A: Excuse me, are you Mr. Vincent Smith from the Atlantic Company,Boston?
B: Yes ,this is Vincent Smith.
A: Hello. Mr. Smith. Welcome to Beijing! I'm Wang Xing, and I am a manager in the Marketing Department. Our company has as-
signed me to accompany you during your stay here.
B: How do you do? It's very kind of you to come and meet me at the airport.
A: Not at all. I hope you had a good flight.
B: Good. No holdups at the airport,and the flight was comfortable.
A: I'm glad to hear that. Do you have jet lag?
B: Yes. A little bit. I always get bad jet lag when I travel abroad.
A: In that case, let me see you to the hotel first,and I wish you'd get refreshed after a hot shower.
B: It's very thoughtful of you, Mr. Wang.
A: By the way, I have an apology to make on behalf of our director,Mr. Zhang Ya. He has some unexpected business to attend to and will be engaged the whole afternoon. He regrets he won't be able to meet you here, but he'd be glad to have dinner with you at 7 o'clock tonight at Beijing Grand Hotel.
B :Thank you for the kind invitation and I will meet him at dinnertime then.
