新视野3课文总结和部分作文

Unit1 Love Without Limitations

Summary:

My brother, Jimmy, suffered lack of oxygen during a difficult delivery, leaving him with brain damage. From then on, my family life revolved around his. My mother taught him practical things like how to brush his teeth. I was in charge outside where I administered justice by tracking down the parents whose kids picked on him, and telling on them. My father held the family together with such patience that Jimmy could not go anywhere without his company.

But misfortune also loves company. My father and mother died respectively of a heart attack and lung cancer in 1991. As an immediate result of that, Jimmy, though under careful disguise, fell into a wreck, grasping that the world he’d known was gone for good. I pledged to help him out of it. Through my constant efforts, I was eventually able to work it out. Now he has lived in my parents’ house for 11 years with many different caretakers and blossomed on his own. In fact, caring for someone who loves as deeply and appreciates my efforts as much as Jimmy does has enriched my life more than anything else ever could have.

This hit home in the wake of the September 11th disaster, when I managed to hold a party for his 57th birthday. I called on my friends to make it a merry and festive occasion, ignoring the fact that the sheer terror had drained Americans of all happiness in those days. For Jimmy, however, the party was a welcome bonus, and mostly he had just wanted to see everyone else happy again. He made it in the end. Indeed, there had never been any limitations to what Jimmy’s love could accomplish.

Unit2 Iron and the Effects of Exercise Summary

This text is about iron and the effects of exercise, which shows that exercise may lead to more loss of iron in females, which in turn produces serious effects on their health. Sports medicine experts have observed that endurance athletes, particularly females, frequently have iron deficiencies. A new study shows that inactive women who started a program of moderate exercise showed evidence of iron loss. And the new exercisers who followed their normal diet showed a decrease in iron levels. Iron deficiency is very common among women because of the following general reasons: ignoring the amount of iron they take in, monthly bleeding, rejecting red meat and not consuming enough iron-rich food. There are two other specific reasons: one is that the average woman takes in only two thirds of the recommended daily allowance of iron; the other is that exercise can result in iron loss through a variety of mechanisms. There are three stages of iron deficiency: the first stage has no symptoms; in the second stage there is not enough iron; and in the third stage, your iron reserves go to zero and you are in trouble. It is advisable for people to use a better way to have a yearly blood test to check blood iron reserves if they don’t know whether they have an iron deficiency or not. In general, it’s better to undo the problem by adding more iron-rich foods to the diet. If you pay attention to warning signs before iron reserves are