BEC商務英語閱讀技巧：句子段落的銜接

BEC商務英語考試中，會出現很多閱讀內容，這種文章內容極具專業性與針對性。我們既然報考商務英語考試，就要積極練習正方面知識，即使再枯燥也要堅持。如果你能掌握一些閱讀的技巧那就再好不過了，下面就是BEC商務英語關於句子段落銜接的閱讀技巧。

1. 上下文句子間內容的內在聯繫：

例：So far， the national trends in costs for wages， salaries， and benefits have glossed over these concerns. The growth in labor costs continued to slow in the second quarter – a pattern that held true in all major regions. However， the slowdown in labor costs is due to solely to sharp cutbacks in what companies， mainly large corporations， are paying for benefits， which make up about a fourth of total compensation costs nationally. Because of slower growth in costs of health care， workers‘ compensation， and state unemployment insurance， benefits grew only 2.6% during the past year， the lowest pace in record.

在這一段落中，作者用了五個cost。雖然每一句中的cost未必是前一句中同一詞的簡單重複，但都與labor cost 相吻合，使整個段落所表達的內容連貫地表述出來。第一句和第二句提出勞工費用問題，第三句提出原因，最後一句闡述了勞工費用增加所生產的後果，意思層層加深，彼此相銜接。

2. 替代

例：But since few have marked down their own prices in line with the metal’s fall， they will be able to recoup much of the differences. Not so the producers， whose income is directly related to the fluctuating daily price on the London Metal Exchange.

但由於迄今沒有幾家公司按照金屬價格的下跌程度來降低其價格，他們將能夠獲得差價的大部分收益。但是生產商家卻不是這樣，他們的收入與倫敦金屬交易所的每月浮動價格直接相關。

這裏so代替了to recoup much of the difference.

3. 省略

例：The Japanese have their electronics， the Germans their engineering. But when it comes to command of global markets， the U.S. owns the service sector.

日本人佔有電器市場，德國人佔有工程市場。但談及全球市場的佔有量時，美國擁有服務市場。

英美經濟貿易報刊文章與其他類型報刊文章除在所涉及的內容和專業詞彙上有所不同之外，在句子與段落的連接方法上基本一致。其連接手段主要有上下文句子間內容的內在聯繫，替代，省略和採用連接詞。滬江小編希望大家都能掌握上面所學內容。