1. The car wouldn’t exist, and Samuelsson wouldn’t be jawing with journalists in a stranger’s house, if it weren’t for a formerly obscure Chinese billionaire named Li Shufu.
知识点： If X happened, then Y would happen.
If X didn’t happen, they Y wouldn’t happen.
2. And Li has pulled it off by both defying the stereotype of the meddlesome new owner and leaving his fingerprints all over Volvo’s transformation
知识点： parallelism 结构相同
by 1) defying the stereotype of the meddlesome new owner
2) Leaving his fingerprints all over Volvo’s transformation
Both X and Y
3. Li’s adventures appear to have the tacit approval of the Chinese government, despite his being a private operator vying against China’s many state-owned companies.
知识点：vying against China’s many state-owned companies修饰 private operator
4. She supervised construction of the Volvo assembly and engine plants in China before moving to South Carolina in 2015
知识点： parallelism 1) Volvo assembly 2) engine plants
5. Now Rafiq has the job of pushing Volvo ahead of larger, wealthier rivals with such innovations as digital keys that facilitate ride-sharing as Volvo races to develop electric and self-driving cars.
句子结构： Rafiq has the job of X as Volvo races to develop electric and self-driving cars.
The job is to push Volvo ahead of rivals
6. Despite its innovation bona fides, Volvo has never had the heft to go head-to-head with European rivals BMW AG and Daimler, let alone the likes of Toyota and Volkswagen AG, which each sell almost 20 vehicles for every one sold by Vovlo.
知识点：let alone =not to mention + 名词/动名词
7. Li wanted a harder push into China, where Volvo sold only 30,522 vehicles in 2010. Assembling cars there would be less expensive not only because of lower labor costs, but also because of Geely’s relationships with local suppliers, no import tariffs, and shorter shipping distances.
知识点：not only because of lower labor costs, but also because of Geely’s relationships…. 结构相同
8. “The big difference was on the price side,” Samuelsson says. “The cars were not good enough, not attractive enough. Maybe you save 100 on lower costs and lose 10,000 on the price side –not very smart.” Since his first full year as CEO, the company’s revenue has grown 73 percent while profits are up more than six fold. The new vehicles “are not lower on the cost side—probably the contrary,” Samuelsson says. “There’s a lot of new technology that is not free of charge.
知识点：‘Maybe you save 100 on lower costs and lose 10,000 on the price side’ can be used as an argument in AWA.
作者: cwh.zg 时间: 2018-6-4 17:06
The EPA Science Advisory Board decision today to review the rule comes after earlier criticism by some of its members.
Decision comes after criticism.
decision is to review the rule 作者: cwh.zg 时间: 2018-6-4 18:54
Thomas Alva Edison famously opined that genius is " one percent inspiration, ninety-percent perspiration"作者: cwh.zg 时间: 2018-6-5 11:29
The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn't make this any less risky to Google. 作者: cwh.zg 时间: 2018-6-5 13:22
Despite a shrinking population, the productive labor force in Japan is expected to remain flat over the next five years. This is due to an inflow of women and elderly workers compensating for the decrease of men between the ages of 15 and 64.作者: gmat小仙女00 时间: 2018-6-5 14:18
题目
Expanding and developing this science and engineering workface are critical to the nation’s economic innovation, productivity as well as competitiveness.
选项
A are critical to the nation’s economic innovation, productivity as well as competitiveness
B are critical to the nation’s economic innovation, productivity and competitiveness
C is critical to the nation’s economic innovation, productivity and also competitiveness
D is critical to the nation’s economic innovation, productivity and competitiveness
E are critical for the nation’s economic innovation, productivity and competitiveness as well
Answer: B
注释：原句表达有误，主要问题为修辞问题，economic innovation, productivity和competitiveness是并列关系，as well as是顺便提及，所以要用and连接，所以A错误。C选项，语法错误，主语复数，be动词谓语改成are，而且使用also使得句意偏差。D选项，语法错误，主语复数，be动词谓语改成are。E选项，固定搭配错误，be critical to是固定搭配。B选项表达无误，所以选择B。