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　—— 试题要求考生掌握常用词的深层词义及相关成语： 　　今年阅读理解Part A的文章中有些词汇考生大多认识，但深层词义没有掌握，而考点又在这些词汇的深层词义上。所以考生在快速阅读时的应对能力一落千丈。如compromise，大多数考生知道其词义为“妥协，折衷”，部分考生知道此词还有“让步”之意。据笔者在今年3月400多人的讲座上调查，没有一个学生知道compromise还有“因错误行为使自己陷入困境”和“修改，更改(某事)；减弱，减轻”的词义。因而37题大部分考生做错。又如fetch一词，学生初中就学过这词，意为“去取，去拿；去接来”，但几乎没有人知道fetch还有“(某货物)卖得(多少钱)”之意，因而Text 4中下面的句子无法理解：These rules saythey must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the pricemanagers and regulators would like them to fetch. (这些规则写道，银行必须以第三方愿意支付的价格来估价一些资产，而不是以价格经理和管理者想要把这些资产卖出去的价格。) 再如 Text 2 第2段第1句：Now the nation’stop patent court appears completely ready to scale back on 　　business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they werefirst authorized 10 years ago。(现在国家的高级专利法庭似乎完全准备好来限制经营方法专利的颁发，因为这些专利从10前首次批准以来一直是有争议的。)其中scale back on 的确切含义400学生全部不知道，而26题考的就是这个词组的含义。 　　上述情况既反映了考生背记词汇中的漏洞，也反映命题专家对考生的要求与考生的实际英语水平相差太大，这就大大降低了试题的区别度，从而造成优、中、差三个层次的考生都无法应对的局面。 　　问题二：阅读理解掺杂长难句，让考生在快速阅读中很难应对 　　造成今年阅读成绩大幅下降的另一个因素是文章中的长难句多，且又是命题的考点。例：Text 1 第3段： 　　We are even farther removed from the unfocusednewspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century andthe eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylisharts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which itappeared. In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics ofmajor papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learninglightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to knowwhat they were about. These men believed in journalism as a calling, and wereproud to be published in the daily press. So few authors have brainsenough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,Newman wrote, that I am tempted to define ‘journalism’ as ‘a term ofcontempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are’. 　　(与我们离得更远的是20世纪初与二战前夕之间英国出版的百花齐放的报纸评论。那时新闻印刷品价格低廉，并且时尚的文艺批