新核心大学英语读写教程第二册答案 3.pptVIP

Unit 3 Gender Differences * * Watch the clip again and answer the following questions. Psychologist Roger Fillingim of the University of Florida discusses the differences between men and women in feeling pain or the gender differnces in pain . Unit 3 》Part I 》Task 2 What’s the video clip about? They bring people in and they induce pain in a controlled way and then observe people’s responses to painful stimuli. Unit 3 》Part I 》Task 2 How do they conduct pain research in laboratory? When one first feels pain is one’s pain threshold. How much pain one can take is one’s pain tolerance. Unit 3 》Part I 》Task 2 What are pain threshold and pain tolerance, respectively? Women have a lower pain threshold and a lower pain tolerance than men. Unit 3 》Part I 》Task 2 What are the findings when we compare the pain threshold and the pain tolerance between men and women? They rely usually on samples of convenience. When they advertise their studies, they say it’s a sensory testing study instead of saying “get your pain tolerance tested, ” and then when people call in for the study, they explain to them in detail what’s involved. Unit 3 》Part I 》Task 2 How do they get people to sign up for pain testing? 【Script】 Check your understanding of vocabulary from the reading. Read the definitions below and write down the words or expressions that best fit the definitions. The letters in parentheses indicate the paragraphs in which the words can be found. Task 3 Guessing Meaning from Context Task Model: extremely large A immense to live longer than A 2. very sad C 3. to make someone suffer something unpleasant E Unit 3 》Part II 》Related Reading outlive ______ melancholy _________ inflict _____ 4. a death in an accident or a violent attack E 5. the amount of time that someone or something lives F 6. to go somewhere that could be dangerous F 7. the fact of being male or female G 8. unfairly supporting one person or one group against another G 9. be easily harmed o