UNIT 11 Section Ⅰ TOPIC TALK & LESSON 1（Word教参）-【优化指导】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册（北师大版2019）

单元话题导入 [品读话题短文] My 100 Days with MSF Today we celebrate. It's exactly one month since the last reported case. But it is vital not to take any chances①.So, 20 health care workers from almost as many countries, comrades in arms, raise virtual glasses to each other. I arrived in Liberia with MSF almost three months ago. When I saw the tragic scenes on the news, I felt it was my duty as a doctor to go there and offer my help. I knew I was putting my life at risk②， but I thought, “If I don't do it, who will？” It is important to remember that Ebola doesn't respect national boundaries. There are no borders for doctors, for patients or for anyone else involved in③ combating this terrible disease. My mission was to relieve Emma，a Canadian specialist in infectious diseases at the end of④her posting. Emma spent an hour with me in the staff room talking me through the daily routine. As she talked，I could hear at least three different languages being spoken at the tables around us. Later, Emma introduced me to some of the others working for⑤ or alongside MSF: Wilton, a young local man, who helped carry the very sick into the treatment clinic and who disinfected clothing and surfaces; Maisy, a retired public health official from Darwin, Australia, whose local team of volunteers educated people on preventing infection; Alfonso, a soft­spoken Argentinian doctor in his 50s⑥， who had previously worked on Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Guinea. The list went on. I found that I was the only Chinese doctor among people of all ages, colours and beliefs, from every continent except Antarctica. With each person I met, I felt a growing sense of pride⑦ as part of this extraordinary team, whose devotion to the cause shone from their eyes. In the few weeks since then, I have come to know these people very well. We have worked together，surrounded by blood，vomit and death. But, although the death rate is very high, we will never give up⑧ on a patient, and our efforts do sometimes end in mi