世纪商务英语阅读教程2-(基础篇)unit-3.pptVIP

大连理工大学出版社 第五版 （基础篇II） 总主编：刘杰英 主　编：余金好　王洗薇　王显辉 审　校：Chuck Thode Unit 3　Work Attitude 　　 　　Negative attitudes in the workplace are highly destructive to morale, productivity and, in turn, to profits. Maintaining a good positive working attitude is often an essential requirement for performing the job effectively. Learning how to do so can help you function successfully and may even lead to promotional opportunities. Predicting What Comes Next A: Guided Practice B: Let’s Try Contents Reading Skill Focus Comprehensive Reading Practical Reading Text A: Why Unhappy in Their Jobs Text B: Changing Your Work Attitude and Performance Employee Development Program Reading Skill Focus 　　Making predictions while you are reading is a useful technique that helps you understand a passage better. In a passage, you can often predict what comes next from a sentence, the content of a paragraph, or the structure of a paragraph. You can base your prediction on the grammatical structure of a sentence, linking words, or on the logical development of the content. 　　The following logical connectors are often used to indicate the relationship of the context, from which you can predict what comes next. Predicting What Comes Next Reading Skill Focus A:Guided Practice Reading Skill Focus A:Guided Practice Reading Skill Focus B:Let’s Try Read the paragraph below about humor in advertising and decide which sentence is most likely to follow. Practice 1 　　Many of the most memorable ad campaigns around tend to be funny. Advertisers use this strategy to attract customers to their products. The best products to sell using humor tend to be those that consumers have to think the least about. Products that are relatively inexpensive, and often consumable, can be represented without providing a lot of facts, and that’ s where there’ s room for humor. A. People will pay more attention to a humorous commercial than a factual or serious one, opening themselves up to be influenced. B. Candy, food, alcohol, tob