CHAPTER 1 PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION AND PEOPLE
Unit 1 Personal Identification and People
Conversations
Daisy is introducing Sally to Smith.
Good morning,Smith.Could I take a few minutes of your time?
Oh,it's you,Daisy!What can I do for you?
May I introduce my friend Sally to you,Smith?
She's an outstanding student in our college.She speaks good English.
And also she is good at operating computer.
How do you do,Smith?
Pleased to meet you,Sally.I have heard a little about you from Daisy.
Would you like to work for two months in my company?
Of course I'd love to.
I really want to get some real experience through my work here.
Ok,please come to work at 8:00 tomorrow morning.
See you tomorrow.Goodbye!
Alice receives Jack in a morning.
Good morning.
Good morning.Is this Mr.Brown's office?
Yes,that's right.Can I help you?
I have an appointment with Mr.Brown at 10 o'clock.
Your name,please,sir?
Jack Clark.
Just a moment.Oh,yes,Mr.Clark from Universal Trade Corporation.
Would you please take a seat,Mr.Clark?I'll tell Mr.Brown you are here.
Thank you.
Hello,Mr.Brown,Mr.Clark is here for his appointment..
OK.(To Mr.Clark)Mr.Brown will come down to see you in minute.
Thank you very much.
You're welcome.
A couple talking about their neighbour,Mr.Wang.
Darling,do you know anything about our new neighbour,Mr.Wang?
Nothing except that he goes to work at 7:30 every morning.
He is quite special.
Special?What's special about him?
Well,for one thing,he is Wang Li's boyfriend.Mrs.Li has told me that.
What else?
He's from a distant village three years ago
with only 20 yuan in his pocket but now..
What has happened?
He has set up his company with about 200 employees.
It's reported that he has built a new school for his poor hometown.
A rags-riches story!
Passage
Ambulance Girl
When I became a volunteer EMT,my friends were puzzled.
They know me tol be deeply terified of sick and dying people.
If there was an accident on the road,
I tucked my head in my hands to avoid seeing blood or broken glass.
My husband and I had been married 30 years.
We loved to travel,read amd write.
But at age 52,I felt stuck in a midlife funk,cut off from others.
Passing the local firehouse one day,I saw a sign:
"Volunteers wanted:Fine/EMT."
The EMT part pointed to everything cowardly in me-my fear of death and disease.
Maybe I could help others if I did this
and could also save myself by facing what scared me most.
As time goes by,I was able to work through my fears.
Now I understand that the closest I have ever felt to God
is in the back of an ambulance.
When I rush out to help sick strangers,
I am part of something larger than myslef.
Sometimes I truly connect with someone
who I would never have met otherwise-as I did with Nellie.
One midngiht,the AIDS hospice needed help.
A colleague and I were shown to a bedroom.
Lying there was a thin black woman with wild hair.
When I was given a printout of her medical history,I thought,
this lady should be dead over ten times.She had AIDS,hepatitis and TB.
She ahd had brain surgery.Tonight she had a seizure.
"Hello,I'm Clarissa,are you in pain?"I asked.
she replied by cursing ar me.I didn't take offense.
When I rode alone with her in the back of the ambulance as EMT drove,
I reread the printout.Nellie was 33 years old.
No previous address.No family members.No next of kin.
Her whole life as presented here was jsut a list of medicines,
symptoms and illnesses.
One line catched my attention:hobbies.
Nellie's hobbies were sewing and gospel singing.
I could not sew,but I loved gospel music.
"Nellie,it says here that you like gospel music,"I said.
I expected another curse,but it didn't come.
"I really like Shirley Caesar,"I continued,
thinking of the singer's heartbreaking song
about a mother's love for her ungrateful son,
pouring her soul into every word.
Suddenly Nellie's eyes moved back and forth.
"I like her too,"Nellie said weakly.I was stunned she could speak.
I started naming other gospel singers.
With each one,Nellie nodded back,and I saw her try to smile.
I was not a singer,but I decided to pretend that I was.
It was not unthinkable that Nellie might die during this ride to the hospital,
that I would be the last face she ever saw,the last voice she ever heard.
I wanted to say something meaningful to her,
something other than"Where does it hurt?"So I started singing,
and I held Nellie's hand has I sang.
We reached the hospital,and she was whelled to one of the ER rooms.
I touched her thin shoulder.
"Nellie,"I said.She fixed her eyes on me.
"Take care fo yourself."She gave me one long last look,
and then turned her face to the wall.
When I climbed back into the ambulance,there was no more trace of Nellie.
The driver had cleaned adn sanitized everything.
"Let's go,"I told him.As the ambulance pulled out,I felt like crying.
But my eyes remained dry,like Nellie's.
Hobbies:sewing and gospel music,
I though as we glided in the darkness of the night toward home.
Words and Expressions
ambulance volunteer puzzle terrified
n.救护车adj.志愿的，义务的v.(使)迷惑，(使)为难adj.恐惧的，受惊吓的
tuck avoid midlife funk
vt.挤进;塞vt.避开，避免n.中年n.怯懦,恐惧
local firehouse cowardly scare
adj.地方的，当地的n.消防队;消防站adj.胆怯的,胆小的v.惊吓,受惊
hospice colleague printout seizure
n.收容所,济贫院n.同事,同僚n.打印件n.突然发作
curse offense previous kin
vi.诅咒，咒骂n.触怒，冒犯adj.以前的，事前的n.家属;亲戚
symptom gospel performance stun
n.症状，征兆n.福音n.表演，演出vt.使晕倒;使惊吓
unthinkable wheel trace
adj.不能想像的，想象不到的vt.推动n.痕迹，踪迹
sanitize feel like
vt.消毒，进行卫生处理想做..,具有的倾向或欲望
glide
vi.滑行，滑动
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