精听建议：

先完整地把一条新闻听一到三遍，争取掌握大意。然后，一句一句精听，力争每句话都听明白。遇到实在不懂的地方，再听写。

下面的文本材料中空缺部分里面要填的词都很简单，不过是一些值得注意的连读或者典型的美式发音哦，有些语速比较快。试试看，你能不能全部写对？

（参考文本，欢迎指出错误^^）

Lesson18 Medicine
What is medicine? And what is health? In different cultures and at different times you would have received varying answers to these questions. In the modern Western medical tradition, the 1 are first to get rid of disease, and then to keep people healthy.
In earlier times, Western medicine depended on 2 , folk remedies, and theories going back to the Arab civilizations and beyond that to 3 .
True advances in medical care did not take place until the 1800's, and it was not until the 1900's that medicine was able to reduce the high death rates caused by infections.
Eastern medicine took a different line. It is believed that the whole body had to be treated in order to keep it healthy and to prevent disease from appearing.
Chinese medicine developed from a totally different 4 from science-based Western medicine. It treats the whole body by restoring the balance of forces flowing within it.
Now, in the 21st century, Western medicine has begun to accept 5 traditional Eastern medicine. There is growing interest in this and other forms of traditional medicine.

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