Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

Occasional self-medication has always been part of normal living. The and selling of drugs has a long history and is closely【B1】______ with belief in magic. The doctor is now able to follow up the correct【B2】______ of many illnesses with specific treatment of their【B3】______ . In many other illnesses, of which the causes remain unknown, he is still limited, like the 【B4】______ prescrber, to the treatment of symptoms. The doctor is trained to decide when to treat symptoms only and when to【B5】______ the cause: this is the essential difference between medical prescribing and self-medication.

The【B6】______ of technology had brought about much progress in some fields of medicine. In many countries public health organization is improving, and people's nutritional【B7】______ have risen. Parallel with such【B8】______ trends are two which have an unpleasant effect. One is the use of high pressure advertising by the pharmaceutical industry(制药业), which【B9】______ . The other is the emergence of the sedentary(久坐不动的) society with its faulty way of life:【B10】______ People with disorders arising from faulty habits such as these, as well as from unhappy human relationship,【B11】______ .

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