医用英语1答案.doc

Unit1 Brain Text A Strange but True: When Half a Brain Is Better than a Whole One Comprehension Exercises Exercise 1 True or False Question Key: 1.F 2.T 3.T 4.T 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.F 9.F 10.F Exercise 2 Questions and Answers Key: 1) Hemispherectomy is a surgical procedure where one cerebral hemisphere (half of the brain) is removed or disabled. This procedure is used to treat a variety of seizure disorders. 2) Anatomical hemispherectomies involve the removal of the entire hemisphere, whereas functional hemispherectomies only take out parts of a hemisphere, as well as severing the corpus callosum. 3) Anatomical hemispherectomy leave no room for the return of seizures; functional hemispherectomies cause less blood loss. 4) you lose use of the hand opposite of the hemisphere that was removed. You have little function in that arm and vision on that side is lost. 5) To investigate how their brain changes with physical rehabilitation. Probing how the remaining cerebral hemispheres of these patients acquire language, sensory, motor and other functions could shed a great deal of light on the brains plasticity, or ability to change. Vocabulary Exercises Key: 1） surgeon 2） disorders 3） physiologists 4） procedure 5） Neurologist 6） removal 7） developmental 8） abnormalities 9） disability 10） rehabilitation Exercise 2 Translations of the Sentences Directions: Translating the following into English, using the words or phrases appeared in text. Key: 1） When I have a fever and headache, she concludes that I have a brain tumor. 2） Seizures and headaches are common first signs of a glioma. 3） Doctors use the term congenital for a defect or disease present at birth. 4） She was transferred to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. 5） The procedure repairs four different heart abnormalities at once. Enhance your command of general words Key: 1） alternative 2） specialty 3） was afflicted 4） has displaced 5） plasticity