1. What type of writing is thisessay? And what’s the main strategy the author adopt to develop the body of theessay?
It is a piece ofargumentation. Abundant examples are provided to support her argument in thebody of the essay.
2. Divide the text into partsby completing the table.
| Paragraphs | Main ideas |
| 1-3 | It describes the communications revolution taking place worldwide and the widespread use of the English language, and then points out that there are indeed problems with the communications revolution. |
| 4-7 | It exemplifies that language and culture are so closely interrelated that often we find that what we can say in one language cannot be conveyed at all in another, and that confronted with insurmountable linguistic problems, translators negotiate the boundaries between languages and come up with a compromise. |
| 8 | It briefly points out the immense significance of intercultural understanding. |
