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15 Million Americans Suffer from Social Anxiety Disorder Social anxiety disorder prevents some 15 million Americans

1. People with social anxiety disorder are known for their fear of

.D facing social or performance situations.

2. What do people with social anxiety disorder think of their fear?

A They think it's beyond their control.

3. Which is NOT true of people with social anxiety disorder?

D They tend to judge or criticize other people.

4. The symptoms of social anxiety disorder include all the following EXCEPT

B sore throat.

5. It can be seen from the last paragraph that treatment of the disorder

D can lead to improvement in the sufferers' lives.

Water Pollution

The demand for

freshwater rises continuously as the world's population grows

1. According to this passage, which of the following statements is true of yearly water consumption?

B Most water is used for farming.

2. Paragraph 2 suggests all of the following EXCEPT that?

C EPA is responsible for causing serious water pollution in America.

3. Water runoff causes fish to die partly because

D the fast-growing algae have used up the oxygen in the water where they live.

4. An important idea of paragraph 4 is that

A cutting down too many trees may also cause water pollution.

5. The main subject of the last paragraph is

C Oil Spills and Pollution of the Sea.

Education of Students with Vision Impairments

This is specially designed education for children

1. Various adaptive aids are used to

B help children see more clearly, read books and so on.

2. Large-print books are those books which

B have large words in them.

3. Many blind students prefer listening to books because

A these books can talk by themselves.

C this can save time.

4. "Orientation and mobility

training" is meant to teach blind and partially sighted children C how to move around without other people's help.

5. It may be good for children with vision impairments to live in special schools because these schools

A can save them the trouble of

their homes.

More about Alzheimer's Disease

Scientists have developed skin tests that may be used

1. The newly developed skin tests may be used in the future to allow doctors to 274 predict

Certain abnormalities occurring in problem pregnancies are associated with a long-term reduction in risk of breast cancer

1. Which of the following may have NOTHING to do with a decline in breast cancer incidence?

D Experiencing serious morning sickness during the early period of pregnancy.

2. According to the study, what on earth may play an important role in lowering breast cancer risk?

B The changes in the levels of hormones and other substances in the mother's body. 3. From the fifth paragraph we may infer that pregnant women whose blood pressure --- mayhave the least risk of breast cancer.

C increases the most

4. Which of the following is NOT a function of the placenta?

C Protecting the mother against breast cancer.

5. It seems that Cohn is ----- of finding out the exact mechanisms at work.

A confident

Hypertension Drugs Found to Cut Risk of Stroke

Australian doctors declared Monday that a cocktail

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1. How many-peoples surviving the first stroke may suffer another attack during the following five years?

C 20% of them.

2. Taking two blood pressure-lowering drugs may produce ------less risk of secondary strokes

than taking only one such drug.

D about one fourteenth

3. Which of the following is NOT a symptom left by strokes?

A Habitual sleeplessness.

4. How many strokes may be reduced in a year if most of stroke patients can be treated in the way as the article recommends?

B 500,000.

5. What patients among those who have had a stroke will benefit greatly from taking blood pressure-lowering drugs?

D All of the above.

Who Wants to Live Forever? If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live

1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as one of the things that living longer might enable an individual to do?

B. Having more education.

2. Which of the following is implied in the sixth paragraph?