Biletul nr. 2 - 2005

Limba Engleza 1-2 ore/saptamana

SUBIECTUL I

Read the text below and answer the following questions:

a. What do homeopathic doctors believe?
b. What do homeopathic doctors do to cure an illness?
c. What do critics say?

Homeopathy was invented in Germany about 200 years ago. Homeopathic doctors believe that the symptoms of an illnes are signs that the body is trying to cure itself. To cure an illness, therefore, they give the pacient something that produces the same symptoms in a healthy person. Before a substance is used as a homeopathic remedy, it is tested by giving small doses of it to healthy persons to see what symptoms develop. For example, onions cause your eyes and nose to produce water. To cure colds, therefore, homeopathic doctors use an exctact from onions. Sometimes, homeopathic doctors use dangerous poisons as medicines, but they dilute them many thousands of times so that they are harmless.

Critics say that this is no scientific support for homeopathy, and that in many cases the 'illness' would dissappear naturally anyway.They also say it is possible that simply by believing a medicine will work can help the mind to cure some simple illnesses. Homeopathic doctors, on the other hand, say that there is plenty of evidence that homeopathy works - and millions of people who take homeopathic remedies agree with them. Tests have also shown that animals can be cured with homeopathic medicine, and this, they say, proves that it cannot simply be because people believe in it.

SUBIECTUL II

Choose one of the teachers you have had so far and explain what makes him/her stand out among the other teachers. Point out his/her professional qualities, his/her moral and spiritual features, anything that is special about him/her.

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