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ork as a professional reporter and the challenge of writing to deadlines, all of which I successfully met. I have won several awards for my journalistic work and was admitted to the Journalists39。 17 Association of Jiangsu Province last year. I was the vice chairman of the Students39。 Union in my university for two years. The enclosed r233。sum233。provides further informationabout my experience and background. I wonder if it would be possible for us to meet one of these days so that you could learn more about me and I could find out more about the specifics of the job. Please call me anytime on (025) 9709399 Monday through Friday. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Hong Qin Hong Qin Unit 4 Text A Text rganization 1. Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas Part One Paras 13 Introduction to Davos Man and the World Economic Forum Part Two Paras 45 Debate over the impact of globalization on current society and culture Part Three ppppPTThreeThree Paras 68 History of globalization and its recent trends and future prospects Part Four Paras. 911 Globalization versus nationalism and the challenges it faces 2. Main Events 1. Davos man spends a lot of time in places other than his native country. 2. Davos Man sees their identity as a mater 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, is both wele and unstoppable. 4. Davos Man sees the world increasingly as one vast, interconnected marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services. Vocabulary I. 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. 1) e to 2) dozed off 3) believed in 4) was set apart 5) take in 6) sucks in 7) clean up 8) turn away 3. 1) For me, it makes no/little difference whether we go there by train or by bus. 2) Toyata has overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker. 3) Shortly after their marriage, Mr. Chambers was at odds with his wife over money matters. 4) Henry has been at the forefront of nanotechnology research. 5) She doesn’t even know how to boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal. 5. a) is increasingly/to accelerate/their investment b) economy/make an earnest/domestic/strike a balance between c) a handful of/be endorsed by/on a large scale II. Word Formation WTO World Trade Organization 世界貿(mào)易組織 GDP Gross domestic product 國內(nèi)生產(chǎn)總值 ATM Automated teller machine 自動出納機 VAT Valueadded tax 增值稅 CAD Computeraided design 計算機輔助設計 IT Information technology 信息技術 IDD International direct dialing 國際直撥電話 MTV Music television 音樂電視 Radar Radio detecting and ranging 雷達 IOC International Olympic Committee 國際奧委會 VIP Very important person 貴賓,大人物 Laser Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation 激光 CPUCentral processing unit 中央處理器 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 2. working 4. growth 6. facilitate 8. outlook 10. patriotic 12. strike a balance (A) 1. academics variety of 5. vanish 7. endorsing 9. sweeping aside 11. erasing (B) 1. aided 4. connected 5. invested 6. features 7. prevailing 8. qualitatively 9. volume10. Distinguishing II. Translation 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 mitted to work. 3) Unlike her girl friends who center their lives on their children, Mary cares more about her personal growth. 4) Why is it that a considerable number of colleagues are at odds with you? 5) The Chinese government has introduced a variety of policies to strengthen cooperation with developing countries. 2. Globalization has great implications for young Chinese. For example, young farmers are moving on a large scale to urban areas to look for jobs. And for those young people who aspire to study abroad or work in foreigninvested enterprises, English has bee increasingly important. At the same time, a considerable number of overseas Chinese students have returned home in recent years, for they hold an optimistic outlook for the longterm growth of the Chinese economy. The inter has strengthened the links between Chinese young people and those elsewhere. They follow the latest trend and 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. Part III Text B Comprehension Check 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. b 5. c 6. d Translation 1. 如果 9/11 有什么引人注目的地方,那就是恐怖主義者們來自世界上全球化程度最低、最不開放、融合程度最低的地方:沙特阿拉伯、也門、阿富汗和巴基斯坦西北部。 2. “全球化疲勞在歐美仍很顯著,而在中國和印度這樣的地方,你會發(fā)現(xiàn)人們急切地想?yún)⑴c到經(jīng)濟擴張進程中來,”印度國大黨的首席經(jīng)濟顧問杰倫蘭密施說。 3. 印度大多數(shù)人是不是還生活在貧窮的鄉(xiāng)村?確實如此。我們是不是需要強迫富裕的西方國家進一步開發(fā)市場,好讓貧窮國家銷售它們最擅長的東西;食品和紡織品,以使全球化更公平呢?當然需要。 4. 一,全球化有優(yōu)點也有缺 點,但如果參與全球化的國家有恰當?shù)闹贫群凸芾?,它們就能從中獲得最大的好處,并且能緩和最不利的方面造成的影響, Language practice 1. 1) d 2) f 3) e 4) a 5) b 6) g 7) h 8)