大学英语四(综合教程)第五单元
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大学体验英语四（综合教程）
Unit
5
Business
Ethics
Listen and Talk
Lead
in
Japanese
companies
have
started
to
refine
their
ethics
programs
and
internal
control
structures.
Some 55% of them have established a
corporate code of conduct, ethics guidelines,
compliance
(S1)
and
other
such
documents,
37%
have
a
department
or
division
dedicated
to
ethics and
compliance
issues, and 43% (S2)
hold ethics-related
training programs targeting employees.
A growing number of Japanese businesses
have taken steps to reinforce oversight functions,
for example by engaging independent
outside directors. In 1997, Sony Corporation took
the (S3)
of cutting its executive board from 38
to 10 directors while introducing the new post of
executive
officers. Other companies
including Omron and Kobe Steel followed suit, and
by 2000 about 240
businesses had
reportedly made similar (S4)
reforms.
Even so, the image of companies
portrayed by the market and the general public
(S5)
far
from
ethical.
For
example,
in
a
survey
of
students'
views
of
the
Japanese
business
community,
conducted in autumn 2000, 68% of the
respondents agreed that
while
dishonest
companies
are
making
profits
63%
believed
that
There
is
hardly
any
information as to which companies are
(S7)
,
that
companies
believe
it's
worth
engaging
in
unlawful
practices.
If
this
is
the
new
generation's
perception
of
reality,
it
means
that
(S9)
.
Certainly,
companies
whose
business
performance has deteriorated as a
result of scandals (S10)
. But such efforts are not long-lasting
if a company fears they will reduce its
competitiveness.
Key:S1 manuals S2 periodically S3
initiative S4 structural S5 remains S6 rewarded S7
honest
S8 Penalties against scandals
are too lenient S9 Japanese companies have little
incentive to tackle
ethical
and
compliance
issues
internally
S10
have
made
greater
efforts
to
deal
with
ethical
and
compliance issues
Passage A: The Moral
Advantage
—
How to succeed in
business by
doing the right thing
2. Decide whether each of the following
statements is true or false based on information
in
the passage. Write
1. You can't cheat your customers
forever without being noticed by people.
True
False
2. Seeking moral advantage is a new
method to think about business honesty.
True
False
3. Honesty in businessmay help make
profits at last.
True
False
4.
The
author
thinks
that
seeking
for
profits
may
inevitably
cheat
people
or
be
dishonest
in
business.
True
False
5. Skepticism had the idea
that
True
Fasle
famous experts may have
different ideas about business and think the
morality is essential
part in business.
True
False
7. Columbus, a character in
the Philip Roth’s play, believes that no
businessmen are honest.
True
False
8. The modern media often describes the
business as a dishonest deed.
True
False
9.
Different
people
have
different
ideas
about
the
business
morality
and
each
explains
business
morality at his/her
angle.
True
False
10. Business morality is
far different from morality in daily life.
True
False
Answer:
1) T 2)
T 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) T 7) T 8) T 9) T 10)
F
3. Answer the
following questions with the information from the
passage.
1.
What is the cynical attitude toward business
morally? And what is the skeptical one?
Moneymaking is inevitably tainted by
greed, deceit, and exploitation./Behind every
great fortune
lies a great crime.
2. Why does the author
mention The Bible in paragragh 8?
To
show that immoral moneymaking goes back a long
way.
3. How do the
contemporary media define business?
as greedy, corrupt and ruthless.
4. What do Stephen Covery
and Tom Peters think of business morality?
Moral virtue is
essential for success in business.
5. What's the author's attitude toward
morality in business?
Against the
traditional view and in favor of creating new
morality norms in business.
te the summary of the text.
The first letter of the missing word has been
given to
you.
Business
ethics
is
a
system
of
accepted
beliefs
in
business,
which
governs
the
conduct
or
people
in doing business based on the social m___values.
It has been a very popular topic recently.
More
and
more
people,
esp
CEOs
in
big
companies,
have
realized
the
importance
of
business
ethics for their
business pr
actices, because you can’t c
___your customers forever and get away
with
it.
Yet
the
traditional
views
of
business
ethics
were
c___and
skeptical,
claiming
that
moneymaking is inevitably t___by greed,
deceit, and exploitation and behind every great
fortune
lies a great crime. But today
more and more business people have come to see
things differently.
They suggest that
v___is an essential ingredient in the recipe of
business, a necessary component
of
a
t____
business
career.
So
who’s
right
?those
who
believe
that
moralit
y
and
business
are
mutually e___, or those who believe
they r___one another. This is what this article is
going to talk
about.
Anwser:
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d
ng
ive
rce
5. Fill in the blanks
with the words given below. Change the form where
necessary.
morality
quest
downright
advocated
contemporary
deceiving
avarice
obstructed
captured
conscience
1. I have to question the ___ of
forcing poor people to pay for their medical
treatment.
2. Nothing will
stop them in their ___ for truth.
3. I
think the way she’s
been treated is a(n)
___ disgrace.
4. He ___ taking a more
long-term view.
5. The
writer, as well as his ___ , was interested in the
same subjects.
6. She says
he’ll come back, but she’s
___ herself.
7. Some people believe that
football clubs are sometimes motivated by ___ .
8. He got ten years in
prison for withholding evidence and ___ the course
of justice.
9. Two of the
soldiers were killed and the rest were ____ .
10.A guilty ___ prevented
her from sleeping at night.
Answer:
1. morality 2. quest 3. downright 4.
advocated 5. contemporaries
6. deceiving 7. avarice 8. obstructing
9. captured 10. conscience
6. Complete
the following sentences with phrases or
expressions from the passage.
1. After
a few years as a doctor he left the profession and
___ journalism.
2. His
family ___ to the time of Norman Conquest.
3. It is often easier to make plans
than to ___ them ____ .
4.
In defence of his policy, the Minister___ the
sharp decrease in road deaths.
5. The
unions are ___ the government over the issue of
privatization.
Answer:1. took to, 2.
goes back, 3. carry ... out, 4. pointed to, 5. in
opposition to
7. Each of the
verbs and nouns in the following lists occurs in
this passage. Choose the noun
that you
think collocates with each verb and write it in
the blank. If you think more than one
noun is possible, write them
down.
Verbs
Nouns
to
reinforce
1.
an advantage
to
seek
2.
interest
to
build
3.
goals
to protect
4.
morality
to promote
5.
a career
to call for
6.
an idea
to capture
7.
a question
to reach
8.
ethics
to provide
9.
the theme
to sound
10.
trust
to advance
to
examine
to apologize for