the Public Affairs Reporting Section of your newspaper. I believe that my qualifications match the requirements you have listed for the position.
As a 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. At college, English, Reporting Public Affairs, Advertising and Public Relations have been my favorite subjects. I would like to utilize my interests and training to the fullest through working on a newspaper as well-known as your own.
My résumé reflects my experience as a journalistic intern with two newspapers in Nanjing. While working there I did both research work and reporting. I greatly enjoyed work as a professional reporter and the challenge of writing to deadlines, all of which I successfully met.
I have won several awards for my journalistic work and was admitted to the Journalists' Association of Jiangsu Province last year. I was the vice chairman of the Students' Union in my university for two years. The enclosed résumé provides further information about my experience and background.
I wonder if it would be possible for us to meet one of these days so that you could learn more about me and I could find out more about the specifics of the job. Please call me anytime on (025) 9709399 Monday through Friday. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, Hong Qin Hong Qin Unit 4
Part I Listening Task
Script for the recording:
Globalization is the latest proof of the virtues of free trade first advocated in 1817 by the British economist David Ricardo. According to him, trade is always beneficial because it encourages nations to specialize in the products at which they are best and import those they are less good at. So if a developed country like the U.S. is much better at making computers than a developing country like China but only a little better at making sweat shirts, the U.S. should concentrate on making computers, and American colleges should source their logoed goods in Guangdong province. Both the U.S. and China would benefit. However, Nobel prize winner Paul Samuelson, a professor emeritus at M.I.T., argues that if the poor country suddenly learns how to make more efficiently the goods in which the rich country specializes—say, if China becomes brilliant at making computers—then the rich country will no longer benefit from free trade. In fact, wages in the rich country will fall. Globalization's defenders reply by saying, Relax: it will never happen. First, it is unrealistic to assume that China or India will suddenly excel in high-end, high-technology innovation. For the past few months, there have been reports of skilled-labor shortages in the most economically advanced areas of China. Second, free traders argue that even if China and India become advanced economies almost overnight, they will look just like Germany and Japan. And nobody argues that trade between rich economies doesn't benefit everyone. After Listening
1. (the virtues of) free trade
2. make the products at which they are best and import those they are less good at 3. no longer benefit from it
4. high-end, high-technology goods. Part II Reading Task
Comprehension
Possible answers to content questions:
1. Because he feels he is completely international.
2. What he means is that if one has a network of friends and enjoy what one is doing, one can function well anywhere in the world.
3. It refers to a member of the international business élite who treks each year to the Swiss Alpine town of Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
4. The issues include everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implications of nanotechnology.
5. They all believe that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, is both welcome and unstoppable. They see the world
increasingly as one vast, interconnected marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services. 6. He describes Davos Man as an emerging global superspecies and a threat. 7. Yes, global trade has been around for centuries. In the past, the corporations and countries that benefited from global trade were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products.
8. It predicted that four economies — Russia, Brazil, India and China — will become a much larger force in the world economy than widely expected, based on projections of demographic and economic growth, with China potentially overtaking Germany this decade. By 2050, these four newcomers will likely have displaced all but the U.S. and Japan from the top six economies in the world.
9. It refers to low-paid migrant workers from Asia and elsewhere who are increasingly providing key services around the world.
10. Unlike Davos Man, Manila Woman is strongly patriotic.
11. Because he thinks that there are still too many barriers to cross-border business in Europe, let alone the world.
12. Davos Man needs to figure out how to strike a balance on a global scale between being international and being national at the same time. Text Organization 1.
Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas
Part One Paras 1-3 Introduction to Davos Man and the World Economic Forum
Part Two Paras 4-5 Debate over the impact of globalization on current society and culture Part Three Paras 6-8 History of globalization and its recent trends and future prospects Part Four Paras 9-11 Globalization versus nationalism and the challenges it faces 2.
1) Davos Man spends a lot of time in places other than his native country.
2) Davos Man sees their identity as a matter 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 marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services. Language Sense Enhancement 1.
(1) identity (2) birth (3) incidentally (4) annual
(5) networking (6) implications (7) considerable (8) unimpeded (9) interconnected (10) advantageous Language Focus I. 1.
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) Toyota 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. 4.
1) China is increasingly popular with foreign companies that have decided to accelerate