劍橋商務英語高級第四輯真題閱讀精講（10）

　　Lebrun Steel Facing up to Tough Times

　　0　After 98 years of trading, the steel manufacturer Lebrun knows from experience as how

　　00　difficult fluctuations in the economic cycle can be for suppliers such as themselves.

　　34　Since many of the nation's largest production companies which are its customers,

　　35　Lebrun is adversely affected by any change for the worse in the economy. Yet Lebrun

　　36　has managed to keep on sales steady (in the region of approximately $2.5 billion)

　　37　and has recorded only one annual loss during the difficulties of the past five

　　38　years, but despite the effects of the ongoing industrial slowdown. James Griffith,

　　39　president of Lebrun, now has the task of turning up survival into growth, and

　　40　his strategy is already becoming clear to those industry observers. In February of

　　41　this year, the company acquired Bronson pic, additionally a one-time competitor.

　　42　This merger will greatly expand the size of both Lebrun's labour force, and

　　43　Griffith estimates it will boost its revenue by nearly 50%, while too increasing

　　44　the number of plants and R&D centres in much a similar way. Griffith is

　　45　optimistic that while the steel industry is about to pull out of recession, and he wants Lebrun to be ready for this.

　　這篇文章是介紹一個生產商面臨的困境及所采取的措施。

　　34題，這個句子并不是定語從句，主謂賓都很齊全，主語companies，謂語are，賓語its customers.所以which是多余的

　　35題，正確的

　　36題，keep on doing繼續做什么，接名詞的話直接用keep，keep sales steady保持銷售平穩，on多余。

　　37題，正確的

　　38題，but和despite不能同時使用，必須去掉一個。but后面要接完整的句子，這個后面不是句子，是名詞性成分，所以保留despite，去掉but。

　　39題，turn… into 變為，成為。固定詞組。turning survival into growth變生存為增長。Up多余。

　　40題，句子前后并沒有指代的含義，代詞those多余。

　　41題，a one-time competitor是修飾前面的Bronson pic ，additionally是另外的，附加的意思，用在這里意思和用法都不通，所以去掉。

　　42題，both表并列，而這個句子前后是沒有并列的含義的，只說了擴展規模。所以both多余。

　　43題，too是副詞，在這里用法不對

　　44題，in a similar way固定用法，much多余

　　45題，while用來引導時間狀語從句，而很明顯這個句子并不是，只是由that引導的從句，句子成分很齊全。去掉while。