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讲到了wholesale demand，而G 中的requirement 就是demand 是同义词，加上however 起到了承上启下的作用。所以43题选G。至于44题，是对43的一种原因解释，即消费者越来越喜欢去外面吃“consumer’s growing preference for eating out”所以这题选A。

这个题目有点难度，不过，只要循着“主题”这根主线，就不能找到正确答案.只要看清每段前后作为主题的名词，抓根提串，抓住了主题这个“根”，后面的句子就肯定能够串起来。

综观2010年的新题型，建议采取如下的解题步骤和解题技巧。

解题步骤：

第一步：通读所有选项，迅速得知文章的主旨大意;

第二步：根据关键词或词组推断句子的顺序

第三步：将排好的句子通读一遍，检测是否文章前后连贯

解题技巧：

A.“就近原则” 段落的上下文中寻找解题的线索；

B.“时间原则” 现时间、年代等词语时，要注意文章中的时间和选项中的时间的对应关系；

C.“代词原则” 指示代词，因为是指代前面的内容，所以一般不能作为段落的开头；

D.“相近原则” 如果有两个选项非常的相似，那么其中一个往往是正确答案；

E.“重复原则” 如果一个选项中的单词与文章中的单词重复比较多或意思相近的比较多，那么这个选项往往就是正确答案；

F.“排除原则”：做排序题时建议大家最好使用排除原则，由易到难地去解题。

如果要在新的题型上有所提高的话，必须特别重视以下两点：

第一，阅读文章里单句之间的关系，这种关系很重要，因为这种关系考察两种题。一是七选五，二是段落排序。新题型主要就是考察同学们对考点空格前后句子关联的把握。

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