UNIT 56: STRESS

Stress is a factor in all our lives. Learning to deal with stress in a positive, intelligent
way is essential to good health. One way to.combat stress is to get rid of it in physical
activities. Anything from jogging around the neighborhood to an exercise on the dance floor
can relieve stress and, surprisingly, give you more energy to come with life. Stress can also
be controlled by changing your mental attitude. Learn to accept things; fighting against the
unavoidable or the inevitable is useless. Learn to take one thing at a time. Rather than trying
to do everything at once, deal with more important problems first, and leave the rest to
another day. Learn to take your mind off yourself. Since stress is self-centered, doing
something for others helps reduce it.

I. VOCABULARY
To deal with: to manage, to tackle, to attend to
To combat: to struggle with: to prevent
To get rid of: to become free of, to discard
To jog: To run
To relieve: to lessen or to end sorrow, pain etc.
Attitude: manner, feelings
Inevitable: that can not be escaped from
Unavoidable: inescapable, inevitable
Self-centered: Interested chiefly in oneself
II. EXERCISE: Complete the sentences with a suitable form of the words defined
above
1. Vitamin C helps .......stress either from worry or from intense physical exercise.
2. As well as relaxing the feet, a foot massage ......the posture and back.
3. The general...... towards individuals with a mental handicap is gradually changing.
4. If the glider is very low and there is not a clear area immediately ahead and below,
a stalling type if crash will be.......
5. .......what you don't need, he wrote.
III. READING COMPREHENSION
1. The writer points out that doing physical activities .........
a. may weakens one's health and lead to stress.
b. not only helps you get over stress but also make you energetic.
c. is only limited to jogging around the neighborhood.
d. is very surprising if it is done on the dance floor.
e. does not help one relieve stress.
2. It is pointed in the passage that there is no point in .......
a. insisting on escaping the things which are sure to happen.
b. accepting things as they are.
c. getting away from the events which please you.
d. wasting one's energy doing unnecessary activities.
e. fighting against stress as it is difficult to get rid of.
3. Stress results from
a. putting the things that you will do in order of importance.
b. dealing with more important things first and leaving the rest to another day.
c. always helping the other and not thinking of oneself.
d. trying to control and change your mental attitude.
e. both trying to do too many thing sat one time and being interested only in
oneself.