Employers place a great value on employees with persuasion skills because they can impact several aspects of job performance. Besides, teamwork and leadership rely heavily on the power of persuasion to get things done. Without persuasion skills, employees may not be as committed to or convinced of the importance of an organization's vision and long-term mission. Effective use of persuasion skills will not only help get your coworkers excited about your ideas, it'll also help you motivate them to achieve a common goal.In order to learn the art of persuasion at the workplace, you need to understand how to handle conflicts and reach agreements. Good communication is the first step in effective persuasion, but logic and reasoning are just as important. Before you can get somebody on-board with your goal, you should help them understand why they should pursue it. Using visual aids to back up your ideas can help communicate your ideas more effectively.7. Why are persuasion skills greatly valued in the workplace?A. They enable employees to be convinced of their long-term gains.B. They enable employees to trust their leaders unconditionally.C. They help motivate coworkers to strive for a common goal.D. They help an organization to broaden its vision effectively.

Who’s Really Addicting You To Technology? “Nearly everyone I know is addicted in some measure to the Internet”, wrote Tony Schwartz in The New York Times. It’s a common complaint these days. A steady stream of similar headlines accuses the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction. There’s little doubt that nearly everyone who comes in contact with the Net has difficulty disconnecting. Then who’s at fault for its overuse? To find solutions, it’s important to understand what we’re dealing with. There are four parties cooperating to keep you connected: the tech, your boss, your friends and you. The technologies themselves and their makers are the easiest suspects to blame for our distraction. Online services like Facebook, Google, twitter and the like rely on advertising revenue, so the more frequently you use them, the more money they make. No wonder these companies employ teams of people focused on improving their services to be as attractive as possible. Good as these services are, there are simple steps we can take to keep them from coming too close. However, less than 15 percent of smartphone users are willing to adjust their notification settings meaning the remaining 85 percent of us default to (默认)the app makers’ every preset devices. While companies like Facebook harvest attention to generate revenue from advertisers, other technologies have no such agenda. Take email, for example. We check email at all hours of the day we’re obsessed, because that’s what the boss wants. For almost all white-collar jobs, email is the primary tool of corporate communication. A slow response to a message could hurt not only your reputation but also your livelihood. Your friends are also responsible for the addiction. Think about this familiar scene. People gathered around a table, enjoying food and each others’ company. Then, during an interval in the conversation, someone takes out their phone to check who knows what. Barely anyone notices and no one says a thing. The reality is taking one’s phone out at the wrong time is more than an impolite behavior because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious (传染). Once one person looks at their phone, other people tend to do the same, starting a chain reaction. Hie technology, your boss, and your friends, all influence how often you find yourself using (or overusing) these gadgets. But there’s still someone who deserves careful examination the person holding the phone. When people are doing something difficult they’d rather not do, the phone is used to transport them elsewhere. They can easily escape discomfort temporarily, by answering email or browsing the web under the excuse of so-called “research”. The truth is that we are working unproductively out of our bad habits. Personal technology is indeed more attractive than ever, which doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attempt to control our use of technology, instead, we should come to terms with the fact that it’s more than the technology that’s responsible for our habits. Our workplace culture, social norms and individual behaviors all play a part. Who’s Really Addicting You To Technology? A common phenomenon More and more people are getting addicted to some ____71____ to the Internet nowadays.Those who have difficulty disconnecting often lay ____72____ on the Net and its offspring apps. Four suspects The technologies Some online services like Facebook are designed attractively for ____73____ reasons.Most people won’t ____74____to make any adjustment to the preset devices. Your boss Emails are widely used for communication in many companies.White-collar employees check emails hourly as a delayed response may ____75____them reputation and livelihood. Your friends A check on the phone is often taken for ____76____ though it’s sometimes impolite with friends around.One tends to ____77____suit when seeing; his friends surfing on the phone. You (The users) Technologies can be used as a good excuse to ___78___ourselves from something boring or challenging.Some had habits as well as technologies give ___79___ to our distraction. Conclusion Technology ____80____ is not the root of the problem with our addition, as many other factors also play a part.

The body's primary goal when fighting a disease is to ____ (字母 E 开头) the invading microbes completely.

retrieveA. vt.给予B. vt.察觉；检测C. vt.产生D. vt.恢复；重新得到

Task 2 / Academic vocabularyComplete the following sentences with the words from the box. Change the form where necessary.dominate academia dimension integration facilitateimplication priority mechanism undertaking cooperative1 The new body is launched this month and will bring together experts from the government, the industry, and the ___ to look at the challenge of funding energy industry research.

Frequent _____ is one of the typical symptoms of diabetes, as high blood sugar causes the body to excrete more fluid.A. urinationB. ketoacidosisC. hyperosmolarD. complication

intenseA. vt.使着迷，使神魂颠倒B. vt.维护，坚持C. n.使用D. adj.强烈的；紧张的

deterrentA. n.新闻媒体B. vt.互相影响；互相作用C. adj.正派的；得体的D. n.威慑因素

3. participateA. 分裂B. 参加C. 预测D. 评判

swell [swel]A. vt.保持；维持；使持续B. n.窘迫，难堪C. vi.(使)增加，增大，扩大D. adj.显著的

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