5. Key words and phrases
(1) pharmacy error/drug dispensing error (8)medical vendor (2) prescription (9) submit to (3) dose (10) oversight (4) awry (11) counsel (5) churn out (12) pharmacist (6) be attributed to (13) adverse effect (7) fatal (14) dearth
6. Language Notes
1. The new prescription that her mother, Peggie, had gotten filled at the Rite Aid in Rock Hill, S.C., was for Ritalin, a drug used to treat attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.
（新处方上开的药是\利他林\，这是她母亲佩吉在南卡罗来纳州洛克山的\莱特相助\药店配的药，一种用来治疗注意力亢奋/不足的药。）
Prescription: an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment. e.g. He scribbled a prescription for tranquillizer.
2. The pharmacy industry insists that worries over error rates are overblown. (配药业坚持认为对出错率的担忧被过分渲染。) Overblown: excessively inflated or pretentious. e.g. a world of overblown egos.
3. These third-party payers are imposing ever-lower reimbursement rates on pharmacies, which must churn out a high volume of prescriptions to keep profit margins up.
(这些第三方付款者使配药业得到的付还率持续走低，这必然造成为保持利润增长而大量配药。)
Churn something out: produce something routinely or mechanically, especially in large quantities.
e.g. Artists continued to churn out uninteresting works.
4. Against this backdrop, too many people are taking the prescription transaction for granted.
(在这种背景下，有太多的人想当然地看待配药。)
Backdrop: the setting or background for a scene, effect, or situation.
e.g. The conference took place against a backdrop of increasing diplomatic activities.
5.And there's no dearth of homework: new drugs are pouring into the market, stimulated by a 1992 program shortening the FDA's drug-approval times. (而且，家庭作业是不会少的：在1992年缩减FDA药品批准时间的项目的促动下，
新的药品就如洪水般涌入了市场。) Dearth: a scarcity of lack of something. e.g. There is a dearth of evidence.
6. Nevada's board of pharmacy reprimanded Paxton's pharmacist, saying he should have warned her of the potential for allergic reaction.
(内华达配药业委员会对帕克斯顿的药剂师进行了斥责，认为他应该警告病人此药有可能导致过敏反应。)
Reprimand: rebuke, especially officially.
e.g. Officials were reprimanded or dismissed for poor work.
7. A jury levied an $810 000 judgment against the pharmacy. (陪审团判决药店赔偿81万美金。) Levy: impose a tax, fee, or fine.
e.g. There will be powers to levy the owners.
8. Of the 48 pharmacies using computers to flag adverse interactions, 29 percent had programs that failed to issue an alert.
(在48家使用计算机指明副作用的药店中，有29%的药店的程序没能给予警告。) Flag: mark for attention.
e.g. Problems often flag the need for organizational change.
9. Include over-the-counter pain or cold remedies, vitamins and herbal supplements. (这包括去痛和感冒药、维他命以及草本补给品等非处方药。)
Over-the-counter: by ordinary retail purchase, with no need for prescription or license.
e.g. over-the-counter medicines
7. Questions for discussion
(1)What has resulted in pharmacy errors? What are the consequences of pharmacy errors?
(2) How can you protect yourself from pharmacy errors? And do you agree with the conclusion,” the ultimate responsibility of protecting himself rests with the consumer”? Why?
8.Exercises about the text 9..Fast Reading& Exercises
VI Homework.
1. Home reading: Hidden Dangers of Over the Counter Drugs 2.Preview Unit 7
Unit 7 A Room of One’s own
Ⅰ Objectives 13. Understanding the text 14. Mastery of some language points
3. Learning something about the author Virginia Woolf 4. Learning something about feminist movement
5. Learning something about women’s status in Britain
Ⅱ Key points
1. Better understanding of the text
2. Mastery of some difficult language points 3. Learning women’s status in British society Ⅲ Difficult points 1. Students may have difficulty in understanding the themes, motifs and symbols in the book.
2. Students might have difficulty in some of the words and phrases. 3. Students may think that women are equal to men in Britain. IV Time Arrangement ? About two periods of class will be used for the analysis and discussion of the
passage itself.
Total class hours: three periods V Teaching procedures 1. Title:
(1) What does “room” mean here? (2)What does “one’s” refer to?
2, Related Information
(1)Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Adeline) Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January1882 – 28 March1941) was an Englishnovelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernistliterary figures of the twentieth century.
During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, \must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.\Personal life
Virginia Stephen married writer Leonard Woolf in 1912, referring to him during their engagement as a \1937
Woolf wrote in her diary \— after 25 years can’t be attained by my unattractive countenance ... you see it is enormous pleasure being wanted, a pleasure that I have never felt.\They also collaborated professionally, in 1917 founding the Hogarth Press, which subsequently published most of Woolf's work.[2] The ethos of Bloomsbury discouraged sexual exclusivity, and in 1922, Woolf met Vita Sackville-West. After a tentative start, they began a relationship that lasted through most of the 1920s.[3] In 1928, Woolf presented Sackville-West with Orlando, a fantastical biography in which the eponymous hero's life spans three centuries and both genders. It has been called by Nigel Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West's son, \longest and most charming love letter in literature.\[4] After their affair ended, the two women remained friends until Woolf's death.
Death
After completing the manuscript of her last (posthumously published) novel Between the Acts, Woolf fell victim to a depression similar to that which she had earlier experienced. The war, the Luftwaffe's destruction of her London homes, as well as the cool reception given to her biography of her late friend Roger Fry, worsened her condition until she was unable to work.[5]
On 28 March1941, rather than having another nervous breakdown, Woolf drowned herself by weighing her pockets with stones and walking into the River Ouse near her home. Her body was not found until April 18. Her husband buried her remains under a tree in the garden of their house in Rodmell, Sussex.
(2)William Shakespeare
(baptised26 April1564 – 23 April1616)[a] was an Englishpoet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the \Bard of Avon\(or simply \plays,[b] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[2]
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.[3] Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.
Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called \bardolatry\[4] In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
3. Warming-up question
Are there any inequality between men and women in your surroundings? Please give some expels if the answer is yes. 4. Text analysis
A Room of One’s Own (1929);(now regarded as a classic feminist work)
All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.
(1) Themes, Motifs & Symbols #Themes
The Importance of Money
For the narrator of A Room of One’s Own, money is the primary element that prevents women from having a room of their own, and thus, having money is of the utmost importance. Because women do not have power, their creativity has been systematically stifled throughout the ages. The narrator writes, “Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time . . .” She uses this quotation to explain why so few women have written successful poetry. She believes that the writing of novels lends itself more easily to frequent starts and stops, so women are more likely to write novels than poetry: women must contend with frequent interruptions because they are so often deprived of a room of their own in which to write. Without money, the narrator implies, women will remain in second place to their creative male counterparts. The financial discrepancy between men and women at the time of Woolf’s writing perpetuated the myth that women were less successful writers.
The Subjectivity of Truth
In A Room of One’s Own, the narrator argues that even history is subjective. What she seeks is nothing less than “the essential oil of truth,” but this eludes her,