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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,UNIT 13,Insurance,CONTENTS,Teaching Aims,Passage One,Passage Two,Drills,TEACHING AIMS,After studying this,unit,you are,required to,:,1.,H,ave a,sound understanding,about,the,insurance.,2.,Translate the professional language of,the,insurance.,3.,Get hold of,the translating methods and skills of some sentences and paragraphs relating the insurance.,4.,M,aster the difficult words and expressions,.,Passage One,Life Insurance,QUESTIONS,In your perspective,what is life insurance?,What has been the impact of rising longevity rates on life insurance,particular on life insurance premiums?,After reading please summarize some current status of life insurance.,Passage One,Preview,More than two hundred years ago,a group of Presbyterian ministers in the east coast American city of Philadphia,Pennsylvania banded together to form a kind of mutual aid society.The ministers called their group the corporation for relief of poor and distressed Presbyterian ministers,windows,and orphans.Among the benefits offered by the group was this novel safeguard:A contract providing monetary compensation for loss of life in return for payments made in advance.It was Americans first insurance policy.,Passage One,Reading,C,omprehension,Read the following sentences and decide whether they are trueT)or falseF),1.Americans first insurance policy was emerged in the east coast American city of Philadphia,Pennsylvania more than two hundred years ago .(),2.If people are living longer and longer,in contrast,their insurance payment term will become shorter and shorter.(),3.Women in the United States generally live longer than men.But in recent years that gap has been narrowing obviously.(),T,F,F,Passage One,Reading,C,omprehension,4.,The average family will have$70000 for life insurance and most people do not have enough life insurance,.(,),5.,Life insurance or health insurance is based on sharing the risk with healthy people,.,(),T,T,Passage One,Notes,1.Among the benefits offered by the group was this novel safeguard.这是一个倒装句，正常的语序应是：This novel safeguard was among the benefits offered by the group.句中offered by the group是过去分词短语，做后置定语，修饰benefits。,2.A contract providing monetary compensation for loss of life in return for payments made in advance.这局部不是一个独立的句子，而是作为safeguard的补充说明局部，故没有谓语。理解此句时，先从介词for入手，第一个for与第二个for均可翻译成汉语的“由于、因。Made in advance是过去分词短语做定语。短语in advance表示“预先、提前。Providing monetary意为：“到最后，是现在分词短语做定语，修饰contract。,Passage One,Notes,3.I think basically it is that need to replace that income that youre going to lose should you die and leave your family.句子后半局部should you die and leave your family是倒装，表示虚拟。正常顺序是If yous should die。句子前半局部出现了3个that，第一和第二个that均为提示代词，表示“那种，分别修饰need和income；第三个that为关系代词，引导一个定语从句，修饰income。,4.It effects life insurance premiums to the point where people are paying into the system longer into their lives.此句有两个into介词短语。第一个into与动词pay构成短语，表示一个完整的意义。第二个into独立使用。,Passage One,New Words and Expressions:,1.distressed a.贫穷困苦的,Socrates,whos facing death,isnt distressed at the prospect,but happy.苏格拉底在面对死亡时,并不哀伤,反而很快乐,2.safeguard n.保险条款，保护措施,Safeguard by 防护器,Safeguard Clause保障条款；保护条款,safeguard measure保证措施；保障措施；防卫措施,Passage One,New Words and Expressions:,3.,bread winner n.,养家活口的人,peace of wind,安宁,4.,longevity n.,长寿，长命,Perhaps the,longevity,could be explained by another variable the researchers did not examine,he said.,也许长寿还可以用其它研究人员过去没有审视的因素来解释。,Passage One,New Words and Expressions:,5.,to the point,中肯，扼要,This is very strange.It is strange,to the point,of perversity.,这实在是非常奇怪，而且奇怪到很变态的一种心态。,6.,outlive v.,比,多活，活得长,Our ancestor hunt to survive,that is how human spicy,out live,other species.,我们的祖先以狩猎为生，这也是人类的生存能力优于别的物种的原因。,7.,life expectancy,估计寿命，预期寿命,African-American women are another group of low,life expectancy,because of their high rates of obesity.,由于非裔美国女性高比例的肥胖现象，她们是平均寿命低的另一人群。,Passage One,New Words and Expressions:,8.overinsure v.保险过高,underinsure v.保险缺乏,9.mortality n.死亡，死亡率,Falling rates of child mortality are also significant.,儿童死亡率的下降也非常显著。,10.diabetes n.多尿症，糖尿病,Drinking coffee can substantially reduce the risk of developing diabetes,scientists have discovered.,科学家发现，喝咖啡在相当程度上能减少得糖尿病的危险。,Passage One,Assignment,Finish the,rest of,exercises,of,Passage One,Preview,Passage TWO.,Passage Two,中华人民共和国财产保险条例,Passage TWO,Preview,Just a generation ago,women were largely confined to repetitive,menial jobs.They were routinely subjected to casual sexism and were expected to abandon their careers when they married and had children.,Today they are running some of the organisations that once treated them as second-class citizens.Millions of women have been given more control over their own lives.And millions of brains have been put to more productive use.,Yet even the most positive changes can be incomplete or unsatisfactory.And there is still a long way to go.,Passage TWO,Reading,C,omprehension,Read the following sentences and
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