本书以听说为主线，介绍性地为读者提供一些与时代发展有关的话题，所选材料均来自英文原版杂志如英国出版的Economist（《经济学家》）和美国的Fortune（《财富》）以及其他原版教材。每一课的内容基本都配有音带文字，可以边听、边读、边写、边说。词汇练习主要是帮助读者熟悉常见用法和搭配，提高表达能力。每一课开始的引语其实都包含很深的哲理，值得仔细玩味。
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Unit One Pleased to Meet You 天涯若比邻 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success in to labour. -Robert Louis Stevenson Warming up Listen to the recording, and write down the sentences you hear in the lines below(one word on each line). 1._____ ______ _______. 2._____ ______ _______ ______ _______? 3._____ ______ _______ ______ _______ ______ . 4._____ ______ _______ ______ _______ ______ _______? 5._____ ______ _______ ______. Filling in Listen to the tape and complete the missing words in the extracts. Then read the notes at the end of each extract. (W＝Woman；M＝Man) Except 1 W: Hello, whats your name? M: My names James Li.______ ______ ______ ______. W: Hello, James. My name is Rose Smith. Just call me Rose. M: Nice meeting you, Rose.______ ______ ______ ______ ______? W: I come from Portsmouth；thats in the south of England, on the coast.
