【導(dǎo)讀】ifwe’dbeenbetter!

　　

【正文】 ountai n top, wind and rain revolve. Shoul d the traveler return, thi s Stone would utter spech. (by Wang Jian) I’VE SAVED TH E SUMMER I’ve saved the summ er And I gi ve it al to you To hol d on wi nter m ornings When the snow i s new. I’ve saved some sunl ight If you shoul d ever need A pl ace away from darkness Where your m ind can feed. And for m ysel f I’ve kept your smi l e When you were but ni een, Til l you’re ol der you’l l not know What brave young smi les can m ean. I know no answers To hel p you on your way The answers l ie som ewhere At the bottom of the day. But i f you’ve a need for love I’l l gi ve you al l I own It m ight hel p you down the road Til you’ve found your own. (by Rod McKuen) Unit 3 ADVICE FROM GRANDAD Dear James, It is a beautiful day here and I am sitti ng under the big tre at the end of the garden. I have just returned from a long bi ke ri de to an ol d castl e. It seem s am azing that at m y age I am stil l fi t enough to cycl e 20 kil om etres i n an afternoon. It’s my bi rthday i n two weeks time and I’l l be 82 years ol d! I thi nk m y long and acti ve l ife m ust be due to the heal thy li fe I li ve. Thi s bri ngs me to the real reason for my l eter, m y dear grandson. Your m other tel s m e that you started sm oking som e tim e ago and now you are fi nding i t di fi cult to gi ve it up. Beli eve me, I know how easy i t i s to begin smoki ng and how tough it i s to stop. You see, duri ng adolescence I al so smoked and becam e addi cted to ci garetes. By the way, di d you know that thi s i s because you be e addi cted in three different ways? Fi rst, you can bee physi cal y addi cted to ni coti ne, which is one of the hundreds of chemi cal s i n cigarettes. This m eans that after a whil e your body be es accustom ed to having ni coti ne i n i t. So when the drug l eaves your body, you get wi thdrawal symptoms. I remem ber feeli ng bedtem pered and som etimes even i n pai n. Secondl y, you be e adi cted through habi t. As you know, if you do the sam e thi ng over and over agai n. You begi n to do i t autom ati cal y. Lastl y, you can be e m ental y addi cted. I beli eved I was happi er and more rel axed after havi ng a ci garete, so I began to thi nk that I could only feel good when I sm oked. I was addi cted in al three ways, so i t was very di ffi cult to qui t. But I di d final ly manage. When I was young, I di dn’t know m uch about the harm ful effects of sm oki ng. I di dn’t know, for example, that it coul d do terri bl e dam age to your heart and l ungs or that i t was m ore diffi cul t for sm oki ng coupl es to be e pregnant. I certai nly di dn’t know thei r babi es m ay have a smal er bi rth wei ght or even be abnorm al i n some way. Neither di d I know that m y ci garete sm oke coul d affect the health of knownsm okers. H owever, what I di d know was that m y girlfri end thought I sm el t terri bl e. She sai d m y breath and clothes sm el t, and that the ends of my fingers were turni ng yel ow. She told m e that she woul dn’t go out with m e agai n unless I stopped! I al so noti ced that I becam e breathless quickly, and that I wasn’t enjoying sport as m uch. When I was taken of the school footbal team because I was unfit, I knew i t was tim e to qui t sm oki ng. I am sendi ng you som e advice I found on the Inter. It mi ght help you to stop and strengthen your resol ve. I do hope so because I want you to l ive as long and heal thy a li fe as I have. Love from Grandad H ow can you stop smoking? It i s not easy to stop sm oki ng, but mil li ons have managed to qui t and so can you. H ere are a few suggesti ons. Prepare yourself. Deci de on a day to quit. Don’t choose a day that you know i s goi ng to be stresful , such as the day of an exam. Make a l ist of al l the benefits you wil l get from stoping sm oki ng. Then throw away your last packet of ci garettes. Be determ i ned. Every tim e you feel li ke smoki ng a ci garete, rem ind yoursel f that yo u are a nonsm oker. Reread the li st of benefi ts you wrote earli er. Break the habit. Instead of smoking a cigarette, do som ething else. Go for a wal k, cl ean your teth, dri nk some water, cl ean the house。 i n fact, do anythi ng to keep your m ind and especi al y your hands busy. Rel ax. If you start to feel nervous or stressed, do not reach for a cigarette. Try som e dep breathi ng i nstead. Do some relaxation exerci ses every time you fel stresed. Get hel p i f you need it. Arange to stop sm oking with a fri end so you can tal k about your problems, or joi n a stopsm oki ng group. If you feel desperate, you mi ght l ie to tal k to a doctor or chem ist about som ethi ng to help you, li ke ni cotine chewi ng gum . Keep trying. Do not be di sappoi nted if you have to try several ti mes before you fi nal ly stop sm oki ng. If you weaken and have a ci garette, do not feel ashamed. Just try agai n. You wi l succeed eventual y. H IV/AIDS。 ARE YOU AT RISK? HIV i s a vi rus. A vi rus i s a very sm al l iving thi ng that causes disease. There are many di fferent vi ruses, for exam pl e, the fl u vi rus or the SARS vi rus. H IV weakens a person’s imm une system 。 that i s, the part of the body that fi ghts disease. You can have H IV i n your bl od for a l ong tim e, but eventual y H IV wil dam age your imm une system so much that your body can no l onger fi ght disease. Thi s stage of the il ness is cal ed AIDS. If you develop AIDS, your chances of survi val are very sm al l. HIV i s spread through bl od or the fl ui d that the body m akes duri ng sex. For a person to be e i nfected, blood or sexual fl ui d that caries the vi rus, has to get i nside the body through broken ski n or by i njecti on. O ne day s