分析:因为空格1和空格2都位于一个段落中,所以注意抓住段落的主题/中心解题。段首句是权威人士的发言,很可能是中心句。该句说“美圆是我们这个时代最经常讨论的话题”,后面有接着说“美圆的汇率是 世界经济 中最重要的价格”,这两句话都是在对美圆的重要性和影响进行评论,因此判断该段主要讨论美圆的影响和价值。对比被选项发现B和D是在内容上有关美圆价值的句子,所以重点注意。借助空格2前句的内容判断B是空格2的答案,而因此D是空格1的答案。
A The solution to this problem is to end the system of floating exchange rates and return to fixed rates.
C The United States lost face in the eyes of the rest of the world.
E This made it difficult for Americans to purchase goods and services.
F Those who borrowed a lot of money from a bank suffered most.
The dollar’s exchange rate has been too volatile(不稳定的) and unpredictable. Several years ago the dollar was rapidly declining in value. __3__. The rise in the price of foreign goods made it possible for U.S. businesses to raise the price of competing goods produced here, thus worsening inflation. Foreigners who dealt in dollars or who held dollars as reserves were hurt. People in the United States who had borrowed foreign currencies found that they had to pay back more than hey borrowed because the declining dollar would buy fewer unites of the foreign money. ___4__.
分析:因为空格1和空格2都位于一个段落中,所以注意抓住段落的主题/中心解题。段首句是主题句,内容是“美圆汇率是不稳定的而且是不可预测的”,因此判断该段讲述美圆的特点。但是被选项中没有明显反映美圆特点的句子,因此考虑先处理最后一个空格—空格5,希望这样能再缩小答案范围。空格5的答案是A(分析如下)。因此把C,E和F分别放到空格3中发现F不合适,而F放在空格4处也不合适:空格4的前面谈的是借外汇的问题,而不是借普通的钱,因此F不合适。比较E和C发现E中的This与空格3前句中的“几年前美圆迅速贬值”呼应,因此空格3的答案是E,而其实C作为第2段的结尾句正好和前段的中心形成正反呼应:前段谈及美圆的价值和影响,而接下来谈的就是美圆所存在的问题以及带来的结果(美国在全世界的面前丢脸)
A The solution to this problem is to end the system of floating exchange rates and return to fixed rates.
C The United States lost face in the eyes of the rest of the world.
E This made it difficult for Americans to purchase goods and services.
F Those who borrowed a lot of money from a bank suffered most.
Poor nations that had borrowed dollars found it difficult to repay both the loans and the interest because they had to use more and more of their own currencies to obtain dollars. __5__. We might even return to the gold standard(金本位).