当代商务英语综合教程1 Unit 3 Discovery in a Thunderstorm.pptxVIP

Unit 3Discovery in aThunderstorm当代商务英语综合教程 1 （第2版） Contents2Text ADiscovery in a ThunderstormLanguage in UseText BFORD MotorCompany History Warm-up Questions:3Warm-up Questions:1. What will you do if you are riding a bike in the rain without a raincoat?2. How would you overcome your difficulties? Pre-class Task 14Pre-class Task 1Read the text once for the main idea(s). Do not refer to the notes, the glossary, or dictionaries. Text A Discovery in a Thunderstorm5PassageMany years ago, I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but strange to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Pedaling, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it impossible to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain kept advancing faster than I could race forward. I continued this unequal contest for an exhausting half hour, before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.1 6PassageThen it dawned upon me that I was wasting my strength in unimportant hurry, while paying no attention whatsoever to the landscape for the sake of which I was making the trip. The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not unendurable.Indeed, there was much to look at which might otherwise have escaped me. As I gazed about with sharpened appreciation, I saw colors and lines and contours that would have appeared differently under brilliant light. 2Text A Discovery in a Thunderstorm 7PassageThe rain mists which now crowned the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were entrancing. My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to escape it vanished. It had provided me with a new view and helped me understand that the sources of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the range of ones own sensibilities.Text A Discovery in a Thunderstorm 8PassageIt made me think, then and later, about other matters to which