English Listening Exercises for B1 – The body’s limits

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1)
Your body makes new blood cells every second.
2)
There are nearly kilometres of blood vessels in an average adult body.
3)
Only of the cells in our body the human; the other are bacteria.
4)
Your brain is only of your body’s weight, but it uses of the oxygen.
5)
Your temperatures is usually about lower in the morning than in the evening.
6)
Blondes have about more hairs on their head than people with black hair.
7)
Adult humans have bones, but newborn babies have a lot more.
8)
The smallest muscle in the body is inside the ear; it is only millimetres long.
9)
Men usually stop growing when they are years old, women when they are

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a)
Anna had an accident while skiing. Nobody found her for several hours and when they did, they believed she was dead. But when she arrived at the hospital, she came back to life.
b Anna tried to rescue a colleague who had an accident in the mountains, but fell into some freezing water. She only survived because a helicopter took her to hospital.
c Anna had an accident while skiing. She became so could that her breathing and heartbeat stopped for hours, but she made a full recovery.

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1)
About a third of people whose body temperature drops to below 28°C do not survive.
2)
Anna’s colleagues called for help seven minutes after the accident.
3)
The first rescue team cut a hole in the ice and the second team pulled her out.
4)
Anna’s body temperature was 30.7°C when she arrived at the hospital.
5)
Her heart did not begin beating again until her body temperature reached 36.4°C.

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