Read the passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers on the answer sheet.
You have a headache and you sneeze and cough. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (1)............ that you have a cold, and you feel completely (2)................ . You are not sure if you will live through the day.
Everyone suffers (3)................ the common cold at some time or other. It isnt a serious (4)............
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Read the passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers on the answer sheet.
You have a headache and you sneeze and cough. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (1)............ that you have a cold, and you feel completely (2)................ . You are not sure if you will live through the day.
Everyone suffers (3)................ the common cold at some time or other. It isn't a serious (4)................, but people spend over a billion dollars a year on diffierent kinds of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough (5)................., make your head less intense, and stop your nose (6)............... for a while. However, it can't cure you cold. So far, (7)................ no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.
(8)................. there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about (9)................. to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won't catch cold. (10)................... say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so.
1. A. diseases B. fevers C. cures D. symptoms
2. A. sad B. hungry C. miserable D. thirsty
3. A. from B. of C. with D. about
4. A. misery B. illness C. headache D. wrong
5. A. less B. fewer C. much D.more
6. A. walking B. jogging C. running D. flowing
7. A. it is B. there is C. they are D. there are
8. A. Although B. Because C. However D. But
9. A. what B. why C. where D. how
10. A. Other's B. Another C. Others D. Other
