Unit 8 - Breakthroughs - Part 2

1. Ann Miscoi...was lucky to be living... The trouble was, she felt HALF DEAD. (line 3)

• A. HEALTHY

• B. SICKLY

• C. PALE

• D. UNFORTUNATE

2. As Miscoi read about it, everything STARTED MAKING SENSE (line 11)

• A. Became easy to understand.

• B. Became hard to understand.

• C. Began to bother her.

• D. Began to make her happy

3. So she found a doctor who would TAKE HER CONCERNS MORE SERIOUSLY. (lines 12-13)

• A. Charge her less money

• B. Not make jokes about her illness

• C. Assure her that she was in good health

• D. Pay attention to her problems.

4. Until recently, diagnosing the condition required a liver biopsy -- NOT A PROCEDURE TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. (line 14)

• A. Not a difficult or complicated course of action

• B. Not a course of action to be worried about

• C. A course of action to take when you are old.

• D. A course of action to think about seriously

5. But Miscoi didn't have to GO THAT ROUT (line 15)

• A. Go out by that door.

• B. Have that done to her.

• C. Take that medicine.

• D. Drive home on that highway

6. Scientists ... developed a test that can spot it in a drop a blood. (line 16)

• A. is able to find

• B. is able to form a circle

• C. sometimes weakens

• D. sometimes cures

7. ... She should live a NORMAL LIFE SPAN (line 21)

• A. an ordinary life with some bad health.

• B. A life filled with common experience.

• C. the usual difficulties between doctor's appointments.

• D. the typical number of years before dying.

8. Meanwhile, genetic discoveries will TRIGGER A FLOOD of new pharmaceuticals... (line 30)

• A. cause problems for many liquid medicines.

• B. bring about the production of a large number.

• C. stop the arrival of many.

• D. destroy the promotion.

9. ... but Collins believes even that WILL BE ROUTINE within a few decades. (line 38)

• A. is going to become a common practice.

• B. is going to get boring and unnecessary.

• C. will be governed by new rules and regulations

• D. will be impossible to continue.

10. ONLY A HANDFUL of clinics are using gene tests to guide drug therapy. (line 67).

• A. a selected group.

• B. an unusual combination.

• C. a small number.

• D. a large number