ENGLISH TEST

ENGLISH TEST. T EURO / NAME .................................................

ORGAN DONATION

1. VOCABULARY. Fill in the blanks

................. .......... of donors, the .......................... list of ............................. suffering from a ..................... failure or a ....................failure is getting longer and longer. Most potential donors are afraid to sign a donor ............................. as if it could affect the quality of medical care or shorten their lives. But, apart from organs, you can ........................... blood, which could save the lives of thousands of people.

2. FUNCTIONS

Link up the elements in column one so as to get a meaningful sentence expressing the function in column 2.

*Scientists – human cells – recognize pig cells as human*	STRATEGY	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*Most people – donate organs*	OBJEC-TION	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*Potential donors -*	FEAR	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*In Italy – donation – a profanation of the body*	OPINION	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*Signing a donor card – your own death*	AWARE-NESS	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*When I die – my body – save lives*	WISH	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*The Greens’ generous gesture -*	POSITIVE REAC-TIONS	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................
*Organs removed soon – great chances of survival*	COMPA-RATIVE (+/+)	................................................................................... ................................................................................... ...................................................................................

3. DERIVATION. Complete this short text with a word pertaining to the same domain as the italicized word.

Potential (receive) ................................. are thousands all over the world (wait) ................................. the miracle of a transplantation. The (give) ................................. of life is unfortunately linked with the (disappear) ................................. of a human being whose (lose) ................................. is a (traumatize) ................................. relatives will have difficulty getting over. In the case or heart (donate) ................................., the fact that the heart is the most (symbol) .................................of organs certainly explains people’s (reluctant) .................................. to sign up.

4. WRITING

Here are the title, the subtitle and the beginning of a Time article. Write the rest of the article as if you were a journalist, using the elements given. MAX 200 words

¢ MEDICINE

A DAUGHTER’S LAST GIFT

A young woman killed in a car accident saves her father’s life by donating her heart for a transplant.

By JON D. HULL CHICAGO

The gift of life is never meant to be returned, especially not wrapped in plastic, packed in ice and enclosed in a small Igloo cooler. But that is precisely the transaction that occurred last week at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, where doctors took the heart of a 22-year-old who died following a car crash and sewed it inside the body of her father. Chester Szuber, a retired Christmas-tree farm owner, had been tormented by heart disease for 20 years. Four years ago, he was put on a waiting list ............

Elements that HAVE TO BE USED / the punctuation HAS TO BE RESPECTED.

- a nursing student who carried an organ donor card –

In this case, the two families where the same, but there was a deeper implication that was particularly discomforting :

“That was what Patty would have wanted, without a shadow of a doubt, “

, ..... where it began beating again.

“I’m not aware of any cases in which a heart was transplanted ....

Unless, perhaps, as in the case of the Szubers, the only alternative was another death in the family. (this is the conclusion)

PAST PERFECT / HYPOTHESES /OBJECTION / SIMPLE PAST / SIMPLE PRESENT /

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