导读：四年级学生英语学习重在理解文章意思，逐步养成对文章的把控力，联系上下文了解句子所表达的意思。同时，学生想要提高自己的阅读速度，离不开日常的多读多看多练习，在阅读中学生能够学习到更多的单词及用法，想要学好英语，就要对自己严加要求，从现在开始，做好英语学习的每一步，本篇是一篇英语的阅读理解题，帮助学生进行阅读训练，记得生词好句要进行收集哦!

　　The main impression growing out of twelve years on the faculty of a medical school is that the No.1 health problem in the U.S. today, even more than AIDS or cancer, is that Americans don’t know how to think about health and illness. Our reACTions are formed on the terror level.

　　We fear the worst, expect the worst, thus invite the worst. The result is that we are becoming a nation of weaklings and hypochondriacs, a self-medicating society incapable of

　　distinguishing between casual, everyday symptoms and those that require professional attention.

　　Early in life, too, we become seized with the bizarre idea that we are constantly assaulted by invisible monsters called germs, and that we have to be on constant alert to protect ourselves against their fury. Equal emphasis, however, is not given to the presiding fACT that our bodies are superbly equipped to deal with the little demons and the best way of forestalling an attack is to maintain a sensible life-style.

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