Unit 6 Psychological Health

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Unit 6 Psychological Health
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Teaching Procedures
Lead-in
Passage A
Passage B
General Writing
Practical Writing
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Lead-in

• Look at the patients in the picture and guess
  what problems they are suffering, and then listen
  to the following paragraphs and give an account
  of the main ideas with the help of the pictures.

too much pressure
failure again
Im ill again.
I need a friend to talk to.
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Listen to this

• Are you feeling really sad, tired, and
  worried most of the time? Are these feelings
  lasting more than a few days? If yes, you may
  have depression. Depression is a (S1) _________ 
  medical illness that (S2) _________  the brain.
  You may want to know why you feel
  depressed. There may be (S3)  ________ causes.
  Depression may happen because of (S4)   in your
  brain. Depression runs in some (S5) _________  .
  This (S6) _________  that someone in your family
  such as a grandparent, parent, aunt, uncle,
  cousin, sister or brother may have depression.
  Sometimes (S7) _________  events or losses such
  as deaths can lead to depression. Sometimes the
  cause of depression is not clear.

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Listen to this

• Dont wait. Talk to your doctor about how
  you're feeling (S8) ______________________________
    . If you dont have a doctor, check your local
  phone book. (S9)  ________________________________
  _ . Call one near you and ask for help. (S10)
  ___________________  . Ask your doctor which type
  is best for you. Some people need both treatments
  to feel better.

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Listen to this

• Are you feeling really sad, tired, and
  worried most of the time? Are these feelings
  lasting more than a few days? If yes, you may
  have depression. Depression is a (S1) _________ 
  medical illness that (S2) _________  the brain.
  You may want to know why you feel
  depressed. There may be (S3)  ________ causes.
  Depression may happen because of (S4)  __________
  in your brain. Depression runs in some (S5)
  _________  . This (S6) _________  that someone in
  your family such as a grandparent, parent, aunt,
  uncle, cousin, sister or brother may have
  depression. Sometimes (S7) _________  events or
  losses such as deaths can lead to depression.
  Sometimes the cause of depression is not clear.

serious
involves
several
changes
families
means
painful
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Listen to this

• Dont wait. Talk to your doctor about how
  you're feeling (S8) ______________________________
  ______
• __________________________________________ If you
  dont have a doctor, check your local phone book.
  (S9)  __________________________________________
  ________________________________________Call one
  near you and ask for help. (S10)
  ___________________ ______________________________
  __________________.Ask your doctor which type is
  best for you. Some people need both treatments to
  feel better.

Get a medical checkup to rule out any other
illnesses that might be causing signs of
depression.
Go to the government services pages and look for
health clinics or community health centers.
There are two common
types of treatment for depression medicine and
talk therapy
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• Think About It
• Read About It
• Talk About It
• Write About It

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Preview Check
1. What kind of people do psychologists portray
die-hard fans as?
Reference
Lonely misfits searching for self-esteem by
identifying with a team.
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Preview Check
2. Compared to people who never watch a football
match, what does the study mentioned in Para. 3
suggest about the football fans?
Reference
They suffer fewer bouts of depression and
alienation.
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Preview Check
3. Why does the author say that the fans
connection to a team is fickle?
Reference
(Because they say) "We won" (when) describing
(the teams) victory, and "they lost" (when)
describing (its) defeat.
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Preview Check
4. Highly-identified fans tend to blame their
teams failure on a biased referee or on bad
luck, rather than _____________.
Reference
on their teams mistakes or the other team's
skill.
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Preview Check
5. Is a deep attachment to a team healthy
according to the passage?
Reference
Yes in most cases.
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• Read About It
• Language Points
• Content Awareness
• Language Focus

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Passage A

• Is It Healthy to Be a Football Supporter? Why
  Fans Know the Score

Die-hard football fans hit the heights when
their team wins and reaches the depths of despair
when they lose. Scientific studies show the love
affair with a team may be as emotionally intense
as the real thing, and that team clashes have
gladiatorial power. What's going on? Why
do fervent fans have hormonal urges and other
psychological changes while watching games?
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Passage A
Why does fans' self-esteem soar with victory and
plummet in defeat, sometimes affecting their
lives long afterwards? Why do people feel so
drawn to form such deep ties to teams? Is avidly
rooting for a team good or bad for your health?
You may find the answers surprising. THE FAN'S
PERSONALITY Psychologists often portray
die-hard fans as lonely misfits searching for
self-esteem by identifying with a team,2 but a
study suggests the opposite. It reveals that
football fans suffer fewer bouts of depression
and alienation than people who never watch.
Hard-core fans also demonstrate a fierce and
unbreakable bond.
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Passage A

• It's possible to trace the roots of fan
  psychology to a primitive time when warriors
  fighting to protect their tribes were the true
  representatives of their race. In modern times,
  so the theory goes, professional sportsmen are
  warriors of a city or country fighting a stylized
  war waged on a football pitch.
• IT'S WAR OUT THERE Some confrontations on
  the pitch are gladiatorial. In this respect, our
  sports heroes are our gladiators. A football
  match, especially between rival teams, isn't some
  light-hearted display of athletic prowess. The
  self is emotionally involved in the outcome
  because

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Passage A

• whoever you're rooting for represents YOU. So
  professional footballers seem to recreate the
  intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare
  aroused in their forebears. It could even be that
  these emotions have fueled the explosion in the
  popularity of sports over the past 20 years.
• STATUS BY PROXY So, through football
  matches, it becomes possible to gain respect from
  your rivals, albeit vicariously . This means you
  can be highly regarded not for your own
  achievement, but through your connection to a
  team that wins. Or, if you like, by your
  connection

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Passage A

• to individual footballers for their skill, such
  as midfielder David Beckham, winger Ryan Giggs,
  and striker Thierry Henry.
• The connection, however, can be fickle.
  Bragging sports fans tend to claim credit for
  their team's success, saying "we won" to describe
  a victory, but distance themselves from a team's
  failure, saying "they lost" describing a defeat.
• LOYAL TO THE END A raft of studies has
  found that "highly-identified" fans both men
  and women are unlikely to abandon a team when
  it's doing

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Passage A

• badly. Anyone who's read Fever Pitch by Nick
  Hornby knows that this is true of the ardent
  Arsenal fan. Not only that, they tend to blame
  their team's failures on a biased referee or on
  bad luck, rather than on Arsenal's mistakes or
  the other team's skill. It's not surprising that
  these avid fans get more psychologically aroused
  at games and spend more money on tickets and
  merchandise.
• IS TESTOSTERONE A FACTOR? Testosterone
  levels in male fans rise markedly after a victory
  but drop just as sharply after a defeat.
  Apparently the same pattern

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Passage A

• has been documented in male animals who fight
  over a female. Biologists think that the human
  animal may have evolved this way to end conflicts
  quickly. If so, it provides an interesting
  biological explanation of football hooliganism
  after big matches. Science backs up this theory.
  Testosterone levels were measured in 21 Italian
  and Brazilian men in Atlanta before and after
  Brazil's victory over Italy in soccer's 1994
  World Cup. The Brazilians' testosterone rose 28
  per cent on average, while the Italians' levels
  dropped 27 per cent.
• CAN BEING A FAN DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH?

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Passage A

• Yes, it can. Indeed it can be fatal. The tension
  felt by football fans during penalty shoot-outs
  can trigger heart attacks and strokes in male
  spectators. On the day Holland lost to France in
  Euro 96, deaths there from heart attacks and
  strokes rose by 50 per cent.
• GROUP IDENTITYBeing an ardent fan could be
  simply the desire to belong to a group or a
  society a need once answered by religion and
  politics. This explains why some fans remain
  loyal through thick and thin, and despite the
  repeated failure of their teams. Surrounding

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Passage A

• yourself at a match with people who so clearly
  espouse your own enthusiasms, and identifying
  your tribal membership with hats, scarves ,
  Mexican waves and songs, makes you feel you
  belong as little else does. What's more, you're
  part of a group where no questions are asked,
  explanations are unnecessary and where you can
  always rely on support. With so many traditional
  institutions like religion and family beginning
  to break down, the football crowd is the perfect
  family.
• A HEALTHIER OUTLOOK?

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Passage A

• In most cases, a deep attachment to a team is
  healthy. Several studies show that an intense
  interest in a team can stave off depression and
  foster feelings of self-worth and belonging. That
  applies to all ardent sports fans. All human
  beings including football fans share the
  basic psychological need to belong. Without
  religion, without family, something has to answer
  that need. Today football, above all other
  sports, fills that crucial void.

(870 words)
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• World Cup

World Cup, formally FIFA WORLD CUP, in
association football (soccer), trophy that
symbolizes the world championship. The first
competition for the cup was organized in 1930 by
the Fédération International de Football
Association (FIFA) and was won by Uruguay. Held
every four years since that time, Unlike Olympic
association football, World Cup teams are not
limited to amateur players. Referees are selected
from lists that are submitted by all the national
associations.
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• It's the weekly football series in Britain.

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• Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby The book named Fever
  Pitch is written by Nick Hornby.

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• Mexican wave A maneuver in which fans at a
  sports event simulate an ocean wave by rising
  quickly in sequence with arms upraised and then
  quickly sitting down again in a continuous
  rolling motion. It originated from Mexico, so we
  call it Mexican wave.

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• alienation n.

emotional isolation or dissociation

• Examples
• His criminal activities led to complete
  alienation from his family.
• Mental illness can create a sense of alienation
  from the real world.

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• primitive adj.

of or at an early stage of social development

• Examples
• primitive culture, customs, tribes
• primitive weapons, eg bows and arrows, spears

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• demonstrate v.

show sth clearly by giving proof or evidence be
an example of show

• Examples
• The simulation experiment results demonstrate
  this controller is effective.
• Can you demonstrate what you mean by that?

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• arouse v.

wake sb from sleep cause (sth) to appear
awaken cause sb to become active

• Examples
• He was aroused from his nap by the doorbell.
• Her strange behavior aroused our suspicions.

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• crucial adj.

very important decisive

• Examples
• Getting this contract is crucial to the future of
  our company.

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• abandon v.

go away from, desert leave sth/sb to be taken

• Examples
• They abandoned their lands to the invading forces.

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• intense adj.

very great or severe extreme

• Examples
• intense interest, anger, jealousy, convictions,
  etc

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• Why do people feel so drawn to form such deep
  ties to teams.

Paraphrase
Why are people so attracted by the teams which
they form such deep ties to?
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• Psychologists often portray die-hard fans as
  lonely misfits searching for self-esteem by
  identifying with a team.

Paraphrase
Psychologists often describe die-hard fans as
ones who are disturbingly different from others
and who are searching self-esteem by belonging to
a team.
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• Hard-core fans also demonstrate a fierce and
  unbreakable bond.

Paraphrase
Hard-core fans also show an ardent and
unbreakable link.
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• It's possible to trace the roots of fan
  psychology to a primitive time.

Paraphrase
It's possible to have origins of fan psychology
in the earliest stage.
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• So professional footballers seem to recreate the
  intense emotions in some fans that tribal warfare
  aroused in their forebears.

Paraphrase
As tribal warfare stirs up the intense emotions
in their forebears, professional footballers seem
to recreate the same intense emotions in some
fans.
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• Apparently the same pattern has been documented
  in male animals who fight over a female.

Paraphrase
Apparently the same pattern has been proved in
male animals who fight over a female.
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Language Focus
Language focus
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• Ex. 4 Fill in the blanks with the words given
  below. Make changes where necessary.

primitive attachment arouse achievement
abandon sharp confrontation crucial
intense soar
1. There were joyous celebrations all over the
country, with parades and the ringing of church
bells to honor the great _____________ . 

• achievement

2. Improved consumer confidence is _______ to an
economic recovery.

• crucial

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• Ex. 4 Fill in the blanks with the words given
  below. Make changes where necessary.

primitive attachment arouse achievement
abandon sharp confrontation crucial
intense soar
3. It is a ___________ instinct to flee a place
of danger.

• demonstrate

4. Later, some of his findings ________ much
popular interest in his book.

• aroused

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• Ex. 4 Fill in the blanks with the words given
  below. Make changes where necessary.

primitive attachment arouse achievement
abandon sharp confrontation crucial
intense soar
5. Psychologists believe that separation from the
parents during the sensitive ________ period from
birth to three may scar a childs personality and
predispose it to emotional problems in later
life.

• attachment

6. The issue has caused great tension between the
two countries and could lead to a
military___________ .

• confrontation

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• Ex. 4 Fill in the blanks with the words given
  below. Make changes where necessary.

primitive attachment arouse achievement
abandon sharp confrontation crucial
intense soar
7. The introduction of computerized information
systems has ________ changed management control
in many companies.

• sharply

8. Most of the students have already felt the
pressure of ________ inflation.

• soaring

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• Ex. 4 Fill in the blanks with the words given
  below. Make changes where necessary.

primitive attachment arouse achievement
abandon sharp confrontation crucial
intense soar
9. Dozens of homes have had to be _________ as
the sea has crept farther and farther inland.

• abandoned

10. The _______study of German helps Mark know
more about German culture and customs.

• intense

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• Ex.5 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

1. Go ahead with it, and we will stand by you
___________ .

• through thick and thin

2. Last Sunday evening we went to _______ the
school playground to the school football team.

• root for

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• Ex.5 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

3. The new evidence ________ my argument that
they took advantage of the chance.

• backed up

4. The garden has _________ our family for a
long time.

• belonged to

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• Ex.5 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

5. For 12 years, we've sought to _________this
ultimate threat of disaster.

• stave off

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• Ex.6 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

1. ??????????????????????(portray as)
portrayas
wonder and discovery
She portrayed her childhood as a time of wonder
and discovery.
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• Ex.6 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

2. ????,?????????????????????(fewer than)
commit errors
non-smokers
Experiments showed that non-smokers committed
fewer errors than smokers.
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• Ex.6 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

3. ???????????,???????????,?????????????????(not
but)
be regarded
Football fans are often highly regarded not for
their own achievement, but through their
connection to a team that wins.
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• Ex.6 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

4. ??????,????3???????????????????(despite)
wonderful acting
Despite the wonderful acting, the three-hour
movie could not hold our attention.
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• Ex.6 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

5. ??????????????????(rely on)
rely on
Professor Wang is the only doctor I can rely on
to save my son.
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Passage Reading
Language Focus
Passage B
Practice
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Pre-reading question

• Read the passage carefully and pay attention to
  the facts on which the author builds his
  conclusion What kind man is a healthy man?

If I have nothing to do...
If I have a degree...
If I have a job...
If I know how to play...
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Passage B
A Working Man is a Healthy Man

• OK, youre only 30-years-old or maybe
  even 40 or 50 and are already fantasizing about
  retiring. Youve got the (fill in the blank
  stock options, trust fund, rich wife) in place
  and now the only question is when. Whats the
  best time to devote yourself full-time to golf?

A dreadful thought, perhaps particularly
if working for a living has never agreed with
you.1 But epidemiological higher analyses of
every variety have long
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Passage B

• concluded that men who retire early dont live as
  long as men who keep working late into
  geezerhood. Given the opportunity to fill our
  days with nothing but recreational activity, we
  get in trouble get beaned by a shanked golf
  ball, fall off a fishing boat after a beer too
  many, that kind of thing.
• Anything that removes us too much from the
  nurturing world of women is simply bad for our
  health. Thats not to say that we dont suffer
  some ill effects from work. Men are the victims
  of more than 90 percent of all job-related
  accidents. Our highly competitive instincts also
  propel us to advance in our

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Passage B

• professions and climbing the ladder can be
  stressful (although interestingly, most CEOs are
  in excellent health theyre highly resilient,
  born leaders).
• Any job in which the tasks are slightly
  beyond our reach is going to cause stress along
  with the high blood pressure, depressed immunity
  and increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
  But, then, raising children is stressful.
  Unemployment is really stressful. Vacations can
  be stressful. Driving in Milan is even a
  nightmare.
• The point is that, in terms of the picture,
  not working, whether

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Passage B

• by choice or not, is worse for us than working.
  This has always been true, but now there are some
  modern wrinkles on this truism that reflect
  changing gender roles.
• REWARDS OF SUCCESS Work is good for men
  especially if the proper conditions are in place.
  For instance and this is not likely to sit well
  with social egalitarians men who are married to
  homemaker wives are more likely to have
  upwardly mobile careers. Thats

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Passage B

• the conclusion of the Cornell University
  Retirement and Well-Being Study, which also found
  the converse to be true Men married to women who
  work full-time are more likely to have downwardly
  mobile careers. From other data, we know that a
  successful and accomplished man is a healthy and
  happy man.
• A recent Scottish study also points to the
  effects changing gender roles are having on mens
  working life. The increased number of women in
  both part-time and full-time work, the
  researchers say, may indirectly be responsible
  for rising rates of suicide and depression in
  men, at least in the British Isles. For

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Passage B

• rising rates of suicide and depression in men, at
  least in the British Isles. For men, the
  resultant loss of status as sole financial
  provider for the family and the perceived loss of
  social status could all be risk factors for
  depression.
• Family life also affects the benefits a man
  obtains from work. After having a baby, American
  men work longer hours, particularly if the child
  is a boy. We can only guess that having a son
  increases the value of marriage and family for
  men, says Shelly Lundberg, a psychologist at the
  University of Washington, an economics professor
  who did the research. Using data from

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Passage B

• the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics, he found
  that the birth of a first son generated an
  average increase in a mans work time of 84 hours
  every year after the boys birth the equivalent
  of more than two additional weeks on the job. Men
  added only 31 hours after having a daughter. They
  also discovered a fatherhood premium that
  raised mens hourly wages by about 5 percent
  every time they fathered a child.
• RETIREMENT Research repeatedly has shown that a
  working family man

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Passage B

• with more disposable income is a happier,
  healthier man.
• Still not convinced? The findings of people
  who study retirement suggest some good reasons
  not to retire. For one thing, newly retired men
  experience more marital conflict than non-retired
  men. Your wife simply finds it stressful to
  wonder whether youve been beaned by a golf ball
  or bobbing in the ocean next to your empty beer
  can.
• The good news is that you can regain
  whatever you may have lost by retiring and then
  going back to work. Psychologists Jungmeen E. Kim
  and Phyllis Moen of Cornell

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Passage B

• found that men who retire often gain a new lease
  on life when they decide to go back to work.
• Post-retirement employment appears to be
  beneficial for their psychological well-being,
  says Kim. Those who are retired and re-employed
  report the highest morale and lowest depression.
  And men who are retired and not re-employed
  experience the lowest morale and most depression.
  
• Their study of 534 married men and women
  between 50 and 74 found the work-status links to
  morale and depression were regardless of age,
  income and health.

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Passage B

• So suck it up, buddy, and plan to work until you
  drop. Its one prescription for longevity that is
  known to work.
• 
  (804 words)
• 
  

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• Panel Study of Income dynamics (PSID) It is a
  longitudinal survey of representative sample of
  US individuals and families in which

they resides. It has been ongoing since 1968. The
data were collected annually through 1997, and
biennially starting in 1999. The data files
contain the full span of information collected
over the course of the study. PSID data can be
used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and
intergenerational analysis and for studying both
individuals and families.
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• propel v.

move, drive or push forward

• Examples
• His addition to drugs propelled him towards a
  life of crime.

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• depress v.

make sb sad and without enthusiasm make sth less
active

• Examples
• Wet weather always depresses me.
• A rise in oil prices depresses the car market.

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• equivalent adj.

equal in value, amount, meaning, impotance, etc

• Examples
• What is 5 dollars equivalent to in French francs?

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• instinct n.

natural inborn tendency to behave in a certain
way without reasoning or training

• Examples
• Birds have the instinct to learn to fly.
• When I waw the flames I acted on instinct and
  threw a blanket over them.

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• beneficial adj.

having a helpful or useful effect advantageous

• Examples
• Fresh air is beneficial to ones health.

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• conclude adj.

• arrive at by the process of reasoning infer
• on the basis of convincing evidence
• 2) finish, end

• Examples
• The jury concluded that the defendant was
  innocent.
• We concluded the meeting at 6 pm that night.

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Language Focus
Language focus
Vocabulary
Phrases
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Ex.12 Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Make changes where necessary.
recreation victim propel depress
financial equivalent nothing instinct
regardless beneficial

1. Black is a cunning man, but he has finally become
   a of his own scheming.

• victim

2. They feared that rising inflation would
further ______ the economy.

• depress

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Ex.12 Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Make changes where necessary.
recreation victim propel depress
financial equivalent nothing instinct
regardless beneficial
3. Is there a French word that is the exact
_______ of the English word "home".

• equivalent

4. Wang Lin may become a diplomat because he
has an for tact and diplomacy.

• instinct

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Ex.12 Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Make changes where necessary.
recreation victim propel depress
financial equivalent nothing instinct
regardless beneficial
5. In the Mediterranean, there is a temperate
climate ____________ to health.

• beneficial

6. You can't accept ________ drug use and expect
to control the drug problem.

• recreation

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Ex.12 Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Make changes where necessary.
recreation victim propel depress
financial equivalent nothing instinct
regardless beneficial
7. John is a person ________ by ambition.

• propelled

8. Many computer software corporations are
__________ experiencing reverses.

• financial

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Ex.12 Fill in the blanks with the words given
below. Make changes where necessary.
recreation victim propel depress
financial equivalent nothing instinct
regardless beneficial
9. Dont worry about my illness what I need is
________but a days rest.

• nothing

10. We will persevere __________ of past
failures.

• regardless

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• Ex.13 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

1. Inventors are now working on new devices that
would be fully placed, ________________ a tiny
power pack, in the patients chest.

• along with

2. I quite __________ what you said, though I
dont believe that you can put it into practice.

• agree with

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• Ex.13 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

3. Which sport has the most expenses _______
training equipment, players' personal equipment
and uniforms?

• in terms of

4. The doctor was asked to __________ the
hospital because of an emergency case.

• go back to

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• Ex.13 Complete the following sentences with
  phrases or expressions from the passage.

5. Beverage companies should ________ collecting
and recycling discarded plastic bottles and cans.

• be responsible for

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• Ex.14 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

1. ???????????,?????(in place)
in place
We dont think your proposal quite in place, so
you should give it up.
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• Ex.14 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

2. ????,??????????????(nothing but)
nothing but
the aged and the sick
When he arrived, he found nothing but the aged
and the sick at home.
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• Ex.14 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

3. ???????????,????????????(given)
condition of the engine
Given the condition of the engine, it is a wonder
that it even starts.
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• Ex.14 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

4. ?????,???????????????(in terms of)
employment
hotel industry
In terms of employment, the hotel industry is the
second largest industry in this country.
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• Ex.14 Translate the following sentences into
  English.

5. ?????,??????,????????????????(regardless of)
color of ones skin
regardless of
Everyone in this country has the right to live
where he wants to, regardless of the color of his
skin.
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General Writing
Practical Writing
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General Writing

• Write a passage based on the graph

Writing a composition based on a graphic,
we should first of all understand the meaning the
graph (table) conveys, and then give an accurate
and clear description of the graph (table). The
next step is to generalize about the graph
(table) interpret and analyze it. Finally, we
should make a sound conclusion based on the graph
(table).
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Write a passage based on the graph

• Examples
• Family Bank Deposits in Chinas Cities and Towns

Year Average Family Deposits RMB (yuan)
1985 1351 134.8 billion
1990 7869 757.3 billion
2000 3460 2569.7 billion
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Step one

• Description of the table
• The period 1985 2000 had a great increase in
  family bank deposits in Chinas cities and towns.
  In 1985, the average family deposits was 1351
  yuan while in 2000 it reached 3460 yuan. The
  total bank deposits in 2000 was 19 times as much
  as it was in 1985.

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Step two

• Generalization interpretation and analysis
• Several factors may have contributed to this
  change. Firstly, the family income has greatly
  increased and people have more spare money to
  deposit in the bank. Secondly, people want to
  deposit money to buy more expensive items such as
  houses and cars. Thirdly, banks are still thought
  of as the safest place to deposit money. More and
  more people are willing to deposit money in banks
  instead of other investment such as stock
  exchange and future investment.

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Step three

• Making a sound conclusion
• From the above table we can predict that the
  family income will continue to increase and that
  people will have even more money to deposit in
  the bank.

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Useful expressions and patterns
Describing graph 1. From the table (graph) it can be seen (shown, calculated) 2. According to the table (graph) ...3. X is much ... than Y in ...4. Compared with ...
Interpreting graph 1. Several factors may contribute to ...2. One of the causes of ... is ...3. One consequence of ... is ...
Conclusion from graph 1. In conclusion, we can / may say that ...2. Finally, it can / may be said that ...3. Therefore, it can be concluded ...
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Questionnaire

• A questionnaire is a printed form
  containing a set of questions, especially
• one addressed to a statistically
• significant number of subjects as a way
• of gathering information for a survey. The
  following is a Questionnaire for Psychological
  Survey that has been filled in.

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Questionnaire ( Examples)

• Instructions
• Almost all of the questions asked in this
  survey use a seven-point scale as the method of
  response. This means you will see something that
  looks like this under every statement

Strongly Disagree Disagree Somewhat Disagree Neutral Somewhat Agree Agree Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Questionnaire ( Examples)

• The number that you select is meant to indicate
  response points on a scale ranging from strongly
  disagreeing with the prior statement to strongly
  agreeing with the statement. It might help to
  think about the different points on the scale as
  meaning.

1. At home, work, or school, I find my mind
wandering from tasks that are uninteresting or
difficult.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Questionnaire ( Examples)
2. I find it difficult to read written material
unless it is very interesting or very easy.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
3. Especially in groups, I find it hard to stay
focused on what is being said in conversations.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Questionnaire ( Examples)
4. I am irritable, and get upset by minor
annoyances.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
5. I say things without thinking, and later
regret having said them.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Questionnaire ( Examples)
6. I make quick decisions without thinking enough
about their possible bad results.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
7. My relationships with people are made
difficult by my tendency to talk first and think
later.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Questionnaire ( Examples)
Nationality (country of birth) British Sex (Male/Female) Male Age 25
Education 16 How many years of Education have you completed? Put 12 for High School DiplomaPut 16 for college diploma (bachelor's degree).Put 20 for doctorate degree (Ph.D., M.D., etc).
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Questionnaire ( Examples)
Comments I like this kind of survey. But would you give me the result or the analysis as quickly as possible?I also like the other kind of survey such as personality survey or self-perception survey.
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• Thank you!