unit 2 a healthy body

Question 1

contact sport

Answer 1

a sport in which the participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another.

Question 2

extreme sports

Answer 2

Extreme sports is a sub-category of sports that are described as any kind of sport “of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average”. These kinds of sports often carry out the potential risk of serious and permanent physical injury and even death.

Question 3

lacrosse

Answer 3

chogan

Question 4

rodeo

Answer 4

cowboys do it

Question 5

umpire

Answer 5

referee

Question 6

real up and coming talent

Answer 6

likely to achieve success soon or in the near future:

Question 7

I just need to take down some details

Answer 7

write the things that you are listening or looking

Question 8

tedious

Answer 8

boring

Question 9

fanatical

Answer 9

ta asobi

Question 10

malnourished

Answer 10

mal‧nour‧ished /ˌmælˈnʌrɪʃt◂ $ -ˈnɜː-, -ˈnʌ-/ adjective
someone who is malnourished is ill or weak because they have not had enough good food to eat
malnourished children

Question 11

metabolism

Answer 11

me‧tab‧o‧lis‧m /məˈtæbəlɪzəm/ noun [countable, uncountable]
the chemical processes by which food is changed into energy in your body
This drug speeds up your metabolism.
protein/carbohydrate/alcohol etc metabolism
The vast majority of alcohol metabolism occurs in the liver.
metabolism of
the metabolism of fat by the liver

Question 12

crash diet

Answer 12

crash ˌdiet noun [countable]
an attempt to lose a lot of weight quickly by strictly limiting how much you eat
Examples from the Corpus
crash diet
• One needed to go on a crash diet, the other was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
• A crash diet will leave you hungry, you will binge and you will not get anywhere.
• So to maximise the benefits to your metabolic rate, resolve never to crash diet again.

Question 13

obese

Answer 13

o‧bese /əʊˈbiːs $ oʊ-/ ●○○ adjective

very fat in a way that is unhealthy► see thesaurus at fat

Question 14

underweight

Answer 14

un‧der‧weight /ˌʌndəˈweɪt◂ $ -ər-/ adjective
weighing less than is expected or usual OPP overweight
Women who smoke risk giving birth to underweight babies.
► see thesaurus at thin
Examples from the Corpus
underweight
• The doctor says that I’m underweight and has put me on a special diet.
• Half the under-fives are underweight, and nearly 500,000 die each year.
• The child is born seriously underweight, and underweight babies can not catch up with large ones.
• Women who consume large amounts of caffeine are more likely to give birth to underweight babies.
• a premature, underweight baby

Question 15

sedentary

Answer 15

sed‧en‧ta‧ry /ˈsedəntəri $ -teri/ adjective
1 formal spending a lot of time sitting down, and not moving or exercising very much
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc
health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles
2 technical a sedentary group of people tend always to live in the same place
a sedentary people living north of the Danube
Examples from the Corpus
sedentary
• Quite simply, like millions of other people, we had become sedentary.
• America’s young people are too sedentary.
• The exercise program was aimed at men in their fifties and sixties who were previously sedentary.
• By their mid-40s, more than 40 percent of males and more than 80 percent of females are sedentary.
• I tend now to the sedentary, and when I walk in the city I prefer to amble.

Question 16

snip

Answer 16

snip1 /snɪp/ verb (snipped, snipping) [intransitive, transitive]
to cut something by making quick cuts with scissors
I snipped the string and untied the parcel.
snip something off (=remove it by snipping)
Snip the ends of the beans off before you cook them.
► see thesaurus at cut
→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
snip
• Andrews snipped and sewed the masterpiece into one-piece garments.
• He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching.
• She snipped crisp green stalks with a pair of scissors.

Question 17

wriggle

Answer 17

wrig‧gle1 /ˈrɪɡəl/ verb
1 [intransitive] to twist your body from side to side with small quick movements
Stop wriggling and let me put your T-shirt on.
wriggle under/through/into
He wriggled through the window.
The dog wriggled free and ran off.
► see thesaurus at move
2 [transitive] to move a part of your body backwards and forwards with small movements
She took off her shoes and wriggled her toes.