G o I t e r

TEST

1. Acute gastritis (catarrhal gastritis) is due … a great variety of causes.

a. from

b. to

c. on

d. in

e. off

2. Common varieties in practice are the result of indiscretions in food or alcoholic drinks; but contaminated food, “chill" and scarlet fever in … acute stage may also induce very acute gastric catarrh.

a. its

b. it’s

c. her

d. his

e. your

3. The inflammation may … downwards to cause acute gastroenteritis. The cardinal symptom of acute gastritis is vomiting and when enteritis is superadded diarrhea also supervenes.

a. spreads

b. spread

c. is spreading

d. to spread

e. to be spread

4. Chronic gastritis is regarded as an important and by no means … disease.

a. frequent

b. common

c. general

d. infrequent

e. rare

5. It is important to treat this disease in as early a stage as possible, not only for the immediate disabilities which arise but still more for the serious consequences such as…, which may possibly result from it.

a. oleoma

b.pappiloma

c. myolipoma

d. dentinoma

e. carcinoma

6. Much of the treatment is essentially prophylactic and consists in … of such well-known causes as alcoholism, oral sepsis (especially pyorrhea) and deficient mastification of food (from bad habits or lack of teeth).

a. the removal

b. the insertion

c. the resection

d. the implantation

e. the grafting

7. The prime causes favoring continuation of the disease…, the first essential in treatment is gastric lavage carried out always before breakfast and in the severe cases at intervals during the day, before meals.

a. have been removed

b. has been removed

c. having been removed

d. to have been removed

e. had been removed

8. Treatment by …is continued until improvement is manifest when its use can be gradually discontinued.

a. lavement

b. lavation

c. irrigation

d. ablution

e. lavage

9. If lavage is for any reason impossible, the next best substitute is the administration of a teaspoonful or more of … in a tumblerful of warm water in the morning and again before meals throughout the day.

odium benzoate

b. sodium chloride

c. sodium fluoride

d. sodium bicarbonate

e. sodium sulfate

10. …is so commonly greatly diminished or absent in an untreated case of chronic gastritis that some effort is generally made to remedy the deficiency.

a. Hydrocyanic acid

b. Hydrochloric acid

c. Hydroiodic acid

d. Hydrosulfuric acid

e. Hydroxyacetic acid

Exercise 1. Practice the pronunciation:

Thyroid ['θairɔid], iodine ['aiəudi:n], mountainous ['mauntinəs], survey ['sə:vei], cretinism ['kretinizm], impairment [im'pεəmənt], dwarfism ['dwɔ:fizm], fortify ['fɔ:tifai], require [ri'kwaiə]

Exercise 2. Topic vocabulary:

Goiter - зоб

Lack (of) - недостаток

To require - требовать

Soil - почва

To affect - поражать

Community – группа лиц, живущих в одной местности, общество

Stillbirth – рождение мертвого плода

Miscarriage - выкидыш

Dwarfism - карликовость

Impairment - нарушение

To fortify – укреплять, усиливать

To result in – приводить к

Exercise 3. Give Russian equivalents:

Noncancerous enlargement, the most common cause, mountainous regions, iodine deficiency, mental impairment, brain damage, mental retardation, swollen salivary glands, a runny nose

Exercise 4. Form new words and translate them:

-Y: run, rain, sun, wind, fun, fog

-MENT: enlarge, impair, develop, achieve

Exercise 5. Recall formation of degree of comparison. Give English equivalents to the following words:

Беднее, самый распространенный, самый лучший, меньше, больше, реже, больше (в размере)

Exercise 6. Read and translate the text:

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