CAE Advanced Vocabulary: Health

Ted ________ trying to lift a very heavy box of books.

• put his back out

• came his back out

• wore his back off

• pull his back through

Chris is allergic to cheese, and if she has even a slice of it she ___________ a rash all over her body.

• takes out

• comes out in

• comes round

• puts on

I can't seem to _________ this cold. I've tried everything, but it just won't go away.

• take out

• put out

• shake off

• pass out

He __________. One minute he was standing, chatting to Mark, and the next he was on the floor.

• put out

• went down

• shook off

• passed out

I didn't feel anything because l was anaesthetised, but when the anaesthetic _________ I was in agony.

• wore off

• came out

• went down

• put out

Naturally, we're all incredibly relieved, as at one point it was touch and go whether he would _______

• clear up

• take out

• pull through

• come out

Her tooth was so decayed she had to have it _______

• put out

• pulled through

• taken out

• shaken off

When he ________ his coma, the first words he said were "Where am I?"

• came out of

• went down with

• cleared up with

• put out

We're so short-staffed because half our teachers have __________ food poisoning.

• came out with

• gone down with

• passed out on

• put on

I don't know how long I had been unconscious, but

when I _________, I found myself neatly tucked up in a hospital bed.

• wore off

• came out

• came round

• cleared up