Tham khảo tài liệu 'kaplan toefl ibt fourth edition part 41', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 272 I TOEFL iBT The reading passage may involve multiple ideas or facts and it may involve multiple definitions. Look al the following example about business and culture VWth the onset of gfcbalizackm cultural sensLvity has become an increasingly important part of doing business overseas. fo intemationai business cvtur-il sensitivity is more than just cultural awareness or knowledge a also refers to an bitty to behave accord ngiy. Berg culturally sensitive is ike having good manners with people from another culture it is crucial fee business peop e to famiferize themselves w h certa n aspects of the focal culture such as greetings social cuUccm and body language In tuvness one must not only void offending dients and customers but also carexx new ones Therefore a bek of cufcueal sensitivity is a major barrier to success in the new gjobal economy. In the above example the verb rr ezs to i a clue to the definition of cultural sensitivity. Strategy 2 Pay attention to companion and contrail. Comparison and contrast are common ways of explaining a complex or confusing idea-Sometimes a lecturer compares an idea to a similar one in order to use the similarity as a way to help listeners understand it Or a lecturer may contrast the idea with something different and explain the idea by showing what it is not like. Similes and metaphors arc commonly used X is 5ke untike Y. Mke untteY . Like Unlike Y X is. X and Y are aike m that X and Y are not alike m that . X g similar to Y. Simitar to Y X ts. X comparative than Y. In the passage from Strategy 1. the concept of cultural sensitivity is compared to good manners and the clue word i rtlike. Finally be aware hat contrast is occasionally also used to reject or correct a commonly held misconception. Well-known ideas or phenomena arc often misunderstood or only partially understood so a writer might anticipate this misunderstanding and correct it. Strategy 3 Note any details unique to the concept. T he idea or concept explained in .
