Prepared by Ms Nguyen Thi Thanh Hong, PhD

UNIT 1- REVISION 1
Circle the best answer for the following sentences
1. Oily fish with omega-3 fatty acids is protective against _________ and heart disease.
A. hypertensive B. high blood pressure C. coronary artery D. diabetes
2. A lot of people don't know they have __________, because there are usually no warning signs.
A. hypertensive B. hypertension C. high blood D. blood pressure
3. _________ and resistance exercises are the best for your bones and force you to work against gravity.
A. weight-bearing B. worth noting C. longitudinal D. large-scale
4. He was a trim ___________ figure with a narrow, youthful face.
A. athlete B. athletic C. athletics D. athletes
5. __________ is the process of empowering people to increase control over their health and its determinants
through health literacy efforts and multisectoral action to increase__________.
A. Healthy behaviors/health promotion B. Health promotion/ healthy behaviors
C. Health perception/healthy behaviors D. Health perception/ health promotion
6. The word meaning “covered many people” is ___________.
A. longitudinal B. weight-bearing C. large scale D. significant
7. He had a car acccident last week and had __________ neck fracture.
A. femur B. femoral C. femora D. femoris
8. Mr Thomson has laryngeal nerve palsy. The cough sounds really ________.
A. barking B. hoarse C. hollow D. tickly
9. _______ is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at
the tissue level.
A. pulmonary edema B. pulmonary hypertension C. hypoxia D. oncotic pressure
10. The fluid increases _______ and therefore slows the rate of diffusion of oxygen from the alveoli into the
capillaries.
A. diffusible surface B. diffusion distances C. diffusing substance D. diffusion of oxygen
11. A patient has a sudden, accute attack of coughing. This means he ___________.
A. is horse B. whoops C. has a coughing fit D. wheezes
12. The patient has tracheitis. He has got a dry cough and it‘s __________.
A. slightly painful B. painless C. really painful D. wheezy
13. Mr Thomson, do you have any special ____________ requirements?
A. diet B. dietary C. dietetics D. dietitian
14. Sometimes, parents with _____ problems need support from family members, friends, neighbours and/or
professionals, to help them care for their children.
A. mental illness B. mental healthy C. mental health D. mental health illness
15. The root “eti-/o” in the medical term “etiology” means __________.
A. disease D. cause C. illness D. cause of disease
16. In cardiogenic pulmonary edema, there is an increase in the _________.
A. oncotic pressure B. plasma oncotic pressure
C. hydrostatic pressure D. pulmonary capillary hydrostatic pressure.
17. Pulmonary hypertension can be addressed with diuretics which decrease ____ and or treatments.
A. plasma volume B. hypertension C. hypoxia D. capillary volume
18. Jane’s chest really hurts when she coughs. She got this sharp pain right here in the chest when
she coughs. She was diagnosed with __________.
A. pleurisy B. laryngitis C. asthma D. epiglottis
19. Most __________ patients need tablets to lower their blood pressure.
A. hypertensive B. high blood pressure C. coronary thrombosis D. diabetes
20. At normal operating pressures, the lungs contain a little more than a third of their maximum
___________.
A. plasma volume B. hypertension C. hypoxia D. capillary volume