Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews 411

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-1

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• It is said that the United States is a country
  driven by automobiles, //a car-driven country,
  and Americans are actually a people// a nation
  living on wheels. Is this an exaggeration?//Do
  you think it an exaggeration?

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-2

• This is basically a correct observation, which
  says something about the American way of life.
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• Wherever you go, youll see drive-in banks,
  drive-in restaurants, drive-in churches, and
  drive-in movies.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-3

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• If I visit the US with a tourists visa, can I
  drive in the country?
• When you drive in the United States, its a good
  idea to have an international drivers license if
  you are a foreigner and dont have a state
  license.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-4

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• In China, drivers have to drive under a posted
  speed limit on some roads. Is there any national
  speed limit in the US.
• Or you can take a bus, greyhound is the largest
  long distance coach company, which offers the
  monthly pass. (??)

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-5

• There are dozens of airlines, both regional and
  national. Prices are not regulated, so airlines
  can make special offers that are sometimes
  cheaper than train tickets. There are also
  shuttle and commuter flights between some major
  cities that are close to each other.
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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-1-6

• Well, I have to admit that getting around a city
  on public transportation is generally not as easy
  as it is in most other countries, but is
  possible.
• It is actually easier to call a taxi company
  listed in the Yellow Pages of a telephone
  directory and ask them to send a cab/cabby to
  your door.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-2-1

• In 25 years since the first reports of what we
  now know is AIDS, an entire generation has been
  born and come of age never knowing a world
  without the epidemic.
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• On an international scale, it threatens to
  undermine countries, particularly in Africa.
• AIDS has stolen a generation and imperiled the
  future. It will cause such a significant amount
  of disease in the middle ages of the population
  that it will largely reduce the number of people
  available to carry out the functions of the
  society.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-2-2

• But for homosexual population in San Francisco,
  the rate of homosexually transmitted diseases
  fell dramatically when a serious educational
  program was put in place. People were obviously
  willing to change their behavior when they were
  made to realize how severe a risk they were
  taking.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-2-3

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• What about groups not yet hard hit? Can the
  message get to them before massive deaths occur?
• It is certainly harder to reach people when they
  dont see the consequences of what they are doing
  right around them or when the consequences are
  extremely delayed.
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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-2-4

• I think a massive educational campaign is the
  only thing conceivable at the moment that can
  help. Doing nothing about it would be criminal.
• The only thing you can do is to convince people
  that they are better off knowing that not
  knowing.

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Unit 4 Interpreting Interviews???? 4-2-5

• AIDS is a very serious disease, but it usually
  reveals its presence through a variety of
  infections, and many of those infections can be
  controlled with appropriate drugs.
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• Would mandatory testing help?
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• Thank you for sharing your views with our
  audience//readers//listeners.
• Thank you for sharing your time with us.
• Thank you for accepting my interview.

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????Business Management 4-3-1

• The following is an interview with an American
  manager of a Sino-American joint venture on the
  differences in business communication style and
  work ethic between Chinese businesspeople and
  their American counterparts.
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????Business Management 4-3-2

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• You have been working in China for three years.
  Can you tell us how you feel about the
  differences in business communication style
  between Chinese and American businessman.

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????Business Management 4-3-3

• Chinese businessmen tend to have business
  negotiations in a rather indirect manner, as
  opposed to (???)the more direct manner of
  American businesspeople.
• Eg The juvenile offenders misbehavior should be
  well treated, as opposed to punished.
• while instead ofin contrast

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????Business Management 4-3-4

• The Chinese take time to learn if their
  prospective(???,???) business contacts(??,??,??)
  are really reliable, for example, by inviting
  them to a party and socializing with(??,??) them.
• Eg achieve the prospective results ??????a
  prospective client ????????be unhappy about the
  prospective loss ????????????
• Leave oneself little time for socializing
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• The first government-to-government contact
  between the two nations,?????????,the contacts at
  city hall????(?)????

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????Business Management 4-3-5

• Americans usually act with the get-down-to-busine
  ss-first mentality.(??,??)
• the try-your-luck mentality the provincial
  mentality (????)
• The decision-making process of Chinese companies
  is generally slow and time-consuming. This is
  because most Chinese companies keep to (??,??)the
  bottom-up, then top-down and then bottom-up
  decision making principle which involves many
  people at different levels.
• keep to the original purpose (??????)keep to
  ones promise, keep to the point,

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????Business Management 4-3-6

• The American way of doing business often strikes
  us Chinese as (???,?????)very aggressive.
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• The next morning it struck me that there was no
  shower in the flat.
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• The discussions strike me as pointless.
• It strikes me that l forgot to email her the
  document she needed.

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????Business Management 4-3-7

• Well, we are more direct and straightforward than
  most Chinese, I would say, due to our different
  cultural traditions.
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• It is important for all of us to acknowledge and
  respect these cultural differences in order to
  avoid misunderstandings, isnt it?

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????Business Management 4-3-8

• I would say the American-type, or the top-down,
  management emphasizes efficiency, and competition
  among workers, while Chinese-type management
  gives priority to careful planning and encourages
  cooperation among workers, and between workers
  and the management.
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• Chinese people believe that work allows them to
  have the sense of belonging in a community. In
  other words, work is necessary for them to gain
  social acceptance in the society.

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????Business Management 4-3-9

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• It is difficult to decide which is better than
  which, because there are some merits and demerits
  to both types of management. My suggestion is
  that people of both countries should learn from
  each other and help each other to make up each
  others deficiencies.

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????Business Management 4-3-10

• I will say that in recent years, the merits of
  the Chinese way, or rather, the oriental way of
  management are beginning to be recognized by an
  increasing number of people in the West.
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• This more humane Oriental way of management seems
  to offer a great deal to the executives of our
  American industries.