Reading Reading How do we deal

with our problems?

Let’s think.Let’s think.

Can you think of any Can you think of any problems you have problems you have had recently? Tell a had recently? Tell a partner how you deal partner how you deal with them.with them.

It’s not a problem – it’s a challenge. Enjoy facing it.

A: Who is this?

B: It is Stephen Hawking – a great scientist.

A: What’s wrong with him?

B: He can’t walk or even speak.

A: Oh! It is a big problem to him.

How did he deal with these problems?

deal (v.) unless (conj.) unfair (adj.)

affected (adj.) solve (v.) challenge (n.)

regard (v.) smart (adj.) duty (n.)

instead (adv.)

阅读文章，把上面查过的单词在阅读的过程中划出来。

想一想，他们在句中的意思有没有什么改变，你查的意思在文中翻译合适吗？

Rich or poor, young or old, we all have problems. And unless we deal with our problems, we can easily become unhappy. Worrying about our problems can affect how we do at school. It can also influence the way we behave with our families. So how do we deal with our problems? There are many ways.

如果我们不处理我们的问题，我们可能很容易变得不快乐。

By learning to forget

Most of us have probably been angry with our friends, parents or teachers. Perhaps they said something you didn’t like, or you felt they were unfair. Sometimes, people can stay angry for years about a small problem. Time goes by, and good friendships may be lost.

When we are angry, however, we are usually the ones affected. Perhaps we have seen young children playing together. Sometimes they have disagreements, and decide not to talk to each other. However, this usually does not last for long. This is an important lesson for us: we can solve a problem by learning to forget.

受影响的人

By regarding problems as challenges

Many students often complain about school. They might feel they have too much work to do sometimes, or think the rules are too strict. We must learn how to change these “problems” into “challenges”. Education is an important part of our development. As young adults, it is our duty to try our best to deal with each challenge in our education with the help of our teachers.

我们的责任是尽力在我们老师的帮助下应付我们教育中的每一个挑战。

By thinking of something worse

By comparing yourself to other people, you will find your problems are not so terrible. Think about Stephen Hawking, for example, a very clever scientist, who regards his many physical problems as unimportant. He can’t walk or even speak, but he has become very famous and successful. We are probably quite healthy and smart. Let’s mot worry about our problems. Let’s face the challenges instead.

deal (v.) unless (conj.) unfair (adj.)

affected (adj.) solve (v.) challenge (n.)

regard (v.) smart (adj.) duty (n.)

instead (adv.)

处理 假若不 不公平

受到影响 解决 挑战

把……看作 聪明的 责任

代替

duty (n.)

smart (adj.)

solve (v.)

regard (v.)

instead (adv.)

A soldier must do his duty.

He is too smart not to jump at the chance.

We have to solve this problem at once.

We regard him as the most promising student in our class.

He is tired. Let me go instead.

Scan the reading, and check the ways of dealing with problems that are mentioned.

by talking to people about them

by thinking your problem is not big

by breaking off a friendship

by trying to forget about them

by seeing a psychologist

by thinking of a problem in a positive way

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• 1.  How do we deal with our problems?我们怎样处理我们的问题？ 本句中的 deal with意为“处理，解决”，相当于 do with，其主语通常是人或物。  I have many problems to deal with. 我有许多问题要解决。 ◎  deal with作“与……打交道”，“与……做买卖”解时，主语通常是人、公司、商店等。

 My elder brother will deal with you later on. 我哥哥以后会来收拾你的。

• 2.  Most of us have probably been angry with our friends, parents or teachers.我们中的大部分人可能都生过我们的朋友、父母或老师的气。 本句中的 be angry with意为“对某人生气”，后面常跟人作宾语；当表示生气的原因时，可以加上 for doing sth。 He was angry with me for not having done anything.  我什么也没有做，他为此很生气。 特别提示 be angry at表示“因某事生气”，后面接表示言行的名词、代词或 v-ing形式或从句作宾语。 He was rather angry at missing the bus.他因没有赶上公共汽车而相当生气。 He was angry at what I said. 他对我所说的感到生气。

• 3.  Time goes by, and good friendships may be lost.时间流逝，良好的友谊可能也就随之逝去了。  (1)go by是不及物动词短语，意为“走过”，“（时间）消逝，流逝”。 Two weeks went by. 两周过去了。  (2)lost 是 lose的过去分词。 lose意为“丢失，失去”时，语气较强，一般指失去不易找回。 The man lost a leg in the war. 那个人在战争中失去了一条腿。 知识拓展 miss意为“丢失，失去”时，指东西或人丢失了，但有找到的希望。 She missed her child in the street. 她在街上把孩子丢了。 ◎miss可以表示“想念”的意思，而 lose则不能。 We shall all miss you when you are away. 你不在时我们都会想念你的。 特别提示 作定语或表语时， lose用过去分词形式，miss用现在分词形式。

 Who has found my lost pen? 谁找到了我丢失的钢笔？ They set out to look for the missing girl at once.

• 4. 你怎样处理你的问题 ?

How do you deal with your problems?=

What do you do with your problems?

• 5. 如果你不处理你的问题 ,你很容易变得不高兴 .

Unless you deal with your problems, you easily become unhappy.

= If you don’t deal with ………………………………

• 6. 努力学习是我们的职责 .

Studying hard is our duty.= It is our duty to study hard.

• 7. 我们应该尽力帮助别人 .

We should try our best to help others.

• 8. 在老师的帮助下 , 我进步很大 .

With the help of the teachers, I make great progress.

• What problems have you had

recently?

• How did you deal with it / them?

• By comparing your problems

with

Hawking’s, what will you find?

• What can you get from the

passage?

• 一 .　　 Let children learn to judge (判断 ) their own work. When children learn to speak, other people do not correct (纠正 ) their mistakes all the time. If we correct too much, they will stop speaking. Let themselves understand the difference between the language they speak and the language other people around them speak. Day after day, they will make some changes to make their language like other people's language. In the same way, children can learn to do many other things without others' help. For example, to walk, run, climb, and ride a bike-make themselves understand how they should do it. Slowly they can make some changes they need.　　 But in school we never let a child himself find out his mistakes and correct them for himself. We usually think he never knows his mistakes if we do not tell him or he never corrects them if we do not make him do it. We should try to let him find out the answers to the problems, and the good ways of working them out with the help of other children if he wants.　　 Can teachers give the students answer books if they do maths problems? Let them correct their homework all by themselves. When the students tell their teachers that they can't find the ways to get the right answers, the teachers should help them. Let the students know what they must learn, how to judge their own understanding (理解力 ), how to know what they know or what they do not know. These are the most important.

Culture

• 二 .• People living in different countries made different kinds

of words . Today there are about fifteen hundred languages in the world . Each contains many thousands of words . A very large dictionary , for example , contains four or five hundred thousand words . But we do not need all these . To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words . Before you leave school , you will learn only one thousand or more .

•     The words you know are called your vocabulary . You should try to make your vocabulary bigger . Read as many books as you can . There are a lot of books written in easy English for you to read . You will enjoy them . When you meet a new word , find it in your dictionary . Your dictionary is your most useful book .