【考点分析】①否定常考+段首常考。“不幸的是，这些批评家几乎被忘记了。”言语之间是作者对报纸评论堕落的惋惜之情。②-⑤是举Neville Cardus的例子来论证以前的评论家怎么被忘记的，可以略读。

　　①Is there any chance that Cardus's criticism will enjoy a revival? ②The prospect seems remote. ③Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern readers have little use for the richly uphostered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized. ④Moreover, the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat。

　　【考点分析】①特殊标点常考，出25题。笔者在课堂中反复强调出现问号是必考的。“Cardus'那样的评论会重现吗？不太可能！”再一次点明了作者所讨论的中心：报纸行业的堕落(decline)，要注意decline与①中的revival是反义词。③讲理由，出24题。

　　24. What can be learned about Cardus according to the last two paragraphs?

　　A His music criticism may not appeal to readers today。

　　B His reputation as a music critic has long been in dispute。

　　C His style caters largely to modern specialists。

　　D His writings fail to follow the amateur tradition。

　　【正确选项解析】A ③说 新闻业的品味已经改变，读者不需要(have little use for)他所擅长的风格，所以Cardus's criticism不可能复苏。而A Cardus's criticism也许不能吸引当今的读者。 注意have little use for= not appeal to

　　同时本选项还有may,这个语气委婉的词，符合黄四“正确答案语气委婉”。

　　【干扰选项分析】B 原文没有提到他的名声有争议，所以无中生有。

　　C “他的风格符合现在的专家”与本段最后一句相矛盾。

　　D 移花接木，是利用最后一句话编造的选项。

　　25. What would be the best title for the text?

　　A Newspapers of the Good Old Days

　　B The Lost Horizon in Newspapers

　　C Mournful Decline of Journalism

　　D Prominent Critics in Memory

　　【正确选项解析】主旨题，可以利用串线法解出本题。第一段开宗明义：过去这些年英语报纸上所发生的最有影响力的变化的可能是艺术评论的在报道范围和严肃性的堕落(decline)。第二段承接第一段的意思。第三段首句：“不幸的是，这些批评家几乎被忘记了。”言语之间是作者对报纸评论堕落的惋惜之情。第四段：“Cardus'那样的评论会重现吗？不太可能！”再一次点明了作者所讨论的中心：报纸行业的堕落(decline)，所以C：令人惋惜的新闻业的堕落。mournful 是大纲词汇。

　　【干扰选项分析】A “报纸行业过去的黄金岁月”。没有点出作者对现在的报纸的惋惜之情

　　B “报纸行业的消失的视野” 本选项的错误类型和A一样。

　　D “记忆中的杰出的评论家”本文的中心不是怀恋过去，而是批判现在的堕落。

　　Text 2

　　Over the past decade, thousands of patents have seen granted for what are called business methods. Amazon.com received one for its “one-click” online payment system. Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy. One inventor patented a technique for lying a box。

　　本段是背景段，讲过去的事情。只需看懂第一句“过去的几十年中，上千个商业方法被授予专利。”

　　Now the nation’s top patent court appears completely-property lawyers abuzz the U.S. court of Appeals for the federal circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents. In the Bilski, as the case is known, is a “very big deal”， says Dennis’D Crouch of the University of Missouri School of law. It “has the potential to eliminate an entire class of patents。”