Reading comprehension - Part I
1(a)
iii) Symptoms people share with favourite television characters.
1(b) i)
“Telly belly” is putting the NHS under pressure
ii)
In
some cases “telly belly” is replacing official information.
1(c)
humour
worry
1(d)
i) Someone has a headache and they think they have a brain tumour, as seen
with Tom Banks.
ii)When Alma Sedgewick
from Coronation Street died of cervical cancer, more people had smear tests.
2(a) i) People now know about
Group B Streptococcus.
ii) After watching a TV
documentary about testicular cancer people do checks on themselves.
2(b) quarter
health
3(a)
The positive aspect for soap featuring health issues is that people take more
interest in their own health.
The negative aspects for soap
featuring health issues are that TV health scares people which then leads to
added pressure on GPs.
3(b) Dr John henry believes that it is for the good when patients
take more responsibility for their own health.
Reading comprehension -
Part II
4(a) Chinese medicine describes the
disharmonies in terms of the patterns they manifest.
4(b)
Exterior is chronic disharmony
Interior
is sudden and acute
Cold
is deficient Yang or an External Pernicious Cold Influence
Heat is caused by an
invasion of External Pernicious Heat Influence, the depeletion of Yin Substance and Excess Yang.
4(c) Deficiency
Excess
Reading comprehension -
Part III
5(a) i) The three
laws of motion
ii) The
law of gravity
5(b) i)The book
could have been an opportunistic theft
ii)
The book could have been stolen to order
5(c) The book is so
rare because it is a first edition.
There are only 250 copies, 200 of which still exist. Of the 200 copies that still exist 70
of them aree in libraries in the US.
5(d) speculation
stolen
1
hygiene
2
awareness
3
store
4
before
5
these
6
completely
7
onto
8
least
9
quickly
10 longer