Q: Jim suffered heart problems. In conversation he expressed little joy and it seemed that his life was drawing to a close. When his heart problems led to operation, Jim went through it successfully, and a full recovery was expected. Within days, however, his heart was not beating properly. Jim was rushed back to operation, but nothing was found to explain the cause of his illness. He died on the operating table on the day before his 48th birthday. Dr. Bruce Smoller, a psychologist , had had many conversations with him, and the more he learned, the stranger he realized Jim's case was. When Jim was a child, his father, a teacher, suffered a heart attack and stayed home to recover. One morning Jim asked his father to look over his homework, promising to come home from school at noon to pick it up. His father agreed, but when Jim returned his father had died. Jim's father was 48. "I think all his life Jim believed he killed his father," Dr. Smoller says. "He felt that if he had not asked him to look at his homework, his father would have lived. Jim had been troubled by the idea. The operation was the trial he had expected for forty years. " Smoller believes that Jim willed himself not to live to the age of 48. Jim's case shows the powerful role that attitude plays in physical health, and that childhood experiences produce far-reaching effect on the health of grown-ups. Although most cases are less direct than Jim's, studies show that childhood events, besides genes, may well cause such midlife diseases as cancer, heart disease and mental illness.

Answer the following questions:
1. What are midlife diseases?
2. How old was Jim when his father died?
3. What did he his dad do for a living?
4. What did the son need help with?
5. Did he believe that it killed his dad?
6. What happened when he was 47?
7. Was he expected to survive the surgery?
8. Who analyzed Jim?
9. What does he do?
10. Did Jim & Smoller talk much?
11. What effects the health of adults?
A: 1. Cancer, heart disease and mental illness.
2. Eight
3. He was a teacher,
4. his homework
5. Dr. Smoller thiought so.
6. He died on the operating table.
7. a full recovery was expected for the first surgery.
8. Dr. Bruce Smoller
9. he is a psychologist
10. They had had many conversations
11. Attitude.
Q: Mrs Elise was my teacher in the fourth grade. One day at lunch time, I was getting ready to eat my tuna fish sandwich and suddenly Mrs Elise asked me if she could buy my sandwich from me. She explained that I could use the money to buy a hot hunch from the cafeteria . I was excited. I never bought my lunch at the cafeteria. It was too expensive for my family, and I always carried my lunch and took the bag back home to use it again the next day. So you could understand my happiness when I had the chance to buy a hot lunch. When we finished lunch that day, Mrs Elise took me aside and said she wanted to explain why she had bought my sandwich. I really didn't care why, but it gave me a few minutes of her special attention, so I was quiet as she explained. She told me that she was a Catholic and Catholics didn't eat red meat on Fridays, they ate fish on Fridays. Oh, I couldn't wait to get home and tell my mother that from then on I wanted a tuna fish sandwich on Fridays. After my mother understood why, she gladly made tuna fish sandwiches for me on Fridays. She even made it with brown bread because she knew Mrs Elise liked brown bread. From then on, every Friday I could get in line with other kids for a hot lunch. I didn't care how many of the kids complained about cafeteria food. It tasted _ to me! I realize now that Mrs Elise could have made herself tuna fish sandwiches on Fridays. But she bought mine because she saw a little girl who was excited at the simple act of having a hot lunch. I will never forget Mrs Elise for her pity for me and generosity and what I should do is to follow her example.

Answer the following questions:
1. who was the instructor?
2. what level did she teach?
3. what religion did the instructor practice?
4. On what day could she not consume beef?
5. what did the consume instead?
6. was the young in the story wealthy?
7. did the young woman purchase something?
8. what?
9. from where?
10. did someone make something?
11. who?
12. what she make?
13. was she happy doing so?
14. did the young woman like eating warm food?
A: 1. Mrs Elise
2. the fourth grade
3. Catholicism
4. Friday
5. fish
6. No
7. yes
8. a hot hunch
9. the cafeteria
10. Yes
11. the young woman's mother
12. tuna fish sandwiches
13. Yes
14. Yes
Q: The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is a research university located in San Francisco, California and part of the University of California system. The university is entirely dedicated to health sciences and is a major center of medical and biological research and teaching, and is ranked as one of the top universities in the biomedical field in the country and around the world. It was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864, and in 1873 it became affiliated with the University of California. The UCSF School of Medicine is the oldest medical school in the Western United States.

The UCSF School of Medicine is one of the most selective medical schools in the United States based on average MCAT score, GPA, and acceptance rate. In 2017, 8,078 people applied and 505 were interviewed for 145 positions in the entering class. UCSF is ranked 3rd among research-oriented medical schools in the United States and ranked 3rd for primary care by "U.S. News and World Report," making it the only medical school to achieve a top-5 ranking in both categories. UCSF is currently ranked 3rd among medical schools in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Clinical Medicine, 2016).

The UCSF Medical Center is the nation's 5th-ranked hospital and 1st-ranked hospital in California according to "U.S. News & World Report". In 2014, a national evaluation of residency programs named UCSF and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine the top two physician training institutions in the United States. With 25,398 employees, UCSF is the second largest employer in San Francisco.

Answer the following questions:
1. What is the college dedicated to?
2. What is the abreviation for the school?
3. IS it difficult to get accepted to the school?
4. How many student spots were open in 2017?
5. did many apply?
6. how many?
7. were all interviewed?
8. when was it founded?
9. what was its name?
10. what happened in 1873?
11. It is ranked the top university in what?
12. just in the state?
13. Who ranked the university 3rd for primary care?
14. which made it what?
15. what did the Academic Ranking of World Universiies rank it as?
16. in the us?
17. when?
18. does the school have a medical center?
19. how many people work there?
20. is it a large employer?
A:
1. health sciences
2. UCSF
3. yes
4. 145
5. yes
6. 8,078
7. no
8. 1864
9. Toland Medical College
10. it became affiliated with the University of California.
11. the biomedical field
12. in the country and around the world
13. U.S.News and World Report
14. the only medical school to achieve a top 5 ranking in two categories
15. 3rd among medical schools
16. in the world
17. 2016
18. yes
19. 25,398 people
20. syes