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一、Communication

二、Vocabulary & Structure

三、Reading Comprehension

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What you say is as important as how you say it. In any new or unfamiliar situations, it’s hard to know what is too personal or too sensitive. And it is also hard to know how the other person thinks. So the way you say things matters a lot. If you worry about saying something wrong or inappropriate when communicating with others in cross-cultural situations, here are some useful expressions for you.

— Do you mind if I ask…?

— I’ve heard before that… How true is this…?

— Could you please explain to me…?

— Could you let me know what you think about…?

— I’m not sure if this is correct, but…

— I may be missing something here, but…

The first question “Do you mind if I ask…?”is one that I use a lot when talking to someone that I’m not so familiar with or that I’ve just started to work with. Sometimes, I may say it five to six times in one meeting. It’s a polite way to ask a question which might be sensitive or abrupt otherwise, or to check something I am not sure about.

What’s worth noticing is the first four lines. They’re all questions. When we use these questions, there is no danger of being offensive or making listeners feel uncomfortable. In fact, by these questions you’re asking for your listeners’ permission. These questions indicate that you may not understand something well and that you are inviting your listeners to help you understand the situation better. From my personal experience, even if what you are going to say is a little too personal or potentially sensitive, it would not cause offense if put this way. If you use such questions, you will be able to communicate more effectively with people from different countries and different backgrounds.

Both language skills and cross-cultural communication skills are important, but the latter is comparatively more important than the former. Here is my advice. You don’t have to be strong in both aspects. The mostimportant thingfor you to do is not to worry too much about what others might think. Instead, try to speak out and share your thoughts with others in the first place. Also, you need to pay enough attention to the way you say things. To prevent offense, use the polite expressions indicated earlier.

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What is a career path? A career path is a sequence or a series of job positions held leading to your short-term and long-term professional goals. In essence, a career path is the route you take to achieve your career goals.

While most people aim for each job in their career path to follow a linear pattern and be progressively better than the last, it’s not always the case. A career path may meander, sometimes going as far as curving in on itself, before reaching your intended destination.

A sideways move, known as a lateral move, is common, and so is a backward move (career setback). Of course, career paths change altogether. Sometimes your professional goals change, family responsibilities take priority, or life otherwise gets in the way.

There are countless types of career paths to follow or consider, just as everyone has their own career goals and career ladder. On top of the fact that the number of ultimate career outcomes is almost endless, there are virtuallylimitless ways to get to each one.

What career path should I take? The thing to remember is that career paths aren’t static. There are always going to be setbacks or unforeseen events which will require you to take detours, double back, or in rare fortunate circumstances, jump ahead.

Rather than planning out your entire career path and inflexible professional goal decades in advance, get an idea of where you’d like to end up which is open to interpretation and change. More importantly, understand that there are numerous paths to get there, wherever “there” is.

Always keep learning, as well. The landscape of the job market and the resume skills needed to succeed in your niche and toward your career goals are shifting faster than ever.

Similar to a life of constant learning, make sure you don’t stop networking. either. One of the requirements for career path success is to connect and nurture professional relationships. Not only do these contacts put a bit of funinto the everyday stress of your work life, but one of them might just be the person to help you get in the door of your dream job!

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四、Blank Filling

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[A] differ	[B] essential	[C] globalized	[D] establish
[E] exist	[F] years	[G] geography	[H] intercultural
[I] contexts	[J]understanding	[K] centuries	[L] build

You have most likely heard this many times: We are living in a(n) world. While people have been interacting with others across cultures for ，more people are doing sotoday than in the past. And in today’s global business world, many will find themselves interacting where communication skills are very important.

First, developing intercultural understanding is if we want to communicate successfully when conducting businessin a foreign country. Besides, developing intercultural communication skills is necessary to good interpersonal relations with people and to communicate effectively when cultural differences .

But before we discuss intercultural communication skills, we need to define culture. The word “culture” can mean different things in different . For example, how would you define Chinese culture and Western culture? How would that definition for a Chinese citizen abroad or at home? When we talk about culture, are we talking about national culture, ethnic culture, or institutional culture? What is the role of in defining culture? What about values and beliefs? As you may guess, it is not always easy to define culture because most cultures are complex and change over time. Therefore, it is difficult to provide a generalized definition. Nevertheless, it’s still important for us to have some ideas about what the word “culture” means.

As culture is complex, it is dangerous to overgeneralize when we try to identify cultural patterns. Having a(n) of the complexity of cultures and cultural patterns is important if we are to develop intercultural communication skills.