English Vocabulary Exercises - Health & the Body - Exercise 2-1

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. She stood _______________ in front of the mirror, and examined her body for signs of fat.
2. Her dad has really _______________ arms from working on a farm all his life.
3. She _______________ as she made her way through the crowd of smokers standing outside the building.
4. Xi's leg was badly broken in a car accident, and took several months to completely _______________.
5. We lay down on our _______________ in front of the television to watch the movie.
6. He didn't break his leg when he fell out of the tree, but he did some serious damage to the _______________ around the bones in his ankle.
7. He may look _______________, but he is actually so drunk he can hardly walk straight.
8. The doctor _______________ antibiotics to stop the infection.
9. The young _______________ girl was very excited when she learned that she would be getting a seeing-eye dog.
10. The kids must be really hungry; they've been _______________ all day with one thing or another.
11. She died soon after contracting a _______________ disease while travelling in Southeast Asia.
12. Jackie was very _______________ after eating a salad containing raw mushrooms that weren't fresh.
13. In 1996, her illness was _______________ as cancer, and she immediately began chemotherapy treatments.
14. I didn't have much _______________ when I was sick, but now that I'm feeling better, I'm starving.
15. By going around the world in his wheelchair, Rick Hansen showed Canadians that a _______________ shouldn't stop you from achieving your goals.
16. It took a few hours before the patient was _______________ again after the operation.