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Passage #4: Pet Ownership
Test Description: Pet Ownship
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) The main purpose of the passage is to show that
A
physicians who treat the elderly encourage their patients to get pets
B
research into the benefits to the people who own them
C
pet owners have a natural craving for emotional relationships
D
pets provide health benefits to the people who won them
2) The passage indicates that which researcher found pet owners made few trips to the doctor
A
Siegel
B
Levinson
C
Katcher
D
Corson
3) Which of the following claims regarding pet owners is NOT supported by the passage
A
Pet owners recover from surgery more quickly than people who do not own pets
B
Bird owners enjoy better health than people who do not own pets
C
Dog owners enjoy better health than peopel who do not own pets
D
Cat owners enjoy better health than bird owners
4) based on the third paragraph (lines 13-22), what made Levinson's 1959 discovery an accient
A
Levinson had Jingles with him and hadn't expected that his young patient would come to visit
B
Jingles normally did not run up to patients, and Levinson's young patient normally did not respond t
C
Jingles had never met any of L's patents before, and L thought his young patient was afraid of dogs
D
Levinson did not realize the extent of his young patient's isolation and refusal to seek help
5) According to the passage, one way researchers tried to measure the health benefits of pet ownership was to examine the number of:
A
times a person visited the doctor
B
pets a person cared for
C
Times a pet was petted and talked to
D
significant events in a person's life
6) As it is used in line 39, the word population most nearly means:
A
total number of individuals occupying an area
B
group of people with common characteristics
C
act or process of supplying with inhabitants
D
number of inhabitants in a country or region
7) According to paragraph six (lines 38-51), for their research, Siegel and her colleagues selected a group of 1,000 people on the basis of:
A
being enrolled in Medicare
B
how much stress the people had in their lives
C
the citizenship of the people
D
the types of pets the poepel owned
8) The last paragraph indicates that one reason people who have pets recover from illness more quickly than other people is that pets:
A
Can sense when a person is sick
B
Can prevent accidents from occuring
C
make better companions than people do
D
provide their owners with a sens of security
9) Based on the sixth paragraph which of the following can be reasonably inferred
A
pet ownership is not good for the elderly
B
interviewing elderly women should only be done once, if they have a pet
C
Only the elderly should have pets
D
the elderly should be given pets often
10) According to the last paragraph of the text pets can do all of the following EXCEPT
A
correlate to better health for their owners
B
create a sense of clam and safety
C
alleviate loneliness
D
lead to allergies in many young children
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