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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
pets provide health benefits to the people who won them
B
physicians who treat the elderly encourage their patients to get pets
C
research into the benefits to the people who own them
D
pet owners have a natural craving for emotional relationships
2) The passage indicates that which researcher found pet owners made few trips to the doctor
A
Katcher
B
Siegel
C
Corson
D
Levinson
3) Which of the following claims regarding pet owners is NOT supported by the passage
A
Dog owners enjoy better health than peopel who do not own pets
B
Cat owners enjoy better health than bird owners
C
Bird owners enjoy better health than people who do not own pets
D
Pet owners recover from surgery more quickly than people who do not own pets
4) based on the third paragraph (lines 13-22), what made Levinson's 1959 discovery an accient
A
Levinson did not realize the extent of his young patient's isolation and refusal to seek help
B
Jingles normally did not run up to patients, and Levinson's young patient normally did not respond t
C
Levinson had Jingles with him and hadn't expected that his young patient would come to visit
D
Jingles had never met any of L's patents before, and L thought his young patient was afraid of dogs
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
significant events in a person's life
C
Times a pet was petted and talked to
D
pets a person cared for
6) As it is used in line 39, the word population most nearly means:
A
number of inhabitants in a country or region
B
act or process of supplying with inhabitants
C
total number of individuals occupying an area
D
group of people with common characteristics
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
the citizenship of the people
B
how much stress the people had in their lives
C
being enrolled in Medicare
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
provide their owners with a sens of security
D
make better companions than people do
9) Based on the sixth paragraph which of the following can be reasonably inferred
A
interviewing elderly women should only be done once, if they have a pet
B
Only the elderly should have pets
C
pet ownership is not good for the elderly
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
lead to allergies in many young children
B
alleviate loneliness
C
correlate to better health for their owners
D
create a sense of clam and safety
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