38. A) Complete the sentences with the words and word combinations from the box. Learn the words and word combinations from the box.

cholesterol [kR'lestRrOl] – холестерин

germ [dGR:m] – болезнетворная бактерия

molecule ['mOlILkju:l] – молекула

microbe ['maIkrRub] – микроб

out of touch blood pressure are at the root of take refuge in protective effects risk factors

diet quit luxuries survival single healing

priorities focuses on premature steadily spiritual approach

cardiovascular self-destructive connection well-being significantly fortunately

Love Is Real Medicine Loneliness fosters cardiovascular disease. Fortunately, there’s an antidote.

A 61-year-old executive was in the midst of a divorce when he was stricken last spring, and he had fallen ______________ (1) with friends and family members. The man’s doctor advised him to change his __________ (2), start exercising and __________ (3) smoking. He also prescribed drugs to lower cholesterol and ___________________ (4). It was sound advice but the patient discovered that he needed to do more. He joined a support group and reordered his ______________ (5), placing relashionships at the top of the list instead of the bottom. His health has improved _____________ (6) since then, and so has his outlook on life.

Medicine today __________ primarily ___ (7) drugs and surgery, genes and germs, microbes and molecules. Yet love and intimacy are ______________ (8) what makes us sick and what makes us well. Connections with other people affect not only the quality of our lives but also our _____________ (9). Study after study find that people who feel lonely are many times more likely to get ___________________ (10) disease than those who have a strong sense of ______________ (11) and community. In part, this is because people who are lonely are more likely to engage in __________________ (12) behaviors. Patients _________________ (13) cigarettes, food, alcohol or drugs.

________________ (14), love protects your heart in ways that we don’t completely understand. Researchers studied almost 10,000 married men and found that those who answered “yes” to the simple question – “Does your wife show you her love?” – had ________________ (15) less chest pain. Men and women with heart disease who were _________ (16) and lacked confidants were three times as likely to have died after five years. In all the studies, the _________________ (17) of love were independent of other ______________ (18).

Awareness is the first step in _____________ (19). When we understand the connection between how we live and how long we live, it’s easier to make different choices. Instead of viewing the time we spend with friends and family as ___________ (20), we can see that these relationships are among the most powerful determinants of our _____________ (21) and survival. We are hard-wired to help each other. Science is documenting the healing values of love, intimacy, community, compassion, forgiveness, altruism and service – values that are part of almost all ______________ (22) traditions as well as many secular ones. Seen in this context, being unselfish may be the most self-serving ____________ (23) to life, for it helps free both the giver and recipient from suffering, disease and ______________ (24) death. Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when the world so badly needs it.

(After Dean Ornish, M.D., Newsweek, 2005.)

b) Match the following words with their definitions.

1.	premature ['premetSR]	a.	an extremely close personal relationship
2.	to heal	b.	a person you trust and can discuss your secrets and private feelings with
3.	executive	c.	to make a person or part of the body healthy again (formal)
4.	drug	d.	a feeling of sympathy and caring for someone who is in a bad situation
5.	surgery	e.	a person who receives something (formal)
6.	'intimacy	f.	developing or happening before the natural or proper time
7.	community	g.	medicine or substance one takes for pleasure or excitement
8.	confidants ['kOnfILdWnt]	h.	medical treatment in which a doctor cuts open someone’s body
9.	awareness	i.	a senior manager in a business or other organization
10.	determinants	j.	not connected with or controlled by a church, not religious
11.	hard-wired	k.	consideration of the happiness and the good of others before one’s own
12.	compassion	l.	the feeling that you belong to a group and that this is a good thing
13.	altruism ['WltruLIz(R)m]	m.	behavior caused by your genes, rather than learnt from experience
14.	secular ['sekjulR]	n.	something that decides, fixes, settles, or limits
15.	recipient [rI'sIpIRnt]	o.	knowledge or understanding of a subject, issue or a situation

c) Find the English for

способствовать развитию чего-либо; сердечнососудистые заболевания; противоядие; перенести удар (приступ); перестать общаться с…; понизить уровень холестерина; артериальное давление; здравый, разумный совет; пересмотреть приоритеты; хирургия; находить утешение в алкоголе; факторы риска; осознание; быть запрограммированным; общность; тесная связь, близость; сострадание; умение прощать; помощь, услуга; духовные традиции; светский; безвременная смерть; избавить от болезней.

d) Answer the questions:

1. What did the doctor advise his 61-year-old patient after a heart attack?	to avoid doing sth
2. What did the doctor insist on?	to change one’s lifestyle to start exercising
3. What did the patient worry about?	to fall out of touch with ...
4. What was the doctor concerned about?	to lower sb’s cholesterol and blood pressure
5. How did the patient manage to improve his health?	to be able / to join a support group and ...
6. What is he grateful to the support group members for?	to help sb / to change one’s outlook on life
7. What does medicine focus on today?	to prescribe... / to study...
8. What kind of disease are lonely people likely to get?	to be prone / cardiovascular disease
9. What kind of self-destructive behavior do lonely patients take refuge in?	to abuse sth (злоупотреб-лять чем-либо)
10. What did the researchers find out?	to succeed in / to prove
11. What enables people to make a proper balance between personal relationships and work?	to understand the connection between... / to enable
12. Why are family and friendly relationships considered to be powerful determinants of our well-being and survival?	to be hard-wired ...
13. What values are considered to be an integral part of most spiritual and secular traditions?	to be certain ...
14. What is seen as the most self-serving approach to life?	to be unselfish / to be seen as
15. What may help us survive?	to rediscover sth