Exercises ? Paraphrase:
We were invincible until the word AIDS came into my life. David and I were so strong that we couldn’t believe we would be attacked by any disease before the word AIDS appeared in my life. We didn’t hang out as much.
We didn’t spend as much time together as before.
I confronted him as to why we were not friends anymore. I asked him face to face to explain why we were not friends any more.
I couldn’t turn my back on him when he needed me the most. I couldn’t go away from him when he needed me badly.
All the emotions that I had held in came rushing out. I was unable to control my bursting emotions any more. ? Grammar:
1. Usage of any, each, all, every, some or their compounds; 2. Nouns in countable meaning and uncountable meaning ? Translation:
1. It is a systematic attempt to strengthen our competitive ability. 2. The police in this district know where the thieves hang out.
3. The agreements signed will break down all the barriers to free trade.
4. It was a very difficult situation, but he handled it quite successfully.
5. He is my best friend. I just can’t turn my back on him now that he needs my help.
6. So long as you work hard, you are bound to succeed and realize your ambition sooner or later.
7. Although he hates the job, yet he is determined to stick it out because he needs the money to support his family.
8. That cancer patient kept an optimistic attitude towards his disease, persisted in combating it, and conquered it in the end.
9. This university has a staff of more than 2,000, including about 150 professors and over 500 associate professors.
10. The concert was held to mark the 75th anniversary of the composer’s death.
TEXT II AIDS (Acquired Immuno-deficiency Syndrome) Main Idea:
This article gives a detailed introduction to the disease AIDS. First, it gives a general introduction to the disease; then the article elaborates the following three aspects: the AIDS virus, what happens
after infection and how AIDS spread, from which we get a good understanding of the disease. Questions for discussion:
1. What is the function of the human body’s immune system? The system is responsible for fighting disease-causing substances that have entered the body.
2. What fact about the disease is the public aware of? The disease is spreading quickly and anyone can be at risk. 3. How does the virus damage the human immune system? It destroys central white blood cells that are essential for human immune system.
4. What happens after one contracts the AIDS virus?
Some people may act as carriers, remaining healthy but still able to infect others. The average time for AIDS to fully manifest itself is one to two years.
5. What is an opportunistic infection?
An infection that normally does not cause disease but produces devastating and eventually lethal diseases when the body’s immune system is impaired and unable to fight off infection, as in AIDS and certain other diseases. 6. How is AIDS spread?
Scientists have identified three ways that HIV infections spread:
sexual intercourse with an infected person, contact with contaminated blood, and transmission from an infected mother to her child before or during birth or through breastfeeding.
7. Why should health care workers who perform invasive procedures be tested for the AIDS virus?
The health care worker who performs a medical procedure in which a part of the body is entered, as by puncture or incision is more likely to contract the disease.
8. What should we do to protect ourselves from AIDS? An open question.
Memorable Quotes:
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)
Mary Baker Eddy was an influential American author, teacher, and religious leader, noted for her groundbreaking ideas about spirituality and health, which she named Christian Science. She articulated those ideas in her major work, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, first published in 1875. Four years later she founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, which today has branch churches and societies around the world. In 1908 she launched The Christian Science Monitor, a leading international newspaper, the recipient, to date, of seven Pulitzer
Prizes.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born: November 12, 1815, Johnstown, New York Died: October 26, 1902, New York, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the first leaders of the American woman's rights movement. An excellent writer and speaker, she and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage
Association in 1869 and worked together to secure women's right to vote. Throughout her life, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a spokesperson for the rights of women, and her daughter, Harriot Stanton Blatch, carried on her mother's work.