创意阅读Book3_Unit4-6.docVIP

Unit 4 Words to note accumulating---5 assigned---8 cocktail---1 contracting---6 controversial---10 dietary supplements---4 formidable---2 miracle---7 mop up---9 overhaul---11 paradox---3 Understanding the text Part A: 1.d) 2.c) Part B: 1.c) 2.d) 3.c) 4.d) 5.a) Developing your skills Part A: Paragraph 1---3 Paragraph 2---1 Paragraph 3---1 Paragraph 4---2 Paragraph 5---1 Paragraph 6---2 Part B: A2. but people who take dietary supplements(especially those which destroy free radical molecules) may feel more energetic. A3. extending the human life span might well lead to serious negative effects. A4. fighting cancer, because proteins which destroy cancer cells also cause aging. A5. healthy food, low stress and an outdoor lifestyle are best for long life. Part C: You are as old as you feel. ----Your feelings about yourself are very important; ninety-year-old people can feel and act like fifty year olds if they have the right attitude to life. ----Somebody might say this to cheer another person up or to encourage the person to feel better about himself or herself. ----The speaker probably has an optimistic (and young) feeling about life. Life begins at forty. ----Forty isn’t “old”, it’s simply a “birth” into a new stage of life. ----It might be said to someone approaching his or her fortieth birthday. ----He or she doesn’t fear being forty, doesn’t think forty is old, and thinks of “middle age” as being the beginning of an interesting stage of life when he or she can do new things. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. ----Years aren’t important; preserving youthful idealism is more important. ----In a debate about the problems of aging, for example. ----Youthful ideals should be kept throughout the whole of life; if you keep these ideals, you can stay young in your attitude. 4. Youth looks forward but age looks back. ----Young people anticipate the future with pleasure; older pe