Living with disease（The Fourth Period）

    failure in the national examination
university is not the only way to success.cao yang who is my neighbour, will never forget the day when he knew the result of the national examination, by which you could get the “licence” to enter the university.however，he lost the opportunity to step into the threshold of the university.at that moment，he felt he nearly callapsed onto the ground and thought the road to his future life was    completely b1ocked.
    he didn’t want to try it again, because it would cost his family a lot of    money，what he most wanted to do at that moment was to go to work as soon as    possible.thus，he could earn enough money to support his family.
    the difficulties he encounted in his work made him feel the lack of enough  knowledge.from then on，he made up his mind to catch up with updated technology.by fully making use of every minute he could  get  after work，he immersed himself into study and eventually he became an expert.later on，when his workmates met with the problems in their work，they all came to him and he could always get them done properly.
    through his efforts，he has made great achievements in his life.he now feels that university is not the only way to success.it was the failure in the national  examination that taught him nobody should shrink back in front of difficulties. on the contrary，we’d better think of it as a precious gift that the god gives us to  realise our goals.
step ⅵ checkpoint
t：in this unit.we’ve mainly talk about deadly diseases and attitudes towards    aids and cancer，etc, so we’ve learnt a lot of useful words and expressions about this topic.how can we remember so many new words? the following tips on the screen can help you.look at the screen and 1et’s go through them together.
ways to remember and understand new words：
you can put new words into groups to remember and understand them together.for example，some words have similar meaning.1ike cure and heal，both meaning “to make  something better”.others belong to the same category，like aids and cancer，which are both diseases.try to think more ways that you can group new words.   
(after that)
t：now，please 1ook at the following words and phrases on the screen and group them in at least two different categories.
immune，defenseless，infection，cure, contract，virus，suffer，discourage, specialist，lonely，eventually, break down, die of，cheer up，deal with，as if,a lack of