Chairman's Report

　　I am pleased to report that, although we had been expecting poor results for this half year because of slow growth in the world economy, the company has performed very satisfactorily.Operating profits for this first half are in fact very much (19) with those for the corresponding (20) last year. Profits reached ￡l 15 million before tax, compared with ￡l 16.3 million last year. Much of our success in the last six months can be (21) to the fact that all our major construction projects remained on schedule. Particularly pleasing was the early (22)of a major building contract in Canada.

　　The company has made good progress with the initiatives announced at the Annual General Meeting. The majority of shareholders (23) the Board's decision to sell the company's loss-making engineering (24). It was the Board's belief that the company would (25) most benefit by (26) its resources on the expansion of its construction activities. Negotiations with a potential buyer began in February and are now at a critical (27).However, we feel that we are not as yet in a (28) to comment on what the outcome is likely to be.

　　In June, we made a successful (29) for the Renishaw Construction Company of Hong Kong SAR, in order to give us greater (30) to markets in South East Asia. We still have sufficient resources to pursue our growth (31) and are at present (32) several other business opportunities which, like Renishaw Construction, would (33) new markets to us.

　　19.A in order B on track C in line D on target

　　20.A session B term C season D period

　　21.A attributed B referred C assigned D designated

　　22.A termination B ending C completion D finalising

　　23.A confirmed B maintained C agreed D supported

　　24.A portion B component C sector D division

　　25.A have B gain C find D earn

　　26.A focusing B directing C pointing D strengthening

　　27.A height B step C edge D stage

　　28.A condition B point C position D capacity

　　29.A request B price C demand D bid

　　30.A access B approach C admission D entrance

　　31.A strategy B process C promotion D system

　　32.A inquiring B deliberating C exploring D searching

　　33.A send B open C provide D give

　　文章是一篇報(bào)告，介紹了公司某段時(shí)間的發(fā)展?fàn)顩r，總體的勢(shì)頭是良好的，積極向上。

　　19和20題需要在一起考慮，從整體上把握句子的意思。in line with與....一致;on track ：doing or saying things that are likely to be successful or correct步入正軌;on target(射擊)準(zhǔn)。20空選詞關(guān)鍵要將空格前面的those for the corresponding和前面的for this first half對(duì)應(yīng)，這里空格填入的詞要能和this first half相匹配，表示時(shí)間段，時(shí)期，所以是period。因?yàn)槭前肽�，所以不選season。整個(gè)句子的意思是這半年的營業(yè)利潤(rùn)(operating profit)實(shí)際上是與去年同期相一致的。

　　21題，attribute to，表原因，聯(lián)系整個(gè)句子不難做出選擇。designate是委任、指派

　　22題，意思是完成了一個(gè)主要的建筑合同，從一個(gè)pleasing可以看出感情基調(diào)，A和B肯定不選，不是終止也不是結(jié)束，finalise最后定下來，定案。

　　23題，大部分股東都支持、贊同董事會(huì)的決定，選support，如果是agree的話后面需要with。

　　24題，董事會(huì)的決定是賣掉公司虧損的工程部。A、B首先排除，做完形填空最忌諱的是把漢語思維和漢語含義帶入英文語境中，有的時(shí)候?qū)幙蛇x自己從來沒有見過的用法，也不要從漢語意思出發(fā)強(qiáng)塞一個(gè)英文單詞進(jìn)去。sector是(尤指一國經(jīng)濟(jì)的)部門、行業(yè)，division是(一個(gè)機(jī)構(gòu)的)部門。

　　25和26題，句子的意思是公司將通過把資源集中在建筑活動(dòng)的擴(kuò)張上來獲得大部分的收益。25題的A和C容易排除，關(guān)鍵是看gain還是earn。earn是通過努力掙到一筆錢(to receive a particular amount of money for the work that you do)，gain是獲得或者實(shí)現(xiàn)什么(to obtain or achieve something you want or need)，因?yàn)槭枪�司的�?zhàn)略，所以用gain更合適一些。

　　27題，at a critical stage，在一個(gè)關(guān)鍵的階段。

　　28題，in a position to do sth.能夠做某事。固定搭配

　　29題，成功招標(biāo)，bid

　　30題，give us greater access to markets給我們更大的市場(chǎng)準(zhǔn)入

　　31題，growth strategy，增長(zhǎng)策略，追求我們的增長(zhǎng)策略。

　　32題，探索更多的商業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)。inquire詢問;deliberate仔細(xì)考慮，深思熟慮;

　　33題，為我們開放新的市場(chǎng)。provide后需要加with