IV. Language development

1. Match the synonyms.

1. to obtain	a. to occupy
2. to contain	b. elimination
3. to store	c. to keep
4. effect	d. to comprise
5. to involve	e. to get, gain
6. removal	f. damaging
7. to include	g. action
8. harmful	h. to enclose
9. to require	i. to counteract
10. to neutralize	j. to need

2. Find the most general word in each row.

1. antibiotics, penicillin, drugs, vitamins;

2. roots, fruit, leave, plants;

3. chemotherapy, pharmacology, toxicology;

4. DNA, organelle, RNA, mitochondria;

5. parasite, plant, organism, animal;

3. Answer the questions.

1. What are drugs?

2. How can drugs he obtained? ,

3. What are drugs synthesized from?

4. What does pharmacology study?

5. What are the branches of pharmacology?

6. What is molecular pharmacology concerned, with?

7. When is chemotherapy indicated?

8. Why is it necessary to hold investigations on antidotes?

9. Which drugs are safer: natural or chemically synthesized?

10. What does medical pharmacology study?

4. Correct the wrong statements.

1. Drugs are nuclear substances.used in medicine in the treatment of diseases.

2. The field of medicine which studies drugs, their nature, origin. and effect in the body is called pharmocodynamies.

3. Scientists interested in pharmaeodymanics study drug toxicity. 4. Chemotherapy includes treatment of mental disorders only.

5. Toxicological studies in animals are prohibited by law.

6. Disorders directly resulting from diagnostic or therapeutic efforts of a physician are known as humanistic.

7. Nausea, vomiting, and alopecia are common contraindications to the chematherapeutic drugs used to treat cancer.

3. Speaking

1. Make up dialogues using the following questions:

a)

—What, does the profession of a pharmacist, deal with?

—Is this profession well-paid?

—Is it dangerous?

—Does a person' need to be skillful for this profession?

b)

—Is chemotherapy necessary for the treatment of cancer?

—Is it painful, and dangerous? -- Can you avoid the treatment?

—Should you use all the dangerous drugs to help the state?

—Is the: outcome...always lethal?

c)

—What will you prescribe to a person with poisoning? .

—And what would you do to help a person, who. has swallowed poi­son? .....

—What can you do if you don't know the antidote?

2. Discuss the following problems.

1. Natural and synthesized drugs; which are safer?

2. The poisonous effects of some drugs: when can a doctor: prescribe such drugs?

3. The chemical essence of drug action: the main mechanisms.

4. Can people live without drugs?