1、Unit 1 Life ChoicesLesson 2 Understanding and coping with stressDr. King is talking about stress in a radio interview. Predict what will be talked about.causes of stress kinds of people suffering from stressdifferent levels of stressstress and successways to reduce stressChoose the information menti

2、oned in the talk and write down the letter(A, B, C, D, E).1-21-61-5Dr. King is an expert on stress. In his talk, he believes everyone 1_ at some point in their lives, from teachers and doctors, factory workers and 2_. However, some jobs may be more stressful than others, like some 3_ in the police o

3、r 4_. Dr. King thinks there are different causes of 5_. But more often than not, its 6_ pressure from work or study. Students with lots of homework can feel 7_ when they dont have enough time to finish everything. Recall and complete the summary in Ex. 6.suffers from newspaper editorspositionsmilita

4、rystressdue to very stressed Dr. King also discusses social pressure and how to some 8_ it can also cause stress. In particular, shy people can find social situations very stressful like going to parties. Dr. King also suggests some ways to 9_ stress and 10_, for example, you can 11_ your work or st

5、udies, you must eat well and exercise often and you can also talk to people about your problems. Dr. King ends his talk by advising people who become too stressed and cant 12_ properly to seek 13_ help.Recall and complete the summary in Ex. 6.extentreducetensionorganisefunctionprofessionalListen and

6、 complete the table in Ex. 4.Kinds of people suffering from stressCauses of stressWays to reduce stressteachers, doctors, workers, editors, police, militarypressure from work and studysocial pressure organize;eat.; exercise.; talk.; seek . helpHow to Make Stress Your FriendWhen you change your mind

7、about stress, you can change your bodys response to stress.Now, if you were actually in this study, youd probably be a little stressed out. Your heart might be pounding（砰砰直跳）, you might be breathing faster, maybe breaking out into a sweat. And normally, we interpret these physical changes as anxiety

8、 or signs that we arent coping very well with the pressure.But in the study, when participants viewed their stress response as helpful, their blood vessels stayed relaxed.And this is really what the new science of stress reveals（揭示）, that how you think about stress matters.the next time your heart i

9、s pounding from stress, youre going to remember this is my body helping me rise to this challenge. And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier. People who spent time caring for others showed absolutely no stress-related increase in dying.

10、Zero. Caring created resilience（恢復力，抗逆）. And so we see once again that the harmful effects of stress on your health are not inevitable（不可避免的）.This stress hormone strengthens your heart, and the cool thing is that all of these physical benefits of oxytocin（催產(chǎn)素） are enhanced by social contact and soci

11、al support, so when you reach out to others under stress, either to seek support or to help someone else, you release more of this hormone, your stress response becomes healthier, and you actually recover faster from stress. 鞏固練習（填空&翻譯）How to make stress your friend1. Let me start with the study mad

12、e me rethink my whole approach to stress. This study （track）30,000 adults in the United States for eight years.2. People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful (be) no more likely to die. 3. Now to explain how this works, I want you all to pretend that you are participant

13、s in a study (design) to stress you out. Its called the social stress test. 4. And normally, we interpret these physical changes as anxiety or signs thatwe arent coping very well with the pressure.5. But what if you viewed them instead as signs your body was energized, was preparing you to meet this

14、 challenge? Now that is (exact) what participants were told in a study conducted at Harvard University.6. And participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance, well, they were less stressed out, less anxious, (confidence), but the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.7. An