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Unit Five Health
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
1. In the boxes below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following
sentences with them. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers: 1) familiarize 2) prejudice 3) appealing 4) accelerated 5) threats 6) monitor 7) isolate 8) guarantee 9) infected 10) ignorance 11) was … equipped 12) processed 13) sponsor 14) resume 15) issued 16) contracted
2. In the boxes below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you know how to use
them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) take advantage of 2) by contrast
3) make room for 4) bring … to an end 5) at …best
6) have attributed … to 7) at risk 8) set aside
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
1. Cross out the verb that CANNOT go together with the target word or expression in the circle. ▇Answers:
The word to be crossed out
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a. process b. fulfil a. operate d. subtract c. accelerate d. contract c. coordinate b. exercise
2. Study the prefix “self-”, and put down the Chinese meaning after each given word.
▇Answers: self-centred a . 自我中心的，自私的 self-conscious a. (过于在乎别人的看法等而) 忸怩的；自觉的 self-confident a . 自信的 self-evident a. 显而易见的 self-discipline n . 自律，自我约束 self-esteem n. 自尊 (心)，自信 self-image n. 自我形象 self-pity n. 自怜
Now translate the Chinese given in brackets into English with words from the above list. ▇Answers:
1) feel very self-conscious about their appearance
2) need plenty of self-discipline to fight against laziness 3) couldn’t help admiring the self-confident way 4) becoming ever more self-centred 5) may seem self-evident
6) burying/indulging themselves in self-pity 7) a blow to his self-esteem 8) have a poor self-image
Grammar in Context
Observe the following sentences from both Text A and Text B, paying special attention to the anticipatory (先行词) “it” . Then do the following two tasks.
Task 1: Examine each of the following sentences and underline the real object or subject that is replaced by it.
▇Answers for reference:
1) to reach an agreement in such a delicate situation 2) the way he keeps changing his mind 3) that perhaps he was lying 4) to be asked to speak here
5) buying so much food when the children are all away
Task 2: Complete the following sentences, using it as an anticipatory. ▇ Answers for reference:
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It is disappointing
I find it useless /pointless
It is not possible/ It is impossible They kept it a secret/ kept it quiet It is still not clear
Cloze
▇ Complete the following passage with words chosen from this unit. The initial letter of each is given.
▆ Answers: 1) threat 2) at risk 3) infected 4) prejudice 5) isolated 6) contracted 7) shelter 8) grieve 9) along 10) pathway 11) issue 12) bring 13) evil
14) concern ourselves with 15) support
Translation
1. Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in brackets.
▆ Answers for reference:
1) Owing to ignorance of AIDS, people used to label HIV infected/carriers/victims as evils.
2) The campaign of Knowing More About AIDS needs to be carried on, and for/at this stage the emphasis
needs to be put on the way (how) the disease is contracted.
3) We appeal to the young earnestly: Take care of your health, with which you’ll be best equipped to
handle any tough problems in your life.
4) The leading scientists will be meeting in Geneva on Friday to discuss problems largely caused by the
fierce competition in modern society.
5) His fear of heights was attributed to an extremely painful experience in his childhood. He was once
forced to stand alone on the 10-meter diving board for up to 10 minutes.
6) We believe that with the newly issued document on improving the medical system in rural areas, the era
is to be brought to an end when such areas are always short of doctors and medicines.
2. Translate the following paragraph into English, using the words and expressions in the box below. ▇ Answers for reference:
We all want to be healthy, to be at our best when handling tough challenges. There has never been a lack of good advice on health. For example, eat a balanced diet, get enough sleep, and set aside some time every week for exercise. Chronobiology, a new science, has provided us with a new approach to achieving peak efficiency. It is to coordinate our daily activities with our biological capacities. We plot on graph paper six readings of our temperature taken at four-hour intervals throughout a day, and familiarize ourselves with such information as when our body temperature begins to rise, when it reaches its peak/the highest point, and when
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the bottom/the lowest point appears. Then, we plan our daily activities by following the instructions given by chronobiology authorities. For instance, we tackle the most demanding physical work when our temperature is the highest. By contrast, we pursue mental activities like reading and reflection when our temperature is falling. In this way, what we actually do coincides with our body’s natural rhythms and we achieve our best as predicted.
Theme-Related Writing
▇ Do either of the following two tasks after class.
1. Write an essay entitled “AIDS across the Earth”. You can refer to the following outline for your writing.
Sample essay for Task 1:
AIDS Across the Earth
AIDS has killed and is threatening to kill millions all across the earth. Several million infections are reported by WHO each year. The virus does not care whether you are black or white, male or female, young or old. It will attack you as long as you are a human. Today, AIDS has become the leading killer of young adults and is turning the children whose parents suffer the disease into orphans. It is no exaggeration to say that we live under the shadow of AIDS.
There are several possible causes for such a situation: unsafe sexual intercourse; sharing or reusing contaminated needles; transfusion of contaminated blood or blood products; an infected person’s pregnancy, giving birth and breastfeeding, etc. Unfortunately, our ignorance, prejudice and silence have carried the situation to a desperate extreme. Patients are isolated or treated as outcasts by their families and their communities. AIDS victims feel ashamed to be identified as such and try hard to hide their disease. For this reason, they cannot get immediate medical treatment. Our harmful attitudes towards the disease and its victims have actually placed more people at risk.
In our fight against this deadly disease, we should educate people on how to avoid being infected with the disease and how to lead a healthy and secure life and, more importantly, how to treat AIDS patients properly. Only in this way can we really bring AIDS under control. (236 words)
2. The following is an excerpt from an article in The Guardian. Make comments on the news.
▆ Sample essay for Task 2:
Why Do Young Adults Kill Themselves?
Young adults are in the prime of their lives and are supposed to pursue their dreams and enjoy themselves. Yet it was reported in The Guardian that suicide is the main cause of death among young adults in China. Why have so many young people ended their lives?
Three factors are thought to account for the high suicide rate: increasing stress, loneliness and a lack of medical support for depression. The most pressing one, I think, is stress. Take my college life for example. From the first day I entered the university, I have been living under pressure. I used to worry that I could not quite fit into campus life; I also feared that I might not catch up with my classmates in my studies or could not live up to my parents’ expectations. Now I am deeply concerned about whether I can find a desirable job after graduation. Endless pressures give rise to stress. Loneliness is another problem. Many young people find they just feel helpless when they are suffering intolerable sadness or frustration.
Suicide is a great tragedy, especially for the young. If we can find ways to relieve them of their stress and offer timely help, we may save many young lives. (206 words)
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Unit Six Happiness
Enhance Your Language Awareness
Words in Action
▆ Working with Words and Expressions
3. In the box below are some of the words you have learned in this unit. Complete the following sentences
with them. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers: 1) inform 2) envious 3) attractive 4) snatched 5) is soaring 6) interpret
7) was substituted 8) spiritual 9) trivial 10) temporary 11) scales 12) cultivate 13) extravagant 14) purchase
4. In the box below are some of the expressions you have learned in this unit. Do you understand their
meanings? Do you know how to use them in the proper context? Now check for yourself by doing the blank-filling exercise. Change the form where necessary.
▆ Answers:
1) work out
2) have a clear conscience 3) other than 4) fact of life 5) On the contrary 6) cried over 7) drop by 8) show off
9) looked down on 10) crossed, off 11) wore out
12) has a great deal to do with
▆ Increasing Your Word Power
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