The key answer of exercise 3
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9 - The power of the mind for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning
Question
Read each sentence and decide whether it is an argument the writer makes.
Answer
- No (The placebo effect can sometimes help, but that doesn’t mean drugs are never needed.)
- Yes (Sometimes doctors can measure physical changes after patients take a placebo, e.g. their blood pressure may fall.)
- No (only some are)
- Yes (The monk concentrated and increased his body temperature to 40°C.)
- No (People can be trained to deal with pain.)
- Yes (Alama Kante was hypnotised before her operation, so she did not need any drugs and she could sing during the operation: her voice was not damaged and she recovered more quickly.)
- Yes (People give up because they think they are too old.)
- No (not stated in the article, though possibly true!)
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