Unit 7
思考题:
1. Do you think there are any problems with shopping online? In what ways do you think online shopping businesses could be improved? 2. In what ways has online shopping changed our country?
重点词汇: sequel start-up revolution
evolve, evolution e-tail auction consultant
bricks-and-mortar prime fusion blend
online and offline charge monopoly end-of-season zoom in on clothes
重点句子:
1. The road to the online retailing future is littered with the wrecks of Internet start-ups once seen as the pioneers of a retailing revolution.
互联网新公司一度被视为零售业革命的先锋，然而通往在线零售业未来的道路却遍布着这些公司土崩瓦解后的残骸。
2. Apart from Amazon and eBay – the web’s biggest forum for buying and selling,though it is an auction house not a retailer – most of the biggest online retailers are not Internet start-ups but traditional shop or mail-order groups.
除了亚马逊和易趣（全球最大网上买卖平台，尽管销售模式更像拍卖而非零售），最大在线零售商大多不是网络新贵，而是传统商店或邮购集团。
3. That blending of online and offline is offering consumers new ways to shop. They may research and order their purchase online, but have it delivered to a nearby shop - a service offered by retailers such as Sears Roebuck and Circuit City – so as to avoid delivery charges and
allow them to see or try it on first.
在线和线下的混合模式为消费者提供了新的购物途径。他们可以在线做功课并下单，但可以要求将所购物品送到附近的一个商店：类似西尔斯·罗巴克公司和电路城公司这样的零售商都提供这样的服务，这样可以让顾客省下送货费，还可以让他们先看一下或者试穿一下。
4. The biggest e-commerce site in Japan is Rakuten, a home-grown online shopping mall that began life in 1997 with just 13 shops. Today, it has more than 10,000 and a share of the e-commerce market three times bigger than second-ranking Yahoo Japan,according to a report by JP Morgan.
日本本土在线商城乐天公司1997年成立时仅有13家店铺，如今已成为全国最大电子商务网站。根据JP摩根的报告，今天乐天已经拥有超过1万家店铺，占有的电子商务市场份额是排第二位的雅虎日本的三倍。
Unit 8
思考题：
1. This article tries to promote a company culture that nobody worries about who gets the credit. While it is good in theory, how to avoid people shrinking from their own responsibility and letting others do all the work?
2. In order to improve group productivity, many companies send teams on team building activities, which usually invloves physical challenges such as hiking or survival skills. How do these challenges improve team performance?
重点词汇: attribute colleague credit
compromise strength conflict
commitment supervise continuous
accomplishment
bring sth. to bear on sth. facilitator unique desirable initially
vision assail impact objective recognition mould
重点句子：
1 Being the smartest, being the brightest, being the hardest; all of these attributes that worked so well in business in years gone by, now will not push you up the ladder quickly. 努力做到最聪明、最敏捷、最坚强——这些品质多年来一直在商界颇具造就之功，而今却不足以推动你在事业阶梯上快速攀登。
2 It's not always easy to be a good team member and compromise your own views for the good of the whole, but it works for the betterment of the company.
做一个优秀的团队成员，需要适时放弃己见、构成妥协从而成就团队大局，这样做并不容易，但是这种做法有益于公司整体优化。
3 You have to believe in the workings and power of the team and recognize where your own strengths and contribution fits in. You have to be honest, both with yourself and with your team members. 团队成员应当相信团队有实力、能出活儿，并且认清自己的长处和贡献怎样与团队众人人成果构成契合。团队成员应当相信诚实之外别无良策，对自己诚实，也应对团队成员诚实。
4 The most effective teams are able to solve complex problems more easily than one person can, for many capable minds are brought to bear on an issue. 最富成效的团队应当表现在比个人更容易解决复杂问题，因为众多优秀头脑探究同一难题，优势显然。
5 However, all teams must be managed well by a capable facilitator who understands that every team is unique, dynamic and ever changing.
不过，所有的团队必须有一个能胜任的协调人负责，该协调人须认识到，每个团队都有与众不同的特色，团队内部各种因素不断组合不断相互作用，团队的方方面面也在不断变化之中。
Unit 9
思考题：