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Passage ThreeQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy, while her wealthy English parents were traveling in Europe. As a child, she traveled to many places with her family and learned how to speak several languages. When Nightingale was 17, she told her family that she was going to help sick people. Her parents did not approve, but Nightingale was determined. She traveled to hospitals all over Europe. She saw that doctors were working too hard. She saw that patients died because they did not get enough care. Nightingale felt that women could be doing more to help doctors take care of sick people. Nightingale knew that in order for nurses to do more, they needed special training in how to take care of sick people. Nightingale went to a hospital in Germany to study nursing. Then she returned to London and became the head of a group of women called Gentlewomen During Illness. These women cared for sick people in their homes. In 1854, England was fighting a war with Russia. War reporters wrote about the terrible conditions in the hospitals that cared for the wounded. People demanded that something be done about it. A leader of the government asked Florence Nightingale to take some nurses into the war hospitals. So, in November 1854, Nightingale finally got to work in a hospital. She took along 38 nurses whom she had trained herself. At first, the doctors on the battlefields did not want Nightingale and her nurses in their hospitals. They did not believe that women could help. But in fact, the nurses did make a difference. They worked around the clock, tending the sick. Thanks to their hard work, many wounded soldiers survived. After the war, Nightingale and her nurses were treated like heroes. Finally, in 1860, she started the Nightingale School for Nurses. In time, thanks to Florence Nightingale, nursing became an important part of medicine. 11. Florence Nightingale was born into a rich _________ _____.A. Italian family B. Russian familyC. English family D. German family 12. Nightingale's parents did not approve of her decision _________ _____.A. to work as a doctor B. to care for sick people C. to fight in the war with Russia D. to travel to hospitals all over Europe 13. It was not until the war with Russia that Nightingale ___________ ___.A. got to work in a hospital B. began to study nursing C. started to care for sick people in their homes D. became the head of Gentlewomen During Illness 14. On the battlefields Nightingale and her nurses proved to be _________ _____.A. as bad as the doctors had expected B. quite generous C. less than useful D. very helpful15. Nightingale played a great role in __________ ____.A. the building of war hospitals B. the education of women C. the development of nursing D. the improvement of working conditions for women

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5. According to the last paragraph, tissue's lower exposure to alcohol ____________.

A. explains why inflammation triggers cancer
B. accounts for why food can coat digestive-tract tissues
C. is the reason why food can scrub alcohol off tissues
D. reduces the risk of laryngeal cancer

2. Which of the following is NOT the conclusion made by the researchers about "drinking with meals"?

A. It has a lower risk of cancer than drinking without food
B. It may also be a cause of cancer
C. It increases by 20 percent the possibility of cancer in all sites
D. It does not eliminate cancer risk at any of the sites

Passage OneQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.In what may be bad news for bars and pubs, an European research group has found that people drinking alcohol outside of meals have a significantly higher risk of cancer in the mouth and neck than do those taking their libations with food. Luigino Dal Maso and his colleagues studied the drinking patterns of 1,500 patients from four cancer studies and another 3,500 adults who had never had cancer.After the researchers accounted for the amount of alcohol consumed, they found that individuals who downed a significant share of their alcohol outside of meals faced at least a 50 to 80 percent risk of cancer in the oral cavity, pharynx, and esophagus, when compared with people who drank only at meals. Consuming alcohol without food also increased by at least 20 percent the likelihood of laryngeal cancer. "Roughly 95 percent of cancers at these four sites traced too smoking or drinking by study volunteers," Dal Maso says. The discouraging news his team reports, is that drinking with meals didn't eliminate cancer risk at any of the sites.For their new analysis, the European scientists divided people in the study into four groups, based on how many drinks they reported having in an average week. The lowest-intake group included people who averaged up to 20 drinks a week. The highest group reported downing at least 56 servings of alcohol weekly for an average of eight or more per day. Cancer risks for the mouth and neck sites rose steadily with consumption even for people who reported drinking only with meals. For instance, compared with people in the lowest-consumption group, participants who drank 21 to 34 alcohol servings a week at least doubled their cancer risk for all sites other than the larynx. If people in these consumption groups took some of those drinks outside meals, those in the higher consumption group at least quadrupled their risk for oral cavity and esophageal cancers.People in the highest-consumption group who drank only with meals had 10 times the risk of oral cancer, 7 times the risk of pharyngeal cancer, and 16 times the risk of esophageal cancer compared with those who averaged 20 or fewer drinks a week with meals. In contrast, laryngeal cancer risk the high-intake, with-meals-only group was only triple that in the low-intake consumers who drank with meals."Alcohol can inflame tissues. Over time, that inflammation can trigger cancer." Dal Maso says. He suspects that food reduced cancer risk either by partially coating digestive-tract tissues or by scrubbing alcohol off those tissues. He speculates that the reason laryngeal risks were dramatically lower for all study participants traces to the tissue's lower exposure to alcohol.1. Researchers have found that the risk of cancer in the mouth and neck is higher with people __________.

A. who drink alcohol outside of meals.
B. who drink alcohol at meals
C. who never drink alcohol at meals.
D. who drink alcohol at bars and pubs

3.Approximately how many drinks do the lowest-intake group average per day?

A. 3 drinks
B. 8 drinks
C. 20 drinks
D. 56 drinks

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