2018年BEC閱讀精選及解析(8)

Fighting Fit

Fine Fitness, the health and fitness club operator, announced an impressive set of results yesterday: (19) a 38-per-cent jump in annual pre-tax profits, the company claimed that it had (20) none of the problems (21) last week by its rival, Top Fit .According to Samantha Collier,the chief executive, Fine Fitness (22) strong and is on (23) to reach its target of 100 clubs within three years, its strategy unaffected by the apparent (24) down of the economy.

The company opened 12 new clubs in the past year; (25) its total to 51. They have (26) to be highly successful, with people joining in large numbers, especially in the 25-to-40 age range. Even the more (27) clubs are still seeing sales growth, along with rising retention (28) of more than 70 per cent. This can be seen as clear (29) of the appeal of Fine Fitness.

Ms Collier admitted that as there were (30) too many companies competing with one another; there would almost certainly be (31) in the health-and-fitness-club sector of the market She predicted that, within a relatively short time, there might be only about three major companies still in (32).However, she declined to say which these were likely to be.

Profits rose by £6.3 million, although there was a fall in gross margins from 31 per cent to 28.6 per cent because of higher insurance premiums, extra management costs and start-up expenses for the company's new (33) in Spain.

19 A Stating B Reporting C Remarking D Informing

20 A taken B felt C experienced D caught

21 A released B issued C opened D revealed

22 A stays B remains C maintains D keeps

23 A track B direction C way D line

24 A falling B breaking C cutting D slowing

25 A bringing B putting C getting D mounting

26 A shown B resulted C proved D demonstrated

27 A installed B formed C established D confirmed

28 A rates B standards C proportions D volumes

29 A witness B sign C display D evidence

30 A purely B merely C simply D barely

31 A union B consolidation C alliance D combination

32 A trade B office C commerce D business

33 A trial B venture C proposal D speculation

文章介紹了一個(gè)經(jīng)營(yíng)健康俱樂(lè)部的公司的情況，依舊是形勢(shì)喜人。

19題，一句話包含三個(gè)空，聯(lián)系在一起做。昨天開(kāi)會(huì)，宣布了一系列結(jié)果。報(bào)告稅前收益增長(zhǎng)了38%，公司并沒(méi)有經(jīng)歷它的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手所暴露的問(wèn)題。19題選report，20題experienced，21題，revealed by its rival，被競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手暴露的問(wèn)題。

22題，remains strong保持強(qiáng)勁;單看單詞的意思，貌似keep也可以(不過(guò)說(shuō)實(shí)話，如果不是有同學(xué)提醒，我壓根想不到會(huì)填keep)聯(lián)系此句上下文，提到了在對(duì)手出現(xiàn)問(wèn)題時(shí)這個(gè)公司表現(xiàn)依然強(qiáng)勁remain在英文詞典的解釋是：continue to exist, especially after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist 在相似或者相關(guān)人和事出現(xiàn)狀況時(shí)仍然存在，所以，remain更符合這個(gè)題目的條件

23題，on track 步入正軌。公司正在實(shí)現(xiàn)目標(biāo)的正道上。這個(gè)詞在其他完型也出現(xiàn)過(guò)，不過(guò)不是正確答案。

24題，slow down放緩，固定用法。經(jīng)濟(jì)放緩。

25題，bring to，使總數(shù)達(dá)到51，這個(gè)題怕是要靠語(yǔ)感。put肯定不對(duì)，get to到達(dá)，mount在這里用法不對(duì)。

26題，proved to be證明是，固定用法

27題，這里填入的詞要和前文對(duì)照，前面說(shuō)新開(kāi)了12家新的俱樂(lè)部，這里的空格前有個(gè)even和more，所以應(yīng)該是填入與new相對(duì)應(yīng)的詞。established是已確立的(If you use established to describe something such as an organization, you mean that it is officially recognized or generally approved of because it has existed for a long time. )

28題，retention rate保留率，專有名詞(Retained earnings divided by total after-tax earnings, expressed as a percentage)，指公司稅后收益所保留的那一部分。

29題，公司吸引力的證據(jù)。clear evidence明顯的證據(jù)。不選sign，sign只是跡象。

30題，simply修飾too many從用法和意思上都對(duì)，在這里就是表強(qiáng)調(diào)的，意思是公司太多了。

31題，consolidation強(qiáng)化、合并(To consolidate a number of small groups or firms means to make them into one large organization.)，有很多的公司相互競(jìng)爭(zhēng)，所以需要進(jìn)行一個(gè)整合。這是商英里的固定說(shuō)法。

32題，in business在經(jīng)營(yíng)。是說(shuō)很快這個(gè)市場(chǎng)上的公司會(huì)淘汰的只剩下三個(gè)。