The healing properties of travel - Module 6

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Expert Proficiency Resource Book, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

THERAPY

TICKLE

ACCEPT

PRESCRIBE

CONNECT

MIRACLE

AIL

REMOTE

These days, few people question the (0) ___ effects of travel. Indeed, the idea of pilgrimage as a (1) ___ activity is steeped in the history of many religions. For the medieval catholic church, for example, pilgrimages would help restore the individual to health and virtue. The problem might be a (2) ___ cough, a painful rheumatic condition or (3) ___ thoughts that ran contrary to the teachings of the church. Whatever it was, the local priest would respond with a (4) ___ drawn from the pages of an atlas rather than those of a medical dictionary. Pilgrims tended to go to places which had some (5) ___ with the history of the church itself, clues of a (6) ___ nature were not unknown. Although clinics now deal with most of the problems that motivated such pilgrimages, people still hang on to the idea that certain parts of the world possess a power to address certain (7) ___ . There are places that by virtue of their climate, haunting melancholy, (8) ___ or sheer contrast to our homelands, can salve the wounded parts of us.

The healing properties of travel

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