商务英语阅读技巧：文章标题的阅读在句法结构上，报刊标题通常具有以下特征：1. 省略定冠词the和不定冠词a / an，如：Company Expects to Take A Charge in Fourth Period公司预计在第四季度向国家申请贷款标题中Fourth Period前省略了定冠词the。
但是其中Take A Charge为一固定词组，所以a不能省略。
注意：1) 在不定冠词表示“一个”概念时，必须保留。
比如：Japan: A Model for What Not to Do 日本：避免不应有失误出现的典范2) 当词组a few, a little和a half等在标题中出现时，不定冠词不省略，如：Retiring with a half million? Not bad for a teacher 退休时会拥有50万美元？对一位教师来说已很可观2. 除非会造成误解，否则均省略动词形式to be，如：Accurate forecasts beneficial to economy 这则标题中forecasts后面省略了系动词to be，即are。
3. 用现在时表示过去，如：Mc Donald's Settles Lawsuit over Burn from Coffee麦当劳有限公司了结了一宗由咖啡烫伤而引起的法律诉讼4.用不定式形式表示将来，如：American General to Buy Franklin Life for $1.7 Billion美国通用公司将以17亿美元收购Franklin Life公司有时也可用现在时表示将来，如：Jeep Hopes to Be Sedan Producer in Future吉普公司可望将来成为轿车生产厂家5.用过去分词表示被动语态，如：Cabinda Oil Fields Targeted by UnitaCabinda油田遭Unita武装力量袭击6.现在分词用来表示现在进行时，但有时也用于表示将来时，如：Honda Pushing Auto Parts Plants in Connecticut本田公司正在康涅狄格州加速兴建汽车配件厂7.用逗号，代替连词and，如：Shares in Tokyo Fall, Hurt Partly by a Weaker Yen东京股票下跌，部分由于日元贬值所致8.分号；用以隔开两个句子，表示两层意思，如：Stocks Prices End Mixed; Bonds Fall股市价格收盘混乱；证券指数下跌9.用冒号：表示所讲的话或所涉及的内容，如：Professional Development in TEFL: The Case of Indonesia外语教学中的职业化发展：印度尼西亚的范例10. 用单引号‘’代替双引号“”，如：Surplus Is a ‘Time Bomb’, EC Warns Japan欧共体警告日本：剩余是一枚定时炸弹商务英语阅读技巧：经济发展的描述描述经济贸易的发展无非是上升、下降和趋势平稳三种情况，再加上各种指数之间的比较以及表达―约估‖这个概念，来看以下归纳总结：一、有关经济贸易发展方面常用的表达方式：1.上升情况的词语表达例：Also, fourth-quarter consumer spending appears to be perking up. After strong 0.8% advance in September, October retail sales rose 0.2%. The gain wasmodest, but excluding car dealers, sales increased a strong 0.4%.此外，第四季度消费者消费额趋于上扬。
零售指数在九月份以0.8％的比例强劲增长后，十月份又上涨了0.2％。
利润虽然不多，但除汽车销售外，销售额有0.4％的大幅增长。
例：Consumer outlays surged 1% in May, followed by a 0.4% advance in July.消费者的消费额5月份上升1％，而6月份上升0.4％。
常用于描述上升趋势的短语有：an increase / to increasea rise / to risea gain / to gainan upward movement / to go upa jump / to jumpa peak / to (hit) reach a peak / to peaka growth / to growa hike / to hikea leap / to leapa soaring / to soara surge / to surge2.下降情况的词语表达：例：The Nation's purchasers said industrial activity declined in August, and the government composite index of leading indicators fell 0.2% in July.全国的购买商称：八月份的工业生产下降，政府主要指标的综合指数七月份下降了0.2％。
例：The unemployment rate dipped from 5.7% in July back to 5.6% - its June reading – but the non-farm workweek was cut, and hourly wage fell.失业率从七月份的5.7％下降至六月份的5.6％，但非农业企业的周工作时间缩短，时工资降低。
常用于表示下降趋势的短语有：a dip / to dip toa decline / to declinea drop / to dropa decrease / to decreasea collapse / to collapsea cut / to cuta downward movement / go downa fall off / to fall offa leveling off / to level offa low point / to reach a low pointa slip / to slip offa slump / to slumpa slide / to slide3.表示趋势平稳的词语表达：例：After falling sharply in the previous two years, the jobless rate has hardly moved since April. August joblessness stood at 8.2% and the annual pace of weekly earnings slowed to 3.25%.失业率在过去两年急剧下降的情况下，四月份以来几乎没有变化。
八月份的失业率保持在8.2％，而年均周收入增长速度七月份降至3.25％。
例：The economic expansion will most likely continue at a modest pace, turning into one of the longest ever in peacetime. But growth could slow to acrawl.经济增长很可能以较小的幅度(适度)增长，成为和平时期以来持续最长的一次经济增长。
但此增长速度可能会变得如爬行一般。
例：Measured against the currencies of the major industrial countries, the dollar is likely to hover about where it is for several calendar quarters at least.用主要工业国家的度量衡量，至少在以后的几个季度里，美元汇率可能在目前水平上徘徊。
二、西方经贸报刊中常使用的比较手法1. 一般比较例：Foreign trade, however, remains at a minus. The July trade deficit widened further to $11.56billion, from $$11.3billion in June. Imports fell 1.7%, but exports dropped 2.3%. The trade gap began the third quarter wider than its second-quarter reading.外贸处于负增长。
七月份的贸易赤字继续扩大，由六月份的113亿美元上升至115亿美元。
进口额下降了1.7％，但是出口也跌落了2.3％。
第三季度贸易逆差比第二季度增大。
例：But if the budget cuts look credible – and if the economy is no peppier than it is now – look for lower rates by year end.但如果预算削减成为可能——如果经济状况与现在相比没有转机——年底可望利率下调。
2. 对比与变化程度的表达例：Japan's exports of steel grow 1.4-fold, making it the largest exporter by a considerable margin.日本的钢出口量增加1.4倍，使其一跃成为远远超过其他国家的最大钢出口国。
常用于描写经济贸易情况变化程度的词汇有：big change / small change / marked(ly) / fractional(ly) / great(ly) / marginal(ly) / considerable(ly) / slight(ly)fast change / slow change ; quick(ly) / gradual(ly) ; sudden(ly) /slow(ly) ; rapid(ly) / gentle(ly)三、西方经贸报刊中有关―约估‖概念的表达方式例：Kengan stocks have risen nearly 135%, Chanian stocks are up about 70%.Kengan股市上涨近135％，而Chanian股市上升约70％。
例：The State Bank of India (SBI) is the country's largest commercial bank controlling around 25% of the total banking business.印度国家银行为印度最大的商业银行，控制全国近25％的银行业务。