Health and Well-being

1. If you didn’t keep scratching that spot on your face, it would soon ________.

2. There’s no need to be frightened of the dog; he’s quite ________.

3. Tropical diseases are comparatively ________ in Britain.

4. Mary had to be taken to hospital after her ________.

5. Many road accidents occur because motorists cannot ________ the speed of approaching vehicles.

6. The doctor took his temperature and felt his ________.

7. I have such a bad cold that I have lost all ________ of smell.

8. There is ________ that I may have to go into hospital next week.

9. I took her ______ and it was 40ºC.

10. The pain was ______.

11. In the medical profession, men ________ women by five to one.

12. The lorry driver was badly ________ when his lorry crashed into a wall.

13. His mother’s illness is ______.

14. We forgave his bad temper because we knew that his son’s illness had put him under great ________.

15. I don’t smoke, but I don’t object to ________ people smoking.

16. Continue the logic list. Hospital, doctor, nurse, ______.

17. The disease ________ widely, all over the country.

18. Mary is almost well again now, but she still looks rather ________.