大学体验英语综合教程4.doc

Unit 1 Lead in In Britain, people tend to make jokes about some jobs or professions, or to hold;. stereotyped views of them. For example, sailors are supposed. to have a wife in every port, university professors are often seen as absent-minded. or forgetful. there are a lot of dirty jokes about sales representatives and they are generally regarded as not particularly dependable. . other jobs may be well-paid or very responsible. , but the general public think they are funny or rather boring. . For instance, in most other European countries to be an engineer is to be somebody. . Funnily enough, in Britain engineers are thought of as gloomy rather than cheerful as result of peoples ignorance of the importance of engineers in societyUnit 2Lead in The man and the woman in the play were tourists. Their names were Sidney and Ethel. Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays. The woman thought that he wrote them on a typewriter. ,The man said that Shakespeare used a tape-recorder, and imagined him with a microphone. , in his hand. The man said that Shakespeare was too busy to watch television, because he went to the theatre. every night. They thought the other man was Shakespeares grandchild. They told him he was lucky to live in a famous house. Unit 3 Lead inCopyright is the exclusive. legal right, given to the originator or their assignee for a fixed. number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, musical, or artistic material, and to authorize. others to do the same. A federal judges ruling in New York Wednesday that Internet music distributor. must pay up to $250 million to Universal Music Group for copyright infringements has raised questions not just about the future of MP3.com, but also generally the future for downloading. music, movies and other products. from the Internet. U.S. District Judge Jed said MP3.com willfully” violated copyrights and ordered it to pay $25000. per Universal CD. An exact number of CDs and total damages will be determined at a November hearing. . MP3.com vowed to appeal. We believe that everyone should have the right to listen to the music they purchase , even if its on the Internet. said MP3.com CEO Michael Robertson.Unit 4 Lead inEnglish is becoming the worlds language of the 21st Century and this is no time to discourage. U.S. residents or immigrants from learning English. English is now the second most widely spoken language in the world, with only Chinese dialects spoken by more people. English is overwhelmingly. ,the second language of choicefor non-English-speaking people. English is the official language of the European Central Bank and the working language of the Asian trade group ASEAN. In multilingual continental Europe, a fierce battle over language popularity appears to be ending with English emerging as the standard. for the 21st century. The Germans have given up trying to persuade more British people to learn their language and, instead, are now promoting English as the language of the 21st century .Germanys leading newspaper produces an eight-page English edition and declares that English is going to be the lingua franca of the new century . Switzerland has three official languages, German, French, and Italian, plus a fourth language spoken in one canton, Romansh. But Switzerland recently adopted English to be taught as the second language of choice rather than one of its official languages.Unit 5 Lead inJapanese companies have started to refine their ethics programs and internal control structures. Some 55% of them have established a corporate code of conduct, ethics guidelines, compliance manuals and other such documents, 37% have a department or division dedicated to ethics and compliance issues, and 43% periodically hold ethics-related training programs targeting employees. A growing number of Japanese businesses have taken steps to reinforce oversight functions, for example by engaging independent outside directors. In 1997, Sony Corporation took the initiative of cutting its executive board from 38 to 10 directors while introducing the new post of executive officers. Other companies including Omron and Kobe Steel followed suit, and by 2000 about 240 businesses had reportedly made similar structural reforms. Even so, the image of companies portrayed by the market and the general public remains far from ethical. For example, in a survey of students views of the Japanese business community, conducted in autumn 2000, 68% of the respondents agreed that Honest companies are not rewarded while dishonest companies are making profits; 63% believed that There is hardly any information as to which companies are honest, ; 84% believed that Penalties against scandals are too lenient ; and 62% agreed that many companies believe its worth engaging in unlawful practices. If this is the new generations perception of reality, it means that Japanese companies have little incentive to tackle ethical and compliance issues internally. Certainly, companies whose business performance has deteriorated as a result of scandals have made greater efforts to deal with ethical and compliance issues . But such efforts are not long-lasting if a company fears they will reduce its competitiveness.Unit6 Lead inAre you feeling really sad, tired, and worried most of the time? Are these feelings lasting more than a few days? If yes, you may have depression. Depression is a serious medical illness that involves the brain. You may want to know why you feel depressed.” There may be several causes. Depression may happen because of changes in your brain. Depression runs in some families . This means that someone in your family such as a grandparent, parent, aunt, uncle, cousin, sister or brother may have depression. Some