Exercise 13. Read and translate paying attention to modal verbs: 1. The environment must be provided with the proper amount of oxygen for the growth of aerobic microorganisms.
2. The doctor ought not to have told him that the disease is incurable. He should have encouraged him.
3. The doctor had to palpate the patient’s abdomen and make an abdominal X-ray to exclude the possible diagnosis of an acute appendicitis.
4. The students may watch the operation on acute appendicitis in practical classes.
5. Appendicitis in this patient must have resulted from obstruction of the appendix with a tumour.
6. Everyone should remember that most viruses are destroyed at the temperature 500-600 within 30-60 minutes.
7. Acute appendicitis should be treated surgically either by laparotomy or laparascopy.
8. Fat-soluble vitamins can be stored for long periods of time in the body’s fatty tissue and the liver.
Exercise 14. Fill in the blanks with suitable modal verbs in a proper form and translate the text: At about 2 o’clock in the cold winter morning a man telephoned a doctor and asked him if he ….. come at once. “You …. hurry”, he said. The doctor …. drive 7 miles to this call. When he reached the place, the man who had called him in said: “Doc, I ….. strained myself (втомився). I haven’t got any pain or anything, but I have a terrible feeling that I …. die soon.” The doctor examined the patient, felt his pulse and took the temperature. “Have you made your will? (заповіт) he asked at last. – Why, no, doctor.” The man looked frightened. – You … done it long ago,” said the doctor. “ Have you got a family?” – “Yes” said the patient. – “You …. send for them immediately. And your parents ….. be called too.” – “Do you really think I’m going to die?” – “No, I don’t” replied the doctor. “But I don’t want to be the only one whom you made fool of that night.”
Exercise 15. Translate into English the parts of the sentences given in brackets using modal verbs: 1. The ambulance (змоглa дістатися) to the hospital within 10 minutes despite a traffic jam.
2. I don’t remember that I saw such symptoms and so I (не зможу) help you in making a diagnosis.
3. Full recovery from appendectomies (може відбутися) after 4 to 6 weeks of treatment.
4. I’ll write you the prescription that you (слід дотримуватися) to achieve full recovery.
5. I suppose that this medicine (повинно допомогти).
6. (Нема чого хвилюватися). The operation was performed successfully.
7. He has a scar in the lower right area of the abdomen. He (можливо зробили) laparotomy.
8. You (не слід) get out of bed before the doctor allows you to do it as the stitches (можуть) not hold.
