Dealing With Stress and Strong Emotions

Read the following statement:

Long-lasting stress can be damaging to a person's health.

Which sentence from the article provides the BEST support for the statement above?

• Stress is an extreme response to pressures, demands or threats, either real or imagined.

• For example, a lack of money can cause ongoing worries about getting enough food or losing your home.

• Such stressful feelings can become overwhelming and can interfere with daily life if they last for days or weeks.

• You become more likely to catch colds, the flu or other illnesses, and take longer to get over them.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which sentence from the article BEST shows that stressors can be a part of daily life?

• Just thinking about an unpleasant event is enough to make some people anxious, even when the event is days away.

• Experience plays a large role in determining what you perceive as stressful.

• For instance, loud noises, bright lights, crowds and automobile traffic can all cause or increase stress.

• The human body has evolved to deal with short-term stressors of all kinds.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is the MAIN reason the authors include the section "What Are Some Major Types Of Stress?"

• to explain the differences between survival, environmental and internal stress

• to show how people can react differently to survival, environmental and internal stress

• to illustrate that each type of stressor can last a different length of time

• to discuss how financial problems often cause people to experience stress

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

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WHY does the author include the information about managing stress?

• to show that stress affects everyone

• to show that stress can be controlled

• to show that stress is hard to identify

• to show that stress occurs randomly

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CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.7.6