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Unit 1 Health How to Live a Long Healthy Life Boost your consumption of fruits and vegetables. Quit smoking and drink only moderately. Get regular exercise. Exercise your brain. Be optimistic How to Live to Be a Hundred Text A How to live to be a hundred Pre-reading Activities When I was coming down with my latest cold, I didn’t know what was happening to me. I felt a lot of subtle changes going on in my body, but none of them made me think of 1___________ . Rather, I felt a certain dreaminess. Faces around me were in focus but also distorted, as if I were looking through a fisheye 2_________ lens. I felt inhabited by someone I didn’t know. Toward evening, I started sneezing. I was relieved –so it was just a 3___________cold. Pre-reading Activities I decide to stay at home instead of keeping my plan to go to a dinner party. My 4________ was growing pleasantly warm. I lay under a thick quilt with two pillows 5_____________my head and the television on. That night I 6_______very deeply, and in the morning I didn’t want to get up. The phone rang. The 7______was sympathetic when she heard my voice, which had become rich and strong and 8__________ to my ear. “Oh, I don’t mind having a cold.” I said, “I get one about once a year. I’m 9___________this.” The next morning, my head was 10_______. I could feel faint twitches in my legs that told me to go outside and 11________.before I knew it , I had reentered the world of noise and light cough. My own good 12________expelled me from paradise. Pre-reading Activities 1. Do you want to live to be a hundred ?why or why not? 2.what’s important for a long life? Why? 2.1.1 Understanding the major details of the text 2.1.1 Understanding the major details of the text Are these statements true or false? 2.1.1 Understanding the major details of the text It is obvious how bad movies will impact on children. 坏电影对儿