研究生学术综合英语补充课文的原文翻译和习题答案 - 图文(4)

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Key to Exercises

I. Reading Comprehension

1. The issue Akers discusses is the relationship between ethics and competitiveness.

2. When they think of competitiveness, they should think not just of seeking their own selfish advantage, but of striving to improve living standards for all. When they think of ethics, they should think not just as managers focusing on business ethics, but as citizens of a larger society.

3. Ethics and competitiveness are inseparable because we compete as a society.

4. The greater the measure of mutual trust and confidence in the ethics of a society, the greater its economic strength.

5. First, we should fortify the practical ethical buttresses; second, ethical instruction must include a demanding study of history and literature; and above all we should keep our priorities straight. 6. They are role models the honor system, and codes of conduct.

7. We should start with a clear-cut study of the past, because our ethical standards come out of the past.

8. What bothers Akers is that they have missed the humane lessons in individual ethical conduct, which can be found in the annals of world

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history, the biographies of great men and women and works of literature. 9. He thinks that the good of an entire society counts more than that of any single corporation.

10. We remember him because he did not see winning or self-advancement or even life itself as the only thing. He saw his newly born nation greater than himself.

II. Structure of the text 1. Introduction (Paras.1-5)

A central subject in international business competition is ethics. We are urged to look at ethics and competitiveness with a wide angle of vision.

Ethics and competitiveness are inseparable, they are important not only in running a company. but also in running and managing a country. 2. Body (Paras.6-23) 1) Ethical buttresses

A. We should fortify the practical ethical buttresses that help all of us know and understand and do exactly what is required of us. The simplest and most powerful buttress is the role model.

B. There are other ethical buttresses such as the institutional buttresses honor system.

C. There are professional standards and business codes of conduct. 2) Ethics teaching

A. Ethical instruction is important in a business school or anywhere else in the universities, but to take ethical examination of workplace safety, consumer protection environmental safeguards, and the rights of the individual employee within the organization is equally important. B. We should start from kindergarten to twelfth grade with a clear-cut study of the past because our ethical standards come out of the past-out of our inheritances as a people: religious, philosophical, historical.

C. The more we know of the history of US, the more sure-footedly we can inculcate ethical conduct in the future.

3) Putting first things first: keep our sense of order straight 3. Conclusion (Paras.24)

By taking advice of the three suggestions, we shall go far toward discharging our responsibilities as managers and as human beings. V. Vocabulary

A. l. ludicrous 2. endowed 3. consequences 4. conflicting 5. safety

6. count 7. falsified 8. fortified 9. inculcate 10. vexing

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