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Exercise of Note-taking Passage 1 Since we arrived, the gracious hospitality which we have received has been truly heartwarming. A Chinese proverb best describes my feeling: When the visitors arrives, it is as if returning home. One of the purposes of my visit was to make new friends, but I am very pleased that instead of making friends, I am among friends. And I’m also very pleased with our cooperation in the joint venture which has been very successful: we both gained and profited, and we both survived the fierce competition in the world market. Passage 2 Ladies and Gentlemen, I suppose you’ve all read the report about the restructuring of the group’s organization, which has given rise to the problem of relocating the new group. One of the possibilities is to move all the head offices to Shanghai, and that is basically what the report recommends. Alternatively, we could continue to run the two companies quite separately in their present locations with the smaller company in Shanghai. I’m not sure how efficient the second option would be, but I’d like to hear your ideas on the subject. Passage 3 中国有一句话是这么说的，“上有天堂，下有苏杭。” 这句话毫无夸张之意，苏杭这两座临近上海的历史名城以其秀丽的景色每年吸引了数以百万计的海内外游客。 例如，中国南方园林建筑艺术之典范、迷人的苏州造景园林在有限的空间里造就了无数的自然景观。 园林的池塘、河水、石头、花朵、树木给游客带来了如诗般的意境，是赴苏州观光客的必游之地。 Passage 4 女士们，先生们，进入21世纪的上海正在迅速发展为世界经济、金融和贸易中心之一。 上海金融业的发展尤为引人注目，现已逐渐形成了一个具有相当规模和影响的金融市场体系。 浦东新区近年来的崛起使这块黄金宝地成了海外投资的热点，投资额已达830亿美元。 上海这颗璀璨的东方明珠以其特有的魅力召唤富有远见卓识的金融家和企业家来此大展宏图。 Exercise 2 Passage 5 Permit me to say again this evening: Let us act according to the principle of mutual respect and mutual benefit, to the principle of both dignity and fairness. It is certainly our fundamental interest of our people to trade and be friends with the Chinese people. We are very impressed by your modernization program, an ambitious undertaking which makes our future cooperative relationship very promising. China today, as I understand, is taking a practical and effective approach and we wish you success and offer you our