2 Fill each of the gaps in these sentences with an appropriate word or phrase. EXAMPLE: l suppose you could have a point when you say wages are low. a You well think it's possible, but I doubt it. b You won't of me before but I used to live next door to your sister. c You're a bit overweight; you doing more regular exercise. d That Vangelis over there - hasn't he gone away for the week? e That's absurd; they really taken your motorbike by mistake, surely? f They got here so fast, they run al1 the way g I've been looking everywhere for you: you me you weren't going to be here!

Good health is very important for very person. Still, sometimes we get ill, we call a doctor, and he examines us and diagnoses the illness. When we have a headache, a stomach ache, a sore throat, a cold, or a pain in some parts of the body, we call a doctor. He takes our temperature and our pulse. He examines our heart, our lungs, our stomach or the part where we have pain, and tells us what the matter is with us. The doctor prescribes medicine, and gives us a prescription, which we take to the chemist's, who makes up the medicine.

If you follow the doctor's orders, you get better; if you disobey the doctor, you may get worse, and even die. We must obey the doctor, if we want to get better. If we have a temperature, we must stay in bed and take the medicine he prescribes. If we cannot get better at home we must go to hospital. If we are too ill to walk, we go to hospital in the ambulance. After our illness we can go to a sanatorium until we are strong again.

When we have toothache, we go to the dentist's. He examines our teeth, finds the tooth which hurts us, stops or extracts it.

In our country health system incorporates a variety of medical institutions. The medical service is of two kinds. Some state establishments give their employees medical insurance cards. They guarantee the people free of charge medical assistance. Some medical establishments charge fees for treatment. They may be rather high, but our medical service now uses all modern equipment and medicines and provides qualified medical help to all people.

He told me that he would come as soon as he was ready. She said that we should know that she had gone to the concert if she was not at home by eight. She said that she would come to the Philharmonic with me if I got tickets. She told us that five years before there had been no people living there at all. He said that he would go skiing on Sunday if he had time. He said that they had finished building that house only the week before. She said that it would be very pleasant when Tom came home. He said that he would do it at once if I liked. She said that her brother had been there early that day. He said that it was a pity I hadn’t come earlier. The lecturer told the students that there would be an interesting lecture at their school the next day. He also said that one of their teachers would speak about Charles Dickens. She said that the year before she had spent her summer vacation in the Caucasus. He said that he had come to live in that town several years before. She told us that she would be reading us a story until it was time to go to bed. He said that he had read all about it in that day’s newspaper.