Unit 11 The Cab Ride（课件）- 《当代商务英语综合教程2》同步教学（华师大版·第2版）

当代商务英语综合教程 2 （第2版） Unit 11 The Cab Ride Contents 2 Text A The Cab Ride Language in Use Text B The Talent Story of iPod Warm-up Questions: 3 Warm-up Questions: 1. What is it like to be old? Have you ever thought of that question? 2. Interview your grand-parents, and find out how they wish to be treated. Pre-class Task 1 4 Pre-class Task 1 Read the text once for the main idea(s). Do not refer to the notes, the glossary or dictionaries. Text A The Cab Ride 5 Passage Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy's life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. What I did not realize was that it was also a ministry. Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a moving confessional. Passengers climbed in, sat behind me in total anonymity, and told me about their lives. I encountered people whose lives amazed me, ennobled me, made me laugh and weep. But none touched me more than a woman I picked up late one August night. 1 2 3 6 Passage I was responding to a call from a small brick fourplex in a quiet part of town. I assumed I was being sent to pick up some people who had been partying, or someone who had just had a fight with a lover, or a worker heading to an early shift at some factory for the industrial part of town. When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light in a ground floor window. 4 Text A The Cab Ride 7 Passage Under such circumstances, many drivers would just honk once or twice, wait a minute, then drive away. But I had seen too many impoverished people who depended on taxis as their only means of transportation. Unless a situation smelled of danger, I always went to the door. 5 Text A The Cab Ride 8 Passage This passenger might be someone who needs my assistance, I reasoned to myself. So I walked to the door and knocked. “Just a minute,” answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor. After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 80s stood before me. She w