You are beautiful! (P5)

导读：“赠人玫瑰，手留余香”。对于白衣天使来说，日复一日的工作，对他们自己和所帮助的人，都有非比寻常的意义。

I. Before you reading

1. What do you want to be when you grow up?

2. Do you want to have a job where you can help people? Why or why not?

3. Pairwork.

A: What do you want to be when you grow up?

B: I want to be a ________.

A: Why?

B: I think it's _______. I can _________.

1. What does the writer do?

A. She is a doctor. B. She is a nurse.

C. She is a patient.

2. What did she think about her job after doing it a while?

A. It was interesting. B. It was meaningful.

C. It was hard work.

3. What changed her mind about her job?

A. The patient said she was beautiful.

B. The patient thanked her and gave her something.

C. She realized that she could use her job to help others.

4. We can tell from the story that _____.

A. the writer went on the like her job B. the old man didn't like the writer

C. the writer was quite lazy

5. The best title for the story is ____.

A. A special patient B. My least favorite job

C. It's good to help others

III. Vocabulary in use

Learn some useful phrases and notes from the passage.

1. start doing = start to do 开始

2. after a while 不久

3. feeling very tired 感到疲倦 feel +adj.

4. the night before 头晚上，前晚

5. in charge 负责

6. either … or … 二者之一

7. an eye problem 眼疾

8. take off 脱掉（衣服），（飞机）起飞

9. eye contact 眼神交流

10. a big deal 重要的人和事物

11. at that moment 此刻

12. no matter how = however 无论怎么样

Fill in the blanks with the words given.

after a while, in charge, either… or, take off, no matter how

1. Who is __________ of this program? I need to talk with him.

2. Stories are _______ interesting _____ dull.

3. _________ the excitement died down. We were getting bored.

4. ____________ hard he works, he can't make any money.

5. Hurry up! The plane is going to ________ in half an hour.

IV. Writing

Write an article about things you have done to help others or things others have done to help you.

V. Cloze test

I started working in the operating room after nursing school was over. Like many jobs, after a while the 1 disappeared. It soon became drudgery.

One night I was feeling very 2 , since I hadn't slept well the night before. I didn't like the doctor in charge, my feet hurt, it was late, and I was “doing eyes”. Every nurse has a favorite (and least favorite) task. My 3 favorite was eyes—I thought it was always 5 boring or unpleasant.

My 5 was an old man. He had come to the hospital 6 an eye problem. As the operation neared a close, I started to take the operating cloth 7 , and put drops in the patient's eyes. We made eye contact when he said, “ I can see!!!” and “You are beautiful.”

I 8 then what a big deal this all was to the patient and how truly thankful he was. I HAD HELPED HIM SEE! I said something to him about 9 he must be feeling from the medicine. But he still said, “No, you really are beautiful.”

I realized at that moment that 10 how I was feeling, what I was doing was important.

1. A. hope B. sadness C. excitement D. pain

2. A. tired B. happy C. hungry D. thirsty

3. A. most B. least C. best D. fewest

4. A. both B. neither C. none D. either

5. A. doctor B. friend C. patient D. nurse

6. A. because B. for C. in D. without

7. A. on B. up C. away D. off

8. A. remembered B. realized C. expected D. promised

9. A. how B. what C. where D. when

10. A. although B. though C. no matter D. no wonder

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