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Unit 3 Vocabulary Standard

Medical science

1 Complete the sentences with the words below.

prevent vaccinated suffers operation treatment researching cure

1 Last year I had an operation on my leg.

2 Do you think a _____________ for cancer will ever be found?

3 Eating healthy food can _____________ some diseases.

4 How successful was the new _____________ ?

5 My grandma _____________ from back pain.

6 Are scientists _____________ the use of microscopic robots?

7 Have you been _____________ against measles?

2 Complete the text with the words below.

experiments prevent cure developing discoveries research suffer transplant cures

In the last hundred years of medical 1research, scientists have made many 2____________

in medicine. Thanks to antibiotics, there are now 3_____________ for serious infections.

Doctors can also 4_____________ organs, like hearts, from one person to another. There are new
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_____________ going on all the time. Scientists are 6_____________ nanobots: robots that fight

disease from inside the human body. They are also finding out how to 7_____________ people

getting some diseases. However, doctors still don’t know some very simple things, for example,

how to 8_____________ the common cold. Although it isn’t a serious illness, millions of people
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_____________ from it every year!

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Unit 3 Vocabulary Standard

Vocabulary builder

3 Write the noun form of the verbs. Use the endings below.

- ing ment (x2) ion (2) y no change in ending (x3)

1 operate operation

2 experiment _______________

3 develop _______________

4 suffer _______________

5 discover _______________

6 transplant _______________

7 cure _______________

8 prevent _______________

9 treat _______________

Phrasal verbs: health and lifestyle

4 Complete the conversation with the phrasal verbs below.

cut down on put off put on go without give up work out take up get over

Kate How are you? I heard that you were ill.

Tom Yes, I was, for six months. I had to 1give up work.

Kate Did you 2___________ your illness?

Tom Yes, I did, thanks. I’m feeling much better. But now I need to improve my fitness. I want to

lose weight too. I must 3___________ junk food and chocolate.

Kate I think you look fine. And you shouldn’t 4___________ food. Don’t forget that you’ve been

ill!

Tom I’m still going to 5___________ at the gym, though. I don’t want to 6___________ weight.

Kate You’re so motivated! I hate the gym so I always 7___________ exercising.

Tom You could 8___________ swimming instead. It’s very good for you.

Word check

5 Match the words (1-7) with the definitions (a-h).

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Unit 3 Vocabulary Standard
1 sting _b_

2 needle ___

3 ancestor ___

4 infection ___

5 depression ___

6 insomnia ___

7 gentle ___

8 cure ___

a a mental condition in which a person feels sad

b a sharp pain caused by an insect

c the condition of being unable to sleep

d calm and kind

e a condition which is caused by harmful bacteria

f a person related to us who lived a long time ago

g make a person healthy again after an illness

h a thin, pointed piece of metal that you usually use for sewing

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