I. Circle best option A, B, C, or D to complete the following passage.
Your 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 (51)________ that you have a cold, and you fell completely (52)________ . You are not sure if you will live through the day.
Everyone suffers (53)________ the common cold at some time or other. It isn’t a serious (54)________, but over a billion dollars a year is spent on different kinds of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough (55)________, make your head less intense, and stop your nose (56)________ for a while. However, it can cure your cold. So far, (57)________ no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.
(58)________ there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about (59)________ prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won’t catch cold. (60)________ say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so.
51. A. diseases | B. fevers | C. cures | D. symptoms |
52. A. sad | B. hungry | C. miserable | D. thirsty |
53. A. from | B. of | C. with | D. about |
54. A. misery | B. illness | C. headache | D. wrong |
55. A. less | B. fewer | C. much | D. more |
56. A. walking | B. jogging | C. running | D. flowing |
57. A. it is | B. there is | C. they are | D. there are |
58. A. Although | B. Despite | C. In spite | D. But |
59. A. what | B. why | C. where | D. how |
60. A. Other’s | B. Another | C. Others | D. Other |
