C) Find the proper answers in the answer box in the end of Unit 10 and use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1) The Perfect Chair’s ergonomic design and _____________________positions the body in a neutral position that counteracts gravity’s adverse effects.

2) Although no official deadline for achieving ____________________________has been set, a mission to our closest neighbour is imminent, according to some scientists.

3) From age 70, ________________________________________ becomes more common in men and can cause spontaneous fractures and increased risk of fractures following falls

4) A method for the prophylaxis or treatment of ________________________________ in an animal or human includes the administering to the animal or human an effective amount of necessary vitamins and mineral.

5) The _______________________________ of the population and the strong desires for working by the retired old has become a serious issue on the Japanese pension management

6) Perhaps to _________________your __________________ means to prevent diabetes. Certainly bone producing cells in mice can pump out a powerful signal that blocks belly fat, and keeps the blood sugar regulated.

10.5. Which word is the odd one out?

femur, thighbone, fracture, spleen, osteoporosis

10.6. Which of the following is not a synonym to” work”?

a) stint, job, task, pastime

b) make up sentences with the expressions: to set a stint, without stint

In Class

Listen to the Webcast New technology may prevent space travel bone damage and do the exercises.

10.1. What do you know about such disease as osteoporosis?

10.2. Listen and decide “who is who”?

10.C – Comprehension Test 1

Listen to the Webcast New technology may prevent space travel bone damage again and tick the correct answer.

10.B – Comprehension Test 2

Listen to the Webcast New technology may prevent space travel bone damage, answer the questions and fill in the gaps.

Part 1

1) What health problem is urgent for those astronauts who travel in zero gravity? What disease has similar symptoms?

2) Where is a new technology to struggle these symptoms currently being tested?

3) How do the signals sent to body affect the astronaut’s bones?

Part 2

TOM TILLEY: It's unlikely that an astronaut returning from their latest ________on the space station will start breaking on ______________________.

But later in life, when normal _________________ osteoporosis starts___________, the danger can increase dramatically.

An article published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research found that _______ members on the International Space Station lost up to _____________of bone mass per month.

This is one of the human related factors that's stopping mankind from making the trip to Mars which would take several years for the ___________________.

Part 3

US inventor, Professor Clint Rubin, is working __________________that may solve the problem.

CLINT RUBIN: Think of an astronaut, that's basically being _______________weight bearing, or deprived of gravity, as a model for ________________________

So we've just decided, as____________, we're less and less active, and without the proper mechanical signals to the skeleton, our skeleton begins to _______________________.

Now all of a sudden, put yourself up in space, where essentially you're in a vacuum of mechanical signals, you're just not _________________your skeleton at all, that in essence, it's _____________________accelerated ageing.

And so, our goal, with our science and our research is to try to put those mechanical signals back into the astronauts' skeleton, so that in reality they're not going through this rapid ______________________.

Part 4

TOM TILLEY: So how does this new technology work?

CLINT RUBIN: The technology is based on _____________very, very small mechanical ______________the skeleton, the same sort of things that their ____________would do when they're active.

So the astronauts, when using the ______________for 10 minutes per day, would basically be harnessed to it, like with a very, very _____________spring.

And they'd sit there and they'd work on their __________________, or read a book while their skeleton________________________________.

Part 5

TOM TILLEY: How long are some of these astronauts spending in the space stations?

CLINT RUBIN: So these astronauts basically are ... some of them have been up there for____________________. But typically, once they're there for greater than 90 days, or up to six months, they're sort of risking ... they're putting their skeletons at a higher level of risk of ______________.

So again, the challenge that you've got when you're thinking about a _________________ round trip to Mars, is that what happens if you're losing two per cent of your bone per month, that by the time you get to Mars, and the challenge of Mars' _____________, that if you happen to trip and break your____________, or your _______________________while you're up on Mars, that it's quite a __________ to the nearest hospital.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Professor Clint Rubin from the State University of New York speaking to Tom Tilley.

10.A – Comprehension Test 3

1) What health problem is the most urgent for those astronauts who travel in zero gravity?

2) What disease does it remind?

3) Where is the new technology currently being tested?

4) How do the signals sent to body affect the astronaut’s bones?

5) What is the challenge of a three-year trip to Mars that Professor Clint Rubin refers to?

6) What is the critical time of spending in the space station? Why?

7) What can the astronauts be doing while their skeleton is being stimulated?

8) How often should astronauts use the device stimulating their skeletons? What is the device like?

9) How does this new technology work?

10) What is believed to accelerate ageing under zero-gravity?

11) What happens to our skeletons as we are ageing?

12) What things are astronauts deprived of when they are in orbit?

13) How long would a round trip to Mars take? What is a human related factor that stops mankind

from travelling to Mars?

14) What part of their bone mass did the crew members lose monthly according to

the article published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research?

15) Do you think the above-mentioned technology can be helpful? Is there any sense of applying it in other spheres?

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