Unit 10 (with answer key)
Listening
1. microchips 2. Cosmetic surgery, home-kit
3. Life expectancy, aging
4. Medication,diseases
1.
1. Where is Sean from?
He is from London.
2. What’s her prediction for the future of the human body?
People are going to see a breakthrough in microchips that can be put in the
human body.
3. Why are microchips put in the human body?
They will store information that can work with our brains to improve human
memory.
4. How can the microchips inside our body benefit us?
We don’t have to memorize a lot of facts. We could just access information
from a chip inside us.
2.
1. What is Shelli’s prediction?
People will see improvements in beauty treatments.
2. If the surgery is unnecessary, then how can we maintain beauty and youth?
We can buy cheap over-the-counter products in pharmacies.
3. How can we remove wrinkles if we don’t go to the hospital?
We can use home kits for laser self-treatment.
3.
1. What’s Tierry’s prediction for the future?
Life expectancy will double again.
2. How can we make new body parts in laboratories?
Through cloning of human cells.
3. What is the number one priority of doctors and researchers from the viewpoint of Tierry?
Fighting aging will be the number one priority of them.
4.
1. What does Kathleen care about for the future?
People will be more practical and use medical improvements to cure major
diseases like HIV, cancer and influenza.
2. Where can we get new medication to fight diseases like HIV, cancer and
influenza?
We can get them in the laboratory or in the plants of the Amazon rainforest.
Further listening
1.
1. According to the patient, what’s his problem?
It’s hard for him to breathe and sometimes he gets chest pain.
2. According to the doctor, what’s the reason for the patient’s sickness?
He’s 50 pounds overweight and his cholesterol level is too high.
3. What’s the doctor’s recommendation at first?
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Don’t eat pizza at all. No fast food at all. Eat a light dinner.
Then what does the doctor recommend the patient to do?
Don’t eat any food at all two hours before bedtime. No midnight snacks.
What’s the doctor’s third recommendation?
Exercise three times a week.
After those recommendations, what does the patient ask the doctor?
He asks the doctor to give him some kind of medication.
What’s the final advice does the doctor give to the patient?
Try a healthy diet and exercise at first.
2.
1. What’s the patient’s problem?
He’s been feeling tired.
2. How many hours did the patient sleep every night?
6-7 hours every night.
3. Does he sleep well?
No, it’s not a deep sleep.
4. After he wakes up, how does he feel?
He has pain in his muscle and his joints… he also gets headache very easily.
5. What is the reason the doctor think of about the patient’s problem?
The patient has a lot of stress.
5. What is the patient worried about?
He is worried about some personal matters.
6. What’s the doctor’s recommendation to lower the patient’s pressure (stress)?
Taking care of his own body and drink lots of water and go get a good massage.
8. Plus, what other suggestion does the doctor give the patient?
Some sleeping medication
9. What else does the doctor want to talk with the patient?
To come back in two weeks and talk about his disease again.
3.
1. According to the doctor, what’s wrong with the patient?
He has a very red throat.
2. Why doesn’t the doctor think the patient caught a simple cold?
The patient has had fever since last night.
3. What does the patient have a red throat?
The cough has been nonstop for day.
4. What conclusion does the doctor make by judging from the patient constant fever?
The patient has got some kind of infection that his body is fighting.
5. What does the doctor advise the patient to do?
To stay in bed for the next two day.
4.
1. How did the patient hurt his arm?
He fell off his bicycle and banged it up.
2. How does his aching arm look?
Red and swollen
3. What might happen to the patient’s arm according to the doctor’s judgment?
It’s broken.
4. What does the doctor suggest the patient to do with his arm?
He can keep his arm in a sling for a few days to hold it in place and let it heal by itself.
5. What will the doctor do to relieve the patient’s pain?
He will give the patient a few days’ worth of mild pain pills.