Reading passages

306- The author suggests that children ------- .

A) can be given adult aspirin upon the advice of a physician

B) prefer soluble aspirin to flavoured aspirin
C) frequently suffer from headaches
D) should not be given any medicines including aspirin
E) recover from a fever more easily than adults do


Some underweight individuals enjoy an active, healthy life, but some people are underweight owing to smoking habits or poor health. An underweight person, especially an older adult, may be unable to preserve lean tissue during the fight against a wasting disease such as cancer or a digestive disorder, especially when accompanied by malnutrition. Without adequate nutrient and
energy reserves, an underweight person will have a particularly tough battle against such medical stresses. In fact, many people with cancer die, notbecause of the cancer itself, but from malnutrition. Underweight women may become infertile. Exactly how infertility develops is unclear, but contributing factors cover not only body weight, but also restricted energy and fat intake and depleted body fat stores.
307- The author points out that infertility in women ------- .

A) may partly be due to the state of being underweight

B) follows a distinct pattern as it develops
C) can always be effectively treated with a balanced diet
D) can lead to a variety of wasting diseases
E) undermines the body's energy reserves


308- The points is made in the passage that an underweight person ------- .

A) is most probably suffering from stomach cancer

B) is not necessarily to be unhealthy
C) obviously has poor eating habits
D) is likely to be a heavy smoker
E) easily develops some form of digestive disorder


309- We can infer from the passage that under weight accompanied with malnutrition ------- .

A) is rarely found among old ladies

B) has a negative effect on heavy smokers
C) means that the body finds it difficult to resist a wasting disease
D) has no damaging effect on the body's energy reserves
E) is best treated with a generous intake of fat


For many years whooping cough has been considered to be a bother to the patient and a nuisance to others; as, in fact, an unimportant disease. Unfortunately, this is not so; as statistics show that it has caused more deaths than polio, diphtheria, scarlet fever, and measles put together. Whooping cough begins in a child as an ordinary cold with cough and slight fever, and this stage lasts for a week or ten days. Then begins a series of coughs and the patient is unable to breathe. The "whoop" is caused by the noisy indrawing of breath when the fit stops. The face may become blue and congested. Bronchitis is usually present, and bronchopneumonia may result in a complication, so inoculation of all children before this disease has a chance to strike them is of great importance.