Unit 9.Health care

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Unit 9.Health care
Reading A HELPING HAND
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Read the five sentences and the title.Then
predict the order of the five sentences.
Pre-reading

• 1.A new health care project is aimed at exploring
  and developing a new health care model for China.
• 2. The Chinese government is taking measures to
  prevent the spread of AIDS.
• 3. Millions of Chinese people in urban areas
  cannot afford proper health care.
• 4. People must help each other if society is to
  develop and prosper.
• 5. A man suffering from a serious disease was
  unable to pay for treatment.

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G
E
H
A
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Skim the text and match each of the headings
below with a paragraph in it.
Skimming

• Many urban Chinese are living on money given by
  the government.
• With a health care projects help, Wang Lins
  disease was cured.
• Our country is working hard to fight poverty and
  improve health care.
• Health care project is very important in our
  countrys efforts to fight poverty.

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B
I
F
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Listen and answer
1. Was Wanglin cured or not? 2. How much was
spent on the poor people by 2003? 3.What is
another big challenge for the government?
4.Whats the main idea of the passage?
He was cured with the help of the health care
project.
A total of 15.1billion yuan.
Another challenge is to stop the spread of AIDS.
The Passage gives a brief introduction to the
health care condition in our country, and it
emphasizes on the efforts that our government is
making to fight poverty and improve health care
by giving examples of Wang Lin.
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Read and choose the best answer
1.Thanks to______,Wang Lin was able to receive a
treatment in time to prevent the disease from
ruining his health. A. his son in college
B. the insurance for his family C. the
health care project D. the kindness of his family
and neighbors 2.According to the text, if Wang
Lin had had______, the sickness wouldnt have
caused such a big problem. A. a good job
B. a high income C. insurance
D. a good doctor to consult
C
C
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3.Whats the aim of new health care project?
A. Helping people get rid of poverty. B.
Exploring and developing a new health care model
for China. C. Letting sick people treated
properly. D. Providing medical insurance for
the poor. 4.According to the United Nations AIDS
agencys report,how many people will be infected
by AIDS in China by 2002 unless more is done to
prevent the spread of the disease? A.9 million.
B.10 million. C.11 million. D.12 million.
B
B
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Careful reading
The situation seemed hopeless.
Para.A 1.The topic sentence is ___________________
__ 2.Find out the passive words__________________
_____ ____________________________________________
__ Para.B Key phrase_____________________________
_ What is it about? How did it help WangLin?
weak,suffer, pain
Laid-off, worse, loan
A health care project
It provides treatment at half the cost or less.
Help him to be able to receive treatment in time.
Make him realize that he should get insurance for
his family.
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Para.C What is the health care project about?

• Aimed at improving situation for the poorest
  people in China.
• To encourage health care reform and reduce
  poverty.
• The largest health and medical aid programme.
• Being tested in four cities.
• Has helped over 2,000 people.
• Working with other countries to explore and
  develop a new health care model for China.

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Para.DE The relation between disease and
poverty.
Laid-off workers
Small allowance
Poor health care
No money to consult a doctor or purchase medicines
Cover the most fundamental needs.
Receive allowance
Serious sickness
Live in poverty
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Para.F Two important aspects to fight
poverty. ___________________ ____________________
___ Para.G The topic sentence is
______________________ ___________________________
___________________
Medical insurance
Health care

Another great challenge for the government is to
stop the spread of AIDS.
People transmit HIV by having unprotected sex, by
receiving infected blood transfusions or through
birth.
Para.H Do you agree with the opinion that a
society can be judged by the way it cares for its
weakest members? Para.I Whats the authors
attitude ? Is it active or passive?
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Post reading
1.In what way is WangLins situation similar to
that of other low-income families? 2.Why is
medical insurance so important to low-income
families? 3.What is the government doing about
AIDS in China?
They all can only make ends meet on their low
income, and if someone in their families becomes
seriously ill, the family is forced into poverty,
and has to ask for help from the government.
Because medical insurance can help them out of
poverty.
It has vowed to provide free AIDS tests for the
general public as well as free treatment for
those who cannot afford the treatment fees.
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Causes and effects
1----D, 2----B, 3----C, 4----A
income
1.If someones ________is low, he or she will
probably live in________. 2.If a family lives
in_______, they will not be able to afford
____________or a good___________. 3.If someone
has a good education, he or she will know how to
prevent__________. 4.If someone is______________,
he or she may has very low income. 5.Government
programmes can promote ______ development and
help provide ________for poor families.
poverty
poverty
education
a healthy diet
AIDS
unemployment
economic
housing
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Language points

• 1.take measures to do sth.
• 2.be diagnosed with
• 3.a laid-off worker
• 4.have an income of only 300 yuan per month
• 5.to make matters / things worse
• 6.take a bank loan
• 7.at half the cost
• 8.Thanks to the project,
• 9.aim at / be aimed at

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• 10.so far
• 11.make a living
• 12.cover the most fundamental needs
• 13.put extra pressure on the family
• 14.consult a doctor
• 15.keep a healthy diet
• 16.live in poverty
• 17.fight poverty
• 18.occupy an important position
• 19.as was/ is the case with sb.
• 20.improve health care

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Listen and fill in the blanks
The poverty and the poor health care of
low-income families Low-income families cannot
afford to pay for ________ __________, that is to
say, they cannot afford to _______a doctor or
_________medicine. Low-income families cannot
provide a ________ diet for their children. Many
low-income families cannot afford to purchase
_______ _________. Low-income families live on
_________ given by the government.
medical
treatment
consult
purchase
healthy
insurance
medical
allowance
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? The government encourages health care
__________and reduces _________by designing a
health care project which provides poor patients
with treatment at half the ____or less to help
them get treated properly. ? The Chinese
government is working with other countries and
international organizations to explore and
develop a new _______ _________ _________for
China. ? The government encourages people to
purchase medical _________ in order that other
measures to fight poverty will work. ? The
government has vowed to stop the spread of AIDS
by providing free _______and ___________.
reform
poverty
cost
health care model
insurance
tests
treatment
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TitleThe Little Mould That Could
1.Guess what the text is about from the
title. 1)What does the little mould refer
to? 2)What could it do? 3)What are the Key
words of the text?
A kind of chemical which was called Penicillin.
It could kill bacteria and made medical
treatments safer and more effective.
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Find out the main idea of each
paragraph.
Skimming

• 1.Health care in the past was often dangerous and
  risky.
• 2.Alexander Fleming made his most important
  discovery.
• 3.Fleming discovered a mould that can kill
  bacteria by accident.
• 4.Fleming was excited about his discovery, which
  he called Penicillin, but other scientists showed
  no interest.
• 5.Penicillin played a very important role during
  the Second World War and at present as well.

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Listen and choose the best answer
1.Who discovered penicillin? 2.It was not until
_____ that the importance of Flemings discovery
was fully recognized? A.World War I B.World
War II C.In 1929. D.In 1945. 3.When did
Fleming receive the Nobel Prize with the two
other scientists? A.In 1914 B.In 1928
C.In 1929. D.In 1945 4.From Para.4 of the text,
we can see that Fleming was all the following
except _______. A.confident B.strong-willed
C.hard-working D.kind and warm-hearted
Alexander Fleming
B
D
D
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Retell the story
a young doctor
Alexander Fleming was _____________in the early
1900s when a German chemist developed a chemical
treatment to cure an ______ disease. Fleming
began using it in his______. Then in 1914, he had
to go to the battlefield to treat wounded
soldiers during World War?, when he invented many
ways to treat____________. After returning from
the war, he went on with the search for the
chemical because he believed it could
treat___________. One day, he found a mould was
growing in some old glass containers. To his
surprise, the _______he had been growing had
died. He believed that it was the mould, which
later he called penicillin that killed the
bacteria. Penicillin was a great ________. It
played a very important role during World War ?
and as well as at present time. Fleming was
awarded ___________for his great discovery in
1945. Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin
incurable
clinic
the wounded
infections
bacteria
discovery
Nobel Prize
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Homework
1.Review the words and expressions in this
unit. 2.Finish the exercises on page 77 and page
211212.(Word study and Vocabulary)