... been upset and disappointed (in English) three times At a laundry, at an airport, and, on a third occasion, at a restaurant I considered myself relatively fluent in English by that time but, under ... fluency in those unfamiliar scenarios that sporadically test our English level and, what is more important, our selfconfidence in English Whenever you have to go out to dinner, for example, review ... the previous two weeks His past history included appendicectomy at age 12, cervical spondylosis 10 years previously, and hypertension for which he had been taking a thia- 181 182 Unit VIII The...