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three more years or longer. The liver, pancreas, and lung have
been transplanted with success.
Throughout the history of medicine, doctors have worked to
invent better methods of saving the lives of their patients. The
steps they have taken to do this have been slow and often
frustrating. Doctors and scientists are constantly confronted with
new problems just when they think that old ones have been
solved. In the field of heart transplants, doctors are now working
to perfect artificial hearts that will keep patients alive until heart
transplant donors have been found. An operation for this
purpose was performed for the first time in the United States on
April 4, 1969. The artificial heart kept the patient alive for two
and a half days until it was replaced by a donor's heart.
An ultimate goal in heart transplant research is to make an
artificial heart that can remain in the patient's body for the rest of
his life. Many problems must be combatted in this search. The
lives of many men are valiantly devoted to the task of saving the
human heart. Perhaps in the near future they will completely
succeed.
IV. Comprehension Check.
1. Match the words and their meaning by placing the proper
letters on each blank.
__1. surgery a. injured, harmed
__2. publicized b. treatment of disease by operation
__3. solution c. the answer to the problem
__4. damaged d. an end or objective
__5. goal e. made widely known, advertised
__6. donor f. a person who goes smth., or
offers smth.
2. Write S, A or N in front of each pair of words to tell
whether they are synonyms or antonyms or neither. The
first one is done for you.
A. artificial / natural
- chance / possibility
- operation / purpose
- success / failure
- advance / development
- man / person
- artificial / man-made
- make / enjoy
- many / few
- alive / magic
- purely / slowly
- complete / not full
- begin / start
- survive / discover
3. What do you think.
1. When did the history of transplanting human organs begin?
2. What event took place on January 2, 1968 and where?
3. Why was Doctor Christian Barnard famous?
4. Was technique used in his surgery new?
5. Did the doctors solve all the problems of such operations?
IV. Discuss with the partner or groupmates.
1. Can there be even more breakthroughs in the field of
medicine in the future?
2. Can you predict any?
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