內容介紹
內容提要本書是專為MBA碩士生編寫的英語教程。全書共20個單元，所用材料
選自近兩年英、美等國出版的有關著作及期刊，內容包括工商管理專業所涉
及到的巨觀、個體經濟學、金融、市場行銷、國際貿易、決策、管理等方面，選文
語言規範流暢，文字活潑、體裁多樣。每單元由課文、練習、精讀、泛讀、重點
語法專題複習、商務會話、寫作指導部分組成。本教材與所學專業內容結合
緊密，針對性強能激發學習積極性。上述各部分的有機組合能有效提高英語
聽、說、讀、寫等基本技能。
本教材除用作MBA英語教科書外，也可選作大學經貿、金融、管理等專
業的專業英語教材，還可作為上述有關專業人士自學提高英語的學習材料。
作品目錄
Unit 1Text: Positive Social Science
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Normative Social Science
Extensive Reading: How Social Sciences Differ from
Physical Sciences
Grammar Review: Tenses (1)
Business Dialogue: Introducing Yourself
Unit2
Text: Utility
Exercises
Intensive Reading: The Meaning of Economics
Extensive Reading: Demand and Supply
Grammar Review: Passive Voice
Business Dialogue: Appointment
Unit 3
Text: Production
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Changes in Input and Output
Extensive Reading: The Price System
Grammar Review: Infinitives
Business Dialogue: Seeing the Showroom
Unit 4
Text: Gross National Product (GNP)
Exercises
Intensive Reading: The Classical Economists
Extensive Reading: What Is GNP?
Grammar Review: Gerunds
Business Dialogue: Purchasing
Unit 5
Text: Limited Companies in Britain
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Enterprise
Extensive Reading: Companies
Grammar Review: Participles
Business Dialogue: INVITING
Unit 6
Text: Opportunity Cost and Comparative Advantage
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Changes in Production and Gansumption
Extensive Reading: Pattems and Trends in U. S.
Intemational Trade
Grammar Review: Subjunctive
Business Dialogue: ASKING ABOUT PROBLEMS/EXPRESSING
WORRIES/REASSURING
Unit 7
Text: How to Do Case Analysis
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Case Analysis
Extensive Reading: Problem Identification in a Consumer-
Products Firm
Grammar Review: Tenses (2)
Business Dialogue: MAKING SUGGESTIONS
Unit 8
Text: The Power of Routine
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Selling New Goods
Extensive Reading: An Expert Salesman
Grammar Review: Prepositions
Business Dialogue: GIVING TENTSTIVE OPINIONS/ADVICE
WARNING
Unit 9
Text: Service Products
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Bases for Competition in the Marketing
Services
Extensive Reading: Knowing Your Market
Grammar Review: Clauses (1)
Business Dialogue: STSTING PRIORITIES/GIVING ADVICE
Unit 10
Text: Sharing Economic Losses through Insurance
Exercises
Intensive Reading: The Risks of Investment
Extensive Reading: A Preface to an Insurance Book
Grammar Review: Clauses (2)
Business Dialogue: Plans and Intentions
Unit 11
Text: Advertising and Sales Promotion
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Developing an Advertising Campaign
Extensive Reading: Major Types of Media
Guided Writing: Sentence Structure (1)
Unit 12
Text: Product Liability Laws
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Cosumerism
Extensive Reading: A Packaging Problem
Guided Writing: Sentence Structure (2)
Unit 13
Text: A Vision of Workplace 2000
Exercises
Intensive Reading: The Future of Intemational Trade
Extensive Reading: Controlling the Quality of Customer
Services at American Express
Guided Writing: Parallelism
Unit 14
Text: What Is a Decision?
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Introduction to Decision
Extensive Reading: Discover What a Decision Is
Guided Writing: What Is a Paragraph?
Unit 15
Text: Culture and Subculture
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Culture, Values, and Problem Solving
Differences
Extensive Reading: Tips on Doing Business with the Arabs
Guided Writing: Unity
Unit 16
Text: Structures for Operating in Foreign Markets
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Everybody Loves a Winner - or Do
They?
Extensive Reaomg: The Intemational Economy
Guided Writing: Coherence from Transition Signals
Unit 17
Text: The Intemational Monetary Fund
Exercises
Intensive Reading: How Well Is the IMF Doing?
Extensive Reading: The Development and Functions of
Money
Guided Writing: Coherence from Logical Qrder
Unit 18
Text: Quality Obsession
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Small Company TQM
Extensive Reading: How to Start a Small Business
Guided Writing: Order of Importance
Unit 19
Text: Basic Concept of Linear Programming
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Linear Programming in Practice
Extensive Reading: Stainless Tank Company, Inc.
Guided Writing: Concrete Support
Unit 20
Text: Management and Leadership
Exercises
Intensive Reading: Universal Approaches to Leadership
Extensive Reading: Barriers to Employee Involvement
Guided Writing: Paraphrasing and Summarizing
