Section 3
Task 1. Learning to rephrase.
1.Thousands of people die of heart attacks every year, heart disease is becoming so widespread that we can almost talk of an epidemic.
2.That is, people with heart disease often show one or more of these traits.
3.The answer is, a person's personality determines that he or she will be likely to develop this illness.
4.They set themselves unrealistic goals and force themselves to meet impossible deadlines.
5.Eventually, their responses to life become less creative, more automatic, and all of their activities are performed under stress.
6.In the past, men have tended to show Type A behaviour more than women have, but with an increasing number of women entering the labour force, this also may change.
7.Stress seems to be caused by our highly technical, highly rushed modern way of life.
8.Now it is not uncommon for a sixty or fifty or even a forty-year-old to suffer a heart attack.
9.Too preoccupied with his schedule, he has little capacity to concentrate on what other people are saying, unless, of course, they are talking about work.
10.When he returns to work, he finds that the leisure time of the night before has helped him find a creative solution to his work problems.
n. 紧张,压力
v. 强调,着重