链典4矮降贸多大 高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 11 Is Globalization Slowing Down? . Questions on the text: 1.How do you understand "globalization"?And what might globalization change the way we live and work? 2.What are the major impacts that information technologies might exert on our life? 3.Is it contradictory to say that economic globalization is slowing down while technological globalization is going on at a rapid pace?Why not? 4.The writer says that the digital divide between developed and emerging-market countries is now more like a digital abyss.What does the writer mean? 5.Does the writer disagree that globalization increases income inequality?Why? ll.Read the following passage and choose the best sentence from A to F below to fill in each of the gaps in the passage. Last year's headlines offered grim commentary on the prospects for global integration.1) Trade ministers scaled back plans for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), sidestepping controversies over intellectual property and investment.The United States and the European Union(EU)traded diplomatic blows over free trade and the ongoing war on terrorism. Within the EU,the Growth and Stability Pact limiting budget deficits in the euro zone effectively collapsed,and political integration sputtered as Europe's leaders failed to reach consensus on a draft constitution.2)__ Before anyone rushes to give last rites to globalization,keep in mind that we've heard it all before. In the months following the September 11,2001,terrorist attacks,pundits were predicting the end of globalization as we knew it.The porous borders that made possible the unprecedented global movement of money,goods,people,and ideas were to be encircled by barbed wire and checkpoints,bringing trade and travel to a halt.3)_ 第1页共4页高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 11 Is Globalization Slowing Down? I. Questions on the text: 1. How do you understand “globalization”? And what might globalization change the way we live and work? 2. What are the major impacts that information technologies might exert on our life? 3. Is it contradictory to say that economic globalization is slowing down while technological globalization is going on at a rapid pace? Why not? 4. The writer says that the digital divide between developed and emerging-market countries is now more like a digital abyss. What does the writer mean? 5. Does the writer disagree that globalization increases income inequality? Why? II. Read the following passage and choose the best sentence from A to F below to fill in each of the gaps in the passage. Last year's headlines offered grim commentary on the prospects for global integration. 1) ________ Trade ministers scaled back plans for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), sidestepping controversies over intellectual property and investment. The United States and the European Union (EU) traded diplomatic blows over free trade and the ongoing war on terrorism. Within the EU, the Growth and Stability Pact limiting budget deficits in the euro zone effectively collapsed, and political integration sputtered as Europe's leaders failed to reach consensus on a draft constitution. 2) ________ Before anyone rushes to give last rites to globalization, keep in mind that we've heard it all before. In the months following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, pundits were predicting the end of globalization as we knew it. The porous borders that made possible the unprecedented global movement of money, goods, people, and ideas were to be encircled by barbed wire and checkpoints, bringing trade and travel to a halt. 3) ________ 第 1 页 共 4 页