Reading 1/2:
2) What term is used to describe the intense fears that young children may develop towards needles, often emerging between ages 5 and 10?
2345678
A. Cognitive development
B. Rational reasoning C. Social phobias
D. Magical thinking
3) Based on the information in the last sentence of the text, what topic is likely to be discussed next?
A. The impact of unaddressed needle fears on adult vaccination
B. The fear of needles in adults
C. Measures to deal with the issue of needle fears in children
D. The historical development of medical procedures for children
4) Which statement in the text reflects the author's subjective viewpoint rather than presenting objective information?
Next Question
A. Needles are pointy, sharp, and they hurt.
Studies of children's brains have shown that their frontal lobes undergo significant developmental changes as they approach puberty.This is something we can solve.
Next Reading
1
D. In 2012, Taddio surveyed children and their parents to determine the prevalence of needle fears in kids.
5) Which cohesive device in the given paragraph does NOT signal a cause-and-effect relationship?
'That disparity is caused by several reasons, says Rebecca Pillai Riddell, a clinical psychologist at York University who researches children and pain. For one, younger children are still in the age of magical thinking. What enables us to believe that Santa and the Tooth Fairy are real also leads us to think that monsters are real and allows us to imprint fears," she says, explaining that needle phobias tend to develop between ages five and ten because by that point, kids have figured out that they get poked every time they go to a doctor's office-but they don't yet understand that it's just a routine procedure that will keep them healthy and, more importantly, be over soon. "We don't have the rational abstract reasoning that tends to happen around 12."
she says.A. leads to
For one
ABCD 60 B.
explaining
more importantly
What potential consequence does a bad experience with a needle in childhood have on a person's behavior in adulthood?
Greater acceptance of medical procedures
ABC
Accelerated cognitive development
Increased vaccine hesitancy
