Language Expansion: Everyday Ailments

For every common health problem, there’s a product for sale to cure it. Are you suffering from insomnia? There's a pill to help you fall asleep. Did a pimple appear on your face? There's a cream for that. If you have a headache after a long day at work, or perhaps a sore throat and fever, you can buy something to make you feel better. Do you have indigestion because you ate the wrong kind of food? There's a pill to end the burning feeling in your stomach. If food won't stay in your stomach at all, you can take some medicine to end the nausea. Or maybe you ate too fast, so now you have the hiccups. Well, you won't find anything at the pharmacy for hiccups, but there's probably a company working on a new product for that right now.

A. Write the words in blue next to their definition.

(Viết các từ màu xanh lam bên cạnh định nghĩa của chúng)

1. insomnia not being able to sleep

2. __________ high body temperature

3. __________ a repeated send in your throat, often from eating too quickly

4. __________ a feeling that what's in your stomach will come up

5. __________ pain in the stomach because of something you have eaten

6. __________ a small raised spot on the skin 

7. __________ a pain in your head

8. __________ a general feeling of pain in the throat