Unit 4
Text A
Text rganization 1.
2.
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)Toyata 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.
5.a) is increasingly/to accelerate/their investment
b) economy/make an earnest/domestic/strike a balance between
c) a handful of/be endorsed by/on a large scale
III. Usage 1. An unusual present, a book on ethics, was given to Henry for his birthday. 2. The reason(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. Cloning had been raised as a possibility decades ago, then dismissed, something that serious scientists thought was simply not going to happen anytime soon.
Comprehensive Exercises
I. Cloze (A)
1. academics variety of 5. vanish 7. endorsing
9. sweeping aside 11. erasing (B)
1. aided
4. connected
5. invested
6. features
7. prevailing 8. qualitatively 9. volume 10. Distinguishing
2. networking 4. growth
6. facilitate 8. outlook
10. patriotic 12. strike a
2) I like hiring young people. They are earnest learners and committed to work.
lives on their children, Mary cares more about
Globalization has great implications for young Chinese. For example, young farmers are
study abroad or work in foreign-invested
number of overseas Chinese students have returned home in recent years, for they hold an optimistic
They follow the latest trend and copy foreign fashions. Some of them don’t seem to care for
forward, which has given rise to worries that the
Part III Text B
Comprehension Check
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. b
5. c
6. d
Translation
1.如果9/11 有什么引人注目的地方，那就是恐怖主义者
们来自世界上全球化程度最低、最不开放、融合程度最低的地方：沙特阿拉伯、也门、阿富汗和巴基斯坦西北部。

2.“全球化疲劳在欧美仍很显著，而在中国和印度这样的
地方，你会发现人们急切地想参与到经济扩张进程中
来，”印度国大党的首席经济顾问杰伦兰密施说。

3.印度大多数人是不是还生活在贫穷的乡村？确实如此。

我们是不是需要强迫富裕的西方国家进一步开发市场，好让贫穷国家销售它们最擅长的东西；食品和纺织品，以使全球化更公平呢？当然需要。

4.一，全球化有优点也有缺点，但如果参与全球化的国家
有恰当的制度和管理，它们就能从中获得最大的好处，并且能缓和最不利的方面造成的影响，
Language practice
1.
1) d
2) f
3) e
4) a
5) b
6) g
7) h
8) c
2.
1) globalizing
2) software
3) stable
4) subsidies
5) A majority of
6) in evidence
7) add to
8) so be it
9) blew up
10) take advantage of
11) phase out
12) You bet。