Definitions
A/ Fill in the blanks using the English translation of the French words given below (the words are not necessarily in the order they appear in the text):
chercheur / la chirurgie / faire baisser / taux de mortalité / souligner /acquis / disponibles
Find the word
A Nobel Prize winning ____ argues that animal research is essential to future advances in medicine, for humans and animals alike. Any comparison between life at the end of the last century and of this one would ____ the enormous advances in medicine which many people nowadays take almost for ____.
By 1900, clean water and good sanitation had reduced the ____ from infectious diseases, but there was still little that medicine could do for sick people: no antibiotics, no medicines, no insulin, no vaccines to ____ high blood pressure, or treat ulcers, cancer or mental illness. ____ was seriously limited by the serious toxicity of the only anaesthetics then ____ : ether and chloroform.
B/ Find the words that correspond to the following definitions:
Fill the blanks
1) state, condition of a person’s body Answer :
2) to affect more and more of a population Answer : to
3) to check, to examine carefully in order to be sure that there is no risk Answer : to
4) the two organs inside the chest which fill with air when breathing Answer : the