Lesson 3-- Blackmail.ppt

33. When you were paying for the highest stakes, you made the highest bid: You had to pay the highest price when your reputation and career were at stake. (当人的声望和事业处于生死攸关的时刻，就得不惜任何代价去冒险拼搏一番。) as she watched intently: TO the Duchess, it was a question of survival itself. Only if Ogilvie agreed to drive their car north would they have a chance to get out of the mess unscathed. * * Unit 3 Blackmail By Arthur Hailey Teaching Points I. Background information II. Introduction to the passage III. Text analysis IV. Rhetorical devices V. Questions for discussion I. Background Information 1. Arthur Hailey 2. Hotel Arthur Hailey is the author of a number of bestselling novels. Born in Luton, England, in 1920, he was educated in English schools until age fourteen. After a brief career as an office boy, he joined the British Royal Air Force in 1939 and served through World War II, rising through the ranks to become a pilot and flight lieutnant. In 1949 he immigrated to Canada, where he was successively a real estate salesman, business paper editor and a sales and advertising executive. HE became , and still a Canadian citizen. IN 1956 Arthor Hailey scored his first writing success with a TV drama, Fight into Danger, which later became a motion picture and a novel, Runaway Zero-Eight (1958). The sensational Hailey bestsellers include The Final Diagnosis (1959), In High Places (1962), Hotel (1966), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975). Though a Canadian himself, he set the scene of most of his works in America. Each of his books deals with one particular field of society. This is made clear by the titles of his books. It is the peculiarity of his that is of value to those who are eager to learn about contemporary American society. The St. Gregory Hotel is the largest in New Orleans, Louisiana. For 4 days from Monday evening to Friday, the hotel goes through a succession of dramatic events. With the hotel’s mortgage due by the weekend an