Để đạt thành tích cao trong kì thi sắp tới, các bạn có thể tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 141 - Alternative Medicine in Australia sau đây, nhằm rèn luyện và nâng cao kĩ năng giải đề thi IELTS, nâng cao kiến thức cho bản thân. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 141 below. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN AUSTRALIA The first students to study alternative medicine at university level in Australia began their four-year full-time course at the University of Technology Sydney in early 1994. Their course covered among other therapies acupuncture. The theory they learnt is based on the traditional Chinese explanation of this ancient healing art that it can regulate the flow of Qi or energy through pathways in the body. This course reflects how far some alternative therapies have come in their struggle for acceptance by the medical establishment. Australia has been unusual in the Western world in having a very conservative attitude to natural or alternative therapies according to Dr Paul Laver a lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sydney. We ve had a tradition of doctors being fairly powerful and I guess they are pretty loath to allow any pretenders to their position to come into it. In many other industrialized countries orthodox and alternative medicines have worked hand in glove for years. In Europe only orthodox doctors can prescribe herbal medicine. In Germany plant remedies account for 10 of the national turnover of pharmaceutical. Americans made more visits to alternative therapist than to orthodox doctors in 1990 and each year they spend about US 12 billion on the therapies that have not been scientifically tested. Disenchantment with orthodox medicine has seen the popularity of alternative therapies in Australia climb steadily during the past 20 years. In a 1983 national health survey of people said they had contacted a chiropractor naturopath osteopath acupuncturist or herbalist in the two weeks prior to the survey. By 1990 this figure had risen to of the population. The 550 000 consultations with alternative therapists reported in the 1990 survey represented about an eighth of the total number of consultations with .
