A spokesman for the company公司官方发言人的观点一定是正方观点
In other words：换句话说
margin expansion：边际利润扩张
rip-off：敲竹杠
in as much as：因为
macro factors：宏观因素
Cyclical：周期性的
Travails：艰难
BSE =MCD：疯牛病

第六段
But a spokeswoman for the National Consumer Protection Council said: “It is high time Tesco cut their prices more and gave the customers more benefit from their profits”, while Michael Hart, of the Small And Family Alliance, accused the supermarkets of being a “new food baronial class”. The Liberal Democrats’ agriculture spokesman, Colin Breed, called for the appointment of a retail regulator “who would not be in the pockets of the supermarkets.”

But说明观点发生变化
National Consumer Protection Council：消费者保护协会
Small And Family Alliance：小家庭农场联合会
Liberal Democrats：自由民主党人

注意：Reading Objectives: 正反论证，做好笔记
baronial class：贵族阶层

But the National Farmers’ Union, while admitting that some of its members would find the earnings “hard to comprehend”, backed the company. Spokeswoman Helen Lo said farmers hit by crises like BSE and foot and mouth should work with the big grocers, rather than “wage a war” on them. She said: “I think the way forward is to get farmers to muscle together to make a better profit for themselves, and they should look at efficiencies of operations.”

Tesco is driving its growth through international expansion, and now operates 65 hypermarkets abroad, mostly in central Europe and Asia. Sales at those stores climbed to nearly ￡3bn last year and they produced profits of ￡74m. At home, the group last year sold ￡45m of DVD players and TVs, extended its clothing range put 8,00 new nonfood products on its shelves.

Hypermarket超大型超市

Mr. Leahy outlined plans to spend ￡1bn opening more Tesco outlets in the UK this year. He intends to double both the number of Tesco Express stores on Esso forecourts to 100 and the number of Tesco Extra hypermarkets to around 45. The expansion plans are expected to create 20,000 new jobs-half in the UK-meaning Tesco’s worldwide payroll will rise to 260,000. The Tesco. com grocery home delivery business also brings in profits. The online grocer is now the biggest e-tailer in the world. Its 1m registered users 70,000 weekly shoppers spend ￡6m a week.

1. This passage is mainly about .
(A) a comparison of supermarket groups in Britain
(B) criticism of supermarkets from consumer groups
(C) Tescon’s growth through international expansion
(D) Tesco’s first ￡1bn profit growth and its consequent reponses

主题题解题原则：

1、篇幅原则：篇幅越长越有课程是主题
2、抽象原则

2. Which of the following shows the right order of supermarkets according to the profits they made last year?
(A) Marks Spencer, Sainsbury, Safeway, Asda, Tesco
(B) Tesco, Sainsbury, Marks Spencer, Asda, Safeway
(C) Asda, Tesco, Sainbury, Safeway, Marks Spencer
(D) Safeway, Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, Marks Spencer

3. Which of the following parties or organizations sympathizes with Tesco?
(A) The Liberal Democrats
(B) The National Consumer Protection Council
(C) The National Farmers’ Union
(D) The Labour Party

4. The expression “in the pockets of” from the sentence “The Liberal Democrats’ agriculture spokesman, Colin Breed, called for the appointment of a retail regulator ｀who would not be in the pockets of the supermarkets＇”. (Para. 6) can be replaced by .
(A) in line with (B) in the control of (C) in support of (D) in opposition to

5. According to the passage, all of the following contribute to Tesco’s profit growth EXCEPT .
(A) implementation of its margin-expansion policy
(B) expansion of markets abroad
(C) fast grow of e-tailing business
(D) improvement of service and quality

Reading Objectives: 正反论证，做好笔记