The
薬草、鍼、マッサージ、アロマセラピーなどによる治療法や健康法は中国や南アメリカの固有な文化が用いてきたが、最近では西欧の国々やアメリカでも盛んに用いられるようになった。 薬草の貿易が活発になり、特に中国からベトナムを経由しタイやラオスに大量に輸出される
Choose the correct answer.
1. Each year, people spend millions
of dollars on health care, drugs and various remedies to take care
______________ themselves.
a) in
b) from
c) of
2. Traditionally, it is the ______________ nations,
such as China, and indigenous cultures such as those in South America that have
used natural and alternative medicines to treat their health problems.
a) eastern
b) western
c) northern
3. But these days, western
nations, such as the U.K., Germany, Australia, Finland,
a) on
b) in
c) of
4. In fact, the World Health
______________ (WHO) estimates that four billion people, two-thirds of the
world's population, use herbal medicines for some sort of primary health care.
a) Organized
b) Organizing
c) Organization
5. Herbal and natural medicine
______________ for thousands of years.
a) has practiced
b) had been practiced
c) has been practiced
6. It is also holistic,
______________ that it doesnt just focus on the sick
part of the body.
a) meaning
b) meaned
c) mean
7. Practitioners believe that
everything in the body is connected, and that treatment is meant to be
______________ preventative as it is curative.
a) that
b) which
c) as
8. As a result, the rise in
the use of ______________ and alternative medicines is also sparking a rise in
international trade, especially from
a) chemical
b) artificial
c) herbal
9.In 2006, trade in this
region was ______________ $25 million USD.
a) on
b) about
c) with
10. While some of these northern
medicines from China stay in ______________ , many are exported again to other
countries such as Thailand and Laos, resulting in more than 80 percent of this
trade going through the small border town of
a)
b)
c)
Created by Noriyuki Yuasa