Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is, by definition, an alternative to

something else: modern, Western medicine. But the term
alternative can be misleading, even off-putting for some people.
Few practitioners of homeopathy, acupuncture, herbalism and
the like regard their therapies as complete substitutes for modern
medicine. Rather, they consider their disciplines as supplementary
to orthodox medicine.
The problem is that many doctors refuse even to recognize
natural or alternative medicine, so they call for a radically different
view of health, illness and cure. But whatever doctors may think, the
demand for alternative forms of medical therapy is stronger than
ever before, as the limitations of modern medical science become
more widely understood.
Alternative therapies are often dismissed by orthodox medicine
because they are sometimes administered by people with no formal
medical training. But, in comparison with many traditional therapies,
western medicine as we know it today is a very recent phenomenon.
Until only 150 years ago, herbal medicine and simple inorganic
compounds were the most effective treatments available.
Despite the medical establishments intolerant attitude,
alternative therapies are being accepted by more and more doctors,
and the World Health Organization has agreed to promote the
integration of proven, valuable, alternative knowledge and skills in
western medicine.

COMPREHENSION (15 points)

(Base your answers on the text.)

A. Answer these questions (2 points)

1. Why is the term alternative not entirely appropriate when applied
to medicine?

2. Why are alternative therapies often rejected by conventional

doctors?

B. Say if these sentences are true or false and justify. (3 points)

Nowadays, more and more people are asking for alternative .1
.medicine

2. Herbal medicine has been the most effective treatment available

for 50 years.

3. WHO refuses alternative medicines

C. Find in the text words meaning almost the same as: (3points)
1. Deceptive: (pph 1):
2. given: (pph:4):.
3. encourage (pph 5): ..
.D. What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (3 points)

1. they (pph 2): .

2. they (pph 3) :
3. they (pph 4) :

E. Choose the correct answer: (4 points)

1. Few practitioners of alternative medicine

a) consider their therapies to he complete replacements for modern

medicine.
b) reject the term alternative.
c) refuse to recognize alternative medicine.

2. Alternative therapies
a) are well regarded by the medical establishment.
b) are integrated into western medicine nowadays.
c) are becoming more popular with many doctors.
3. Western medicine
a) has existed for a comparatively short time.
b) is based on many traditional therapies.
c) is practiced by people with no formal medical training.

4. The World Health Organization

a) has an intolerant attitude towards alternative therapies.
b) agrees with all alternative medicine.
e) will support effective traditional knowledge and skills.

LANGUAGE (15 points)

A. Match the words that go together to make a collocation. (2points)

1. untreated : _______________

audience.

2. appreciative: _______________ break.

Sewage.
B. Rewrite these sentences beginning with the words given. (4 points)
Louis Daguerre took the first photograph in the 19th century .1
................................................................................. The first photograph
.It rained on my cousins wedding day .2
........................................................................................................ If only

3. The weather was bad but we went camping.

Despite ..
4. Kate to Kirby: "Where did you buy this bike?"
Kate wanted to know .
C. Write the words between brackets in the correct form. (4 points)
The United States became the world's first modern (democrat) ______________ after
its break with Great Britain in 1776 and the (adopt) ______________ of a constitution
in1789. Buoyed by victories in World Wars I and II and the end of the Cold War in
1991, the US remains the world's most (power) ______________ nation-state. The
economy is marked by steady (grow) ______________ low unemployment and
.inflation, and rapid advances in technology

D. Fill in the blanks with the right prepositions (3 points)

1. I'd always seen Ian and Jessica together and just took it _________ granted that they
were married

2. The boss told the waiter _______ for his arrogance.

3. We have run _______ _______ onions, honey. Will you buy some, please?
E. What do you say in these situations? ( 2 points)
1. You Teacher: "I apologize for not coming to your party. I was busy preparing for a
test."
Your classmate:
2. A friend of yours: "Let's go out to the movies tonight?"
You: .
WRITING (10 points)
Write an article to be published in your school magazine about citizenship.
What is citizenship? What is good citizenship and what is bad citizenship? What does
a good citizen do? How can good citizenship be nurtured and improved?