有效撰寫專業英文電子郵件(Effectively Communicating Online)


　
Exercise 463
 Exchanging Information/ 資訊交流信函


I. Pre-Listening Exercise [Top]

Check the meanings of the following words and expressions:

  •  therapeutic treatment
  • state-of-the-art technology
  • advanced expertise
  • stroke-related factors
  •  long-lasting cooperative relationships
  • appears to be unlimited

  • is committed to

  • look forward to an opportunity to

  • the extent to which

  • accurately predict

  • incidence

　

II. Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play" button and then answering the following questions. Press the "Final score" button to check your quiz results.


1. How many stroke patients Neurological departments in Taiwan admit weekly for clinical treatment?
A. nearly 150
B. nearly 100 
C. over 100

　

2. What has S.W.M Memorial Hospital spent considerable resources to do?
A. exchange data and experiences in the field of brain stroke patients
B. improve continuously expertise in medical diagnosis
C. reduce the risk of stroke and solve problems that involve blood flow in the brain

　

3. How could collaboration between Mr. Push’s and Sam’s organizations be  mutually beneficial?
A.  It  would allow them to differentiate the infarction area in irreversibly damaged tissue.

  B. It  would  allow both of their organizations  to  improve continuously expertise in medical diagnosis.

  C. It would allow them to emphasize stroke-related factors leading to mortality.

　

4.What does S.W.M. Hospital’s advanced PET technological capacity enable it to do?  

A.  reduce the incidence of stroke
B.  identify abnormal sites in the infarct area
C.  determine the extent to which tracer uptake reduction can accurately predict neurological recovery

　

5. How did Sam learn how Mr. Push’s laboratory has reduced semihemisphere bleeding using coregisteration technology?  

A. while sharing and exchanging relevant experiences

  B. while  discussing  areas of common knowledge

  C.while reading the January 2003 issue of Nuclear Medicine Journal


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Post-Listening Exercise

Write a letter to exchange information (資訊交流信函) by including the following contents:

1.  Proposing an information exchange relationship

    資訊流通關係的提呈

2.  Introducing one’s professional experience or that of one’s organization in relation to the proposed information exchange relation

     為資訊流通而提供個人或機構經驗

3.  Commending the organization or individual to

     exchange information with

     為資訊流通而讚揚某機構或某人

4.  Outlining details of the information exchange

      relation  資訊流通關係的細節詳述

5.  Expressing optimism in the anticipated information

     exchange relation 表達對資訊流通關係的樂觀態度

6.  Initiating the information exchange relation

     開始資訊流通關係

Refer to additional examples of correspondence at http://www.chineseowl.idv.tw/html/correspondence/