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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 |
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