新突破大学英语综合 教程Unit 4.docVIP

Unit Four Business Trade Part One Warming-up Listening Activities 1 Directions: Listen to the following dialogue and fill in the blanks with the missing words or phrases. The dialogue will be spoken only once. Lucy: Did you put this morning’s faxes on my desk? I’m waiting for some urgent faxes from headquarters. I’m pretty sure they came in last night. John: Everything that came in the office fax machine last night is all on your desk, but I noticed that some of faxes came through pretty blurred. Maybe you take a look at them. If the copy is unreadable, I’ll call then and ask them to refax. Lucy: Yeah, you’re going to have to call them and get them to refax. These copies are so dark. I can’t make out any of the words. John: What about that one? Lucy: This one? This one is so light and I can barely read it. How can that be? John: You know, I think the fax machine is out of toner. I can change the toner cartridge. That should solve the problem. Lucy: Yes, but this one will have to be refaxed as well. And look, there are about 3 pages missing. It looks like the fax machine ate half of my important faxes, and ones that made it through are so blurred or too light. They are unreadable. John: I guess the fax machine is out of paper too. Don’t worry. I’ll have someone look at it this afternoon, and in the meantime, I’ll have your documents refaxed to our other fax machine. 2 Directions: Listen to the following passage and fill in the blanks with the missing words or phrases. The passage will be read two times. Most people learn from the TV series that businessmen are mean and immoral, and that they can do what they want in order to achieve the biggest profit. In reality, some businessman indeed chase for the possible profit at the cost of being lack of ethics, while others believe that business ethics helps further success. I agree with the latter. Business ethics helps a company to keep long term cooperative relationship with employees and customers. First, some bosses to