- •Анисимова н.И., Вербицкая с.В., Румянцева м.Е. Steps up 5
- •Introduction 4
- •Introduction 6
- •Introduction 50
- •Introduction 72
- •Introduction 92
- •Introduction
- •Unit 1. Health
- •Introduction Fighting Fit
- •Health and Fitness
- •Time Matters
- •Heart disease and changing attitudes
- •Heart disease: treat or prevent?
- •Health and illness
- •Diagnosis and Remedies
- •A Nurse's lament
- •Alternative therapy
- •Acupuncture
- •Alternative therapy and migraine
- •Bad habits
- •Linking words and phrases
- •Stress-related hair loss
- •Smile Power
- •Stressbusters
- •Aids – not someone else's problem
- •Ethical questions in health care
- •Medicine and genetic research
- •Synonyms and Paraphrases
- •Take care in the sun
- •Plastic surgery
- •Homeopathy
- •Better health for everyone
- •1. One Earth – Two Worlds of Health
- •2. Increasing Costs and Ethical Choices: Health Care in the Industrial World
- •Vocabulary in Context
- •3. A Question of Priorities: Health Care in the Third World
- •Vocabulary in Context
- •4. Prevention – Often Better Than Cure
- •Health scares
- •Slim chance
- •The place where you work
- •At the mercy of the cure
- •Check yourself
- •Unit 2. Psychology.
- •Introduction You And Your Image
- •Behaviour in crowds
- •Practical psyhology
- •From head to toe. Body language.
- •Idiomatic Expressions
- •Mutual impressions
- •Character and personality
- •Character
- •Social Types
- •Friends
- •Character reference
- •Personal equation cards
- •Unit 3. Men vs. Women
- •Introduction
- •Recognizing Stereotypes
- •Big boys don’t cry
- •Short Views
- •Women and power: perspectives from anthropology
- •Why I want a wife
- •Exploring fatherhood
- •Attitudes and beliefs
- •A 1980s Couple
- •I must admit, I'm afraid I'm tempted to agree.
- •Definite Attitudes
- •Gender on Screen
- •Afraid of giving
- •Male and female conversational styles
- •Check yourself
- •Unit 4. Shall we believe it?
- •Introduction Your Superstitious Beliefs
- •Strange but true
- •Believe it or not
- •Mystics and prophets
- •Reading your palm
- •The ‘night’ side of life
- •Dreamland
- •Lunatics
- •The russians
- •Unit 5. Diversity of cultures
- •Culture shock
- •1. United States of America
- •2. South Africa
- •3. Thailand
- •4. Malaysia
- •5. China
- •6. Britain
- •7. France
- •What Makes An American?
- •Culture defined
- •Comparing and contrasting cultures
- •Global culture
- •Chinese space, american space
- •Japanese and american workers: two states of mind
- •Let's play fifty questions
- •The importance of manners
- •Violence sneaks into punk scene
- •These children are taught to survive
- •Unusual homes
- •Unusual occupations
- •Career expectations
- •Check yourself
- •Sources
Stress-related hair loss
Read the following text carefully and choose the answer which best fits each space. The first answer has been given as an example (0).
When stress levels become so high that they affect the immune system it can have a (0) ………C……… effect on the body and the hair. Hair loss itself causes immense stress and then it can become a vicious (1) ……………… .
Bonnie Kinnear, 50s, housewife: 'Last year my life was quite stressful due to my husband's high-profile career being constantly in the (2) ……………… At this time I began to develop an (3) ……………… scalp which was wrongly diagnosed as psoriasis, for which I was (4) ……………… steroids. Over the next two months my scalp became worse, and hair began to fall out, leaving (5) ……………… patches, which was devastating.
Having to look good and be a support to my famous husband was stressful because wherever we went people would look at us. I had lost at (6) ……………… one third of my hair and, in (7) ………………, visited a high-profile Mayfair trichologist. Without any (8) ……………… I was ordered to buy Ј300 (9) ……………… of products and my head was massaged by a girl who proceeded to turn my hair into what is (10) ……………… as 'bird's-nest syndrome'. It took four hours to (11) ……………… .
My GP (12) ……………… me to seek help from Andrew Bernie. I was diagnosed with a stress-triggered (13) ……………… where the skin cells multiply fast, grow down the hairshaft and bind with sebaceous matter to strangle the hair. I visit Andrew regularly for (14) ……………… . I am also trying to (15) ……………… my stress levels, which is easier now my hair is returning.
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B heavy B effect B spotlight B enlarged B ordered B bald B all B fun B diagnosis B value B known B untangle B forbade B symptom B dates B assess |
C profound C closure C searchlight C inflamed C allowed C dark C least C hope C study C price C seen C return C convinced C outcome C services C manage |
D full D circle D starlight D inflicted D recommended D hairy D first D desperation D result D cost D referred D reset D reported D condition D appointments D measure |