Cedar-Sinai Medical Newsletter

Advanced Reading and Writing ESL
Santa Monica College
Eric H. Roth
 
Reading Assignment: Cedar-Sinai Newsletter 6/2000

Reality Check:
1. What is insomnia?
2. What is another word for physician?
3. Who says, in the article, that 75-90% of medical visits are stress-related?
4. What is the estimated cost of stress to American businesses?
5. What does NMHA stand for?
6. Does the article give any suggestions for reducing stress?
7. According to the article, how can people reduce stress?
8. How do you reduce stress?
 
Buckle Down and Buckle Up:
1. What is the article’s main idea?
2. Which agency collects car crash statistics?
3. What percent of children killed in car accidents weren’t buckled up?
4. What does “laxity” mean?
5. What does “restrain” mean?
6. Should children, according to the article, be put in the front seat? Why?
7. Have you ever been in a car accident? When? Where?
8. Can you compare driving in the United States with your country?
 
What Was for Dinner:
1. What is amnesia?
2. What was the original source for this article?
3. How many subjects were used in the study?
4. What does “hypothesized” mean?
5. What did the psychologists hypothesize? Why?
6. What did you eat yesterday for dinner?
7. Who, according to the article, can help people “curb their appetite”?
 
Unplugged:
1. What does hazardous mean?
2. Can you think of something hazardous?
3. What are hearing aids?
4. Do you know anyone who uses a hearing aid?

 

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