Unit 10 课时跟踪检测(5) 主题阅读拓展练（word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2023-2024学年高中英语选择性必修第四册（北师大版2019）

UNIT 10 课时跟踪检测(五) 主题阅读拓展练 一、阅读理解限时练(限时25分钟) A Which's more important: Your employee or your customer? A popular business expression is, “The customer is always right.” But you should never say “always”． The owners of a restaurant in Alaska won international praise after protecting their autistic (自闭的) employee. When the employee delivered the wrong food to a customer's house, that customer reacted violently and unkindly. Even after the employee corrected the mistake, the customer continued to shout. And that same customer was even rude to the restaurant owners' daughter. So the owners “fired” the customer. Restaurant owners P．J. and Spiro Gialopsos have added the customer to the restaurant's “Do Not Deliver” list. That customer is now persona non grata, Latin for “an unwelcome person”． P．J. Gialopsos wrote on the restaurant's web page, “You would think the majority of the population would have learned or at least heard about autism.” Gialopsos said, “The employee has worked at the Little Italy Restaurant in Anchorage, Alaska, for two years. He was very upset about the angry customer.” Gialopsos describes the employee as a seriously gifted university student who is curious about the world. She adds that the employee also has “an amazing personality, great sense of humor and a strong work ethic.” “This employee is also one who will not have to deal with that rude customer anymore，” added Gialopsos. Reached at home by reporters, Gialopsos says she is happy about the positive comments she and her husband are receiving. By Tuesday afternoon, her posting about the incident received more than 30,000 “Likes” and hundreds of positive comments. Comments and e-mails came from Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Namibia and the United Arab Emirates. Gialopsos said she spent a couple of emotional days crying over the posts on the Internet. She adds that many parents from around the country who have children with autism wrote to her about the incident. “Their stories broke