Business English

 Unit 5 Employment

Reading

  1. 创业能手，求职输家
  2. 求职者：如何在绝望中寻找希望
  3. 工作和生活真的不能平衡

Listening

  1. 百万美国老人安享晚年之梦尤远在天边
  2. Alex Trebek announces he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer

Grammar

    For the past 50 years, due to changes in lifestyle and recreational activities, the population of the United States has become increasingly kyphotic, displaying poor posture and spine curvature, and it will probably have what is estimated as 100 million people with back problems next year, more than any other nation in the world will.

  1. it will probably have what is estimated as
  2. they are likely to have
  3. the country will probably have
  4. there will probably be
  5. there will be an estimated

    Using technology as new as space-age fabrics and as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, scientists and historians, in their attempt at cleaning and preserving the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, are hoping that it will then last another 200 years.

  1. and as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, scientists and historians, in their attempt at cleaning and preserving the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, are hoping
  2. and as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, scientists and historians are attempting to clean and preserve the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, hoping
  3. and as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, an attempt by scientists and historians to clean and preserve the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814 is being made in the hope
  4. but also as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, scientists and historians who are attempting to clean and preserve the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, hoping
  5. but also as ordinary as common dry-cleaning chemicals, an attempt by scientists and historians at cleaning and preserving the American flag that flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814 in hopes

Translation

劳伦斯•彼得对晋升后不胜任的现象进行了研究，指出任何机构中总有一部分人是不胜任的，这是由持续的晋升将他们提拔到了不能胜任的层级和职位。这种现象也不可避免地存在于我国国有企业中，对企业和个人的发展都产生了负面影响。通过明确晋升依据、注重公正和透明、建立能上能下的竞争机制、设置临时职位、实施管理人员开发计划等措施有助于有效地规避彼得陷阱。

Supplement

供应管理令成千上万加拿大人民陷入贫困
经济濒困 公司难学霸亦难
Writing assignment: a copy of resume as a college student scheduled to graduate in six months

 Unit 6 Trade

Reading

  1. 罗马真的可以在一日内建成
  2. 淘宝商城独立将增加盈利

Listening

  1. What is a tariff?
  2. US trade with China, explained
  3. Is the US trade deficit a bad thing?

Grammar

    In a review of 2,000 studies of human behavior that date back to the 1940s, two Swiss psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size, none could be taken seriously.

  1. psychologists, declaring that since most of the studies had failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
  2. psychologists, declaring that most of the studies failed in not controlling for such variables like social class and family size, and
  3. psychologists declared that since most of the studies, having failed to control for such variables as social class and family size,
  4. psychologists declared that since most of the studies fail in controlling for such variables like social class and family size,
  5. psychologists declared that since most of the studies had failed to control for variables such as social class and family size,

    Manufacturers rate batteries in watt-hours; if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer the battery can be expected to last.

  1. if they rate the watt-hour higher, the longer
  2. rating the watt-hour higher, it is that much longer
  3. the higher the watt-hour rating, the longer
  4. the higher the watt-hour rating, it is that much longer that
  5. when the watt-hour rating is higher, the longer it is

Translation

商业信函20句（上）

Supplement

如何用正确的词来表达不同情况下的“可能性”
China to reduce tariffs on hundreds of products
China walks away from trade talks with the US

 Unit 7 Innovation

Reading

  1. 福特：力推小车欲挣厚利
  2. 路漫漫其修远兮：中国低碳之路

Listening

  1. 选瓜宝典(How to pick a perfect watermelon)
  2. 宝马5系漂移创吉尼斯纪录

Grammar

    Diabetes, together with its serious complications, ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only by heart disease and cancer.

  1. ranks as the nation's third leading cause of death, surpassed only
  2. rank as the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
  3. has the rank of the nation's third leading cause of death, only surpassed
  4. are the nation's third leading causes of death, surpassed only
  5. have been ranked as the nation's third leading causes of death, only surpassed

    Currently 26 billion barrels a year, world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of 2 percent annually.

  1. world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of
  2. the world is consuming oil at an increasing rate of
  3. the world's oil is being consumed at the increasing rate of
  4. the rise in the rate of the world's oil consumption is
  5. oil is consumed by the world at an increasing rate of

Translation

商业信函20句（下）

Supplement

What is a firewall?
How to kiss a girl
怎样驾驶直升飞机
Deploy LEMP stack on CentOS 6 x86 with 512MB Memory
assignment: How-to essay

 Unit 8 Organization

Reading

  1. 杰克逊去世令伦敦演出推广商深陷债务危机
  2. 光伏行业新军英利公布季度亏损

Listening

  1. Air Force Academy Superintendent Addresses Racial Incident
  2. Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy: Siege

Grammar

    The number of people flying first class on domestic flights rose sharply in 1990, doubling the increase  of the previous year.

  1. doubling the increase of
  2. doubling that of the increase in
  3. double as much as the increase of
  4. twice as many as the increase in
  5. twice as many as the increase of

    The organic food industry has organized a successful grassroots campaign-- using Web sites, public meetings, and also mass mailings--that have convinced  the Department of Agriculture to change the proposed federal regulations for organically grown food.

  1. using Web sites, public meetings, and also mass mailings-that have convinced
  2. using Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings-that has convinced
  3. by using Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings-in convincing
  4. by the use of Web sites, public meetings, as well as mass mailings-that convinced
  5. which used Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings-in convincing

Translation

IBM公司从1984年开始由兴到衰，由年盈利66亿美金到1992年亏损达49.7亿美金。衰落的一个主要原因是失效的董事会监督。一般来说，董事会监督是公司内部治理结构的一大制衡力量：董事会有权罢免董事长，影响重大经营问题的决策。然而在IBM公司，其原来的董事会中3/4成员只起到“装饰作用”，他们虽然是知名人物，但很少真正关心公司的经营状况，董事会议沦为形式。

补充材料

Killer cats: The invasive species in your backyard
Vetflare, Cloudflare's Military Veteran Employee Group Launches
Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S.
subtitles for Netflix's 2020 "Transformers: War For Cybertron Trilogy" trailer
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