Stress can kill you. Being tense can damage your heart so it is wise to take charge of your life and realize you cannot control everything. But you can control stress which is caused by fear, uncertainty, doubt and lack of control. Anger may be the root of this stress, especially for hardworking professional women and people with no goals in life. To relax and take control, try the NICE factors: new, interesting, challenging experiences. And follow Ben Franklin's example

Preview: Riddle: It does exist. But it will never return. What is it? Americans value time and save it carefully. Time is a real, precious resource to them so every minute must count. Visitors may think Americans are always in rush and under pressure. Smiles and short conversations, and small exchanges with strangers don't exist because Americans dislike

Book two Unit nine Preview Students all over the world dream of what will happen in their future. Many hope to travel abroad where they can both use their education and earn a good salary. Large, modern countries like English and America welcome such graduates, making it easy for them to enter the count

UNIT FOUR Section A Studying Abroad I. Background Information 1. Host family is the family that provides board and room, food etc. for overseas Ⅴ isitors or students 2. Christians are followers of Jesus with whom they have a personal relationship and whom they accept/receive into their lives

Text A: fantasy, suspicion, injection, deputy, considerate, restore, estate, fantastic, multiple, furnish, deceive, commission, substantial, arrest, motive, justify exceeding, swear, disguise, switch e Text B: romantics, mysterious, e it, sigh, simplify, standpoint, heave, shiver, 2. Key phrases and expressions Text A: raise a glass to, turn out, buy up, live out, add on, fix up, sell sth at a loss Text B: read about, for one thing, in the night, make an appointment, switch on, raise the devil answer the door. stare after 3. Key structures

College English 1 The Course Curricular Participants: Second-year Students Time: 9/2001-2/2002 First semester of the Academic Year 2001-2002 Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition, published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester

College English 4 The Course Curricular Participants: Second-year Students Majoring Time: 2/2002-6/2002 (The Second Semester of the Academic Year 2001-2002) Teaching Material: College English (Revised edition published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press) Major Task of This Semester Text Learning (4 units altogether) Integral Improvement of English Proficiency

It may be audacious even to attempt a definition of his greatness but it is not so difficult to describe the gifts that enabled him to create imaginative visions of pathos and mirth that, whether read or witnessed in the theatre, fill the mind and linger there he is a writer of great intellectual rapidity

Ⅱ. Listening skills W: How much money is the rent for an apartment in this neighborhood M: Your rent should be about a quarter of that Q How much should be the woman's rent be? 2. M: I paid $3, 500 for this digital camera. It was on sale at a 30$ discount w: Its a real bargain

Unit 8 II. Listening Skills To keep our children safe from those dangerous criminals, these tips might be helpful. First children should be encouraged always to ask permission from their caregiver before they go anywhere. They should not only tell the care giver where they will be at all times, but also who will be looking after them. also, children should never walk or ride their bikes alone. Instead, they