各位同学，考研复习的基础阶段就快结束了。你们的基础打好了吗？如果没有的话，赶快行动起来哦！文都教育考研英语老师继续为大家梳理考研英语历年真题阅读文章中涉及的要点，包括词汇、短语、长难句以及简单的阅读方法。接下来看一下2001年考研英语真题阅读Text 4，这篇文章主要探讨商业集中浪潮是否会变成难以控制的反竞争力量。
Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could re-create the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil Trust was broken up... hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary... witness... but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.
scanty“缺乏的”；接下来yet转折，“难以想象的是...”，也就是说后面的情况不可能实现；merger“合并”；threats to competition“对竞争的威胁”；that引导定语从句，修饰限定threats；when引导定语从句，修饰限定nearly a century ago；break up“结束，解体”；hardly“几乎不”，表否定；a reduction in the pace of technical progress“技术进步步伐的减慢”；on the contrary“相反”；witness“目击”；it充当形式主语，真正的主语是that引导的从句，也就是说消费者没有受到伤害。
Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Alan Greenspan warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won’t multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of “defending competition” on issues that affect many other nations, as in the U.S. vs. Microsoft case?
yet转折，重点关注；that引导同位语从句，“兼并运动必须加以关注”；warn against“提醒...提防...”；megamerger“强强联合，巨型合并”；supervise“监督”；regulate“管理”；operate“操作，经常”；lender“贷方”；last resort“最后手段”；lender of last resort可以表示“最后人”；gigantic“巨大的，庞大的”；with the gigantic banks“随着巨型银行的出现”；multinational“跨国公司”；shift“转移”；strict“严格的”；infringement“侵犯，违反”；fair competition“公平竞争”；take upon oneself“主动承担”；defend“捍卫，维护”；affect“影响”。
以上就是文都教育考研英语老师为大家梳理的2001年考研英语真题阅读Text 4后两段的要点。“不积跬步无以至千里，不积小流无以成江海。”各位同学复习的时候，一定踏踏实实打好基础，就好像树木在土壤里扎根一样，经历这个漫长甚至痛苦的过程之后，成长起来就相对容易了。
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