Column a Column B. A) the process of breaking up food in the body

a) the process of breaking up food in the body

b) increase; become greater

c) kept at a certain rate or level; continued

d) continuing for a long time or for longer than expected

e) not relaxed; tense

f) without moisture; without emotion

g) inflexible; unbending; not able or not willing to change

h) allow yourself to show or express something; allow something to come out (phrase)

i) prevented from being expressed; held back

j) cause to happen

k) illness, often painful and long-lasting though seemingly not serious

I) crying

m) turning round; changing to become opposite

n) collapse; strong depression

o) period or process of change from one condition to another

p) real; true

q) urge; feeling of having to do something

EXERCISE 2: Choose the correct answer according to the passage.

1. From the statement in the passage, we can infer that some people

A) regard crying as a weakness or failure

B) don't consult their doctors about certain ailments

C) find that migraine headaches cause them to weep

D) develop personality problems from ailments such as asthma

E) go to the doctor for emotional reasons more than for physical

2. According to the writer, not crying

A) is a common characteristic of asthmatics

B) is a sign that a person is in poor health

C) causes the digestion to shut down

D) helps us to control our feelings of shock or anger

E) can bring on many unpleasant side-effects

3. In the writer's opinion

A) people should visit their doctors in times of emotional emergency

B) we need to cry in order to recover from traumas

C) weeping can cause alarm, shock, or even anger in others

D) doctors don't do enough to help patients with emotional problems

E) crying when we feel ill is as beneficial as visiting the doctor

EXERCISE 3: Complete the sentences by selecting words from Column B in EXERCISE 1.

1. When a broken bone is treated, it needs to be supported by something______________

while it's mending so that it cannot move out of position.

2. The demonstration, which happened almost without warning, was _____________by

the government's announcement that taxes are going to be increased by thirty percent.

3. I think you are wrong about her just pretending to be interested in our case. I think her

concern is_______________________

4. Ater twenty years as a teacher of indisciplined students he suffered a/an__________________

and was unable to work again.

5. If I went shopping every time I felt the _____________to buy something new, I'd be absolutely broke in no time at all!

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