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英语报刊阅读课程教案
（2011—— 2012学年第二学期）
适用专业： 英语教育 任课教师： 刘力扬 编写时间： 2011.9
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教学内容 Leon 1
课时 2 教学用具
板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.B
2.B
3.D
4.A VI.1.According to Ms.Wellington, Gen X’ers are attracted to their organizations for utterly traditional reasons: reputation of the organization, opportunities to advance.2.Catalyst and other research organizations caution that this age group has high demands for employers.If their demands are not met, they will leave.And they are highly sensitive to the way in which they are treated.If the Gen X’er believes that his employer is not making a commitment to him, he will leave.
3.The survey found that more than 70 percent of them rated companionship, a loving family and enjoying life as extremely important.In contrast, fewer than 20 percent of them said earning a lot of money and becoming an influential leader were extremely important goals.4.According to Robert Morgan, the corporate loyalty is rising in the current economic climate partly because of job insecurities.Besides, there is the war for talent.As labor shortages intensified in recent years, employers have worked hard at retaining good workers.
IV．Outline I.(1) Summary lead Increasing job loyalty of Gen X’ers
II.(2 – 6) Catalyst’s survey about job loyalty of Gen X’ers
1.General situation of the job loyalty
2.Findings about the similarities between Gen X’ers and the previous generations
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教学内容 Leon 2
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.A
2.A
3.B
4.D VI.1.The purpose of the debate between Mateo and Martinez is to focus on the specific needs of Latinos that both parties are courting.2.The problems pointed out by Martinez are bad education, unemployment and lack of health insurance.3.The author says Latino turnout and preference will be decisive in the election because they are the majority minority and more of Latinos than ever before are expected to go to the polls, and a large number of those people are not tied to either political party.4.According to the article, a candidate who figure out how to talk to Latinos about education and healthcare in a compelling way can lock up Latinos’ vote.5.The term ―Hispanic‖ came into official use in 1973, when the Nixon administration formally divided Americans into five races.Liberals prefer the term ―Latino‖ on the grounds that the Spaniards were the very people who destroyed the indigenous cultures of Latin Americans) 6.The author thinks that the term ―Hispanic‖ is a marketing term and it’s a term used by politicians at election time.
7.The author thinks that the term ―Hispanic‖ is a marketing term and it’s a term used by politicians at election time.It cannot reflect cultural realities.
Outline I.(1 – 2) Debate between Mateo and Martinez
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教学内容 Leon 3
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.C
2.D
3.C
4.A VI.1.WWII led to women’s entry into the workforce.As men marched off to fight, women took their husbands’ places in factories and on the farms.They never looked back.Most now take it for granted that women have as much to offer at work as men do.2.No, it is more than a financial iue because it raises social as well as economic questions and its resolution will involve governments, employers and people.3.The babyboom generation is far larger than the generation that follows it or any that preceded it.Its achievement will cast a shadow over the companies it is set to leave.4.The present ways of dealing with a falling supply of labor are shifting work offshore, laxer immigration rules and use of new equipment.5.If they were offered the chance of staying on at work, many older employees would jump at the chance because they will no longer be able to retire in the style they have been led to expect.Corporate pension schemes and health benefits are becoming even le generous.Besides the need for money, many elderly people want to continue working for mental stimulation.6.The author thinks that older workers need to adapt and accept a relative decline in salary and status 7.The significance of babyboomers’ changing the world of work will be more profound and longer lasting than the changes they have brought since the 1960s.
Outline I.(1 – 2) Social changes in western countries after WWII
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教学内容 Leon 4
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.D
2.A
3.D
4.B
VI.1.According to the new government figures, British female full time workers will be paid £ 369,000 le than their counterparts over their lifetime.2.That lifetime disparity would be enough to pay for 31 years of childcare or 22 new cars, or to pay off the average student debt 18 times over.3.Britain’s gender pay gap of 2008 was larger than that of 2007.Men were paid 17.1% more than women for full-time work while the disparity in part-time wages was 36.6%, up from 35.8% in 2007.4.The Fawcett Society has called on the government to include mandatory pay auditing in the equalities bill, scheduled to be introduced in next month’s Queen’s speech.5.According to the article, Sri Lanka is judged the fifth most equal in the world on political empowerment because of the long incumbencies as prme minister and president of Sirimavo Bandaranaika and Chandrika Kumaratunga.6.According to Yvonne Galligan, younger parliaments, in general, were often much more representative.7.Dr.Selvi Thriuchandran felt puzzled by the WEF findings, pointing out that aside from the Bandaranaikes, Sri Lanka had the worst record in South Asia in terms of representation in the legislature and executive.
Outline
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教学内容 Leon 5
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.A
2.B
3.D
4.B VI.1.The first power shift is a rebalancing of moral authority.The major factor in the shift is the receding moral superiority of the west.2.The double standard in Paragraph 3 refers to the US different rules for the two financial crises.During the Asian financial crisis, the US bashed Hong Kong when its government intervened in August 1998 in the stock market to fend off the western investment banks and hedge funds bent on destroying the city’s currency.Yet only a month later, the US intervened in the market to bail out LTCM.3.The author thinks that the minor adjustment in voting rights in the World Bank and International Monetary Fund is symbolic of the increase of the east’s say in decision making in global economic affairs.4.Reminbi has gained an elevation in status.Over time , some countries will keep more Reminbi, making it more like reserve currency.5.The recent crisis shows that blindly seeking growth is dangerous.To many wealthy countries, it is unrealistic.6.The five power shifts are for the most part desirable.They provide a more balanced and stable world.
Outline I.(1) Appearance of global rebalancing II .(2 – 6) Rebalancing of moral authority
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教学内容 Leon 6
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.D
2.C
3 A
4.A VI.1.The letters which millions of Americans got were quarterly reports telling them what had happened to their savings invested in the stockmarket.They have been more effective than any campaign ad.2.Accoring to the Wisconsin Advertising Project, 73% of McCain’s ads and 61% of Obama’s ads are negative.3.He thinks that negative campaign ads are more informative than positive ones.4.Obama’s ads attack McCain for the many ways he plans to make life wretched for nearly everyone. 5.McCain’s attacks on Obama focus on his slender résumé, his dodgy aociates and the poibility that he will raise taxes.6.Some Democrats complain that McCain’s attacks are stoking up violent racial hatred against Obama.7.The author thinks that they are unfounded.
Outline I.(1) Effects of factual ads Helping Obama double his lead over McCain II.(2 – 4) Both sides’ use of negative campaign ads 1.Attack ads’ percentage and John Geer’s view on their function 2.Obama’s ad attacks on McCain 3.McCain’s ad attacks on Obama
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教学内容 Leon 7
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.D
2.B
3.A
4.D VI.1.The Conservative Party and the Liberal-Democratic Party have formed the British coalition government.2.Clegg decided that he could not form a coalition with the Labour Party due to a revolt inside the parliamentary Labour Party at the concept of a deal, as well as its likely terms.3.If the deal works, it will change the shape of the Conservative Party.4.The Lib Dems secured 5 cabinet posts and a commitment to 15 other ministerial jobs acro Whitehall.On the Conservative side, George Osborne will the chancellor of the exchequer and William Hague foreign secretary.5.The serious problems confronting the coalition government are a huge deficit, deep social problems and a political system in need of reform.6.In the negotiations, the Tories agreed to drop their plans to raise the threshold for inheritance tax and provide extra money for disadvantaged pupils.7.When the Lib Dem-Con deal was secured, George Brown went to the Queen to tender his resignation.Later, he told party workers he was resigning immediately as party leader, leaving Harriet Harman in charge.
Outline I.(1 – 4 ) Formation of the Conservative Party – the Liberal Democratic Party coalition 1.Coalition with Cameron as Prime Minister and Clegg as his deputy
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教学内容 Leon 8
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.A
2.D
3.D
4.A VI.1.America’s standing in world opinion is at an all-time low.Even its closest allies oppose U.S.policies.2.Its unpopularity is dangerous and expensive.It leads to high military costs abroad, skyrocketing security costs at home, and the lo of trade as America’s goods become shunned overseas.All this causes an economic drain.3.If Americans travelled more, they’d better understand their place on this complex planet and fit in more comfortably, and eventually the U.S.wouldn’t need to spend as much as the rest of the world combined on its military to feel safe.4.Travel helps Americans celebrate, rather than fear, diversity of culture.5.Travel gives Americans a perspective that can translate, through the voting booth, into American policies that will not alienate them from the family of nations.And when that happens, Americans’ safety will be improved.
Outline I (1-2) Need for Americans to gain a better understanding of the world by travelling II (3-5) America’s unpopularity and its harmful effects
1．America’s low standing in world opinion
2．Being routinely outvoted at the U.N.on a variety of iues III (6-18) Benefits of thoughtful travel
1．Gaining a better understanding of America’s place on the complex planet
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教学内容 Leon 9
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.C
2.D
3.B
4.B VI.1.It is a non-profit group that promotes the importance of family and fatherhood.It is based in New York.2.The sexual revolution of the 1960s and \'70s swept away a concept of dating in which there was an implicit understanding that each party was shopping for a mate and not just for sex.
3.If women are not hooking up, they frequently fall into fast-moving, \"joined-at-the-hip\" relationships with men, spending nights in one another\'s rooms.4.In the author’s opinion, the rules of courtship in the 1950s were clearer than those of the present.But they proved unfulfilling either, because at that time those who were courting got to know each other under artificial circumstances.They were well dreed and put their best foot forward.This was not the best way to get to know people.
Outline I.(1) News lead
Summary of the survey’s report
II.(2—3) The dating scene on college campuses 1.Two choices for women 2.Women’s desire for long-term relationship and marriage III.(4) The survey
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教学内容 Leon 10
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.C
2.B
3.C
4.C VI.1.The American traditional family is a family made up of two biological parents and two or three children with the father as the only breadwinner.2.No.The traditional family has lost its predominant place.Today only about 20 percent of American families fit the traditional structure.3.The new American family is a household with fewer children, with both parents working, and with mothers giving birth to their children at an ever older age, having fewer children, and spacing them further apart.4.The stable family of two biological parents is the ideal veel for molding character, for nurturing, for inculcating values, and for planning for a child’s future.
5.The result of America’s family changes is a serious new divide in the American society between the children of poorer, le educated, single parents and those of richer, better educated, and married parents.6.Mother-only families produce harmful effects on children.They are more likely than those with two parents to suffer poverty, to be suspended from school, to have emotional problems, to become delinquent, to suffer from abuse, to take drugs, and to perform poorly on virtually every measure.7.Today, 81 percent of American women think she should have her own career, and 70 percent think that both husband and wife should earn money.The vast majority of working mothers say that even if the family did not need the income, they would continue working.
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.B
2.D
3.A
4.C VI.1.Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center had organized a 52-member medical team for delivering the babies with each of them designated and aigned to nurses, doctors and surgical aistants.At 10:43 a.m.on January 26, they were all ready.2.Before the multiple birth, Nadya Suleman was a recently-divorced single mother who already had six children ranging in age from 2 to 7, two of them 2-year-old twins and one of them autistic.3.The news report stoked the furor created by the delivery of the octuplets.4.Nadya Suleman used the last of her remaining embryos and got impregnated through in-vitro fertilization.5.Nadya Suleman’s mother sees it le glowingly.She believes that her daughter is obseed and misguided for she already had six beautiful children.6.After being released from the hospital, Nadya Suleman will be faced with problems of child support and child care.
Outline
I.(1) Deilvery of Nadya Suleman’s eight babies at Kaiser
1.Kaiser’s preparation for the delivery
2.Delivery of seven babies
3.Delivery of the eighth baby
4.Present condition of Nadya Suleman and her eight babies
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V.1.C
2.D
3.A
4.B
VI.1.The author suggests that the husband and the wife should offer each other more positive statements, le negative statements, heart-felt and specific compliments and thank-yous.2.Human touch aids the release of feel-good endorphins for giver and receiver.3.To build a fortre of love, he or she should fully support his or her spouse, take his or her spouse’s side whenever poible if trouble arises in the ―outside world‖.
4.Trying to improve the spouse puts him/her on the defensive and cast you in a dreary role.The result is that everyone is unhappy.5.When a marriage needs improvement, the true solution is that you should change yourself first, addre your own flaws and seek the best in your spouse.6.Good feelings can improve marriage.The happier you feel, the happier your marriage will be and the easier it will be to manage conflicts.7.When conflict is handled with the right tools and attitude, it becomes a gateway to deeper intimacy – the chance to be seen and lived for who you truly are, to accept your mate’s adorable, vulnerable real self and build a strong union without caving in or silently seething.8.A couple should avoid tough talks when they’re not rested well, well fed and when drunk.
Outline
I.(1-2) Introduction to the 7 secrets of sexy marriage II.(3-5) Build up love balance
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.B
2.A
3.D
4.B VI.1.Sam Zell blamed ―a perfect storm‖ of factors behind the Tribune Company’s bankruptcy filing.
2.Newspaper Aociation of America figures show that advertising revenues have been falling since the summer of 2006.3.It was the acceleration of advertising revenues’ fall, coupled with the sheer amount of debt Mr Zell took on to buy Tribune, which led the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune to the bankruptcy courts.4.Moody’s last Month predicted ―dire straits‖ for some publishers in 2009.
5.Publishers’ options are shrinking because prospective buyers struggle to find acquisitions.
6.The fact that the New York Times wroke down the value of its newspapers showed that aet sales may yield le than once hoped.7.According to Paper Cuts, more than 15,000 U.S newspaper positions have been cut.8.Moody expects most publishers that default to be able to restructure their debt, rather than close titles.
Outline I.(1-4) Newspaper industry’s decline. 1.Tribune Company’s bankruptcy filing 2.Causes of newspaper industry’s decline a.Debates about the causes
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.D
2.B
3.C
4.A VI.1.Because they want to improve their public image.They believe that reputations and jobs can be lost based on the smallest slip in rank.2.Because they intended to make their colleges more selective.They thought top applicants might opt for more prestigious institutions, lowering the school’s crucial ―yield‖ and making it appear le desirable.
3.If accepted, enrollees tend to boost a school’s yield and its statistical cachet.But the proce denies students the broader choice that comes with applying to more than one college and ties them to a school regardle of its financial aid offer.4.The author believes the rankings have become an unhealthy force in higher education, because the time and money colleges spend gaming the magazine’s rankings are resources lost on improving education and serving their real consumers, the students.
Outline Ⅰ.Problem of college officials’ only concern for poll ranking and its bad effects (1―3)
1.The iue of college officials’ efforts to push up the ranking
2.Bad effects
a.Overlooking education improvement
b.Sacrificing students to the college’s vanity
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1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.C
2.D
3.C
4.D VI.1.The casual supremacy of Usian Bolt’s record-vapouring 100m sprint has everyone wondering how much more human beings can wring from their bodies.2.Science shows that human beings are at the far edges of the envelope in sports performance 3.He thinks that athletes are going into a plateau where performance improvements will be more incremental and a single anomalous sprint doesn’t change that.4.The study by the French Institute of Sport concludes that athletes will finally hit the ceiling in 2060.After that, no more world records.5.According to the article, sport will increasingly rely on freaks: physically highly unusual specimen endowed with remarkable psychological resilience 6.US Sport Sporting Giants talent identification program has been looking for athletes in body size: females over 5 ft 11 in and males 6 ft 3 in aged 16 and 25 7.Bolt’s succe shows that very unusual physical and mental conditions are needed for breaking world records.Bolt’s long muscles produce remarkable power, but he is also unexpectedly fast off the blocks for such a big man.Then there is his extraordinary psychology too: he can goof for the cameras just before a race, but beneath the relaxation lies pinpoint mental focus.
Outline I.(1—5) Future of athletes’ performance
1.Iue raised by Bolt’s record-breaking about limits to athletes’ performance
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.B
2.D
3.A
4.D VI.1.According to the article carried in the British Medical Journal, people can cut the risk of having a stroke in half by doing the following four things: being active for 30 minutes a day, eating five daily servings of fruit and vegetables, and avoiding cigarettes and exce alcohol.) 2.Thomas Perls believes that auming you\'ve sidestepped genes for truly fatal diseases like Huntington’s, there’s nothing stopping you from living independently well into the 90s.3.If elderly people stop working abruptly, the incidence of obesity and chronic disease skyrockets.4.Floing is beneficial to the heart because it will help keep arteries healthy.One study shows that daily floing reduces the amount of gun-disease-causing bacteria.This bacteria is thought to enter the bloodstream and trigger inflammation in the arteries, a major risk for heart disease.Other research has shown that those who have high amounts of bacteria in the mouth are more likely to have thickening in the arteries, another sign of heart disease.So if you want to keep your heart healthy, you have to flo regularly.5.Jap Olshasky believes that exercise is the only real fountain of youth that exists.6.The author advised people to avoid nutrient-lacking white foods (breads, flour, sugar) and go for all those colorful fruits and vegetables and dark whole-grain breads and cereals with their host of hidden nutrients.7.The author recommends Seventh Day Adventists\' way of life because their way of life is beneficial to health and their average life expectancy is 89, about a decade longer than that of the average American.They stick to a vegetarian diet based on fruits, vegetables, beans, and nuts, get plenty of exercise, and
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板书，教材 教学目标
1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
2、understand the skill of the text 教学重点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学难点
1、understand the words
2、improve the speed 教学过程
I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.D
2.C
3.D
4.B
VI.1. Edwards believes that people who spend six to nine months preparing are likely to be twice as succeful as those who start without preparation.2.The advantages of telecommuting are the freedom, flexibility and that you don’t need to travel to work everyday and can wear whatever you like.The disadvantage is that you are isolated from a team and cannot get the day-to-day interaction with your colleagues.
3.Because the trend toward home offices is bringing work and home closer together under one roof, while under the traditional system of employment, jobs and family are separated.4.Because he thinks it is a national transition that is as significant as the one from farms to factories.This national transition is actually a big challenge to the tradition.It will have a great impact on various aspects of the society especially on people’s way of life.
Outline I.The trend toward working at home in USA (1) More telecommuters appearing in busine II.Factors of the trend (2~3) 1.A combination of factors 2.Examples
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1、understand the text and study the vocabulary
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1、understand the words
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1、understand the words
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I． Background information
II．Additional notes
III．Answers to the Questions V. 1.D
2.B
3.A
4.D
VI.1.In late May, Mater Card Inc.is expected to go public.The stock offering is expected to raise more than $2.5 billion.2.One of the purposes is to raise money to cover its pending legal costs.The other purpose is to help it compete in a global industry with a raft of new competitors.3.The author says so because the two card behemoths have been so besieged.They face legal battles over the so-called interchange fees they charge retailers.They are also being sued by rival card companies on antitrust charges.As a matter of fact, MasterCard’s stock offering is intended to raise money to cover its pending legal costs.4.Americans’ use of credit cards is as common as their use of the dollar.The average household with at least one major credit card had about $9500 in debt in 2005.The average American now has five general purpose cards, according to the Nielson Report.5.There are a number of changes in the credit market.Firstly, there are strong signs that the boom is finally slowing.Secondly, consumers have been paying off high-interest card debt and making major purchases with low-equity loans.Thirdly, it is inevitable that the fees the card companies charge merchants will be slashed.6.According to Howard Mason, Master Card’s present legal liability could exceed its current book value of $1.3 billion.
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