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1、1Module 4 Seeing the doctorUnit 1 I havent done much exercise since I got my computer. Doctor: How can I help you? Daming: I feel ill. Ive got a stomachache and my head hurts. Doctor: How long have you been like this? Daming: Since Friday. Ive been ill for about three days! Doctor: I see. Have you c
2、aught a cold? Daming: I dont think so. Doctor: Let me take your temperatureMm, theres no fever. What kind of food do you eat? Daming: Usually fast food. Doctor: Do you have breakfast? Daming: No, not usually. Doctor: Thats the problem! Fast food and no breakfast. Thats why youve got a stomachache. D
3、aming: What about the headache? Doctor: Do you do any exercise? Daming: Not really. I havent done much exercise since I got my computer last year. Dcotor: You spend too much time in front of the computer. It can be very harmful to your health. Daming: OK, so what should I do? Doctor: Well, dont worr
4、y. Its not serious. First, stop eating fast food and have breakfast every day. Second, get some exercise, such as running. And Ill give you some medicine. Take it three times a day. Daming: Thank you, doctor. Unit 2 We have played football for a year now. Healthy living 1. I was not feeling very wel
5、l so the doctor checked my heart and said I needed more exercise. I have never been very active, and I do not like sports. I have always wanted a pet, so my parents gave me a dog for my birthday. Now I get exercise by taking him for a walk every day. I have had him for three months now and I feel re
6、ally healthy. -Anna 2. Our teacher decided to start a girls football team and I thought, “What a great idea!” I was the first member of the team. We have played football for a year now and we all feel very fit. Our teacher is the coach, and she also takes part in the same training with us. She is in
7、 excellent condition too. - Wang Wei 3. For the last few years, I went to work by underground. When I got to work, I always felt very sleepy and I was not happy. I bought a bike in January. Science then, it has become part of my life. Now I ride to wok every day.It is my daily exercise. I arrive at
8、work with a smile on my face. - Thomas 4. I was weak after a long illness, so I wanted to exercise more. Then a friend suggested, “Why dont we go for a run before school?” So we started running a week ago. But I do not enjoy running, and when I get to school, I feel awful. My legs hurt and I am hot
9、all over. Perhaps I am too weak to do any exercise. What do you think? -Richard 2Lesson 1 Thinking as a HobbyMr. Houghton was given to high-minded monologues about the good life, sexless and full of duty. Yet in the middle of one of these monologues, if a girl passed the window, his neck would turn
10、of itself and he would watch her out of sight. In this instance, he seemed to me ruled not by thought but by an invisible and irresistible spring in his nack.His neck was an object of great interest to me. Normally it bulged a bit over his collar.But Mr. Houghton had fought in the First World War al
11、ongside both Americans and French, and had come to a settled detestation of both countries. If either country happened to be prominent in current affairs, no argument could make Mr. Houghton think well of it. He would bang the desk, his neck would bulge still further and go red. You can say what you
12、 like, he would cry, but Ive thought about this - and I know what I think! Mr. Houghton thought with his neck. This was my introduction to the nature of what is commonly called thought. Through them I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance, and hypocrisy. It will l
13、ecture on disinterested purity while its neck is being remorselessly twisted toward a skirt. Technically, it is about as proficient as most businessmens golf, as honest as most politicians intentions, or as coherent as most books that get written. It is what I came to call grade-three thinking, thou
14、gh more properly, it is feeling, rather than thought. True, often there is a kind of innocence in prejudices, but in those days I viewed grade-three thinking with contempt and mockery. I delighted to confront a pious lady who hated the Germans with the proposition that we should love our enemies. Sh
15、e taught me a great truth in dealing with grade-three thinkers; because of her, I no longer dismiss lightly a mental process which for nine-tenths of the population is the nearest they will ever get to thought. They have immense solidarity. We had better respect them, for we are outnumbered and surr
16、ounded. A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.UNIT 2 Spring Sowing It was still dark when Martin Delaney and his wife Mary got up. Martin stood in his shirt by the window, rubbing his eyes and yawning, while
