Unit 1Text AII. Language points1. How successful you’ll be in making transitions among careers can at least be partially attributed to the amount of career planning and preparation you’ve done.(Para. 1) If you are well-prepared in making plans for your future career, the chances are that you might as well succeed in changing your career because how successfully you change your career may in part result from what preparations you’ve done in career planning.2. Think of career planning as building bridges from your current job/career to your next job/career; without the bridge, you may easily stumble or lose your way, but with the bridge there is safety and directions. (Para. 2) You should regard making plans for your career as building bridges which are the transitions from your current job/career to your next job/career and may help you find the right door to the future.3. And while career planning and career decision-making is an important aspect of your life, do not put so much pressure on yourself that it paralyzes you from making any real choices, decisions, or plans. (Para. 5)… don’t put too much pressure on yourself to make real choices, decisions, or plans.4. To help you with your career planning, consider using the following exercises to their fullest potential. (Para. 6) … consider using the following exercises to their fullest degree/ as much as possible.5. Reflect on the times and situations in which you feel most passionate, most energetic, most engaged — and see if you can develop a common profile of these situations. (Para. 9) Consider the times and situations in which you feel most excited, most vigorous, most engrossed—and try to generalize the features these situations have in common.6. Remember those papers you had to write as a kid about what you wanted to be when you grew up (Para. 13) Do you still remember when you were little you were asked to write about what you would like to be in the future7. Take the time to revert back to those idyllic times and brainstorm about your current dream job; be sure not to let any negative thoughts cloud your thinking.(Para. 13) Spend some time in returning back to these simple, peaceful and pleasant times and trying to think more about your current ideal job to make sure that no negative thoughts could make your thinking obscure /unclear.8. Look for ideas internally, but also make the effort to explore/research other careers/ occupations that interest you. (Para. 13) You should not only look for ideas inside yourself/ at the bottom of your heart, but also explore/research other careers/occupations you are interested in from the outside.9. Pinpoint the qualifications you need to move to the next step in your career or to make the move to a new career path. (Para. 18) Mark clearly the qualifications that are needed in career changing.10. If you’re not sure, search job postings and job ads, conduct informational interviews, research jobdescriptions. (Para. 18) If you’re not sure about the qualific ations required in the new career, you should search job postings and job advertisements for those qualifications, take part in interviews in which you know something about the job, and study the list of general tasks, or functions, and responsibilities of a position..11. Develop a timeline and action plans for achieving each type, being sure to set specific goals andpriories. (Para. 20) Make a timetable and action plans for achieving each type of qualification you need and remember to set concrete goals and decide what should be done first.12. Businesses, careers, and the workplace are rapidly changing, and the skills that you have or planfor today may not be in demand years from now. (Para. 21) Businesses, careers, and the workplace are rapidly changing, and the skills that you have mastered or you plan to master now may not be required or needed in the future.13. Long-range career planning should be more about identifying and developing core skills thatemployers will always value while developing your personal and career goals in broad strokes.(Para. 21) When planning career for the long run, you should focus on pinpointing and developing the essential skills in general that will always be valued no matter whom your employers are or how time changes.14. Here’s a collection of the best self-assessment tools, designed to give you a better idea of yourattitudes and interests as they relate to possible career choices.(Para. 25) The best collected self-assessment tools are developed to make you clear about your attitudes and interests related to the careers that you may choose.15. Some tools and resources especially for established job-seekers contemplating a career change.(Para. 26) In the section of Career Change Resources, there are some tools and resources especially for those established job-hunters who consider changing careers.16. Taking the time to use a career journal is a fantastic way to conduct career planning on a regularbasis.(Para. 31) It is great to spend some time using a career journal to carry out career planning regularly.17. The concept of transferable skills is a vital job-search technique that all job-seekers should master,though the concept is especially important for career changers and college students. (Para. 33) All job-hunters should master those skills that are needed to make transitions from school to workplace or from your current job to the next jobIII. Key to the exercises1. Reading Comprehension(1) According to the author, career planning is very essential because it functions as bridges built fromone’s current job/career to his/her next job/career and with the bridges there is safety and direction.(2) The main idea of the passage:The passage offers some basic guidelines for both short-term and long-term career planning.(3) Short-term career plan and long-term career plan are different. A short-term career plan focuses ona timeframe ranging from the coming year to the next few years. It is characterized by developingrealistic goals and objectives that can be accomplished in the near future. But long-term career planning usually involves a broader set of guidelines and preparation and focuses on and developing workplace core skills and identifying career trends.(4) In order to hold a positive attitude towards short-term career planning, you should free yourselfform all career barriers, such as personal barriers, family pressure and peer pressure. And you shouldn’t put so much pressure on yo urself because it may paralyze you from making any real choices, decisions, or plans.(5) Before you develop a picture of yourself and your career, you should analyze your current/futurelifestyle, likes/dislikes, passion, definition of success, personality, dream job and current situation.2. VocabularySection A(1) on the move (2) In terms of (3) quintessential (4) perspective(5) priority (6) cloud (7) brainstormed (8) extravert, introvert(9) Reverting(10) timeframeSection B(1) A(2) B(3) C(4) C(5) A(6) D(7) D(8) A(9) C(10) A3. Cloze(1) right (2) not (3) wrong (4) First of all (5) knowledge(6) Only (7) no matter what (8) outperform (9) successful (10) higher(11) who (12) still (13) rather than (14) figure out (15) worst(16) Then (17) However (18) rehearse (19) more (20)instead of4. TranslationA. Chinese to English1) Translate the following sentences into English.(1) Although we failed this time, we should not be sunk in apathy, because as we all know, “failure isthe mother of success.” And we are all wedded to the belief that this failure will be the beginning of future success.(2) The idyllic Indonesian island is a beautiful combination of spirituality, natural beauty and a taste ofthe exotic.(3) Adolescence, the transition from childhood to adulthood, is always a critical time for everybody. Soparents must pay special attention to their children’s growth in this period.(4) Thank you for your really practical advice, but I still need time to reflect on it.(5) You’d better contemplate the related issues before making a final decision, and formulate a feasibleaction plan that can be fulfilled in one year.(6) In this English Speaking Contest, what impresses me most is that contestant 11 is a very fluentspeaker of English, but it’s a pity that he fails to confine himself to the subject.(7) Neither difficulty nor failure frustrates his passion in his research. He was content to go as far as hecould.(8) Anthropologists, as far as I know, are still unable to pinpoint just where along the line man and theapes branched into two distant species.2) Translate the following paragraph into English.We all have goals and aspirations. Sometimes we have difficulty knowing where to start. We want that new body, or want to be healthy and have more energy, but we just do not know what the first step is. In addition, the road to our goals is sometimes a rocky one. It is difficult to transgress and sometimes we just want to give up. We sometimes forget that our current situation did not occur overnight and so changing it will not happen overnight either. It will take time and hard work. Therefore, I suggest that you should set only one goal at a time.When you try to take on too much at once, you can become overwhelmed quickly. Create a list and take one goal at a time. Once you achieve that goal, back to your list to mark it off, and move to the next one. The act of achieving goals individually will give you a greater sense of accomplishment. You can even break the one goal into smaller parts. This gives you motivation and success more often than waiting for days or months to achieve a larger goal.B. English to Chinese1) Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.每位求职者都需要花点时间远离日常繁忙的工作，仔细思量你的事业，为未来制定计划。