高中英语人教版高二下07

[06:21.49]but she will not let the disease destroy her happiness.
[06:27.37]"My life may have to be short," she says,
[06:32.62]"but there's no reason why it can't be beautiful."
[06:38.18]Integrating skills   reading
[06:45.13]DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER:THE DAY MY LIFE ENDED…AND BEGAN!
[06:52.29]I will never forget that Tuesday afternoon in the doctor's office
[06:58.95]I had been feeling sick for a long time
[07:04.20]and my mum had taken me to hospital to have me examined.
[07:09.53]Two weeks ago,Dr Richards asked me a great many questions
[07:15.80]and took samples of my blood.
[07:19.64]Now,he was looking at mum and me across his desk
[07:25.10]and there was a sad look in his eyes I knew that the news was bad.
[07:32.55]Dr Richards told me that the test results showed that I was suffering from a serious disease.
[07:40.51]"It is cancer," he said.
[07:44.46]I did not know much about cancer then,
[07:49.32]but I had heard that it was an incurable disease.
[07:54.07]Mum held my hand and I saw that she was crying.
[08:00.84]I remember having an empty feeling in my stomach
[08:05.80]and thinking that my life was going to end.
[08:10.37]I was wrong. This was only the beginning.
[08:15.33]Cancer,Dr Richards explained,can be treated.
[08:21.29]Cancer is a disease that begins in cells.
[08:26.75]There are many types of cells in the body and each has a special function.
[08:33.59]In a healthy body,
[08:36.65]cells grow and divide to produce new cells only when it is necessary.
[08:43.02]In my body,the production of cells is disrupted.
[08:48.48]Cells either divide too fast or at the wrong time,
[08:55.01]making it difficult for the body to function properly.
[09:00.06]Nobody knows why some people get cancer and others do not.
[09:05.52]Doctors do know that cancer is not caused by injury
[09:11.16]and is not contagious it does not spread from one person to another.
[09:18.32]The next year was painful and difficult for me and my family.
[09:24.38]Like many people with cancer,
[09:28.03]I had to be treated with radiation followed by treatment with chemicals.
[09:34.20]The treatment made me sick.Very sick.
[09:39.97]There were days when I wished that I were dead
[09:45.12]so that I would not have to feel so sick.
[09:49.58]My family and friends were wonderful.
[09:53.63]They helped me find the strength I needed to recover
[09:58.60]and they kept me from feeling sad and lonely.
[10:03.32]Dr Richards and the others at the hospital told me that I was a fighter
[10:10.30]and that I could win.
[10:13.64]They were right.
[10:16.59]The treatment was successful
[10:20.56]and I was able to go home after exactly fourteen months,
[10:26.13]two days and six hours in hospital.
[10:30.99]Two years have passed since that day in Dr Richards' office
[10:36.73]and my life has not yet ended.
[10:40.52]On the contrary, I now feel as if that was when my life really began.
[10:47.97]I have been living with cancer for two years
[10:52.41]and I plan to keep living with it for a long,long time.
[10:58.68]Yes, my life has changed.
[11:03.54]The cancer in my body has been defeated for the moment,
[11:09.18]but I know that I will never be completely free from it.
[11:14.74]It can come back at any time and the struggle will never end.
[11:21.12]I now think of my cancer as a gift.
[11:25.24]It taught me an important lesson about life.
[11:29.79]Living with cancer has made me realise how precious life is
[11:35.35]and how important it is for us to take every chance to live life to the fullest.
[11:42.33]Every day is a new opportunity,
[11:46.27]and I have learnt to appreciate every minute of each day.
[11:51.44]Work book  Unit 7  Integrating skills
[11:57.19]Reading     FIGHTING THE VIRUS:HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA
[12:05.13]The numbers are frightening:
[12:09.21]in 2002 more than 40 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS.
[12:17.85]Of these,about 3 million were children and more than 11 million
[12:25.12]were between 15 and 24
[12:29.56]Since the first case was discovered in 1981,
[12:35.20]nearly 24 million people have died of AIDS