Reading and Language Market Leader Advanced – Unit 1: First Impressions – HocHay
A. Read the article on the opposite page and compare the writer’s views on networking with your own. What points does he make?
Đáp án:
1. The writer appears to agree with this statement. He argues shy people just need to invite people they like to dinner and later suggest that the best-connected people concentrate their efforts on people they like.
2. The writer disagrees. Building personal networks and finding contacts is useful for recent graduates. However, most people already have lots of contacts. The dilemma is how to make the most of our existing network.
3. The writer’s view is that the best-connected people don’t appear to be manipulative, because they concentrate their efforts on people they like and don’t have any specific business goals in mind when they network.
4. The writer partially agrees here. He says online tools accelerate the process, but that high-level networking is primarily a face-to-face activity.
5. The writer partially agrees with this statement. He adds that it’s about forming a network on a mutually beneficial basis and returning favours.
B. Read the article again and find words or expressions which mean the following.
1. met someone you know when you were not expecting to (paragraph 2)
2. develop and use fully (paragraphs 3 and 5)
3. morally doubtful (paragraph 3)
4. not related to anything previously mentioned (paragraph 5)
5. when you recommend someone to another person for work (paragraphs 6 and 7)
6. move from one place to another in large amounts (paragraph 10)
7. caring about other people more than about yourself (two expressions) (paragraph 10)
Đáp án:
1. bumped into
2. leverage
3. sleazy
4. apropos of nothing
5.. (provide a) referral
6. flow
7. selfless; altruistic
C. Look at these extracts from the article and indicate where the adverbs in brackets should go. Sometimes more than one answer is possible.
1. We have enough friends and contacts. (already)
2. You have more than 150 close contacts. (probably)
3. The dilemma is how to leverage existing contacts. (successfully)
4. It is important to determine how well your contacts understand what you do. (also)
5. One investment bank had a system for asking for two referrals. (merely)
6. The chances of receiving a referral are increased if they understand what you do. (greatly, exactly)
7. High-level networking is a face-to-face activity. (primarily)
8. If you connect with your network on this beneficial basis, the financial rewards will flow. (mutually)
Đáp án:
1. We already have enough friends and contacts.
We have enough friends and contacts already.
2. You probably have more than 150 close contacts.
Probably you have more than 150 close contacts.
You have more than 150 close contacts, probably.
3. The dilemma is how to successfully leverage existing contacts.
The dilemma is how to leverage existing contacts successfully.
4. It is important also to determine how well your contacts understand what you do.
It is also important to determine how well your contacts understand what you do.
It is important to determine how well your contacts also understand what you do
5. One investment bank merely had a system for asking for two referrals.
One investment bank had a system for merely asking for two referrals.
One investment bank had a system for asking for merely two referrals.
6. The chances of receiving a referral are greatly increased if they understand exactly what you do.
7. High-level networking is primarily a face-to-face activity.
High-level networking is a face-to-face activity primarily.
8. If you connect with your network on this mutually beneficial basis, the financial rewards will flow.
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