Email:hqin@yahoo.com.cn
August25, 2010
Dr.Guoliang Li
Directorof the Human Resources Office
ShanghaiStar
20F, Huaihai Building
200 Huaihai Road (Middle)
Shanghai200021
DearDr. Li,
Insearching for employment opportunitieson the Internet, I learned of a jobvacancy in the Public Affairs Reporting Section of your newspaper. I believethat my qualifications match the requirements you have listed for the position.
Asa journalism major at Xuanwu University in Nanjing,my academic training has enabled me to develop my writing and editing skills,particularly in the reporting of public affairs. Atcollege, English, ReportingPublic Affairs, Advertising and Public Relations have been my favoritesubjects. I would like to utilize my interests and training to the fullestthrough working on a newspaper as well-known as your own.
Myrésuméreflects my experience as a journalistic intern with two newspapers in Nanjing. While workingthere I did both research work and reporting. I greatly enjoyed work as aprofessional reporter and the challenge of writing to deadlines, all of which Isuccessfully met.
Ihave won several awards for my journalistic work and was admitted to theJournalists' 17
Association of Jiangsu Provincelast year. I was the vice chairman of the Students' Union in my university fortwo years. The enclosed résuméprovides further informationabout my experienceand background.
Iwonder if it would be possible for us to meet one of these days so that youcould learn more about me and I could find out more about the specifics of thejob. Please call me anytime on (025) 9709399 Monday through Friday. Thank youfor your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Hong Qin
Hong Qin
Unit 4
Text A
Text rganization 1.
Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas
Part One Paras1-3 Introduction to Davos Man and theWorld Economic Forum
Part Two Paras4-5 Debate over the impact ofglobalization on current society and culture
Part Three ppppPTThreeThreeParas 6-8 Historyof globalization and its recent trends and future prospects
Part Four Paras.9-11 Globalization versus nationalismand the challenges it faces 2.
Main Events
1. Davosman spends a lot of time in places other than his native country.
2. DavosMan sees their identity as a mater of personal choice, not an accident ofbirth.
3. DavosMan believes that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor andtechnology across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable.
4. DavosMan sees the world increasingly as one vast, interconnected market-place inwhich corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produceand 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) Toyatahas overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker.
3) Shortlyafter their marriage, Mr. Chambers was at odds with his wife over moneymatters.
4) Henryhas been at the forefront of nanotechnology research.
5) Shedoesn’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/strikea balance between
c) a handful of/be endorsed by/on a largescale
II. WordFormation
WTO WorldTrade Organization 世界贸易组织
GDP Grossdomestic product 国内生产总值
ATM Automatedteller machine 自动出纳机
VAT Value-addedtax增值税
CAD Computer-aideddesign计算机辅助设计
IT Informationtechnology信息技术
IDD Internationaldirect dialing 国际直拨电话
MTV Musictelevision音乐电视
Radar Radiodetecting and ranging 雷达
IOC InternationalOlympic Committee 国际奥委会
VIP Veryimportant person 贵宾，大人物
Laser Lightamplification by stimulated emission of radiation 激光
CPU Centralprocessing unit 中央处理器
III. Usage
1. Anunusual present, a book on ethics, was given to Henry for his birthday.
2. Thereason(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. Cloninghad been raised as a possibility decades ago, then dismissed, something thatserious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon.
Comprehensive Exercises
I. Cloze
2. networking
4. growth
6. facilitate
8. outlook
10. patriotic
12. strike a balance (A)
1. academics
3.a variety of
5. vanish
7. endorsing
9. sweeping aside
11. erasing (B)
1. aided 2.effects
3.distances 4.connected
5. invested 6.features