商务英语综合教程1

出版时间：2008-1  出版社：高等教育  作者：本社  页数：319  字数：630000  

内容概要

《商务英语综合教程》是《高等学校商务英语系列教材》之一，本书为第1册，共有12个单元，每单元由Warm-up Activities，Intensive Reading，Extensive Reading，Reading & Writing四大部分组成，包括日常社交、习俗、文体娱乐、学习、个体发展、科技、宗教、政治、人类与环境等等多种社会文化情景以及所涉及的各方面常识。 本书选材新颖，内容丰富，专业面广，难度适宜，趣味性强，可供高等学校经贸英语专业的学生及相应水平的商务工作者与英语爱好者学习使用。

书籍目录

Unit 1 College Life  Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　Universities and Their Function　Extensive Reading　　Feeling the Pinch　Reading & Writing　　The College ExperienceUnit 2 Learning to Learn　Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　Live and Learn　Extensive Reading　　Speaking of Success　Reading & Writing　　Taking Notes on Your Journey--The Art of Journal WritingUnit 3 Computer and Internet　Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　The Internet in Society's Evolution　Extensive Reading　　Alienation and the Internet　Reading & Writing　　Is the Internet a Portal to Hell?Unit 4 Personality and Interpersonal Relationships　Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　Get a Dynamic Personality for Super Success　Extensive Reading　　The Power of Positive Thinking　Reading & Writing　　Profits of PraiseUnit 5 Stress and Mental Health　Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　Stress　Extensive Reading　　Less Pressure, Better Performance　Reading & Writing　　Pressure on Students Causes Social ProblemsUnit 6 Food and Health　Warm-up Activities　　Listening & Speaking　Intensive Reading　　The Paradox of Our Diet　Extensive Reading　　Fast Food as Healthy Food?　Reading & Writing　　A Dietary MinorityUnit 7 SportsUnit 8 Art and MusicUnit 9 Holidays and CelebrationsUnit 10 Travel and TourismUnit 11 JobsUnit 12 Great PeopleWords & Expressions

章节摘录

　　1 The universities are schools of education，and schools of research.But theprimary reason for their existence iS not to be found either in the mere knowledgeconveyed to the students or in the mere opportunities for research afforded to themembers of the faculty.　　2 The iustification for a university iS that it preserves the connection betweenknowledge and the zest of life，by uniting the young and the old in the imaginativeconsideration of learning.The university imparts information，but it imparts itimaginatively.At Ieast，this is the function which it should performfor society.A university which fails in this respect has no reason forexistence.This atmosphere of excitement，arising from imaginativeconsideration，transforms knowledge.A fact is no longer a barefact：it iS invested with alIits possibilities.It is no longer a burdenon the memory：it is energizing as the poet of our dreams，and asthe architect of our purposes.　　3 Imagination iS not to be divorced from the facts：it iS a way ofilluminating the facts.It works by eliciting the general principleswhich apply to the facts，as they exist，and then by an intellectualsurvey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with thoseprinciples.It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a newworld，and it preserves the zest of life by the suggestion of satisfyingpurposes.　　4 Youth is imaginative，and if the imagination be strengthened by discipline，this energy of imagination can in great measure be preserved through life.Thetragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience，and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.Fools act on imaginationwithout knowledge；pedants act on knowledge without imagination.The task of auniversitv iS to weId together imagination and experience.　　5 These reflections upon the general functions of a university can be at oncetranslated in terms of the particular functions of a business sch001.We need notflinch from the assertion that the main function of such a school is to produce menwith a greater zest for business.　　6 In a simpler world，business relations were Simpler，being based on the