【正文】 n tips（時尚錦囊，小貼士）. We are mitted to helping these youth help themselves, Bowers explains. We want to help them embrace the world with their numerous gifts and talents, instead of the world embracing them with handcuffs and incarceration. Bowers and Gross say their goals as foster grandparents are to serve as role models。ll likely invoke a range of reactions. Some think of retirement as a rite of passage（人生大事）, others as a time to relax. The cynical * may view it as a point beyond which one can no longer contribute to society. This is far from the truth! Seniors today are better educated, healthier, and more vivacious than at any time in our nation39。s so close by to the theatre and delivery suites that if anything should go wrong and did go wrong they could be moved around quite quickly and safely. 4. Something may go wrong during the delivery and that would be quite devastating. 5. There could be a particularly resistant staphylococcal infection running around the hospital. Part2 PassageBridging Generations1. Seniors today are better educated, healthier, and more vivacious than at any time in our nation39。s still a very small proportion of mothers who are now choosing to have their babies at home at the moment and the birthing unit is set up as a bedroom and a kitchen and the woman can actually walk around in fort and just pretend it39。s better for you to e into hospital. Exercise Directions: Listen to the dialogue and answer the following questions. 1. It39。t think so, no, it doesn39。t want to know that there is a particularly resistant staphylococcal infection（抗葡萄球菌感染） running around the hospital and, er, that would be quite a risk. In some countries it39。re a midwife} ... I know it would be quite ideal but the risk of something going wrong and if I was to lose that baby I think that I would be quite devastated. Aren39。s so close by to the theatre and delivery suites （產房） that if anything should go wrong（出故障） and did go wrong they could be moved around quite quickly and safely. Margaret, do you think it39。s like a home in the hospital? Yeah, it39。s still a very very small proportion at the moment and therefore many, um, hospitals are thinking of actually introducing birthing centers, birthing units. We have one at our hospital at the moment, where the, the unit is set up as a bedroom and a kitchen and the woman can actually walk around in fort and just pretend it39。s new Retail Merchants Association are determined to work together to keep the heart beating to revitalize（使。t give up. Instead, they decided to fight back. More than 40 of them founded the Retail Merchants Association of Downtown Dickson. Members of the new association are mitted to success。s downtown shopping area. Because we39。UNIT 8Section One Tactics for ListeningPart 1 Spot DictationCorporate Social Responsibility（企業(yè)的社會責任）Once upon a time, all or almost all businesses were (1) greedy and rapacious, sparing a thought for their (2) workers or the environment only in order to (3) work out how to exploit them. Then bosses found their (4) consciences, guided (or sometimes forced) by (5) customers or critics from the (6) nonprofit world. They discovered the idea that panies should not exist only to make a profit but to (7) serve society. Thus corporate social responsibility (CSR) got its (8) start as a business fashion, and it is now hard to find a firm that has not (9) e up with an earnest (10) statement about its relations with the wider world. CSR is closely linked with the principles of (11) Sustainable Development in proposing that enterprises should (12) be obliged to make decisions based not only on the financial factors but also on the social and environmental (13) consequences of their activities. Issues like environmental damage, improper treatment of workers and (14) faulty production leading to customers inconvenience or danger, (15) are highlighted in the media.Some investors and investment fund managers have begun to （16） take account of a corporation’s policy in making （17） investment decisions. Some consumers have bee increasingly sensitive to the CSR performance of the panies（18） from which they buy their goods and services. These trends （19） have contributed to the pressure on panies to（20） operate in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable way.Part 2 Listening for GistSmall retailers across the United States are facing the same challenge: petition from shopping malls （大型購物中心）and chain stores（連鎖店）. But, in downtown Dickson, Tennessee, a group of retail merchants（零售商） have banded together （緊密團結起來） to win back（贏回） their customers who have been attracted to shopping areas （商業(yè)圈） in the neighboring big city. Dickson is a typical small American city. It has quiet residential areas （居民區(qū)） and a nice little downtown that was once a thriving retail center. But according to David Hamilton, president of Dickson39。s Chamber of Commerce （商會）, highway construction over the past several years changed that. Being just 65 kilometers away from a big city like Nashville, Mr Hamilton says, presents another challenge to Dickson39。re so close to Nashville, and because so many people work in Nashville, when they think about shopping, they think of going to Nashville malls. But small business owners in downtown Dickson didn39。 they pay monthly dues （月繳會費） and meet periodically to suggest and discuss creative ways of attracting more shoppers to downtown. Mr. Williams says one idea is