M7U2 reading模块七 第二单元.pptVIP

Unit 2 Fit for Life Jobs Diseases Other terms 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. Different jobs: A _________ is a person who has general skill to treat physical problems. A ________ is a person who performs medical operations. Diseases: A common disease for middle-aged and older people. Blood vessels in the brain are blocked or burst suddenly so patients feel a sudden loss of brain function. Diseases: A disease where sugar levels in the blood are too high. Patients are unable to produce insulin(胰岛素). 糖尿病 cancer pneumonia Other items: The room where an operation is done is called _________________. ____________ is the use of needles to treat people’s health problems. What can acupuncture do? Acupuncture can __________________. M7U2 Fit for life Reading: Two life-saving medicines How can we understand medical terms? Words related to each other: medicine, medical pure, purify chemical, chemist; chemistry bacterium, bacterial Words that are compound words painkiller blood-thinning heart attack Words with irregular plural forms: bacterium bacteria (pl.) Two life-saving medicines What illnesses can aspirin cure? Thousands of medical studies have determined that aspirin lessens the chance of developing many serious conditions. - breast and colon cancer - Alzheimers disease - stroke and heart disease What illness can penicillin cure? Penicillin is used to treat many types of infections (感染) , including pneumonia and infections caused by streptococci （链球菌 ） . When was penicillin first discovered? In 1928. What award did Fleming, Florey and Chain share? The Nobel Prize in Medicine. C2: Development of Aspirin: in 1900: in 1977: in 1971: in 2003: In 1900: (Aspirin was) sold in shops in the fo