4) do your homework before going on an interview 5) was in the neighborhood of 150 dollars
4. Complete the sentences, using the words or phrases in brackets. 1) applicants; veteran; the prospective
2) From his standpoint; has made every endeavor to go after 3) as the saying goes; to have a crack at; barely
II. Words with Multiple Meanings 1. behave
2. keep (used to avoid repetition) 3. clean 4. get along
5. perform/complete 6. perform/complete 7. study 8. be enough 9. be acceptable
III. Usage:
1. There is so much to say and it is hard to know where to begin. OK, I’ll talk about myself first.
2. Thank you very much, John, for your beautiful Christmas card. By the way, I have something here for you.
3. The new computer language can be quite easily understood by anyone who can read the daily newspaper. Now, why is this an advantage?
4. I’m going to work out the outline and will let you know how it goes. By the way, I will see you in February, as I plan to attend your seminar in Shanghai.
5. OK, you got the job. Now, how to maximize your profits with as little effort as possible?
6. Chris is back from Australia. Incidentally, those pictures you sent me are wonderful.
Comprehensive Exercises: I. Cloze.
1. Text-related:
(1) prospective (2) As I see it (3) done your homework (4) beforehand
(5) endeavor (6) structure (7) partners (8) Respond
(9) take a crack (10) from the standpoint (11) make a difference
(12) follow up 1. Theme-related: (1) encouraging (2) inquiry (3) relevant (4) samples (5)
references (6) advice (7) preparing (8) seriously (9) probably (10) exhibit II. Translation:
1. Translate the sentences into English.
1) Despite the inadequate length of the airstrip in this emergency landing, the veteran pilot managed to stop the plane after taxiing for only a short while.
2) Grilled by the reporters, the movie star eventually blurted (out) that she had undergone two plastic surgeries.
3) We have the technology and our partner has the capital. Working together, we’ll have the future in our hands.
4) If I had know beforehand that you would bring some many friends home, I would have made better preparations. You see, I have barely enough food and drinks for a snack.
5) People gave generously upon learning that new school rooms with stronger structures were to be built in the earthquake-stricken area. 2. Translate the passage into English.
Well begun, half done, as the saying goes. It is extremely important for a job applicant to do his homework while seeking employment. From my standpoint, whether or not one has done his homework clearly makes a difference in his chance of success.
I have a friend who is earning somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 dollars a year in a large computer software company. He told me that from his own experience the decision makers who interview prospective employees like people who are well prepared. Those who make no endeavor to learn as much about his prospective employer as possible don’t have much of a chance of success.
Unit 4
Key to Part II Reading Task
Content Questions: Pair Work:
1. Because he feels he is completely international.
2. What he means is that if one has a network of friends and enjoys what one is doing, one
can function well anywhere in the world.
3. It refers to a member of the international business elite who treks each year to the Swiss
Alpine town of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
4. The issues include everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global
supply of oil and the implication of nanotechnology.
5. They all believe that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology
across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable. They see the world increasingly as one vast, international marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services. 6. He describes Davos Man as an emerging global superspecies and a threat.
7. Yes, global trade has been around for centuries. In the past, the corporations and
countries that benefited from global trade were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products.
8. It predicted that four economies – Russia, Brazil, India and China – will become a much
larger force in the world economy than widely expected, based on projections of demographics and economic growth, with China potentially overtaking Germany this decade. By 2050, these four newcomers will likely have displaced all but the US and Japan from the top six economies in the world.
9. It refers to low-paid migrant workers from Asia and elsewhere who are increasingly
providing key services around the world.
10. Unlike Davos Man, Manila Woman is strongly patriotic.
11. Because he thinks that there are still too many barriers to cross-border business in Europe,
let alone the world.
12. Davos Man needs to figure out how to strike a balance on a global scale between being
international and being national at the same time.
Text Organization
Working on Your Own: 1. Part One, Paras. 1-3: introduction to Davos Man and the World Economic Forum Part Two. Paras. 4-5: Debate over the impact of globalization on current society and culture Part Three. Paras. 6-8: History of globalization and its recent trands and future prospects Part Four. Paras. 9-11: Globalization versus nationalism and the challenges it faces 2. Main Events: 2) Davos Man seen their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth. 3) Davos Man believes that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, it both welcome and unstoppable. 4) Davos Man sees the world increasingly as one vast, international marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.
Language Sense Enhancement 1. (1) both see their identity (2) birth (3) incidentally (4) annual (5) networking (6) implications (7) Whatever their considerable differences (8) unimpeded flows (9) interconnected marketplace (10) advantageous
Language Focus Vocabulary: I.
1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box. 1) advantageous 2) let alone 3) witnessing…vanishing 4) landmark 5) entitled 6) displace 7) Establishment 8) patriotic…strengthen
9) contradictions 10) aspires 11) divorced 12) pendulums
2. Use the verb in the brackets to form an appropriate phrasal verb you have learned and complete the sentence with it. 1) come to 2) dozed off 3) believed in 4) was set apart 5) take in 6) sucks in 7) clean up 8) turn away 3. Rewrite each sentence with the word or phrase in the brackets. 1) makes no/little difference whether we go there by train or by bus. 2) overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker. 3) at odds with his wife over money matters. 4) been at the forefront of nanotechnology research. 5) let alone cook a meal.
4. Complete the sentence, using the words or phrases in the brackets. a) is increasingly…to accelerate…their investment b) economy…make an earnest…strike a balance between c) a handful of…be endorsed by…on a large scale
II. Word Formation: WTO World Trade Organization 世界贸易组织 GDP gross domestic product 国内生产总值 ATM automatic teller machine 自动出纳机 VAT value-added tax 增值税 CAD computer-aided design 计算机辅助设计 IT information technology 信息技术 IDD international direct dialing 国际直拨电话 MTV music television 音乐电视 Radar radio detecting and ranging 雷达 IOC International Olympic Committee 国际奥委会 VIP very important person 贵宾、大人物 Laser light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation 激光 CPU central processing unit 中央处理器 III. Usage:
1) An unusual present, a book on ethics, was given to Henry for his birthday.
2) The reason (he gave) that he didn’t notice the car till too late was unsatisfactory. 3) Football, his only interest in life, has brought him many friends.
4) Cloning had been raised as a possibility decades ago, then dismissed, something that
serious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon.
Comprehensive Exercises I. Cloze
1. Text-related:
(1) academics; (2) networking (3) a variety of (4) growth (5) vanish (6) facilitate (7) endorsing (8) outlook (9) sweeping aside (10) patriotic (11) erasing (12) strike a
balance
2. Theme-related:
(1) aided (2) effects (3) distances (4) connected (5) invested
(6) features (7) prevailing (8) qualitatively (9) volume (10) Distinguishing
III. Translation
1. Translate the sentences into English: 1) Due to his pessimistic outlook on the European economy, John has moved his assets from Europe to elsewhere. 2) I like hiring young people. They are earnest learners and committed to work. 3) Unlike her girl friends who center their lives on their children, Mary cares more about her personal growth. 4) The Chinese government has introduced a variety of policies to strengthen cooperation with developing countries.
2. Translate the passage into English: Globalization has great implications for young Chinese. For example, young farmers are moving on a large scale to urban areas for jobs. And for those young people who aspire to study abroad or work in foreign-invested enterprises, English has become increasingly important. At the same time, a considerable number of overseas Chinese have returned home in recent years, for they hold an optimistic outlook for the long-term growth of the Chinese economy. The Internet has strengthened the links between Chinese young people and those elsewhere. They follow the latest trends can copy foreign fashions. Some of them don’t seem to care for traditional Chinese virtues, let alone carry them forward, which has given rise to worries that the traditional Chinese culture might one day vanish.
Unit 5 Text A
Language Sense Enhancement
1. struck 2. mild 3. gentle 4. raise it 5. benign 6. with point 7. something of
8. made every penny 9. small and frail
10. not bear to hurt a fly
Language Focus
Vocabulary I.
7. 1) In a way
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