Amazing factsBy "Mazin A.zamil"

Listen to the radio interview and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills:

Read the questions and choose the correct answer.

1. Only about one tenth of the cells in your body are ...

alive

really you.

bacteria

2. Bacteria are mostly ...

really helpful.

bad for humans.

neither good nor bad.

3. Animals need bacteria to ...

fight diseases.

provide energy.

digest food.

4. You have _____ cells in your body.

7 million

7 trillion

7 octillion

5. Most of the atoms are ...

tiny cubes.

not used.

empty space.

6. You probably have mites in your ...

hair.

ears.

eyelashes.

7. Mites are very small creatures that are about ...

3 millimetres long.

a third of a millimetre long.

0.03 millimetres long.

8. Mites eat ...

dead skin.

your eyelashes.

tiny insects.

choose the correct answer to fill the gaps.


1. Only one tenth of the cells in your body are really you. The rest are...
2. An experiment found that animals that did not have bacteria........ or had to have a special diet.
3. There are........ octillion cells in the human body.
4. Most of the atoms in the human body are just empty.......
5. Without the empty space, you could fit your body inside a box measuring ............ of a centimetre either side.
6. You would be much too small to........
7. Mites are really small creatures, like ......
8. They live in eyelashes and..........
9. Only about........... per cent of people have mites.
10. Mites eat dead..........

Amazing facts

By "Mazin A.zamil"