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Unit 4
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1.
Parts
Part One
Part Two
Paragraphs
Paras
1-3
Paras 4-5
Main
Ideas
Introduction
to
Davos
Man
and
the
World
Economic Forum
Debate over
the impact of globalization on current
Part
Three
Paras
6-8
Part Four
2.
History of globalization
and its recent trends and
future
prospects
Globalization
versus
nationalism
and
the
Paras.
9-11
challenges it faces
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 welcome and
unstoppable.
4.
Davos
Man
sees
the
world
increasingly
as
one
vast,
interconnected
market-place
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) 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.
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
GDP
Gross domestic product
ATM
Automated teller machine
VAT
Value-added tax
CAD
Computer-aided design
IT
Information technology
IDD
International direct dialing
MTV
Music television
Radar
Radio detecting and
ranging
世界贸易组织
国内生产总值
自动出纳机
增值税
计算机辅助设计
信息技术
国际直拨电话
音乐电视
雷达
IOC
VIP
Laser
CPU
International
Olympic Committee
Very important person
Light amplification by stimulated
emission
of radiation
Central processing unit
国际奥委会
贵宾，大人物
激光
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
(A)
1. academics
3.a variety of
5. vanish
7.
endorsing
9. sweeping aside
11. erasing
(B)
1. aided
ces
5.
invested
7. prevailing
9.
volume
2. networking
4.
growth
6. facilitate
8.
outlook
10. patriotic
12. strike a balance
s
4. connected
6. features
8. qualitatively
10.
Distinguishing
II.
Translation
1.)
Due
to
his
pessimistic
outlook
on
the
European
economy,
John
has
moved his assets from Europe to
elsewhere.