BEC阅读部分内容多，时间紧。考察考生查找信息的能力、理解能力、词汇结构的能力和逻辑的能力。有些题型国内的考试中常见，如PART THREE, PART FOUR，PART SIX 等。 但有些题型，如PART ONE， PART TWO对中国考生来说就比较陌生。尤其是PART TWO， 考察逻辑和理解能力，这恰恰是中国学生的弱项。下面我们就以真题为例来谈谈PART TWO 的做题技巧。

　　PART TWO Questions 8-12

　　Read the article below which reviews a new book on company planning. Choose the best sentence from the list on the opposite page to fill each of the gaps. For each gap 8-12, mark one letter (A-G) on your Answer Sheet. Do not use any letter more than once.

　　Firms need a better way of planning

　　Nick Field, in his book Strategy Management, offers a new approach to help companies map out their future.

　　Many companies have lost the art of strategy-making. They spend too much time looking at process change, organization and systems. (0)______. They have got things out of balance. In many companies, the development of strategy is in crisis. In a recent magazine poll, only six per cent of executives rated their company highly for long-term planning skills. (8) ______. If this figure is accurate, it is not surprising that 29% of the FTSE 100 companies failed to achieve real sales growth between 1992 and 1996, when take-overs are excluded from the figures.

　　（8）评析：前句谈到：杂志调查显示，只有6%的总裁对他们公司的长期规划评价很高。
　　可见，这部分信息的重心是planning,和strategy。后句说，如果这个数字是准确的话，那么。。。可见（8）中必然要包含关于数据的内容。正确答案为C. Another survey estimated that only one in ten companies had the information they needed to make strategic decisions. C中含有数字only one in ten，而且话题和前句一致，都是关于strategy.

　　There can be no doubt about the value of effective strategy-making. Recent research has shown that what are described as 'visionary' companies - those with clear strategies for the future - deliver higher shareholder returns. They are less at risk from short-term earnings pressures because they know - and they can convince others - that they will survive these.

　　(9) ______ Times have changed. The big company of today is not being defeated by another big company but by the small companies. So how do they do it?. And where do companies that are failing in this respect turn? If a company accepts that their strategy development is not 'the best in the class', if they acknowledge that they need to do more to map out their future, influence rather than be influenced, shape their market instead of being shaped by it, how should they take on this strategy-making challenge?

　　（9）评析: 后一句谈到"时代已经变了，大公司不是被大公司，而是被小公司击败。"既然后句谈时代改变了，那么前句应当在谈过去怎样。正确答案为 F. In the past, it was generally believed that the scale of the company was the most significant factor.

　　Field's book Strategy Management puts forward a new approach to help companies rediscover the power of forward planning. (10) ______. The book is straightforward to understand and use, and offers practical and specific directions. Research and empirical testing have proved that it can be useful in all areas of industry and should be of value to any company.