,Interesting Epitaph,Lead-in,Back,Benjamin Franklin,Printer Benjamin Franklin 印刷工人本杰明富兰克林,Back,Shakespeare,Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here Belest be the men that spares these bones And curst be he that moves my bones 朋友，看在上帝的情分上， 千万别掘此墓， 动土者将受灾， 保护者会得福。,Back,Earnest Hemingway,Pardon me for not getting up. 请原谅我，我不起来了。,Back,Thomas Jefferson,Here was burned Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom and father of the University of Virginia. 这里安葬着托马斯杰弗逊。他是独立宣言的起草人 弗吉尼亚宗教自由法案的起草人和弗吉尼亚大学的创始人。,Back,Dwight Wallace (founder of Readers Digest),The most perfect contraction. 最完美的压缩。,Back,A Mule,Here lies Maggie, the mule who in her time kicked a general, two colonels, four majors, ten captains, twenty-four lieutenants, forty sergeants, two hundred and twenty privates, and a bomb. 军骡马吉葬在这里。在她的一生中，她踢过一个上将，两个上校，四个少校，十个上尉，二十四个士官，二百二十个士兵和一枚炸弹。,Back,Think,If you are allowed to choose one word to describe your whole life on your epitaph, which word would you choose? Why? diligent, beautiful, graceful, intelligent, wise, ,Back,Proverbs on Death,Death frees us from ills. Death pays all debts. Death is common to all. Death is inevitable. Human beings are mortal. Every one has the right to die with dignity.,Pre-reading Activities,Back,More are mens ends marked than their lives before: The setting sun, and music at the close, as the last of sweets, is sweetest last, writ in remembrance more than things long past. Shakespeare 人在临终的时候总比他们以往要引人注目。正如夕阳的余辉、乐曲的终了、杯底的美酒一样，留给人的记忆最温馨、最甜蜜、也最久远。 莎士比亚,Back,Culture Notes,A medical eye,Medicine, like science, is concerned with objectivity the cool, calculating, reason-based observation of facts. The writer describes herself as having a “medical eye”, by which she means she watches patients without any personal emotions as a doctor.,Back,Newspaper reports of death,The writer reads about the death of Mrs. Clark in the newspaper. This is because every newspaper contains a section devoted to recent deaths. This section is called the “obituary section”, or simply, the “obituaries”. Obituary entries often contain a single, small photo of the deceased, accompanied by a short article about the persons life.,Back,Hospice,Hospice, in the earliest days, was a concept rooted in the centuries-old idea of offering a place of shelter and rest, or hospitality to weary and sick travelers on a long journey. Dame Cicely Saunders at St. Christophers Hospice in London first applied the term hospice to specialized care for dying patients in 1967. Today, hospice care provides humane and compassionate care for people in the last phases of incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.,Back,End-of-Life Care Giving Volunteers,What role can volunteers play in the great cause of end-of-life care giving?,References,at the heart of hospice the backbone of the hospice movement an indispensable part of any hospice program,Back,What can volunteers do for the terminally ill patients?,References,a. Support services - companionship, friendly visiting, active listening, bedside sitting, letter writing. b. Sharing hobbies and special interests - reading, gardening, listening to music, sports, travel, crafts, etc. c. Assisting with errands - grocery shopping, picking up prescriptions and supplies, banking. d. Transport patient/family - appointments, shopping, social outings. e. Homemaking tasks - light housekeeping, dishes, laundry, meal preparation, child care.,Back,What can volunteers gain from this special experience?,References,a blessing a constant source of inspiration an honor and a privilege,Back,brainstorming,Does China need to improve hospice care? Why?,References,-aging society -peoples need to improve the life quality -high cost for medicare -one-child policy,Back,The medical _ from the _ shift was the first _ I got that Mrs. Clark would die. There was also a smell of _ in the room that _ me in the _ of my stomach. The patients skin hung _ so a needle was _ to let the _ _in. She had a _ pulse and was thirsty, so I gave her a _ of a few drops of _ to _ into her mouth to ease her _. Having managed to swallow some _, she said “Thank you.” She was so small and,Summary,chart,preceding,indication,decay,hit,pit,loosely,secured,fluid,drip,faint,straw,moisture,slide,thirst,liquid,Back,light that she looked like a victim of some terrible _. I removed the _ of a _ of cream and put some on the _ of my hand. Then I rubbed the cream into her yellow skin to make her feel better.,lid,palm,famine,jar,Back,Answer to the exercises,Back,2. Translation,1.克拉克夫人躺在床上一动不动，一时间我都纳闷她是否还活着。,lie in bed motionless,briefly,wonder,Mrs. Clark lies in bed motionless, and I wonder briefly if she is still alive.,Back,2. 在旅程的最后阶段，这位沙漠旅行者靠嚼树叶解渴。,in the f