GMAT与 OG12 RC 原文逐题分析.doc

7.4 Sample Questions 红色-main idea;黄色-supporting idea;蓝色inference;绿色application;灰色logical structure；粉色evaluation.深蓝色tone. ND:not discussed; NM: not mentioned. XF: 相反；黑体字是阅读和判断选项的点，紫色字体是解释。出现的行数以OG中的行数为准。 Line Ecoefficiency (measures to minimize environmental impact through the reduction or elimination of waste from production processes) has become a goal for companies worldwide, with many realizing significant (5) cost savings from such innovations.（提出旧观点） Peter Senge and Goran Carstedt see this development as laudable but suggest that simply adopting ecoefficiency innovations could actually worsen（N） environmental stresses in the future（强转折词but，提出新观点）. Such innovations reduce (10) production waste but（强转折词） do not alter the number of products manufactured nor the waste generated from their use and discard;（新观点解释） indeed, most companies invest in ecoefficiency improvements in order to increase profits and growth. Moreover,（递进副词，进一步解释） there is no (15) guarantee that increased economic growth from ecoefficiency will come in similarly ecoefficient ways, since in today’s global markets, greater profits may be turned into investment capital that could easily be reinvested in old-style eco-inefficient industries. Even (20) a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy. Senge and Carstedt argue that to preserve the global (25) environment and sustain economic growth, businesses must develop a new systemic approach that reduces total material use and total accumulated waste.（新观点解释） Focusing exclusively on ecoefficiency, which offers a compelling business case according to (30) established thinking, may distract companies from pursuing radically different products and business models. 老观点——but新观点——新观点解释：such/moreover/even/argue. Questions 1–3 refer to the passage above. 1. The primary purpose of the passage is to explain why a