Class assignments. VIII. Read and translate the words with the same root:

VIII. Read and translate the words with the same root:

to connect, connective, connection; to contract, contractive, contraction; clinical, clinically, clinic; to direct, directly, directive, direction; attentive, attentively, attention; to act, act, active, actively, action, activist, activity

IX. Answer the following questions:

1. Does the pulse become rapid or slow when one is running? 2. Does the patient gain or lose weight if he is seriously ill? 3. Do you take examinations at

the beginning or at the end of the term? 4. Is the students' hostel near or far from the main building of the Institute? 5. Does the man become weak or strong if he goes in for sports?

X. Translate into Russian paying attention to the words in bold type:

1. The number of the vertebrae which form the coccyx may be from one to five. 2. In the human body the skeletal muscles number 600. 3. A number of interesting findings was found out experimentally. 4. The muscles of the human body are different in their form. 5. A number of muscular fibers form a band.

XI. Read the statements and answer the question given below:

1. My friend is greatly excited because his son has the disease of the coxofemoral joints. The boy cannot walk and must be in bed.

2. My friend's daughter is on her holidays now. She is going to visit St. Petersburg. She will go to museums, theatres and see many new films. She is excited but feels happy.

Who must restore the health - my friend's son or my friend's daughter?

XII. Finish the sentences choosing the necessary word combination from those given below:

1. The patient was ill for a long time and.... 2. About 40% of the body weight... 3. The oblique muscle is called so.... 4. The muscles are active agents of.... 5. The static muscles are connected with....

motion and contraction, according to its direction, his weight changed greatly, large surfaces of the bones, is formed by the muscles

XIII. Translate into Russian paying attention to the Infinitives:

1. My father went to the sanatorium to restore the condition of his health.

2. He is one of the scientists to perform numerous operations on the heart.

3. Students must often go to the dissecting room to study the structure of different organs. 4. This is the article to be carefully read by me to get prepared for my report.

XIV. Put the following sentences in the Future tense:

1. Important findings were determined by this experiment. 2. Different methods of research were used in this laboratory. 3. This scientific article was divided into three basic parts.

XV. State the difference between the predicates in the pairs of sentences:

1. The health of the patient is restored. The health of the patient was restored rapidly. 2. New methods of medical examination are introduced in many hospitals. New methods of restoring diseased joints were introduced by Dr. Sivash.

XVI. Translate into English:

1. Лектор сказал студентам, что мышечные волокна соединяются со­единительной тканью. 2. Мы знали, что исследователь изучает функции широких мышц. 3. Врач считал, что этому больному нужен полный по­кой. 4. Мы узнали, что мышцы делятся на мышцы туловища, головы и конечностей.

XVII. Give extended answers:

1. What can you tell us about Prof. Lesgaft? 2 What was determined by Prof. Lesgaft in his research works on muscles? 3. What did Prof. Koveshnikova determine by her scientific work on muscles?