二十世纪九十年代后，随着全球化势力对人类社会影响层面的扩张，已逐渐引起各国政治、教育、社会及文化等学科领域的重视，纷纷引起研究热潮。全新版大学英语综合教程4第四单元的主题就是“全球化”，下面是小编整理的课后答案，欢饮阅读!
Unit 4
Key to Part II Reading Task
Content Questions:
Pair Work:
1. Because he feels he is completely international.
2. What he means is that if one has a network of friends and enjoys what one is doing, one can function well anywhere in
the world.
3. It refers to a member of the international business elite who treks each year to the Swiss Alpine town of Davos for the
annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
4. The issues include everything from post-election Iraq and HIV in Africa to the global supply of oil and the implication
of nanotechnology.
5. They all believe that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, is
both welcome and unstoppable. They see the world increasingly as one vast, international marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.
6. He describes Davos Man as an emerging global superspecies and a threat.
7. Yes, global trade has been around for centuries. In the past, the corporations and countries that benefited from global
trade were largely content to treat vast parts of the world as places to mine natural resources or sell finished products.
8. It predicted that four economies – Russia, Brazil, India and China – will become a much larger force in the world
economy than widely expected, based on projections of demographics and economic growth, with China potentially overtaking Germany this decade. By 2050, these four newcomers will likely have displaced all but the US and Japan from the top six economies in the world.
9. It refers to low-paid migrant workers from Asia and elsewhere who are increasingly providing key services around the
world.
10. Unlike Davos Man, Manila Woman is strongly patriotic.
11. Because he thinks that there are still too many barriers to cross-border business in Europe, let alone the world.
12. Davos Man needs to figure out how to strike a balance on a global scale between being international and being
national at the same time.
Text Organization
Working on Your Own:
1.
Part One, Paras. 1-3: introduction to Davos Man and the World Economic Forum
Part Two. Paras. 4-5: Debate over the impact of globalization on current society and culture
Part Three. Paras. 6-8: History of globalization and its recent trands and future prospects
Part Four. Paras. 9-11: Globalization versus nationalism and the challenges it faces
2. Main Events:
2) Davos Man seen their identity as a matter of personal choice, not an accident of birth.
3) Davos Man believes that globalization, the unimpeded flows of capital, labor and technology across national borders, it both welcome and unstoppable.
4) Davos Man sees the world increasingly as one vast, international marketplace in which corporations search for the most advantageous locations to buy, produce and sell their goods and services.
Language Sense Enhancement
1.
(1) both see their identity (2) birth
(5) networking (6) implications (3) incidentally (4) annual (7) Whatever their considerable differences
(8) unimpeded flows (9) interconnected marketplace (10) advantageous
Language Focus
Vocabulary:
I.
1. Fill in the gaps with words or phrases given in the box.
1) advantageous 2) let alone 3) witnessing…vanishing 4) landmark
5) entitled 6) displace 7) Establishment 8) patriotic…strengthen
9) contradictions 10) aspires 11) divorced 12) pendulums
2. Use the verb in the brackets to form an appropriate phrasal verb you have learned and complete the sentence with it.
1) come to 2) dozed off 3) believed in 4) was set apart
5) take in 6) sucks in 7) clean up 8) turn away
3. Rewrite each sentence with the word or phrase in the brackets.
1) makes no/little difference whether we go there by train or by bus.
2) overtaken General Motors as the world’s biggest car maker.
3) at odds with his wife over money matters.
4) been at the forefront of nanotechnology research.
5) let alone cook a meal.
