COMPREHENSION: Read each
passage carefully and answer the
questions that follow it.
PASSAGE II
Stress is by far the most common
cause of ill health in our society,
and may be the underlying cause
of as many as 70-80% of all visits
to family doctors. It is also the
problem that every doctor shares
with patients.
Experts note that stress is an
issue everyone can relate to
experimentally. In studying and
better understanding about
stress, we can derive personal as
well as professional benefits.
Stress can be overcome without undergoing duress. They often
say anyone who wants to help
someone deal with his/her stress
should learn to handle his/hers
first.
The manifestations of stress
are legion. It can contribute ormimic just about any symptom
you can think of. However, the
main symptoms are physical,
mental, emotional and
behavioural.
The causes of stress are multiple
and varied but they can be
classified into external and
internal. External stressors can
include relatively getting sick or
dying, jobs being lost or people
criticising or one becoming angry.
However, most of the stress
people experience is self-generated.
Experts tell us that we create the
majority of our upset indicating
that because we cause most of
our own stress, we can do
something about it. This gives us
a measure of choice and control
that we do not always have when
outside forces acts on us. This
also leads to a basic premise
about stress reduction.
To master stress-change, you
have to figure out what you are
doing that is contributing to your
problem and change it. These
changes fall into behaviour,
thinking, lifestyle choices and / or
situations you are in. By getting
to the root cause of your stress,
you can prevent recurrences.
As a way of draining off stress
energy, nothing beats aerobic
exercise. To understand why, we
need to review what stress is.
People often think of stress as
pressure at work, a demanding
boss, a sick child or rush-hour
traffic.
These may be triggers but stress
is actually the body reaction to
factors such as these. Stress is
the fight-or-flight response in the body, mediated be adrenaline and
other stress hormones, and
comprised such physiologic
changes as increased in heart rate
and blood pressure, faster
breathing, muscle tension, dilated pupils, dry mouth and increased
blood sugar. In order word, stress
is the state of increased arousal
necessary for an organism to
defend itself at a time of danger.
Exercise is the most logical way to
dissipate the excess energy. It is
what our bodies are trying to do
when we pace around or tap our
legs and fingers. It is much better
to channel it into a more complete
form of exercise like a brisk walk,
a run, a bike ride, or a game of
squash.
Just as we are all capable of
mounting up and sustaining a
stress reaction, we have also inherited the ability to put our
bodies into a state of deep
relaxation called the ‘relaxation
response’.
In this state, all the physiologic events in the stress reaction are
reversed. Pulse slows, blood
pressure falls, breathing slows
and muscle relax.
Adopted from VANGUARD,
19TH March, 2008
5. The expression, … stress is an issueeverybody can relate to experimentally, means that
A. it is better understood when experienced
B. its problem can be solved by everybody
C. everybody avoids it
D. everybody encounters it.
6. Which of the following is true accordingto the passage?
A. Stress is mostly caused by internal factors
B. Stress can only be avoided during relaxation
C. Stress is better handled by the individual
D. The issues of stress can be solved with no effort
7. According to the passage, the major step in controlling stress is
A. changing one’s attitude to stressors
B. understanding the history of disease
C. visiting family doctors for check-up and treatment
D. constant exercise to dissipate every energy
8. The experts feel one can control one’s stress because
A. its causes are understandable
B. it is not difficult to control
C. external factors contribute less stress
D. it is individually initiated
9. From the passage, it can be deduced that stress is
A. hormonal disorder in the body system
B. individually induced problems
C. bodily reaction to internal factors
D. bodily reaction to external factors.
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