Card Games Can Help Recovery In Stroke

Listening Guess

1) A new report says that playing simple card games can help ______
 a. stroke patience
 b. stroke patents
 c. stroke patient
 d. stroke patients

2) determine whether gaming or more traditional games was better at ______
 a. treat in stroke sufferers
 b. treating stroke sufferers
 c. treats stroke sufferers
 d. treatment stroke sufferers

3) even throwing a paper ball into a basket improved ______
 a. patients' motors skills
 b. patients' motor skills
 c. patients' motoring skills
 d. patients' motorised skills

4) The researchers reported that if the type ______
 a. off task used
 b. off-task used
 c. of task use
 d. of task used

5) the rehabilitation of motor skills is intensive, repetitive and gets the hands ______
 a. and arms move in
 b. and arms movie
 c. and arms moving
 d. and arms movement

6) A stroke happens when the blood supply to part of the ______
 a. brain is cuts off
 b. brainy is cut off
 c. brain is cut of
 d. brain is cut off

7) drooping face muscles, slurred speech and a loss of ______
 a. strength in the arms
 b. strength on the arms
 c. strength in the arm
 d. strength on the arm

8) the tendency to think that new technology is better than old-______
 a. fashion strategies
 b. fashion old strategies
 c. fashioned strategy
 d. fashioned strategies

9) but sometimes that's ______
 a. not a case
 b. not this case
 c. not the cases
 d. not the case

10) simple recreational activities that can be implemented anywhere ______
 a. may be was effective
 b. may be has effective
 c. may be as effective
 d. may be is effective

Comprehension

1) What can simple card games be
as good as for stroke patients?
a) virtual reality gaming
b) walking
c) taking a hot bath
d) conducting tests

2) How many participants were in a
test conducted by researchers?
a) 411
b) 114
c) 141
d) 1401

3) Where did researchers say stroke
patients could throw a paper ball?
a) in a park
b) into a basket
c) out the window
d) in the air

4) What kind of skills did the
researchers say simple games
improved?
a) throwing skills
b) writing skills
c) language skills
d) motor skills

5) What did the researchers say
would get moving after intensive
tasks?
a) hands and arms
b) arms and legs
c) hands and feet
d) legs and feet

6) What part of the body is deprived
of blood when someone has a stroke?
a) the liver
b) the arms
c) the heart
d) the brain

7) What can happen to someone's
speech if they have a stroke?
a) it becomes impossible to
understand
b) it becomes slurred
c) it becomes difficult
d) it stops

8) Who is Gustavo Saposnik?
a) a technologist
b) a card game player
c) a patient
d) a researcher

9) What do people tend to think
about old-fashioned strategies?
a) no one should use them
b) they are boring
c) that new technology is better
d) they are too old to work

10) What did a researcher say might
be as effective as technology?
a) studying
b) simple recreational activities
c) reading
d) crafts