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From the Ted Talk by Emma Bryce: How do your hormones work?

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Take, for instacne, the thyroid and the two hormones it produces, triiodothyronine and thyroxine. These hormones travel to most of the body’s clles, where they influence how quickly those cells use energy and how rapidly they work. In turn, that regulates everything from breathing rate to heartbeat, body temperature, and digestion.

Hormones also have some of their most visible—and familiar—effects during puberty. In men, puberty begins when the testes start secreting tessnerootte. That trrieggs the gradual development of the sexual organs, makes facial hair spuort, and causes the vicoe to deepen and height to increase. In women, eegtrosn secreted from the ovaries signals the strat of adulthood. It helps the body develop, makes the hips widen, and thickens the womb’s linnig, preparing the body for menstruation or pregnancy.

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Take, for ________, the thyroid and the two hormones it produces, triiodothyronine and thyroxine. These hormones travel to most of the body’s _____, where they influence how quickly those cells use energy and how rapidly they work. In turn, that regulates everything from breathing rate to heartbeat, body temperature, and digestion.

Hormones also have some of their most visible—and familiar—effects during puberty. In men, puberty begins when the testes start secreting ____________. That ________ the gradual development of the sexual organs, makes facial hair ______, and causes the _____ to deepen and height to increase. In women, ________ secreted from the ovaries signals the _____ of adulthood. It helps the body develop, makes the hips widen, and thickens the womb’s ______, preparing the body for menstruation or pregnancy.

Solution


  1. lining
  2. estrogen
  3. cells
  4. instance
  5. voice
  6. sprout
  7. triggers
  8. testosterone
  9. start

Original Text


Take, for instance, the thyroid and the two hormones it produces, triiodothyronine and thyroxine. These hormones travel to most of the body’s cells, where they influence how quickly those cells use energy and how rapidly they work. In turn, that regulates everything from breathing rate to heartbeat, body temperature, and digestion.

Hormones also have some of their most visible—and familiar—effects during puberty. In men, puberty begins when the testes start secreting testosterone. That triggers the gradual development of the sexual organs, makes facial hair sprout, and causes the voice to deepen and height to increase. In women, estrogen secreted from the ovaries signals the start of adulthood. It helps the body develop, makes the hips widen, and thickens the womb’s lining, preparing the body for menstruation or pregnancy.

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Important Words


  1. adulthood
  2. begins
  3. body
  4. breathing
  5. cells
  6. deepen
  7. develop
  8. development
  9. digestion
  10. energy
  11. estrogen
  12. facial
  13. gradual
  14. hair
  15. heartbeat
  16. height
  17. helps
  18. hips
  19. hormones
  20. increase
  21. influence
  22. instance
  23. lining
  24. men
  25. menstruation
  26. organs
  27. ovaries
  28. pregnancy
  29. preparing
  30. produces
  31. puberty
  32. quickly
  33. rapidly
  34. rate
  35. regulates
  36. secreted
  37. secreting
  38. sexual
  39. signals
  40. sprout
  41. start
  42. temperature
  43. testes
  44. testosterone
  45. thickens
  46. thyroid
  47. thyroxine
  48. travel
  49. triggers
  50. triiodothyronine
  51. turn
  52. voice
  53. widen
  54. women
  55. work