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小贴士：联系实际生活，你是如何看待全球化的？全球化对你的生活有什么影响？

小试牛刀

What is the structure of the passage?

参考答案：

The whole passage can be divided into four parts.

I. The introduction: globalization’s dual character and its definition (paras.1-3)

II. Growing trend of globalization and the positive effects (paras. 4-17)

 A. The role of industrialized countries—the US and Europe (paras. 4-6)

 B. Increase of private capital flow into developing countries (paras. 7-8)

 C. Cross-border mergers and acquisition for economies of scale and lower cost (paras. 9-11)

 D. Companies and governments’ organization of economic unification for global market (paras. 12—13)

 E. Developing countries9 efforts to engage in a wider world economy (paras. 14-17)

III. Negative effects (paras. 18-31)

 A. Economic instability (paras. 18-28)

 B. Fear of change inspired by globalization (paras. 29-31)

IV. The conclusion: a bleak prospect (paras. 32-34)

 A. Acceptance in spite of opposition by most governments (para. 32)

 B. Possibility of implosion in case of a global recession (para. 33)

 C. Restatement of the thesis: dual character of globalization (para. 34)

学习目标

By the end of the class, students will be able to

1.Understand important aspects of globalization;

2.Evaluate different arguments of globalization;

3.Familiarize yourselves with economic terms and jargons;

4.Try to translate journalistic English;

5.Appreciate argumentative writing;

知识结构