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Read the rest ofthe text and choose the best summary. 5 Scientists can take what they learned from tackling potio
What is wrong with the other two summaries? and use it to find cures for other diseases.
6 Scientists at Wake Forest University Medical SchooI are
A developing man-made organs to replace human organs.
Many scientists now believe that death is not biotogicatty 7 The Borges story impties that achieving immortality
inevitabte and could be avoided if there were cures for all woutd deprive us of the ioy of being alive.
life-threatening diseases. However, living for ever woutd 8 Deciding whether or not to choose immortaLity may be
create its own probtems. People might become apathetic difficutt, but it witt probabty never arise for anyone
and the planet would be overcrowded. alive today.

Match the adlectives in red in the text with these definitions.
B
Underline the negative prefix or suffix in each adjective.
Scientists are developing new ways to combat serious
7 impossible to imagine
diseases, Iike cancer, and may soon be able to replace
2 not worl<ing properly
parts of the body, just tike a mechanic reptaces parts
3 not relevant
of a car. However, living for ever would have several -
disadvantages as we[[ as advantages. 4 - with no interesting features
5 - , having no conclusion
6 not aimed at the correct goal
C
lf scientists found a way of allowing humans to Iive for 6 Complete the sentences. Make the words in bracl<ets negative
ever, the result would not necessarity be positive. As -
by adding the correct prefix or suffix from exercise 5. Use a
Borges ittustrated in a short story, immortatity woutd tead
dictionary to hetp you if necessary.
to a complete [ack of motivation. lt would also cause the 1 Celts can become
ptanet to become over-poputated. as a result of repticating
themselves time and time again. (formed)
2 l(nowing that you will never die could mal<e your daity tife
4 According to the text, are the sentences true (T) or false (F), or . (meaning)
is the answer not stated (NS)? Justify your answers. 3 One day, serious diseases could be rendered
1 Scientists betieve that immortality may soon be a (existent) by science.
possibitity. Perhaps people who opt for cryonics are to accept
2 Past attempts to find the secret of immortality faited the reality of death. (witting)
because nobody fulty understood the ageing process. Reviving people who have been frozen may prove to be
3 Everyone accepts that finding cures for itlnesses will scientificatty (feasibte).
never be enough to prevent people from dying. lf you were revived centuries into the future, you might be
4 Advances in science make it almost inevitabte that we to tife in that era. (adjusted)
will soon find a cure for cancer. Anyone who lived to be 200 would be of
remembering their own chitdhood. (capabte)
Perhaps the very ambition of achieving immortality is
. (conceived)
was no possibitity that it might one day be
snatched from us? At[ our emotions would become immaterial. Maybe the secret of immortality wilL remain
(penetrable) for ever.
70 And what about the Limitations of our memories which often faiL
us, even in the short lives currently altotted to us? It is frustrating
7 ffi Discuss the questions with the class.
enough to acknowtedge that we have forgotten things which
1 What emotions might somebodywho had been frozen for
happened ten, twenty or thirty years ago. Imagine then the
frustration of hundreds 0f years' worth of memories slipping away 200 years and then revived experience, in your opinion?
75 from us as we drift through the centuries - constantty Losing sight 2 What might be the best and worst aspects of being
of where we have been and what we have done. immortat?
3 Would you personatty choose to be immortat, if you
There woutd be other prob[ems too. Un[ess we began to coLonise
space, the Earth woutd soon be burdened with too many people could? Give reasons.
and some sort of [irnit on the number of chitdren we can have might
80 be necessary. Perhaps we might onty be atlowed to reproduce if we
undertook to dje oursetves at some future point.
Given atL this, it seems that [onger tife might come at a price much
heavier than many of us are witting to pay. For most of
us ative today, immortal"ity may never be an issue - but for those
85 who are at the start of their lives, or yet to be born, it js a decjsjon
they may well have to confront, and much sooner than any of us
might have imagined.

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