Task 6. Fill in the correct wordsfrom the previous exercise into the gaps below (not all words are needed).

1. Because much of the cost of health care is not covered by insurance, the risk of a long illness is a serious financial __________ to most people in the world.

2. Depression and anxiety are more common among women, while men are more likely to _____ from antiso­cial personality disorders, alcoholism, and drug abuse.

3. The available research indicates that mental______ is not a new problem: the major types of mental ____have been found in every known society, no matter what its way of life.

4. It also appears that social class deeply affects how and where sick persons are treated, and even whether they receive any __________ at all.

5. A longer life span often means the development of chronic __________ that re­quire longer and more frequent hospitalization.

Task 7. Fill in the correct word from the box into the gaps below.

healthy deprived strain rural “rat race” income indicate contribute widespread go up

1. One way to test the effect of modern life on mental health is to compare urban and ___________ rates of mental illness.

2. Many people assume that the stress and _________of modern life are responsible for the high incidence of mental illness.

3. Some of the reasons why health costs will continue to _________ are discussed below.

4. Another way to test the proposition that modern urban society _____________ to mental disorders is to look for evidence that contem­porary rates of mental illness are higher than they were in the past

5. The _________________ for success, the impersonality of large urban organizations, and the confusion of rapid social change are all thought to make our psychological environ­ment unhealthy.

6. Mental illness appears to be rather ________________.

7. The available research _____________ that mental illness is not a new problem: the major types of mental disorders have been found in every known society, no matter what its way of life.

8. In fact, two social factors — ______ and education – largely determine what kind of health we have.

9. A connection between mental ill­ness and ________ living conditions has long been suspected.

10. The way we live is strongly affecting how ____________ we are.

Task 8. Are the following statements about the text true (T) or false (F)?

1.	A few simple changes in everyday living habits cannot ap­parently prevent illness and add years to life.	T / F
2.	Cancer is correlated with smok­ing, eating fatty and refined foods, and breath­ing chemically polluted air.	T / F
3.	We cannot prevent the deaths from homicide, suicide, accidents.	T / F
4.	Today the most dangerous diseases are chronic disorders.	T / F
5.	Prevention of disease means giving up some "bad" habits – smoking cigarettes, eating too many fats, drinking too much, exercising too little, driving too fast.	T / F

Task 9. Now look through the text again and find words which mean the same as:

completely	avertable
up to date	a dowager
to / a ban	to make or become better
incessant	to less painful
a proof	killing

Task 10. Rearrange the letters to form a word used in the text.

1	racnec		aa serious illness caused by a group of cells in the body increasing in an uncontrolled way;
2	nteuecoenarmg		b neither very great nor very small in amount, size, strength, or degree;
3	cagdbnuork		c a condition in which your blood pressure is extremely high;
4	tveualea		d a medicine or treatment that makes someone who is ill become healthy;
5	eulqtyai		e bad behaviour or behaviour that offends other people;
6	xaunois		f drinks such as wine and beer that can make people drunk;
7	egavera		g a crash involving a car, train, plane, or other vehicle;
8	billiguna		h a law, or a set of laws.

Task 11. Choose the best option to complete the sentences.

1. Modern medicine is able to relieve the effects and arrest the progress but it cannot__________.

1. reduce the number of ill people

2. cure or prevent them

3. guarantee a full recovering

2. Heart dis­orders and strokes are related to __________________.

1. diet, cigarette smoking, undetected hypertension, and lack of exercise.

2. breath­ing chemically polluted air

3. smok­ing, eating fatty and refined foods

3. For three out of four deaths among 15- to 25-year-olds are responsi­ble _______.

1. accidents, murders, and suicides

2. cancer and strokes

3. homicide, murders

4. If ciga­rette smoking were stopped entirely, experts estimate _____________.

1. that one out of five deaths from cancer would be prevented

2. that one out of five deaths from heart diseases would be prevented

3. that one out of seven deaths from cancer would be prevented

5. An important role in heart disease and strokes plays _________.

1. smoking

2. drugs

3. stress

Task 12. Use the words from the right side to make the expressions with the words from the left side. Then make up sentences with them.

refined	environment
sulfa	disorder
heart	food
social	drugs
circulatory	disease