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1. The pharmaceutical industry (Pre-Intermediate)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the correct options.

The most expensive drug in the world costs £267,000 per year. This drug is called ___. It treats paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria — a rare blood disorder.

a)

Folotyn

b)

Luxturna

c)

Soliris

d)

Blincyto 

2.

Choose the correct timeline for the pharmaceutical events.

In 1885, the ___ vaccine was used for the first time.

a)

insulin

b)

penicillin

c)

Arsphenamine

d)

rabies

3.

In 1944, ___ became available as a drug.

a)

first drug for HIV/AIDS

b)

penicillin

c)

insulin (from animals)

d)

Biotech drugs

4.

In 2003, the ___ was finished. The scientists decoded 99.99% of the human DNA.

a)

Sulfa drugs

b)

Chloroform

c)

Human Genome Project

d)

Decoding DNA

5.

In 1922, doctors started to use ___ to treat diabetes.

a)

insulin (from animals)

b)

Penicillin

c)

sulfa drugs

d)

Biotech drugs

6.

A type of bacteria that can cause infection in some parts of the body, e.g. the skin or eyes

a)

a rash

b)

Staphylococcus

c)

an antibiotic

d)

influenza

7.

An infectious disease like a very bad cold, that causes high temperature, pains and weakness.

a)

a rash

b)

Staphylococcus

c)

influenza

d)

to vaccinate

8.

A scientist who studies pharmacology.

a)

a pharmacist

b)

a pharmacovigilance

c)

a pharmacologist

d)

a pharmaceutical

9.

A lot of red spots on someone's skin, caused by an illness

a)

a rash

b)

Staphylococcus

c)

influenza

d)

antibiotic

10.

To give a vaccine, usually by injection, to prevent a human or an animal from getting a disease

a)

an antibiotic

b)

to treat

c)

a pharmacologist

d)

to vaccinate

11.

To try to make the patient well again

a)

a rash

b)

To vaccinate

c)

To treat

d)

an antibiotic

12.

That's how Fleming discovered penicillin, the world-changing ____. He later won the Nobel Prize.

a)

antibiotic

b)

psychedelic drug

c)

sleeping pill

d)

Staphylococcus

13.

In 1869, German ___ Otto Liebreich conducted experiments to prove that chloral hydrate would convert into chloroform in the body, provoking sleep.

a)

pharmaceuticals

b)

pharmacist

c)

pharmacologist

d)

pharmcovigilance

14.

While Albert Hoffman was working in the lab developing drugs to ___ bleeding after giving birth, he touched a bit of this acid, and the world began to twinkle.

a)

rash

b)

treat

c)

vaccinate

d)

sleeping pill

15.

He collected some material from the milkmaid's cowpox rash and used it to ___ an 9-year-old boy.

a)

vaccinated

b)

vacinne

c)

vaccine

d)

vaccinate

16.

The usual symptoms are a pink ___ with a slight fever.

a)

acid

b)

rash

c)

influenza

d)

psychedelic drug

17.

___ aureus is a very common type of bacteria.

a)

influenza

b)

Staphylococcus

c)

diabetes

d)

rash

18.

Antibiotics are useless against viral infections such as ___.

a)

acid

b)

influenza

c)

rash

d)

Staphylococcus

19.

Some parents hesitate to ___ their children for religious reasons or because they fear side effects.

a)

treat

b)

talk

c)

vaccinate

d)

sleep

20.

Penicillin was the first true ___ which Alexander Fleming discovered in 1928.

a)

treat

b)

vaccine

c)

antibotic

d)

antibiotic