A spokesman for the company公司官方發言人的觀點一定是正方觀點
In other words：換句話說
margin expansion：邊際利潤擴張
rip-off：敲竹杠
in as much as：因為
macro factors：宏觀因素
Cyclical：周期性的
Travails：艱難
BSE =MCD：瘋牛病

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說明觀點發生變化
National Consumer Protection Council：消費者保護協會
Small And Family Alliance：小家庭農場聯合會
Liberal Democrats：自由民主黨人

注意：Reading Objectives: 正反論證，做好筆記
baronial class：貴族階層

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

主題題解題原則：

1、篇幅原則：篇幅越長越有課程是主題
2、抽象原則

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: 正反論證，做好筆記