Solve a free quiz in English at the C1 level. Extended Matura – reading – Matching. Practice advanced vocabulary and prepare for the exam by solving tasks on the topic: Health and Medicine. Check your answers online!
Task 1 of 5
1. Read the text and choose the statement that best summarizes it.
The advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology holds the miraculous, unprecedented potential to permanently eradicate devastating hereditary diseases. However, this immense scientific power simultaneously opens a terrifying ethical Pandora’s box, raising profound, disturbing concerns about the highly controversial creation of ’designer babies’ and the exacerbation of already existing, deep genetic inequalities between the rich and the poor.
The advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology holds the miraculous, unprecedented potential to permanently eradicate devastating hereditary diseases. However, this immense scientific power simultaneously opens a terrifying ethical Pandora’s box, raising profound, disturbing concerns about the highly controversial creation of ’designer babies’ and the exacerbation of already existing, deep genetic inequalities between the rich and the poor.
Task 2 of 5
2. Read the text and choose the statement that best summarizes it.
Placebos, historically dismissed by serious scientists as mere psychological tricks or fake pills, are now demonstrating astonishingly real, measurable physiological effects in clinical trials. It appears that a patient’s profound belief in a treatment can literally trigger the brain to release powerful, natural pain-relieving chemicals, profoundly challenging our traditional understanding of medicine.
Placebos, historically dismissed by serious scientists as mere psychological tricks or fake pills, are now demonstrating astonishingly real, measurable physiological effects in clinical trials. It appears that a patient’s profound belief in a treatment can literally trigger the brain to release powerful, natural pain-relieving chemicals, profoundly challenging our traditional understanding of medicine.
Task 3 of 5
3. Read the text and choose the statement that best summarizes it.
The aggressive over-prescription of strong antibiotics for minor viral infections by hurried doctors has inadvertently accelerated the terrifying evolution of ’superbugs’. These highly resistant, mutated strains of bacteria completely defy our strongest modern medicines, threatening to return humanity to a dark era where a simple scratch could be fatally incurable.
The aggressive over-prescription of strong antibiotics for minor viral infections by hurried doctors has inadvertently accelerated the terrifying evolution of ’superbugs’. These highly resistant, mutated strains of bacteria completely defy our strongest modern medicines, threatening to return humanity to a dark era where a simple scratch could be fatally incurable.
Task 4 of 5
4. Read the text and choose the statement that best summarizes it.
The global commercialization of human organs for life-saving transplants presents a horrific moral dilemma. While legalizing and regulating such a controversial market could theoretically eliminate the desperate shortage of available kidneys, ethicists warn it would inevitably lead to the brutal, systemic exploitation of the world’s most impoverished, desperate populations.
The global commercialization of human organs for life-saving transplants presents a horrific moral dilemma. While legalizing and regulating such a controversial market could theoretically eliminate the desperate shortage of available kidneys, ethicists warn it would inevitably lead to the brutal, systemic exploitation of the world’s most impoverished, desperate populations.
Task 5 of 5
5. Read the text and choose the statement that best summarizes it.
The modern concept of ’anti-aging’ medicine frequently blurs the line between genuine, highly beneficial healthcare and aggressive, purely cosmetic enhancement. As affluent patients spend fortunes on experimental treatments to merely look younger, vital medical resources are arguably diverted from curing severe, life-threatening diseases that affect the broader, less privileged population.
The modern concept of ’anti-aging’ medicine frequently blurs the line between genuine, highly beneficial healthcare and aggressive, purely cosmetic enhancement. As affluent patients spend fortunes on experimental treatments to merely look younger, vital medical resources are arguably diverted from curing severe, life-threatening diseases that affect the broader, less privileged population.