完整版2015年河海大学研究生英语一Unit7TheHealingpowerofBeliefVIP免费

Unit 7 The Healing power of Belief For the past two years,I have been studying cancer survivors at UGLA,trying to find out why it is that some people respond much better to their treatment than do others.At first I though that some patients did well because their illnesses were not as severe as the illnesses of others. On closer scrutiny,however,I discovered that severity of the illness was only one of a number of factors that accounted for the difference between those who get well and those who don’t .The patients i am talking about here received upon diagnosis whatever therapy medication,radiation,surgery-their individual cases demanded.Yet the response to such treatments was hardly uniform.Some patients fared much better in their therapies than others. 在过去的两年里，我一直在UGLA 研究癌症幸存者，试图发现为什么对有些人治疗产生的效果会比其他人好。 开始我认为一些病人治疗效果好是因为他们的疾病没有别人严重。但是经过进一步的仔细研究，我发现疾病的严重性仅是解释康复的人与没有好转的人之间区别的众多因素中的其中一个。我这里所说的这些病人根据他们个人病情的需要接受治疗，包括药物治疗， 放射疗法， 外科治疗。但是这些治疗的反映几乎不一致。一些病人在治疗过程中进展得其他病人要好得多。What was it,then,that was different?Was there any one thing that all survivors had in common?Yes.I have found that the major characteristics of these survivors were very similar.Among the similarities are: They all had a strong will to live They were not panicky about their illness They had confidence in their ability to persevere Despite all the forecasts to the contrary,they believed they could make it They were capable of joyous response They were convinced that their treatment would work. 那么到底是什么不同呢？有没哪一点是所有幸存者的共有点呢？是的，我发现这些幸存者的主要特征非常相似，相似点有...