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‘ Unit Eight Section One Tactics for Listening Part 1 Spot Dictation Tapescript and Key Corporate Social Responsibility Once upon a time, all ?or almost all ---businesses were (1) greedy and rapacious, sparing a thought for their (2) workers or the environment only in order to (3) work out how to exploit them. Then bosses found their (4) consciences, guided (or sometimes forced) by (5) customers or critics from the (6) nonprofit world. They discovered the idea that companies should not exist only to make a profit but to (7) serve society. Thus corporate social responsibility (CSR) got its (8) start as a business fashion, and it is now hard to find a firm that has not (9) come up with an earnest(10) statement about its relations with the wider world. CSR is closely linked with the principles of (11)“Sustainable Development” in proposing that enterprises should (12)be obliged to make decisions based not only on the financial factors but also on the social and environmental (13) consequences of their activities. Issues like environmental damage, improper treatment of workers, and (14) faulty production leading to customers inconvenience or danger, (15) are highlighted in the media. Some investors and investment fund managers have begun to (16) take account of a corporation’s CSR policy in making(17) investment decisions. Some customers have become increasingly sensitive to the CSR performance of the companies (18) from which they buy their goods and services. These trends (19) have contributed to the pressure on companies to (20) operate in an economically, socially and environmentally sustainable way. Part 2 Listening for Gist Teaching tips After the students have listened to the passage, the teacher can ask them where the topic sentence is. Then the students can listen to the passage again and discuss the details of the plan. Tapescript Small retailers across the United States are facing the same challenge: competition from shopping malls and chain sto