21世纪大学英语读写教程 第二册第4单元B篇 课件（含课后答案）.pptVIP

4. A) They’re being held up by the traffic. B) They’re going to the airport. C) They may not get there on time. D) They expected a traffic jam. Listening Practice: Conversations 2 It was a recession period after World War II and jobs were scarce. My husband had purchased a small dry cleaning business with borrowed money. We had two darling babies, a tract house, a car and all the usual monthly payments. Then the bottom fell out. There was no money for the house payments or anything else. Text B 3 I felt that I had no special talent, no training, no college education. I didn’t think much of myself. But I remembered someone in my past who had thought I had a little ability — my high school English teacher. She had inspired me to take a course in journalism and named me advertising manager and feature editor of the school paper. I thought, “Now if I could write a ‘shoppers Column’ for the small weekly newspaper in our rural town, maybe I could earn that house payment. Text B 4 I had no car and no one to look after my two children. So I took them with me to the newspaper office, pushing them before me in an old broken-down baby stroller with a big pillow tied in the back. The wheel kept coming off, but I hit it back on with the heel of my shoe and kept going. I was determined that my children would not lose their home as I often had as a child. 5 But at the newspaper office, there were no jobs available. Recession. So I got an idea. I asked if I might buy advertising space at wholesale and sell it at retail as a “shoppers Column.” They agreed. Text B 6 The newspaper column idea worked. I made enough money for the house payment and to buy an old used car. Then I hired a high school girl to look after my children from three to five each afternoon. When the clock struck three, I grabbed my advertising samples and flew out of the door to drive to my appointments.? 7 But on one dark rainy afternoon every advertising prospect I had worked on turned me down when I went