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1、Unit 1 Living well 親愛的同學們,你們還記得“心靈之聲”藝術(shù)團表演的千手觀音嗎?你可曾知道它的表演者都是失聰?shù)娜藛幔吭谖覀冞@個世界上,有成千上萬的殘疾人,我們要伸出援助之手,關(guān)愛殘疾人,讓他們體會到人間的真情 No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world,but estimates suggest that the figure is over 450 million.The number of disabled people in India alone is probably mo
2、re than double the total population of Canada. In the United Kingdom,about one in ten people has some disability.Disability is not just something that happens to other people.As we get older,many of us will become less mobile,hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.Disablement can take many forms a
3、nd occur at any time of life.Some people are born with disabilities.Many others become disabled as they get older.There are many progressive disabling diseases.The longer time goes on,the worse they become.Some people are disabled in accidents.Many others may have a period of disability in the form
4、of a mental illness.All are affected by peoples attitudes towards them. Disabled people face many physical barriers.Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends,imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps,or onto buses and trains.How would you cope if you could not see where
5、you were going or could not hear the traffic?But there are other barriers:prejudice can be even harder to break down and ignorance inevitably represents by far the greatest barrier of all.It is almost impossible for the ablebodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through,so it is im
6、portant to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability,not their disability,that count. 詞 海 拾 貝1estimate n估計;評價2.disablement n殘疾;傷殘,失去能力3.progressive adj.漸次的,逐漸的4.barrier n障礙,阻礙5prejudice n偏見,歧視6.inevitably adv.不可避免地;必然地7.individual adj.個人的,個體的 謝謝觀看!