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Reading for Skills and Vision A New Textbook for Extensive Reading Unit FiveGlobal Health Problems Brief Introduction to the Unit: The three articles in this unit are all about health problems that affect the world as a whole, each focusing on a specific disease and describing harms of the disease and the seriousness of the situation. After your careful reading, you will realize that actually, we are not far away from these diseases, and we, as members of the society, can do a lot to help curb the spread of these diseases. Questions to Consider? Survey the whole unit quickly to find out answers to the following questions: What kind of specific disease does each article focus on? Answer to Question 1 Text A: TB or tuberculosis Text B: obesity Text C: heart diseases Text A WHO rolls out new “Stop TB” initiative! ? About the source: Reuters: one of the four biggest news agencies in the world and one of the earliest of its kind in Britain. Located in the fleet street. Notes WHO: World Health Organization HIV: human immunodeficiency virus人体免疫缺损病毒，艾滋病病毒 Key Words Expressions Words TB cure Incidence Infection Eliminate Obstacle Simultaneous Catalytic lethal Expressions Roll out In the pipeline Stumbling block Difficult Language Points Several vaccines are in the pipeline…but there are still obstacles to overcome. （para.7) in the pipeline: being prepared, on the way, 文中义为“在研制中” An additional stumbling block to effective treatment of TB is simultaneous HIV infection. (para. 8) stumbling block: an obstacle, sth that prevent sth else from going on smoothly.障碍物，绊脚石 simultaneous: happening or existing at the same time. 该句意思为：有效治疗肺结核的另一障碍就是患者同时还感染了艾滋病毒。 Text BChild obesity levels expected to soar by 2010 Background Information Nowadays, economic development has greatly enhanced people’s living standard, but with it also came many health problems, obesity being one of them. More and more people are becoming aw