題目：

【1】①It is true that CEO pay has gone up—top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s, CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500%. ②The typical CEO of a top American corporation now makes about $18.9 million a year.

【2】③The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. ④The efforts of America’s highest-earning 1% have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy. ⑤It’s not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S. economy.

【3】Today’s CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many more skills than simply being able to “run the company.” CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them.

26. Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise?

[A] Increased business opportunities for top firms.

[B] Close cooperation among leading economies.

[C] The general pay rise with a better economy.

[D] The growth in the number of corporations.

27. Compared with their predecessors, today’s CEOs are required to _____.

(一) 初步定位

不是講26題嗎，為何要放上27題?這就涉及定位問題了。同學們都懂得做閱讀先讀題干，但是先讀了有什么用呢。我們一起看一下26題的定位。

是不是有點慌了?這篇文章總共五段，當同學們拿著最明顯的CEO定位是，會發現通篇都是，基礎好一些的同學會再利用“rise”進一步定位，但很遺憾，一二段中也能定位到多處。同學們可以選擇硬干，但很容易因為看的過多而被錯誤選項帶偏，所以，定位準確很重要。那么，27題提到的“today's CEO”就是救命稻草了，三段段首為27題題干內容，所以26題只能在前兩段，因為考研題目順序和文本一致。

(二) 利用文體特點進一步定位

鎖定前兩段以后，同學們還是無從下手，因為題干中出現的“關鍵詞”還是很多。沒關系上老師思路：一，所有的文本都是議論文，議論文重要兩個部分就是論據和作者的觀點;二，論據之所以能作為論據，一定是固定無法動搖的，直白點，一定是發生過的事實;三，作者的解讀評論等觀點句，是一般的陳述，時態多為一般現在;四，題目問“哪一點促進了CEO工資的增長”，大家覺得，原因是例子呢，還是作者的分析呢?只能是分析!

看第一句，“has gone up”事實描述，過。第二句，“now makes”,時態符合，看，“現在CEO工資水平”，為體現原因，不留戀。第三句，“is”時態符合，看，開頭“最好的理解CEO薪資增長的方式是”答案就在that從句里了，句子看不懂沒關系，基本單詞表意對應最大的只有A選項。

(三) 總結

此篇重點講一些技巧原理，句子含義就不給大家講了。通過這個典型的難題，同學們不難發現，命題人在考驗大家的同時，題目文本中處處給大家留了線索，理解這些出題邏輯和行文特色，閱讀必然被征服。