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UNIT 8:
THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
Reading 3
(Furthermore … abnormalities)
What are these?
They are lasers beams
What are these?
They are swords
What are these?
They are bones
What is this?
It is a cell
What are there on the girl’s face?
There are birthmarks
UNIT 8:
THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
Reading 3
(Furthermore … abnormalities)
Unit 8: THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
New words
I/ Read the text and use these words to fill in the blanks
Remove - nerves - solid - deaf - deafen - vaporise - untreatable - mass of blood vessels - absorbed - transform - suffer - conceal - abnormal - tissue
1/ Birthmarks used to be __________.
2/ Don’t speak so loud. I’m not _________.
3/ Beer, water, wine, coke are liquid while gold, wood, bones, are ______.
4/ Birth marks are a _________________.
5/ I want you to __________ that secret.
6/ She is always __________ in what she is doing.
untreatable
deaf
solid
mass of blood vessels
conceal
absorbed
II/ What is the heading of paragraph C?/
Unit 8: THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
The heading of paragraph C is about ear surgery to cure deafness
III/ Read the text and answer these questions?
1/ How can we hear sounds?
2/ How can the laser be used to cure deafness?
3/ What is the advantage of this kind of treatment?
Furthermore, the laser beam can also remove bone, and so it is invaluable in ear surgery. The sounds we hear are carried from the eardrum to the nerves of the ear by a delicate set of small bones which sometimes solidify, causing deafness. A laser vaporizes the bone without touching any surrounding tissue
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Answers
Unit 8: THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
1/ How can we hear sounds?
The sounds we hear are carried from the eardrum to the nerves of the ear by the set of small bones.
3/ How can the laser be used to cure deafness?

It is used to remove bones by vaporises them.
4/ What is the advantage of this kind of treatment?
It doesn’t touch/ harm surrounding tissue.
2/ What causes deafness?.
That the set of delicate bones solidify causes deafness
IV/ What is the heading of paragraph D?/
Unit 8: THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
The heading of paragraph C is about cosmetic surgery
V/ Read the text and decide if these statements are true or false.
1. Birthmarks absorb the laser beam strongly.
2. The normal cells absorb much of the laser beam.
3. People with birthmarks have better lives after the operation.
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Birthmarks, once almost untreatable, are a mass of blood vessel and, being red, they absorb the laser beam strongly. It seals them so that the mark becomes less conspicuous. The normal cells on the skin’s surface, which don’t absorb much of the laser beam, act in the healing and help to conceal the mark. The operation can transform the lives of people who had to suffer from life physical abnormalities
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Unit 8: THE SWORD THAT CAN HEAL
VI/ Fill in the Blanks
The ________(1) we hear are carried from the eardrum to the ________(2) of the ear by the set of small bones which sometimes solidify and cause _________(3). The laser then vaporises and ________(4) the solidifying bones without touching any surrounding ________(5).
Birthmarks are a mass of _________(6) vessels so they absorb the laser strongly. It seals them so that the mark becomes _____________(7). The normal cells __________(8)the skin’s surface act in the healing and help to conceal the mark. The operation can transform the ___________(9) of the people who had to suffer ___________(10) lifetime of abnormalities.
1/ voice sounds speaking whistles
2/ nerves nervous nervously nerve
3/ deaf deafen deafness dead
4/ to remove removing remove removes
5/ cells tissues elements particle
6/ bleed bled blood blooded
7/ blear clear dark light
8/ in from with on
9/ life lives living live
10/ from to for / (no word)
sounds
nerves
deafness
removes
tissues
blood
conspicuous
on
lives
from
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