新视野大学英语第三册读写教程unit5.ppt

* Unit 5: Section A Graceful Hands Discuss the Topics Suppose you are suffering from a fatal illness and will die in no more than one year, what do you want to do most during this period? 2. At the moment when your life is coming to the end, who would you choose to stay with? 3. Watch the movie clip showing the death and survival in Titanic. Are there any impressive stories about the miracles of death and life in your memory? It may be in your real life, from a fiction or a movie, etc. Would you mind sharing it? Death Life in Titanic Intensive Study Graceful Hands 1 I have never seen Mrs. Clark before, but I know from her medical chart and the report I received from the preceding shift that tonight she will die. 2 The only light in her room is coming from a piece of medical equipment, which is flashing its red light as if in warning. As I stand there, the smell hits my nose, and I close my eyes as I remember the smell of decay from past experience. In my mouth I have a sour, vinegar taste coming from the pit of my stomach. I reach for the light switch, and as it silently lights the scene, I return to the bed to observe the patient with an unemotional, medical eye. Intensive Study 3 Mrs. Clark is dying. She lies motionless: the head seems unusually large on a skeleton body; the skin is dark yellow and hangs loosely around exaggerated bones that not even a blanket can hide; the right arm lies straight out at the side, taped cruelly to a board to secure a needle so that fluid may drip in; the left arm is across the sunken chest, which rises and falls with the uneven breaths. Intensive Study 4 I reach for the long, thin fingers that are lying on the chest,. They are ice cold, and I quickly move to the wrist and feel for the faint pulse. Mrs. Clark’s eyes open somewhat as her head turns toward me slightly. I bend close to her and scarcely hear as she whispers, “Water.” Taking a glass of water from t