晚上从洛杉矶时报上找了篇中国雪灾的文章，刚才看了下，发现里面考点太多了，to name only a few!
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In the past, Chinese investors could
count on a little bounce before the lunar New Year as
people looked
hopefully toward the holiday and a fresh
start. This time it's doubtful.
07年完形
①By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations. ②The roughly 20 million __1__ of these nations looked __2__ (hopefully) to the future.
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Most other Asian stock markets, though also down for the
year, have been clawing back since a global sell-off two weeks ago.
There are two trading days before the weeklong holiday, but
Hong
Ya, for one, doesn't have high hopes.
"Because of the weather, everything is not going right -- food,
transportation, fuel," said the Shanghai
homemaker, whose family's stock portfolio is
down about 28% since its fall peak. Next week "it probably won't be
good," she said. "A bull market won't come this year. Let me earn a
little more, and I will leave the
market."
Hong Ya = the Shanghai homemaker阅读中对名词的替换（复现）要高度重视。
primary earner 出现在07年阅读第三篇，下面是它的相关概念：
primary
earner
挣钱支柱 (家庭的挣钱支柱还可以称为primary
breadwinner
，第二位的挣钱者称为secondary
earner，如果主要持家，则成为primary
homemaker
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Anbound analyst He Jun said he was particularly concerned about China's chronic power shortages, which have been exacerbated by the freezing weather and shortsighted government policy. Ice and snow in central, eastern and northern China have strained the nation's rail system, disrupting deliveries of coal, which fuels about 80% of the country's electricity supply
2008年阅读TEXT 1 直接考查了chronic！！！
Dr. Yehuda notes another difference between the sexes. “I think that the kinds of things that women are exposed to tend to be in more of a chronic or repeated nature.
23. According to Paragraph 4, the stress women confront tends to be
[A] domestic and temporary.
[B] irregular and violent.
[C] durable and frequent.
[D] trivial and random.
超精读外刊文章的重要性各位自己体会！！！我可以毫不夸张地、非常自信地并且负责任地说，外刊超精读那本书里30篇文章的分析会涵盖绝大部分09年的考点！！！再配套真题超精解和冬季的黄金组合的好好研读，英语想不过线都难啊！！！Believe it or not!!!