【正文】 mi ght hel p you down the road Ti l you’ve found your own. (by Rod McKuen) Uni t 3 ADVICE FROM GRANDAD Dear Jam es, It is a beauti ful day here and I am si tti ng under the bi g tree at the end of the garden. I have just returned from a l ong bi ke ri de to an ol d castl e. It seem s am azi ng that at my age I am stil l fit enough to cycl e 20 ki lom etres i n an afternoon. It’s m y bi rthday i n two weeks ti m e and I’l l be 82 years ol d! I thi nk my l ong and active 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 m y l etter, my dear grandson. Your m other tel s m e that you started sm oki ng som e tim e ago and now you are fi ndi ng i t di ffi cul t to gi ve i t up. Bel ieve m e, I know how easy i t i s to begin sm oki ng and how tough i t i s to stop. You se, duri ng adol escence I al so sm oked and became addi cted to cigarettes. By the way, di d you know that thi s i s because you be e addi cted i n three di fferent ways? Fi rst, you can be e physi cal y addi cted to ni coti ne, which i s one of the hundreds of chemi cal s i n ci garettes. Thi s means that after a whil e your body be es accustom ed to havi ng ni coti ne in i t. So when the drug l eaves your body, you get wi thdrawal sym ptom s. I rem em ber feeli ng bedtem pered and som eti mes even i n pai n. Secondl y, you bee addi cted through habi t. As you know, i f you do the same thi ng over and over again. You begi n to do i t autom ati cal l y. Lastl y, you can be e m ental y addi cted. I bel i eved I was happi er and m ore relaxed after having a ci garette, so I began to thi nk that I coul d only feel good when I smoked. I was addi cted i n al l three ways, so i t was very di fficult to qui t. But I di d fi nal y m anage. 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 exam pl e, that i t coul d do terri bl e dam age to your heart and l ungs or that i t was m ore di ffi cul t for smoki ng coupl es to be e pregnant. I certainl y di dn’t know their babi es m ay have a sm al er bi rth wei ght or even be abnorm al i n som e way. N ei ther di d I know that m y ci garette sm oke coul d afect the heal th of knownsm okers. H owever, what I di d know was that m y girl fri end thought I sm el t terri bl e. She sai d m y breath and cl othes sm el t, and that the ends of m y fi ngers were turni ng yel ow. She tol d me that she woul dn’t go out with m e agai n unl ess I stopped! I al so noti ced that I becam e breathl ess qui ckl y, and that I wasn’t enjoyi ng sport as m uch. When I was taken off the school footbal team because I was unfi t, I knew i t was tim e to qui t sm oki ng. I am sendi ng you som e advi ce I found on the Inter. It mi ght hel p you to stop and strengthen your resol ve. I do hope so because I want you to li ve as l ong and heal thy a li fe as I have. Love from Grandad H ow can you stop sm oki ng? It i s not easy to stop sm oking, but mi l ions have m anaged to qui t and so can you. H ere are a few suggesti ons. Prepare yourself. Deci de on a day to qui t. Don’t choose a day that you know is goi ng to be stressful , such as the day of an exam. Make a l i st of al l the benefits you wi l get from stopi ng sm oking. Then throw away your l ast packet of ci garetes. Be determ i ned. Every tim e you feel l i ke sm oking a ci garete, remi nd yoursel f that you are a nonsmoker. Reread the li st of benefi ts you wrote earl i er. Break the habi t. Instead of sm oki ng a ci garette, do som ethi ng el se. Go for a wal k, cl ean your teth, dri nk som e water, cl ean the house。 i n fact, do anythi ng to keep your m i nd and especi al y your hands busy. Rel ax. If you start to feel nervous or stressed, do not reach for a ci garette. Try som e deep breathi ng i nstead. Do som e rel axati on exerci ses every ti m e you feel stressed. Get hel p i f you need i t. Arrange to stop sm oki ng wi th a friend so you can tal k about your probl ems, or join a stopsm oki ng group. If you feel desperate, you m i ght l i e to tal k to a doctor or chem ist about somethi ng to hel p you, li ke ni coti ne chewing gum. Keep tryi ng. Do not be di sappoi nted i f you have to try several tim es before you fi nal y stop sm oki ng. If you weaken and have a ci garette, do not feel asham ed. Just try agai n. You wi l succeed eventual y. H IV/AIDS。 ARE YOU AT RISK? H IV i s a virus. A vi rus i s a very sm al l li ving thi ng that causes di sease. 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。l i tl e baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s goi ng to buy you a m ocki ngbi rd. If that m ocki ngbird won’t si ng, Papa’s goi ng to buy you a di am ond ri ng. If that di am ond ri ng turns to brass, Papa’s goi ng to buy you a looki ngglass. If that l ookinggl ass gets broke, Papa’s goi ng to buy you a bi l ygoat. If that bil l ygoat runs away, Papa’s goi ng to buy you another today. O ne of the sim pl est ki nds of poem s are those li ke B and C that li st thi ngs. List poems have a flexi bl e l i ne l ength and repeated phrases whi ch gi ve both a pattern and a rhythm to the poem. Som e rhym e (li ke B) whi l e others do not (l ike C). I saw a fi shpond al on fi re I saw a fishpond al l on fi re, I saw a house bow to a squi re, I saw a person twel vefeet hi gh, I saw a cottage in the sky, I saw a bal loon m ade of l ead, I saw a coffi n drop down dead, I saw two sparrows run a race, I saw two horses maki ng l ace, I saw a girl just l i ke a cat, I saw a ki tten wear a hat, I saw a m an who saw these too, And sai d though strange they al l were true. Our fi rst footbal m atch We woul d have won… if Jack had scored that goal, i f we’d had just a few more mi nutes, i f we had trai n