PTE阅读拓展：经济学人中地道表达（三）

很多同学在PTE备考时，都会选择一些课外读物来来提升阅读速度。但在这个过程中，我们也应该掌握一些正确的方法。合理的时间安排，原则上是20分钟一篇。但是考生都有自己熟悉的话题和有把握的题材。

所以，在正式开始做题之前，考生不妨可以通过标题浏览等方式略读三篇文章，按照自己的实际情况对于三篇文章的难易程度进行定位，确定哪篇文章是自己把握性比较大的，对于这种比较有把握文章一定要保证时间充足，这样有助于整体正确率的提升。但是每一篇文章原则上最多不超过25分钟，否则考生是没有办法有效率的完成40道题目的。

经济学人

1.Many tech companies, including Facebook, emptied their offices before local shelter-in-place orders.

包括Facebook在内的许多科技公司，都在当地的隔离政策出台之前就要求员工居家办公了。

empty v. (to become empty)倒空；腾空；掏空；变空

即刻运用：翻译:

1.我泡给你看.首先用壶把水烧开。好。然后倒一点沸水温一下茶壶，然后倒出来。

(Key: Let me show you . First boil some water in a kettle . OK . Then warm the pot by pouring in a little boiling water , and then empty it out .)

学以致用：语法填空：

2.The coronavirus pandemic ended that, of course, __________(empty) offices in downtowns from Washington to San Francisco. Washington PostSep 29, 2020

Key: emptying

2．For years his enterprises accounted for more than 70 percent of Macau’s tax revenue.

他旗下企业的纳税额超过澳门总税收的70%。

account for V. 解释;说明;占,占有;引起;造成

1.即刻运用：翻译:

The fact is that I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, whichaccounts formy appearance.

Key: 为…作出解释

2.Experts estimate(估计）that by next year, information and communications technology willaccount for3.5% of annual global carbon emissions(排放物).

Key:造成

3.But in a break with tradition, China abandoned setting an annual growth target for 2020, recognizing the difficulties in restarting its economy amid a pandemic.

但有别传统的是，中国没有对2020年设置增长目标，承认在疫情期间重启经济存在困难。abandon V.放弃；抛弃；废弃；遗弃n.放肆；狂热；任性；恣意任性

sth中止；放弃；不再有

yourself to sth陷入，沉湎于（某种情感）

学以致用：语法填空：

1.The actor is reprising his role in the historical drama “Robert the Bruce,” where the royal finds himself____________, wounded and on the run from the English army in 14th century Scotland.Fox News Oct 10, 2020

Key. abandoned

2.Abandoning himself to _______(play) computer games, Wang Ping has fallen behind the other students in his studies.

Key: playing (abandon oneself to+ Ving, to是介词)

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