Matéria: Inglês
Autor: scorpion2020
Perguntado 4 anos atrás

The body is the hero

The total blood volume in our body circulates once every 13 seconds. 60 quarts of
blood pass to the brain and the kidneys per hour, and return to the heart at the same
rate.

Those tremendous volumes gives us the ability to run, to keep enough oxygen and
sugar moving to our legs and arms so that our muscles can move even after hours of
continuous effort. But the price we have to pay for all this quickness and power is a
severe one. A bacterium from a cut in your finger can reach your brain in a little over
four seconds. A pneumococcus in your lungs can reach the bones of your arms in three
seconds.

With a circulatory system such as we have, we certainly need protection. And it is
there: a group of chemical protectors and microbial killers so quick and so powerful
that in spite of our size, our circulatory system, and all our human mistakes, we survive.

This remarkable system of protection is within us. It is provided by the antibodies
that patrol our circulation, by the white cells and lymphocytes that guard our
tissues, by all the other elements that make up our body’s immune system.

To cure a disease you must help the body to do it itself. The work is done by
the body, not by science, not by antibiotics. Antibiotics only buy time. They fight
microbes, they retard their growth, they may even kill a few; but in the end it is
the body itself that must clean up the battlefield, find and destroy that last
resistant microbe.

All the drugs and technical achievements in infectious diseases have done
nothing more than help the body’s own immune system. They give us the
precious time to mount a defense, but nothing more. The body is the hero.

1- Escrever com suas palavras qual é a tese, ideia central do texto.
2- Retire do corpo do texto as três primeiras palavras que são:
a) substantivos
b) adjetivos
c) verbos

Respostas

respondido por: CremildaBR

⇒⇒ The body is the hero

The total blood volume in our body circulates once every 13 seconds. 60 quarts of blood pass to the brain and the kidneys per hour, and return to the heart at the same rate.

Those tremendous volumes gives us the ability to run, to keep enough oxygen and sugar moving to our legs and arms so that our muscles can move even after hours of continuous effort. But the price we have to pay for all this quickness and power is a severe one. A bacterium from a cut in your finger can reach your brain in a little over four seconds. A pneumococcus in your lungs can reach the bones of your arms in three

seconds.

With a circulatory system such as we have, we certainly need protection. And it is there: a group of chemical protectors and microbial killers so quick and so powerful that in spite of our size, our circulatory system, and all our human mistakes, we survive.

This remarkable system of protection is within us. It is provided by the antibodies that patrol our circulation, by the white cells and lymphocytes that guard our tissues, by all the other elements that make up our body’s immune system.

To cure a disease you must help the body to do it itself. The work is done by the body, not by science, not by antibiotics. Antibiotics only buy time. They fight microbes, they retard their growth, they may even kill a few; but in the end it is the body itself that must clean up the battlefield, find and destroy that last resistant microbe.

All the drugs and technical achievements in infectious diseases have done

nothing more than help the body’s own immune system. They give us the

precious time to mount a defense, but nothing more. The body is the hero.

1- Escrever com suas palavras qual é a tese, ideia central do texto.

O texto é sobre o trabalho que nosso corpo desenvolve para lutar contras as doenças. Nosso corpo luta contra todos os invasores, até limpar e destruir todos os micróbios.

2- Retire do corpo do texto as três primeiras palavras que são:

a) substantivos >> blood - volume - body

b) adjetivos >> total - every - same

c) verbos >> circulates - pass - return

→→ Adjectives >>> palavra usada para dar uma característica ao substantivo / sujeito

Exemplos (caracterizando um substantivo)

beautiful girl

nice hair

big house

difficult exercise

Exemplos (caracterizando o sujeito)

John is a nice man.