商务英语阅读上册课件与答案2.pptVIP

Chapter 2 Abstracts from Articles on Free Trade Policy 自由贸易政策文摘 单元教学目的 通过阅读定位段落大意 。 本章阅读技巧提示 如何阅读定位段落大意？ 本章将涉及中心词定位法，排除不含中心词的选项定位的基本思路，是拿题干或选项中的细节关键词跟意群(一般是段落)关键词做比较，首先确定所定位段落，然后再以题干中的更细的内容在意群中去找答案，即所谓“先意群后细节”。 但需要注意的是，题目可能会对原文中的逻辑关系词语进行替换，查找时要注意。另外，我们还可以利用逻辑关系判断哪些信息是相对重要的信息，哪些信息是相对不重要的信息，从而简化阅读。 一种情况是考段落或意群中的特殊语言形式，如让步，负评价和混合评价，对比和比较，如短文中的从句等。最难的一种情况是看不出或至少不能明显看出，考什么内容，总之所考查的似乎与段落主题没有什么直接关系，虽然也会出现与意群或段落主题无关或相反的选项，但其他的选项仍然需要做进一步的判断。 Step One First, read Material One under teacher’s instructions. Then teacher gives hints or tips for reading. Finally, teacher checks the answers and gives explanations. For the past two decades, the United States has pursued parallel but separate approaches toward deepening bilateral trade relations with countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the Asia-Pacific region. For the past five years, similar initiatives have been launched with countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). In all three regions, the trade pacts build on the precedents established first by the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in January 1988, and then the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) signed in December 1992. The Canada-US pact sparkeda run of proposals in the late 1980s for bilateral FTAs between the United States and South Korea, Taiwan, the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), and Australia that resulted in stacks of economic studies but no negotiations. Similarly, the NAFTA catalyzed interest throughout Latin America in securing greater access to the US market and to US capital. Besides the exceptional US FTA with Israel (signed in 1985), no country in the MENA region expressed interest in a similar trade deal with the United States. In both the LAC and Asia-Pacific regions, proposals for bilateral talks quickly were submerged into regional initiatives with similar long-run objectives but starkly different modalities. The Asia-Pacific Economic C