填空题
{{B}}How to approach Reading Test Part Six{{/B}}
· This part of the Reading
Test tests your ability to identify additional or unnecessary words in a
text.
· Most lines contain one extra word that makes the sentence
incorrect.
· Read the whole text quickly to find out what it is about. As you
read, try to identify the words that are incorrect.
· Then read the text
again, and write down the extra words. Remember there will be only one extra
word in a line, and some lines are correct.
· Read the article below
about a chain of cafes.
· In most lines there is one unnecessary word.
It is either grammatically incorrect or does not fit in with the sense of the
text. Some lines are correct.
· For each numbered line 41 - 52, find
the unnecessary word and then write the word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer
Sheet.
{{B}}Hard times for caf6
chain{{/B}}
It has been a terrible year for cafe operator called Dawkin.
Less than 12
months ago it took over the Cafeza chain, with its 16
sites, but it is rumoured
41. that half of those are yet to be closed in the
next few months, because of falling
42. turnover. What's more, the company is
still recovering from the sudden
43. resignation of its Managing Director in
April. While Dawkin operates 84 cafes,
44. and had plans to reach up 150 by
the end of next year. This is looking less and
45. less achievable, given
that the company's poor financial position and limits on
46. its short-term
debt facilities. Worst of all news, perhaps, Dawkin has just
47. announced
that its rival Highway has built it up a shareholding of just over 5%,
48.
redoubling speculation that Dawkin's days as an independent operator are
being
49. numbered. Roughly equal in size, the two have long been competing
for the
50. number five slot in the overcrowded caf6 market. There are now
rumours of a
51. deal between the two, which would provide them complementary
coverage,
52. Dawkin being strong in London and other big cities, and unlike
Highway concentrating its efforts outside the major population centres.