarkets of having shoppers in “an armlock”, but Tesco denied its profits and success were being driven by squeezing suppliers. It said it had cut prices by ￡1bn over the past five years and that its prices were now 11% lower than in 1996. Armlock：困难的境地 But后面的内容更加重要
第五段
A spokesman for the company said: “Our profits have been growing in the with sales for a number of years. In other words, it is not margin expansion, or any rip-off, that is driving the profit growth.” “And in as much as farmers are experiencing tough 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 company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 rip-off：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 comprehend”, backed the company. 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 jobs-half in the UK-meaning Tesco?s worldwide payroll will rise to 260,000. The Tesco. com grocery home delivery business also brings in profits. The online grocer is now the biggest e-tailer in the world. Its 1m registered users 70,000 weekly shoppers spend ￡6m a week.
1. This passage is mainly about . (A) a comparison of supermarket groups in Britain