The underlined words are categorized as ….Ĥ3. Fill in the blaks with the correct answerĤ1. way of treating a person or thing (paragraph 4, line 4)ī. thing made up of two or more parts (paragraph 4, line 4) ways of treating illness (paragraph 4, line 2) including many different things (paragraph 3, line 4)į. admit that something exists (paragraph 3, line 1)Į. thing added tosomething else to complete (paragraph 2, line 1)ĭ. treatment of illness by sticking small needles into the body (paragraph 2, line 1)Ĭ.
impression about something (paragraph 1, line 2)ī. Find the words in the text above which have the following meanings!Ī.
To what group of people does this text suit? Why?Īnswer: The text suits a group of people who trust the cure of an alternative medicine besides doctor treatment.ĥ5. western medicine is orthodox medicine that being accepted by doctors.ĥ4. What are alternative therapies and Western medicine?Īnswer: - Alternative therapies are therapies which are administered by people with nonformal medical training What kind of text type is the passage above? Explain your answer!Īnswer: It is a analytical exposition text because the text gives the arguments about an alternative medicineĥ3. What is the best title of the text above?ĥ2. Until only 150 years ago, herbal medicine and simple inorganic compounds were the most effective treatments available.ĭespite the medical establishment’s 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.ĥ1. But, in comparison with many traditional therapies, western medicine as we know it today is a very recent phenomenon. 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.Īlternative therapies are often dismissed by orthodox medicine because they are sometimes administered by people with no formal medical training. The problem is that many doctors refuse even to recognize ‘natural’or alternative medicine, it calls for a radically different view of health, illness, and cure. Rather, they consider their disciplines as supplementary to orthodox medicine. But the term ’alternative’ can be misleading, even off-putting for some people.įew practitioners of homeopathy, acupuncture, herbalism and the like regard their therapiesas complete substitutes of modern medicine. Read the text below, then answer the questions correctlyĪlternative medicine is, by definition, an alternative to something else: modem, Western medicine.
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