Intercultural Team BuildingToday the need to ’go global’ and to cut outgoings is demanding that companies combine protecting international interests whilst keeping down staff (21) The solution in most cases has been the forming of intercultural teams.Undoubtedly, the intercultural dimension of today’s teams brings about new challenges. Successful team building not only (22) the traditional needs to harmonise personalities but also languages, cultures, ways of thinking, behaviours and motivations.The key to successful intercultural team building lies (23) intercultural training. It is one method of helping to blend a team together. Through analysis of the cultures involved in a team, their particular approaches to communication and business and how the team interacts, intercultural team builders are able to find, suggest and use common ground to (24) team members in building harmonious relationships. It helps a team to realise their differences and (25) in areas such as status, hierarchy, decision making, conflict resolution, showing emotion and relationship building in order to create mutually agreed upon structures of communication and interaction. From this (26) teams are then tutored how to recognise future communication difficulties and their cultural roots, empowering the team to become more self-reliant. The end result is a more cohesive and productive team.In conclusion, for intercultural teams to succeed, it is important to stay (27) to the need for intercultural training to help cultivate (28) relationships. Companies must be supportive, proactive and innovative. This goes (29) financing and creating technological links to bring together intercultural teams at surface level and going back to basics by (30) better interpersonal communication. If international businesses are to grow and prosper in this ever contracting world, intercultural synergy must be a priority. 23()
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Rewards for shareholders1.They will be able to try the company’s ____________ new product.2.They will also receive a ____________ per share.The present situation3.Sales have decreased in the last ____________.4.Shares are expected to increase in value by ____________ the near future.5.The company’s main rivals are enormous ____________ companies.Company history6.The company was originally a ____________ business.7.It recently became an ____________.The future8.The company has set a high ____________ for the future.9.It does not intend to offer ____________ on its products.10.The company will spend more money on ____________.11.The company anticipates trade with countries in ____________.12.The company expects bigger sales in ____________. 9()
Help for Exporters to Speak the LanguageThe new Languages in Export Advisory Scheme has been started to help companies that are keen to export and have fewer than two hundred and fifty employees. It means that they (31) eligible for a grant of up to fifty per cent of the cost of three-and-a-half days’ on-site consultancy. The scheme defines ways of meeting the business’s language needs (32) relating its product or service to the overseas market.There are two stages: the first stage, (33) lasts half a day, gives employers understanding of the issues involved in exporting and briefs (34) on local language and export information centres. The second, three-day stage provides expert advice on competing effectively (35) overseas markets. A specialist in exports and language use analyses the firm’s language needs and produces a plan (36) developing strategies.Strategies that might (37) considered include establishing on-line or phone links with an interpreting company, hiring a native of a particular country on a contract basis, advertising for someone (38) fluency in a particular language, and locating a foreign student on placement or at a local business school. Such people might help the boss to (39) up a stand at a business exhibition in a foreign city, as (40) as handle the paperwork and deal with clients. It is hoped that many small businesses all over the world will benefit from this idea in the future. 34()
阅读下面文字,完成第16—20题。 ①科学知识体系内部存在一种结构。这种结构可与地球分层结构模型类比,称之为科学知识的球状结构。______。 ②地球的内部结构从外到里,由地壳、地幔和地核组成,科学知识体系结构从外到里则由知识外壳、知识幔层和知识内核组成。 ③知识外壳由事实性的知识组成,如海王星、电磁波、中微子这类现象的发现均属事实性发现;知识幔层由定律性知识组成,如浮力定律、自由落体定律、化学元素周期定律均属定律性知识;知识内核由原理性知识组成,即能揭露相对深刻的本质,如氧化说、进化论、相对论等原理知识。事实性知识说明“是什么”,定律性知识说明“怎么样”,原理性知识说明“为什么”。 ④人对某一知识领域的系统认识通常遵循从事实性一定律性一原理性的发展过程,即人们的探索性思维通常是从科学知识外壳部分通过幔层而向内核逼近的。例如,在天文学史上,哥白尼的日心说首先解决了“是什么”,即确认了我们这个恒星系统中,地球、火星等行星都是围绕太阳运行的;继而,开普勒的行星运动定律描述了“怎么样”,即确立了地球等行星是按照某种特定的周期、轨道和速度围绕太阳运行的;最后,牛顿的万有引力原理探索了“为什么”,说明太阳是以某种特定的力作用于行星,从而使行星按开普勒发现的三大定律运行。 ⑤上述过程标志着科学家对科学之谜的认识的不断深化。 ⑥科学家则根据各自的发现的深刻性而被划分为不同的级别。这样,科学界在无形中便形成了一个声誉的金字塔结构。处在塔顶尖的是那些因为有重大原理性发现而驰名世界的科学巨星,拉瓦锡为现代科学之父,维萨留斯为现代解剖学之父。处于金字塔中部的是那些因为提出重要的定律性知识而得名的科学人物,如开普勒、哈勃、孟德尔等。相比之下,聚集在金字塔下部的通常是那些有重要事实性发现的科学家。 据文意,选择恰当的一项填入第一段的横线处( )
A. 能否把握这一结构特征,采取科学的思维方法,是科学研究成败的关键
B. 能够把握这一结构特征,采取科学的思维方法,是科学研究成败的关键
C. 能否把握这一结构特征,采取科学的思维方法,是科学研究成功的关键
D. 能够把握这一结构特征,采取科学的思维方法,是科学研究失败或成功的关键
Intercultural Team BuildingToday the need to ’go global’ and to cut outgoings is demanding that companies combine protecting international interests whilst keeping down staff (21) The solution in most cases has been the forming of intercultural teams.Undoubtedly, the intercultural dimension of today’s teams brings about new challenges. Successful team building not only (22) the traditional needs to harmonise personalities but also languages, cultures, ways of thinking, behaviours and motivations.The key to successful intercultural team building lies (23) intercultural training. It is one method of helping to blend a team together. Through analysis of the cultures involved in a team, their particular approaches to communication and business and how the team interacts, intercultural team builders are able to find, suggest and use common ground to (24) team members in building harmonious relationships. It helps a team to realise their differences and (25) in areas such as status, hierarchy, decision making, conflict resolution, showing emotion and relationship building in order to create mutually agreed upon structures of communication and interaction. From this (26) teams are then tutored how to recognise future communication difficulties and their cultural roots, empowering the team to become more self-reliant. The end result is a more cohesive and productive team.In conclusion, for intercultural teams to succeed, it is important to stay (27) to the need for intercultural training to help cultivate (28) relationships. Companies must be supportive, proactive and innovative. This goes (29) financing and creating technological links to bring together intercultural teams at surface level and going back to basics by (30) better interpersonal communication. If international businesses are to grow and prosper in this ever contracting world, intercultural synergy must be a priority. 21()
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