Explain the following sentences in your own words, bringing out any implied meanings.

1. Yet globalization... “is a reality, not a choice”. (Para. 2)

Answer: Yet globalization is not something that you can accept or reject, it is already a matter of life which you will encounter and have to respond to every day.

2. Popular factions sprout to exploit nationalist anxieties. (Para. 5)

Answer: Political groups with broad support have come into being to take advantage of existing worries and uneasiness among the people about foreign “cultural assault”.

3. You don’t have to be cool to do it; you just have to have the eye. (Para. 10)

Answer: In trying to find out what will be the future trend, you do not need to be fashionable yourself. All you need is awareness, that is to say, you need to be on the alert, to be observant.