AtStarElectronics,wearemakingEnglishourworkinglanguage....

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At Star Electronics, we are making English our working language. Not only in business _____16_____ with our international partners, but also for daily communication amongst our own employees. We’re having great _____17_____ with our efforts. Even newspapers are writing about it.

Introducing English as the working language is a challenge for a Chinese company like us, but it’s something we are _____18_____ to achieve. “Englishization” is, in my opinion, not just important for Star Electronics, but something that should be introduced throughout China, to improve our _____19_____ attractiveness. Other Chinese companies have the same idea and are _____20_____. This week, one of our localcompetitors announced that _____21_____ will become its business language too.

Let’s look at a success story in Asia. I believe Singapore is so economically _____22_____ because English is one of its official languages. It is a policy that allows it to _____23_____ and employ the best workers from all over the world.

At Star Electronics, we have already seen the _____24_____ of Englishization. In April, the average score in our company’s English test was 85%, which _____25_____ our employees have very high English levels. This is _____26_____ for our company’s communication as 10% of employees in our Guangzhou offices are foreign nationals. Within our engineering department, the numbers are even _____27_____; about 70% of our new employees come from outside China. And we are attracting graduates of the best foreign _____28_____ such as Harvard, Cambridge and Tokyo Universities.

Englishization has not been an easy _____29_____ for Star Electronics but we are already seeing the positive effect—our ability to attract and keep talented people from around the world. This is a process any company, or country, can _____30_____ in order to have global business success.

16.A. meetings B. articles　C. departments　D. websites

17.A. problems B. followers　C. weakness   D. success

18.A. pleased B. determined　C. allowed　D. surprised

19.A. physica lB. cultural　C. international　D. final

20.A. dying out B. catching up　C. breaking down　D. setting off

21.A. English B. Chinese　C. Japanese　D. Korean

22.A. helpful B. delightful　C. powerful　D. careful

23.A. attract B. replace　C. test　D. stop

24.A. interests B. dangers　C. disadvantages　D. benefits

25.A. decides B. records　C. shows　D. sees

26.A. unexpected B. important　C. fine　D. impossible

27.A. lowe rB. higher　C. harder　D. stranger

28.A. companies B. organizations　C. universities　D. offices

29.A. process B. story　C. agreement　D. contribution

30.A. ignore B. fight　C. remov　eD. copy

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