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

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Your brain is more _______________ while you are sleeping than while you are watching television.
2. He developed a bad _______________ and a runny nose after watching the football game in the pouring rain.
3. When my children were babies, they would spend the entire day running around _______________ in our backyard when the weather was hot.
4. The children had severe pains in their _______________ after eating too much candy.
5. My grandmother is remarkably _______________ and healthy for a woman over 90.
6. The burn will _______________ in a couple of weeks, but it will probably leave a scar.
7. Brad lost _______________ after falling and hitting his head while skating.
8. The doctor _______________ vitamin C, and plenty of rest for her cold.
9. She didn't go into work this morning because she was feeling _______________.
10. A _______________ of this illness can be quite difficult to make because the symptoms occur infrequently.
11. She was pretty drunk when I saw her at the party, but by morning she was _______________ enough to go home.
12. Don't look at the sun directly for more than a second or you may go _______________.
13. The old man suffered a near _______________ heart attack while working in the garden.
14. Jane's brother Daryl is mentally-_______________, and needs to be taken care of.
15. Doctors had to cut away some infected _______________ to keep the disease from spreading.
16. My son does a lot of sports, so he has quite an _______________. He can empty our fridge in a single meal!