1) 1) If my friend Anne wasn’t so concentrated on her state of health, she could have looked better.
2) A man can’t remain healthy when he invents his illnesses.
3) Can she really consider herself so ill?
4) How can a man have flu, pneumonia, indigestion and insomnia at once?
5) Besides, every week she finds the symptoms of some virus disease.
It can’t happen like this, can it?
6) I usually tell her: “It cannot be that you really believe in all your illnesses”.
“If you weren’t so lazy, you could get rid of them”.
7) “How can you say so?” – objects she at once.
8) I’m so seriously ill, that even the doctor couldn’t set a diagnosis”.
9) If only you could see his face when I came you would understand that it is something very serious.
10) I can imagine what he thinks of when he sees you.
11) I wonder how he could be so patient.
12) Could you stop wasting your doctor’s time?
13) He can’t cure you because you have nothing to be cured for.
14) Anne doesn’t like it: “You can’t be so cruel!
Can you fail to understand that I hardly can walk”.
15) Then I objects: “I can understand it well.
But how can it be that you don’t understand that it’s your fault that you are ill.
16) You could have followed your doctor’s and your friend’s advice long ago.
17) You can be cured quick and easily.
18) So what should I do?
I can’t cure myself.
19) Of course you can.
Run in the morning and physical exercises can work wonders.
20) Besides you shouldn’t eat so many sweets.
They cannot be useful for your health.
21) But the first thing you could have done and you should do is to stop reading medical textbooks and magazines.