Unit 1 How can we become good learners?Sunday 星期日( 单元综合运用 )● 基础复现天天练 : 读写综合A. 信息归纳阅读下列关于语言学习的文章，并完成信息卡。 ( 单元综合运用 ) ( 单元综合运用 ) English is the international language of business. But an increasing①number of American companies that do business in China or with Chinese companies are having their workers learn Mandarin( 普通话 ). Michael Cheng is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur( 企业家 )and property developer( 地产发展商 ). ( 单元综合运用 )He is also in the business of teaching Chinese. Mr. Cheng is the president and founder of Mando Mandarin Online School. The school is based in New York and uses teachers in China to teach over webcams( 网络摄影头 ). China has already become the world’s second-largest economy( 经济体 )over the past few years. ( 单元综合运用 )If you want to do business or connect with② the fastest-growing country in the world ， it is helpful if you can speak its language. It is said that China could overtake the United States as the world’s largest economy in 2025. Michael Cheng says that as China’s economic power has increased ， so has its cultural power③. ( 单元综合运用 ) In 2004 ， the Chinese Ministry of Education( 教育部 )began to set up④ Confucius Institutes( 孔子学院 )around the world with the purpose of promoting( 推广 )and developing Chinese language and culture teaching resources around the world. Now there are more than three hundred Confucius Institutes in almost one hundred countries. ( 单元综合运用 )These institutes work to promote the Chinese language at the university level⑤. The Chinese government has worked with colleges and the Asia Society( 亚洲协会 )to set up programs across the United States....
