大学核心商务英语读写教程1课件颜晓川 马瑞香ISBN 9787811348804 PPT u1 C.ppt

Contents Introduction to the Text 本商务语篇为说明文。作为世界著名的石油公司，壳牌公司的招聘过程对很多希望到跨国公司工作的人有很好的指导作用。作者分列了壳牌公司在招聘时涉及的环节，用词简练，描述结构清晰。通过文章的描写，让我们对壳牌公司独特的招聘过程有了深入的了解。壳牌公司通过相关的环节来测试应聘者各方面的素质，从而判断他是否适合留在该公司工作。 Business Terms 1. Shell Oil Company Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The head office in the U.S. is in Houston, Texas. Shell Oil Company, including its consolidated companies and its share in equity companies, is one of America’s largest oil and natural gas producers, natural gas marketers, gasoline marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. Business Terms 2. Fortune 500 The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and privately-held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955. Although the Fortune 500 list is the most familiar one, similar gross revenue lists of the top firms range from the highest ranking Fortune 100 including the top one hundred to the broader ranking Fortune 1000 that includes the top thousand firms. While the membership on the smaller lists is somewhat stable, the ranking on the lists may change over time, depending upon revenues and often, because of mergers among firms already listed. The Fortune Global 500 is a ranking of the top 500 corporations worldwide as measured by revenue. The list is compiled and published annually by Fortune magazine. Until 1989 it listed only non-US industrial corporations under the title International 500, while the Fortune 500 contained and still contains exclusively US corporations. In 1990, US compan