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Тема: Болеутоляющие средства. Painkillers.

1. Прочитайте текст. Измените слова, данные справа, в грамматически верный вариант.

Meditation can be 1. _____ at relieving pain than the best pain-relieving drugs, according to a new report published in the Journal of Neuroscience. The study into the effects of the mind and pain was led by Dr Fadel Zeidan in the USA. The research looked at a technique called “focused attention, ” which 2. _____ a form of meditation where people focus 3. _____ thoughts only on breathing. Dr Zeidansaid: “This is the 4. _____ study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation”. Zeidan added: “We5. _____a big effect - about a 40 per cent reduction in pain intensity and a 57 per cent reduction in pain unpleasantness. ” The study involved a group of volunteers who 6. _____ before. They attended four 20-minute 7. _____ to learn about focused attention. Before and after the meditation training, the researchers examined the participants’ brain activity using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). During the scans, a heat device 8. _____ on their legs to create pain. The MRI scans showed that after the meditation training, pain felt by every volunteer decreased from between 11 to 93 per cent. Zeidan compared 9. _____ results to medicines, saying: “Meditation produced a greater reduction in pain than even morphine or other pain-relieving drugs, which typically reduce pain by about 25 per cent. ”

GOOD BE THEY ONE FIND NOT/MEDITATE CLASS PLACE THIS

2. True (T) / False (F)?

a. A report says that meditation relieves 100% of all pain.

b. The technique focuses people’s attention on the source of the pain.

c. The result of the study was a 40% reduction in pain.

d. A group of people who had experienced meditating before took part in the study.

e. The meditators had their brains scanned before and after meditating.

f. Researchers administered pain to the volunteers’ legs.

g. The study said the pain-killer morphine reduced pain by 25%.

3. Подберите к словам слева синонимы, данные под буквами справа.

1. intensity 2. placed 3. relieving 4. training 5. volunteers 6. dramatically 7. reduction 8. typically 9. compared 10. attended

a. put b. helpers c. teaching d. considerably e. strength f. normally g. related h. joined i. getting rid of j. cut

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