Unit 2 Morals and Virtues Reading and Thinking 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语人教版（2019）必修第三册

Mother of Ten Thousand Babies Unit 2 Reading and thinking 1 1. What are some important life choices? …… education career / job marriage Lead-in Think Share 2. What guides people to make important life choices during COVID-19? Guessing game Who is he/she? A woman who devoted all her life to deliver babies. An 84-year-old man who chose to rush to Wuhan Lin Qiaozhi is Zhong Nanshan’s grandaunt（姑婆）. 4 What impresses you most in this video? Look at the title and pictures, what do you think the text is about? Pre-reading From the title and the pictures, we can know that the passage might be about __________________________________ the stories of a female doctor, Lin Qiaozhi. Mother of Ten Thousand Babies ◆ What’s the text type? argumentation (议论文) exposition (说明文) biography (人物传记) Skim the text and answer the questions 7 As a five-year-old girl, Lin Qiaozhi was deeply affected by her mother's death. At age 18, instead of following the traditional path of marriage like the majority of girls, she chose to study medidne. “Why should girls learn so much? Finding a good husband should be their final goal!” her brother complained, thinking of the high tuition fees. She responded, “I'd rather stay single to study all my life!” Eight years later, Lin graduated from Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) with the Wehai Scholarship, the highest prize given to graduates. She immediately became the first woman ever to be hired as a resident physician in the OB-GYN department of the PUMC Hospital. Within six months, she was named a chief resident physician, a position that usually took four years to achieve. After working for a few years, she was sent to study in Europe and then, in 1939, in the US. She greatly impressed her American colleagues, who invited her to stay. Dr Lin, however, rejected the offer. She wanted to serve the women and children at home. In 1941, Dr Lin became the first Chinese woman ever to be appointed director of the OB-GYN department