Biletul nr. 15 Bacalaureat Limba Engleza

Limba Engleza 1-2 ore/saptamana

SUBIECTUL I

Read the text below and answer the following questions:

a. What does acupuncture involve?
b. What did the Chinese philosophers believe?
c. What do scientists today think about acupuncture?

Acupuncture has recently become very popular, but doctors have been using it in China for over two thousand years.
Acupuncture involves pushing needles into the skin at special points around the body. Ancient Chinese philosophers believed these points were connected to different organs - such as the heart or lungs - and that the needles could cure diseases.
Today, acupuncture is used in many countries, and studies show it works - especially for headaches, backaches and addiction to smoking. Since the 1950s, doctors in China have also been using acupuncture as an anaesthetic in major operations. Patients are awake and know what is happening in the operation but they feel little or no pain. Chinese philosophers believed that the needles helped to balance forces that they called 'yin' and 'yang'. Today, scientists think that the needles make the body produce a chemical called 'endorphin'. This helpes to reduce the feeling of pain.

SUBIECTUL II

How important is it that we should protect the environment? Give arguments and examples.