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大学体验英语视听说教程第二册Home Listening文本 答案 八年级地理上册填图题岩土工程勘察试题省略号的作用及举例应急救援安全知识车间5s试题及答案 。 Home listening International business is a term used to collectively describe all commercial transactions (private and governmental, sales, investments, logistics, and transportation) that take place between two or more nations. Usually, private companies 1)transactions for profit; governments for profit and for political reasons. It refers to all business activities which involve cross 2)of goods, services and resources between two or more nations. Transaction of economic resources include capital, skills, people, etc. for international production of physical goods, and services such as finance, banking, 3)construction, etc. The increase in international business and in foreign 4)executives with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication. Americans, however, have not been well trained in either area and, consequently, have not enjoyed the same level of success in 5)Negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching an agreement. It involves persuasion and compromise, but in order to 6)the negotiators must understand the ways in which people are persuaded and how compromise is reached within the culture of the negotiation. In studies of American negotiators abroad, several traits have been 7)that undermine the negotiator’s position, two of which, in particular, are directness and 8) Furthermore, American negotiators often insist on realizing short-term goals. Foreign negotiators, on the other hand, may value the relationship established between negotiators and may be willing to invest time in it for long-term benefits. 9) Clearly, perceptions and differences in values affect the outcomes of negotiations and the success of negotiators. 10) Home listening Today’s leading Chinese brands must learn how to create and manage their brand value on a global scale. It is time for them to re-think their global brand 1)practices of the world’s most powerful multi-national brands. While we are still several years away from a Chinese brand appearing on Interbrand’s Best Global Brands, the lessons from the 2)ranking are clear — great brands know their strengths and weaknesses and plot effective strategies to 3)and improve their value in the future. With the downturn of the global economy, the transformation of the ―Made in China‖ label and the acceptance of Chinese brands overseas can not be made 4) The first challenge is to improve the quality and safety of all Chinese products. The definition and enforcement of strict 5)and the active engagement in environmental protection is a social responsibility for any global player, and a pre-requisite for changing consumer 6)overseas. The Chinese government can play a very special role in these difficult times. Leadership means taking short term actions to spur 7)demand and enhance the competitiveness of exports. But leadership also means creating a national agenda — like 8) design in Korea or engineering in Germany — that serves as a guiding light for Chinese companies eager to make their brand mark on global markets. Now is the 9)This transformation must not only take place in areas such as technology, quality control and international cooperation, but in brand creation and brand management. Asian companies like Toyota, Sony, Samsung and Hyundai 10)to unlocking shareholder value. Home listening Graduate unemployment has increased by 44% in 12 months and is now at its 1)12 years, according to research released today. Some 7.9% of students who left university in 2008 were out of work in January, the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) found, up from 5.5% the 2)year. HECSU warned the picture could be even worse for those graduating this year. The last time levels of 3)–96. The research found that 4)in the public sector bucked the downward graduate employment 5)with the number of graduates entering 6)teaching and social work increasing. But 7)the slump in the construction industry, with unemployment nearly tripling from 2.9% in 2007 to 8.5% for those who left in 2008. The proportion of civil engineering graduates without a job increased from 2.4% to 7%. 9)investment advisers or mortgage consultants dropped 19%, with only 1,700 of the220,065 graduates surveyed getting that kind of job, compared with 2,100 in 2007. 10) But Scotland saw a rise of 5.6%, to an average of ,19,953 — higher than the ,19,561 reported in the south-east, traditionally the highest-paid region after London. Home listening The study, from Stanford University in the United States, makes gloomy assessments about the future health of the world’s coral reefs. It finds that carbon dioxide 1)are making seawater so acidic that coral reefs could begin to disintegrate within a few 2)The report states that even ambitious plans to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, thought by many to be the main 3)of a warming climate, will not be enough to save the reefs. About a third of carbon emissions is soaked up by the world’s oceans, where it 4)form carbonic acid. The research comes as the Queensland state government in Australia 5)a new plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef from 6)damaged by pesticides and sediment from farms that seep into waterways. The Queensland government is to spend an 7)will face tougher 8)regulations. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says that man-made threats present serious challenges to the reef, which is a world heritage site. Coral reefs are common in warm southern and equatorial oceans, and provide homes and feeding grounds for thousands of species, 9)Guinea are among the many countries that rely on reefs to provide food and to draw in tourists eager to explore the ocean. Environmental groups welcome the Queensland plan to protect the Great Barrier Reef. 10) Home listening A person’s motivation is combination of desire and energy directed at achieving a goal. 1)motivation means getting him or her to want to do what you know must be done. People can be motivated by beliefs, values, interests, fear, 2)causes, and other such forces. Some of these forces are 3)as needs, interests, and beliefs. Others are external, such as danger, the environment, or 4)formula for motivation — you must keep an open viewpoint on human nature. There is a 5)array of forces steering the direction of each person, and these forces cannot always be seen or studied. Also, if the same forces are steering two different people, each one will act differently. Knowing that different people react to different needs will 6)your decisions and actions in certain situations. As a leader you have the power to influence motivation. You should allow the needs of your people to coincide with the needs of your organization. Nearly all people are influenced by the need for job 7)promotion, raises, and approval from their peers and leaders. Internal forces such as values, morals and ethics also influence them. Likewise, the organization needs good people in a wide variety of jobs. Ensure that your people are trained, 8)and provided the opportunity to grow. Ensure that the way you conduct business has the same values, morals and ethical principles that you seek in your people. 9) You should also reward good behavior. 10)specific and prompt. Do not say, ―for doing a good job.‖ Cite the specific action that made you believe it was a good job. In addition, help your people who are good. We all make mistakes or need help to achieve a particular goal. Home listening We all know of cases where negative fan behavior has driven some athletes to perform at less than their best or perhaps even knock them completely out of a competition. ―Athletes want to live up to a high paying 1)as well as fan expectations. It is the same with Olympians who 2)to live up to expectations. Athletes may say they are immune to fans, but we know better. They are like teenagers who say they don’t care what their parents think,‖ said Daniel L.Wann, who heads the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) Special Interest Group on Fandom. According to Wann, there has been a good deal of research on fans and their ability to pump up the home team or negatively 3)thrive under this pressure and others don’t. This is where a sports psychology 4)been studying the psychology of sports spectators since the mid 1980s, with a particular interest in fan identification (i.e., a fan’s psychological connection to a team), spectator 5)and the actions of parents as spectators at youth sporting events. A Professor of Psychology at Murray State, Wann works with athletes, teaching them how to 6)their physical skills. ―The key is for 7)learn to compartmentalize what they pay attention to, to be able to tune out the fans but not the coaches. They need to be 8) between valuable information (from coaches or teammates) versus noise (from fans).‖ Just as athletes are involved in their sports for a variety of reasons, fans are motivated for different reasons. 9)the sports, some want to see a good contest. 10) Home listening Traditionally, retirement communities and nursing homes have been the destination of senior citizens. But more and more older Americans want to grow old in familiar 1)them, the focus is on staying in their own homes and living in a community with neighbors who have babies or school age children. It is a 2)in their home as long as possible, they are going to need some help. So, they have joined a group called Capitol Hill Village. This is a fee-based organization aimed 3)at senior citizens. Its executive director, Gail Kohn, organizes volunteers to help members, and if they need 4)services, she manages a referral list of reliable 5)nd that vendor is going to provide a service and then we 6) Kohn coordinates volunteers and finds 7)plumbers, electricians andother repairmen for her senior citizen members. ―We aim at helping them do whatneeds to be done in order for them to live as 8) Capitol Hill Village is one model of innovative programs designed to 9)United Jewish Communities says, ―10)very creative, not very innovative. But today’s 70 year old is more like yesterday’s 50 year old.‖ Home listening 1)about because of several factors. The first factor was the spread of personal computers (PCs). Prior to the 1980s, home computers were nearly non-existent or they were toys. Real computers were rare, and they were locked away for use by 2)During the 1980s, real computers started to spread to businesses and homes because of the 3) and the Apple Macintosh (released in 1984). By the late 1980s, PCs were widespread in businesses, homes and college 4)The second factor was the use of computer bulletin boards. People could dial up a bulletin board with a modem and download programs of all types. Games were extremely popular, and so were simple word 5)and other 6)software. Bulletin boards led to the precursor of the virus known as the Trojan horse. A Trojan horse is a program with a cool-sounding name and 7)so it tricks people into downloading it. When you run the program, however, it does something ―uncool‖ like erasing your disk. You think you are getting a neat game, but it wipes out your system. Trojan horses only hit a small number of people because they are quickly discovered, the 8)the danger spreads among users. The third factor that led to the creation of viruses was the floppy disk. In the1980s, programs were small, 9)a few programs and some documents onto a floppy disk or two. Many computers did not have hard disks, so when you turned on your machine it would load the operating system and everything else from the floppy disk. 10)