高考英语一轮复习 Unit 5 First aid练习 新人教版必修5(1)

Unit 5 First aid新题型—短文语法填空A man from Korea was telling a friend about his trip to the United States.

Unit 5First aid 新题型—短文语法填空 Aman from Korea was telling afriend about his trip to the United States. The man had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago. “I studied English before Ileft home，”he said. “But Istill was not sure that people were speaking English”． His problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have alanguage of their own. Some of the business words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry. One such saying is “Get your act together”． When things go wrong in abusiness, an employer may get angry. He may shout, “Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.” Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together.” Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop acalm and orderly plan of action. It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made alot of mistakes. The director may have said, “Calm down, now. Get your act together.” Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said areform policy required that the British government get its act together. 1