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Exercises
29.1
Look at A opposite and answer the questions about medical technology.
glasses
1 What did Arab scientists probably invent?
(
two answers, one more formal
)
2 What began to be used in 1896 to enable doctors to take photographs of the inside of
people’s bodies?
3 How did the ancient Egyptians help disabled people to walk?
4 What alternative to glasses became popular in the 1960s and 1970s?
5 How could disabled people move around as early as 1500 to 1600?
29.2
Rewrite the words in bold using words from A and B opposite.
manufactured
1 Medical scanners are made
at this factory.
2 Glasses were invented to correct problems
with eyesight
.
3 Technology for medicine
has made very fast progress
in the last ten years
.
4 There is now a large number
of things
that make
life better for people with medical problems.
5 Copies of natural
hips are very
efficient.
6 Some disabled athletes can run as fast as able-bodied ones using
legs.
7 Scientists are working on
arms that can be controlled directly by the person’s brain.
29.3