1. Welcome to the unit & Reading comprehension
高 二 英 语
Module 7 Unit 2
Reading
Welcome to the unit & Reading comprehension

2. Different jobs: A _______ is a person who prepares and sells medicine.
A _______ is a person who takes care of people’s teeth.
An __________ is a person who examines people’s eyes to see if they need to wear glasses.
chemist
dentist
eye doctor

3. What is the girl doing?
She is having her eyesight examined.
The eye doctor tests her eyes to see if she needs glasses.

4. Different jobs:
physician
A _________ is a person who has general skill to treat physical problems.
A ________ is a person who performs medical operations.
surgeon

5. Diseases:
A common disease for middle-aged and older people. A blood vessel to the brain is blocked so patients feel a sudden loss of brain function.
stroke 中风

6. Diseases:
A disease where sugar levels in the blood are too high. Patients are unable to produce insulin (胰岛素).
糖尿病
colon cancer
pneumonia
diabetes
结肠癌 肺炎

7. Other items:
The room where an operation is done is called _________________.
____________ is the use of needles to treat people’s health problems.
an operating theatre
Acupuncture

8. The person is receiving an acupuncture treatment on an ear
The person is receiving an acupuncture treatment on an ear. Acupuncture has its origin in China beginning before 1000 BC.
Traditional acupuncture always requires doctors to insert such needles into various body areas.

9. What can acupuncture do?
Acupuncture can __________________.
relieve body pains
help lose weight
help quit smoking …

10. Questions to answer:
1. Have you ever seen a doctor?
2. Have you ever received medical
treatments?
3. Would you like to do any of the jobs in
the picture? Why or why not?

11. 4. What do people do when they feel ill?
They may take medicines.
5. What will happen if they don’t take the
right or the wrong medicine?
They may not get better or even get
worse.

12. 6. Do you know what they are?
aspirin
penicillin

13. Do you know this man with glasses?
Alexander Fleming

14. 7. What illness can the two medicines cure?
8. What else do you know about these two
medicines?

15. In 1900. The Nobel Prize. 9. When was one of the medicines first
sold as a tablet?
10. What did Fleming, Florey and Chain
share?
In 1900.
The Nobel Prize.

16. Answer the question in C1 on page 20.
1. About 2500 years ago.
2. In 1987.
3. It can also help reduce the risk of heart
attacks by thinning blood, prevent a stroke, reduce the risk of colon cancer, increase the length of people’s lives and help with diabetes.

17. 4. In the mould that killed bacteria.
5. It can be used to treat bacterial illnesses and other illnesses including pneumonia.
6. Because Fleming discovered penicillin and the others turned it into the great drug which save millions of lives.

18. C2 on page 20 Development of Aspirin: In 1900: In 1950:
sold in shops as a tablet
as the best-selling painkiller
recorded in the Guinness Book
In 1971: proved to be a blood-thinning
medicine
used to prevent a stroke
used to reduce blood sugar levels

19. Development of Penicillin:
World War II:
In 1945:
discovered by Alexander
Fleming
found new chemical techniques
to purify it
all the scientists shared the
Nobel Prize

20. Effects of aspirin Reduce f_____ fever Help stop body p_____
Reduce the r_____ of heart attacks
Prevent a s_____
Reduce the risk of colon c_____
Increase the l_____ of people’s lives
Help with d______
fever
pains
risk
stroke
cancer
length
diabetes

21. Effects of penicillin Help in treating wounds and i________ infections
Treat other illnesses including p__________
infections
pneumonia

22. Reading strategy How can we understand medical terms?
Words coming from the same stem
Words that are compound words
Words with irregular plural forms
Words composed of chemical names

23. Words coming from the same stem:
medicine, medical, medicinal;
pure, purify
chemical, chemist;
bacterium, bacterial

24. Words that are compound words
painkiller
blood-thinning
heart attack
Words with irregular plural forms:
bacteria
bacterium
acetyl + salicylic
Words composed of chemical names

25. c e g i a h f d b physician (line 9) _________
bark (line 10) _________
painkiller (line 19) _________
thinning (line 24) _________
contemporary (line 37) _________
transparent (line 39) _________
purify (line 48) _________
quantities (line 49) _________
widespread (line 50) _________ c e g i a h f d b

26. Aspirin
Aspirin has saved many people’s lives by reducing fever and helping stop p____. Lawrence Craven introduced the idea that aspirin could reduce the r____ of heart attacks by thinning blood. In 1971, Smith and Willis p_____ that aspirin was a blood-thinning medicine and a study showed that a chemical in aspirin could prevent a s____. In 2003, a Chinese doctor found that this chemical could reduce blood s____ levels and help people with diabetes.
pain
risk
proved
stroke
sugar

27. Penicillin
Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, is c_________ to be one of the most important medicines in contemporary s_____. Howard Florey and Ernst Chain managed to use new chemical t_________ o purify it to be a medicine. Due to its widespread use, many lives were saved during World War II. Penicillin is also used to treat other illnesses i______ pneumonia. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain s_____ the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work.
considered
society
techniques
including
shared

28. Summarize (E,P21) 1. invented 2. ASA 3. tablet 4. recommended
5. published
6. discovered
7. available
8. contemporary

29. Homework
Workbook: A1-B2