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1、Passage APassage BReturn to MenuReturn to MenuUnit 6Unit 6攀枝花学院大学英语3Passage AThink About ItRead About ItTalk About ItWrite About It1. What attracts you most when you visit a new place?(Open). The people, the scenery, the architectures . Reference:2. Do you think, consciously or unconsciously, that s
2、ome cultures are superior or inferior to others? Why?No culture is superior or inferior to any other culture at all because each culture has its own unique features.Reference:3. Can we understand a culture through media channels instead of learning things in person? State your reasons in either case
3、.Yes. We can learn a lot about a culture through books, movies, TV programs .No. If you dont experience things in person you can never really understand a culture.Reference:Read About ItLanguage PointsContent AwarenessLanguage FocusThe Woman Taxi Driver In CairoHer name is Nagat.I first saw her outs
4、ide Cairos airport terminal. A woman taxi driver the only woman, for that matter, among a large crowd of her male counterparts.Do you know what it is like to arrive in a strange city in the middle of the night? Nobody, not even a ray of sunshine is here to greet you. When I walk out of the terminal,
5、 I am facing the crowd of taxi drivers milling about in front of every airport the world over. Here in Cairo, it is large and noisy. “Taxi!” “You want taxi?” I hear all round me.I feel a firm hand holding my left arm. “You want taxi, follow me,” the woman says. She doesnt ask, she simply pulls me th
6、rough the crowd. I follow her willingly. There is this moment when a tourist, particularly a woman, simply has to trust someone. We stop at a worn car. It has seen a better day, there are quite a few scrapes on its body, the tires are bald and there is a crack in the windshield. But it is a car for
7、hire, and the woman will personally drive me. I breathe a sigh of relief when she puts my bag into the trunk, locks it and gets behind the wheel. “I will drive you, dont worry,” she says.Nagat, as she now explains to me, works as a taxi driver several days and nights a week. She has another job, wor
8、king in an office, but details of it remain vague. The little old car is not hers; it belongs to a boss from whom she in turn rents it whenever she can. She has been a driver ever since her husband died some ten years earlier and left her with two teenage kids and her parents to support.She knows ev
9、ery nook and cranny in and around Cairo no easy feat. Cairo with its complex system of streets and lanes, its quarters and markets is like a labyrinth invented by ancient storytellers. Hundreds of mosques many of which are masterpieces of Islamic architecture, old neighborhoods with houses boxed tog
10、ether, huge apartment buildings on the outskirts and the Nile calmly running through it; all are part of this overcrowded city.With a mild sense of humor around a deep core of understanding of human nature, Nagat takes control of my sightseeing schedule. Every morning punctually at nine oclock, I ca
11、n depend on seeing her short, solid frame outside the hotel lobby, her round face turning into a big smile as soon as she sees me coming down the stairs. Most every day, she wears an earth tone-colored Jellaba. Her movements are energetic and she doesnt waste any time. Her determined approach seems
12、to have grown on a bed of economy, on the necessity to get as much done as she possibly can.What becomes clear to me soon as she drives me from museum to pyramid, from one part of town to the opposite, is this: she is a true exception here. Wherever we stop, be it for a cup of tea during a break or
13、upon arriving at a historical site where her male colleagues gather in the parking area everywhere, she is being noticed. Men walk up to her in the car with questioning faces. As she tells me, they all have one question first of all: “Are you a taxi driver?” She then explains in a few short sentence
14、s, and I see the mens faces soften, smile and respectfully and kindly chat with her. This scene repeats itself over and over again. I get the sense that she invites goodwill from the people she meets.Nagat is proud and independent. One day, as I find her waiting outside a museum, she is just taking
15、a spare tire out of the trunk of the taxi. One of the bald tires had finally gone flat, and she was going to change it herself. Several curious people gather around her and she receives offers of help but no, she wants no part of that. In her efficient, deliberate manner, she changes the tire, and h
16、aving done so, washes her hands with bottled water, gets in the taxi and asks “Where to now?”Should you find yourself at Cairos airport, look for Nagat outside the international arrival hall. If you are lucky, you will have a chance to see Cairo through the eyes of a woman taxi driver.for that matterfor that matter a a phrase phrase used used to to show show that that a a statement statement is is true true in in another situation or can also refer to another personanother situation or can also
