大学英语四级教学：Lesson 7 Text Comprehension.pdfVIP

Text Comprehension 1. Main idea Instead of being an intellectual desert filled with morally inferior, greedy clowns, the business world is the thinker’s Mount Everest. To succeed in the business world, one must learn a different set of rules from those followed by the academics. Thus, the academics have an obligation to gear their teachings up to the real world. 2 Text Organization The text can be rough divided into three sections: Section 1 (paragraph 1-6): In business world, you succeed through networking. Section 2 (paragraph 7-10): Four rules you have to learn as a businessman. Section 3 (paragraph 11-13): The academics have an obligation to relate their teaching to the real world. 3. Paraphrasing Difficult Sentences 1) The best and brightest stay, goes the prevailing wisdom, others washed out. It is generally held opinion that the best and the brightest scholars stay in the ivory tower, and those who leave are failures. 2) My path through corporate America has allowed me to create a fluid, unique career of my own design. The way I entered the business world of the United States has allowed me to establish a dynamic and unique career of my own design. 3) Everything I had done to pay my dues in graduate school appeared unnecessary and insignificant—except for one crucial fact: I had spent several years thinking hard, exercising my mind into a tight little muscle. I found that the only advantage my PhD gave me was that it had left me well trained in mind and a good thinker. 4) There is less room in the margins for waste and duplication of effort. It allows you not much money to waste and not much time to do the work again. 5) Nor do they stand uncontested for much longer than a nanosecond. They are being challenged all the time. 1) Our technology-driven, globally wired economy i