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Interactions 2 Writing, 4/e
Cheryl Pavlik
Margaret Keenan Segal

Medicine, Myths, and Magic

Giving Examples

Read each statement below. Then write the number of the appropriate example on the line.

Examples

a. For example, does anyone expect alternative health methods to cure AIDS?

b. I once knew a man who survived cancer by praying three times a day.

c. An example of this can be seen in isolated villages in northern Pakistan where many people live to be more than 100 years old.

d. It is estimated that Americans spend millions of dollars each year on cures that don't work.

e. Some of these modern "miracles" actually cause more harm than good.


Statements



1

People who go to faith healers are wasting their money.
2

Western medicine relies too heavily on chemicals and technology.
3

Some people successfully use their religious faith to cure themselves.
4

Eating unprocessed natural foods is the best way to avoid illness.
5

We can't depend on alternative methods to cure everything. We need science.