Unit 1 Women of Achievement READING

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Unit 1Women of AchievementREADING
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• Why not carry on her good work?

1. Whom does her refer to?
2. What is her good work?

Lin Qiaozhi, a doctor in womens
diseases
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Match the main idea of each Para.

• Para 1
• Para 2
• Para 3
• Para 4

A brief introduction of Lin Qiaozhi
Lins study experience and her achievement
My puzzle in choosing career
The writers decision
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Read Para 1 and answer questions.

• What was the puzzle?
• Which one should I ?
• When did I know the answer to the puzzle?
• One evening when I

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Read Para 2 and answer questions.

• What was her career?
• What did she specialize in (good at)?

a doctor
womens disease

• As a famous doctor, what was she busy doing?
• What are the purposes of the rules?
• Who needed these rules?

travelling abroad to study writing books
for
women in the countryside
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Read Para 3 and answer questions.

• Why was it difficult for a woman to get medical
  training at that time?
• How did she get into medical school?
• What made her succeed later on?

be placed second
hard work, determination, gentle nature
kindnessconsideration
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Read Para 4 and answer questions.

• Why did Lin choose not to have a family of her
  own?
• What did the writer determine to do?

devote..to Instead
study at mediacal college carry on her good work
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Read the sentences and conclude Lins
characteristics.

• It seemed that she had been very busy in her
  chosen career, traveling abroad to study as well
  as writing books and articles.
• She gave some simple rules to follow for keeping
  babies clean, healthy and free from sickness.

energetic, active
helpful
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Read the sentences and conclude Lins
characteristics.

• I looked carefully at the text and realized that
  it was intended for women in the countryside.
• It was hard work and determination as well as her
  gentle nature that got her into medical school.

fair, warm-hearted
hard-working, determined, intelligent
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Read the sentences and conclude Lins
characteristics.

• What made her succeed later on was the kindness
  and consideration she showed to all her patients.
  
• There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi,
  tired after a days work, went late at night to
  deliver a baby for a poor family who could not
  pay her.

kind, considerate
generous, brave, kind
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Read the sentences and conclude Lins
characteristics.

• I discovered that Lin Qiaoahi had devoted her
  whole life to her patients and had chosen not to
  have a family of her own. Instead she made sure
  that about 50,000 babies were safely delivered.

devoted, unselfish
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Say something about Lin Qiaozhi.

• Lin Qiaozhi characteristic
• achievement
• Energetic, active, helpful, fair, warm-hearted,
  hardworking, determined, intelligent, kind,
  considerate, generous, brave, devoted, unselfish