2. Retell it contents in English.

3. Answer the following questions.

   1. What did the story of medicine begin?

   2. Where have we come now?

   3. What organs can be transplanted?

   4. What was the recent wonderful innovation?

   5. What is it “spare part surgery”?

   6. What does enable the surgeon to carry out his intricate work?

   7. What can be replaced?

   8. Are these innovations very important?

   9. What can bring sight to the living people?

   10. When and where heart transplanting being undertaken for the first time?

IV. A) Make up your own sentences with the following words and word-combinations;

b) Explain in English the meanings of the following words and word-combinations;

Kidney, heart, lungs, cornea, transplanting, artificial kidney, “spare part surgery”, invention, heart-lung-machine, ignorance .

V. True/untrue. Correct and write down the sentences.

1. A wonderful recent invention was the artificial kidney.

2. We have come to the age of superstition.

3. Human organs are easily passed from one person to another.

4. Kidneys can’t be replaced.

5. Transplanting or “spare part surgery” is still in its infancy.

6. We haven’t come to an era of fantastic progress.

7. Machines are made to reproduce body functions.

8. Doctors can transplant organs from a person recently dead into a living person.

9. The heart-lung machine takes over the work of a patient’s heat and lungs.

10. The machine will be developed further on.

VI. Make up disjunctive questions

1. In recent years medical science has increased the knowledge.

2. A wonderful invention was the artificial kidney.

3. Kidneys can be replaced.

4. The story of medicine will tell us a lot of interesting things.

5. Transplanting of the corners of the eye can bring back sight.

VII. Make up alternative questions

1. This story began in prehistoric times.

2. Now we are living in the period of advance and enlightenment.

3. The previous centuries were the centuries of ignorance and disbelief.

4. Human organs are passed on from one person to another.

5. The heart lung machine saves hundreds of lives.

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