Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

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

  1. No (The placebo effect can sometimes help, but that doesn’t mean drugs are never needed.)
  2. Yes (Sometimes doctors can measure physical changes after patients take a placebo, e.g. their blood pressure may fall.) 
  3. No (only some are)
  4. Yes (The monk concentrated and increased his body temperature to 40°C.)
  5. No (People can be trained to deal with pain.)
  6. 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.)
  7. Yes (People give up because they think they are too old.)
  8. No (not stated in the article, though possibly true!)