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Psychology and psychologist Psychiatry and psychiatrist (1) Psychology is really the study of 1) Psychiatry is the study essential behaviour, including normal of mental illness.

behavior and mental processes, 2) A psychiatrist is a fully trained the way we think, behave and feel. doctor who also has additional 2) A psychologist will have a specialist training in the field of degree in psychology but will not psychiatry. have a medical training. 2. Classification and mental illness

3. Schizophrenia

4. Mental illness

Part 2 Passage

I Couldn't Stop Dieting

Ex. B: Sentence Dictation 1. After five years of marriage, Stan would leave me. I’d be alone with my scale, my exercise, and my calorie-counting.

2. Several months after our wedding, as I was striving to be the “perfect”wife, the anorexia reemerged.

3. As much as I wanted to please my husband by maintaining a healthy weight, exercise and food restriction had become my sole means of coping with stress.

4. Slowly, I became convinced that only I myself had the power to transform my heart and life.

5. Transparent honesty was the first step, and I’ve learned that I’ll be

accepted for who I am by my husband.

Ex. C: Detailed Listening. 1. T. I’m solely resoponsible for the destruction of my marriage. 2. T. Stan and I had met 10 years earlier while

teaching at the same Christian high school. 3. F. I’d been frighteningly thin, but Stan had ignored my emaciated appearance. 4. F. My counselor assured me that I’d progressed to the point of no longer needing therapy.

5. T. Though I’d prepared hearty meals for Stan, I carefully restricted what I ate, panicking any time I hadn’t exercised “enough”. Stan’s career change only added to the stress.

6. T. The anorexia gave me a twisted sense of control over my life.

7. T. Whenever Stan and I would have a conflict, I’d add minutes onto my daily workout, or skip a meal.

8. T. We continued counseling sessions, and I learned gradually to see my anorexia in a new light—as the scar from a painful childhood that led to the fear I’d never be loved for who I was.

Ex. D: After-listening Discussion 1. What experiences had led her to be so uncertain about marriage

She used to have an unpleasant childhood. Verbal, sexual abuses she suffered in her childhood led not only to anorexia, but rebellion and promiscuity. Though she knew Stan cared for her, a little voice in her head insisted she wasn’t good enough for him, and that she’d eventually lose him. 2. What was the result after a year’s counseling After a year’s counseling, the narrator gradually learned to see her anorexia in a new light—as the scar from a painful childhood that led to the fear she’d never be loved for who she was. Slowly, she became convinced that only she herself had the power to transform her heart and life. She was no longer deceptive about anorexia, and stopped hiding her past. 3. If you got anorexia, what would you do (Open)

Section Three News News Item 1 Ex. A: Summarize the news This news item is about a meeting in Hong Kong trying to reach a new agreement on global trade.

Ex. B: Listen to the news again and answer the questions.

1. What are the representatives of nearly 150 countries meeting in Hong Kong still trying to do To reach a new agreement on global trade.

2. What is the biggest prize many countries realistically hoped for A date for ending the EU subsidies to help farmers sell their produce on world markets.

3. According to an EU senior official, what will EU do during the meeting They are prepared to name the date as part of a wider deal.

4. When will be the earliest possible date If an agreement is not reached on this meeting, when will be the latest date The earliest date will be 2010, and 2013 will be the latest date.

5. What will the United States do if the date is not what it expects The U.S trade representative Rob Portman says he is trying to be accommodating, which means the United States will

possibly accept the new date.

News Item 2 Ex. A: Listen to the news and complete the summary This news item is about a package of plans to tackle the recession reached by the G20 or a new consensus reached by the G20 on tackling global problems.

Ex. B: Listen again and complete the outline.

News Script The G20 have come up with a package of plans that add up to well over a trillion dollars to tackle the recession. One key component is an agreement to treble to seven hundred and fifty billion dollars the resources available to the International Monetary Fund for lending to countries in trouble. They also want a tenfold increase in what are called special drawing rights which is rather like an IMF currency and which strengthen the foreign exchange reserves of its member countries. The G20 also plans closer regulation of financial firms with curbs on executive pay and new oversight of large hedge funds. The British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, described the summit as marking a new consensus on tackling global problems.

News Item 3 Ex. A: Listen and summarize the news item This news item is about the opening of Copenhagen climate summit.

Ex. B: Listen again and decide T or F. 1. F 2. F 3. T 4. T 5. F

News Script The conference opened to applause forty minutes late. It began with an environmental film from Danish children, a message from the next generation for those delegates whose decisions here over the next fortnight may help shape the lives they lead. 34,000 people have tried to get accredited for this extraordinary meeting – an unprecedented demand. Hopes are high here that a deal can be done to lower emissions and raise cash to help poor countries adapt to climate change and obtain clean energy. The question is whether that agreement will be strong enough to meet the expectations of those children of the future.

Section Four Part 1 Feature report Exercise A:

This news report is about the pediatric telemedicine program, which offers an efficient way for children to see a doctor. Exercise B: 1. have a visit with a doctor 2. save them four and a half hours of missed work; health-related absences 3. insurance companies a great deal of money; using hospital emergency rooms for treatment 4. the high-tech medical visits; hands-on care 5. remote visits; face to face visits

Script： Pediatric Telemedicine Program For this little boy, Jonathan, a runny nose would normally mean a phone call from his day care center asking his mother to take him home. But, now, the center can make a different call and get him medical attention right there.

The Day Care Provider contacts the Doctor at University of Rochester Medical Center to see if he can do a live visit via the Internet.

Jonathan is one of nearly a thousand pre-school children in upstate

Rochester, New York who can have a live visit with a doctor without ever leaving their day care center. The Provider inserts the ear thermometer to take his temperature. Audio, video and medical images are sent over the Internet to a physician at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The Doctor inquires about the child's previous medical condition, "Has he had problems with ear infections in the past" The Provider responds "Yes, he has had one in the past."

Fayla Bermudez with her sick child The child's mother, Fayla Bermudez, thinks the new service is great. In the past she says she would have had to go to the emergency room.

A new study shows that each telemedicine visit saved parents four and a half hours of missed work. And for the children, health related absences were down 63-percent.

One mother, Erika Haines, says, "They {the children} get seen, they get their medicine. They feel better and everybody is happy."

Dr. Neil Herendeen, University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester doctor Neil Herendeen says telemedicine keeps people from

using hospital emergency rooms for treatment, which saves insurance companies a great deal of money. "You can do a lot of telemedicine for the cost of one E.R. visit. And that's what got our local insurers on board."

Dr. Charles Shubin But pediatricians like Charles Shubin says the high-tech medical visits are no substitute for hands on care. "Ill children, I think, deserve better than a mechanical, electronic process of health care."

The University of Rochester Medical Center doctors disagree, saying most

of the time; remote visits are just as effective as face-to-face visits.

The programs cost a lot to start up; the U.S. federal government has funded Rochester’s. It is about expand beyond the city's limits and perhaps will become a model for similar programs across the U.S.

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8. B Exercise D 1. The franks are double cooked, first in boiling water, then on the grill. This may seem gratuitous, but it is the secret to a masterpiece. Carol runs a knife around each knockwurst, making a spiral cut top to bottom around the body, before bringing them to a boil. When they cook in the water, the spirals open up, releasing some of the fat and rendering the meat more tender. Then the knockwursts are grilled to perfection, charred and crisp, yet tender as can be. 2. Open.

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