UNIT 8 – INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Name: Dau Ngoc Tu Anh

Student code: 11190096

Class: 15

COURSE BOOK

READING

A. READING COMPREHENSION

I.

100,000,000,000

1960s is the years that the simple standardized box was transformed seaborne freight.

8-10 is the percentage that the amount of goods shipped in the boxes has expanded a
year.

3 is the percentage that the expansion of container shipping far outstrips growth in the
world economy a year.

10 is the quantity of hour that a ship can be in and out of a port.

40ft is the length of a container in 1980.

7,000 is the number of standard containers that ships can carry.

2,500 is the price of shipping a 40ft container from North America to Europe.

II.

1. Because the costoff shipping boxed is so cheap.

2. Over the past thirty years.

3. With the Internet, operators have been allowed to cut paperwork and reduce reliance
on middlemen.

4. In the thirty years the boxes have been around, the amount of goods shipped in them
has expanded at 8 to 10 percent a year, and the industry is now worth an annual
$100bn. The expansion of container shipping far outstrips growth in the world
economy, historically about 3 percent a year, and even growth in world trade, which
runs up by 5 percent a year.

5. It was slow and unreliable.

6. It is due to the crances built specially to lift the containers.

7. No, it haven’t

8. Moving goods by container is so cheap so that trading many of the products shipped
around the world today is worldwide.

B. VOCABULARY

1.

1. docks

2. cranes

3. paperwork

4. consignment

5. cargo

6. freight

7. vessel

2.

1. shrunk

2. vibrant

3. knot

4. track

5. booming

6. to archive a price –

VOCABULARY EXTENSION

Exercise I:

1. C

2. G

3. A

4. E

5. F
Exercise II:

1. confirm

2. warehouse

3. introductory

4. regular

5. place

WORKBOOK

I. VOCABULARY

Across:

2. Dumping

4. Borders

7. Quotas

8. Tariffs

9. Controls

Down:

1. Subsidies

2. Deregulation

3. Free trade

5. Customs

6. Import

II. READING

A.

1. There are Burberry, Sanyo, Gucci. Brand Burberry is from England. Brand Sanyo is
from Japan. Brand Gucci is from Italy.

2. It is Pinault Printemps Redoute.

B.

1. T

2. T

3. T

4. F

5. F

6. F

7. F

8. T

C. c