Pre-reading questions:
- Do you like sea animals?
- What is your favorite animal?
Vocabulary:
- possible /POS-uh-buhl/
- sting /sting/
- dangerous /DEYN-jer-uhs/
- medicine /MED-uh-sin/
- quickly /KWIK-lee/
[adjective] able to be done or achieved, or able to exist
Is it possible to bring a camera inside the concert venue?
[noun] if an insect, plant, or animal stings, it produces a small but painful injury, usually with a poison
How do you treat a bee sting?
[adjective] able or likely to cause harm or death
It is dangerous to walk alone especially at night.
[noun] substance, especially in the form of a liquid or a pill, that is a treatment for illness or injury
Take your medicine before you go to bed.
[adverb] after only a very short time
Please go back here quickly!
Researchers from the University of Sydney found a possible cure for box jellyfish sting. This kind of jellyfish has many tentacles full of venom. The team used cyclodextrins, a drug used to absorb cholesterol, to keep the venom from spreading all over the body. Based on the study, the venom becomes most dangerous when it reacts to cholesterol. Therefore, the medicine works the same if applied quickly to the sting. According to the university, the first experiment was done on human cell sample and on alive mice.
True or False:
- Cyclodextrins is a type of drug that is used to lose weight.
- The box jellyfish tentacles have a lot of poison.
- The researchers who found the possible cure are from the University of Melbourne.
- The first experiment was done on an alive rabbit.
- The cure was found to stop cholesterol from spreading all over the body.
Vocabulary Check:
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| dangerous | possible | quickly | medicine | sting |
- Her husband replied to her messages _____.
- A bee _____ really hurts!
- Don’t take _____ with cold water.
- The scientists found a _____ cure for cancer patients.
- Drinking too much alcohol is _____ to your health.