Overcoming Fears and Phobias

One problem mentioned in the passage is that some people cannot get over their phobias on their own. What is the solution to this problem?

• People can try to turn their phobia into a social anxiety or panic disorder

• People can try new activities or situations to help them forget about their phobia.

• People can get help from a psychiatrist or psychologist to overcome a phobia

• People can learn the names of their phobias.

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"Fear is not always a bad thing".

What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?

• Different people are afraid of different things over time.

• some people have a fear of dentists, so they avoid going to the dentist.

• Sometimes fear becomes extreme and unreasonable. This is known as a phobia.

• Fear can be a normal reaction that helps us avoid harm and survive.

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What is a phobia?

• A fear that is outgrown over time.

• An extreme fear that makes a person feel out of control.

• A fear of the dark or spiders

• A type of fear that involves dogs or airplanes

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Treatment options for people with phobias are:

• often effective and there are many different treatment options.

• helpful, but some make phobias worse.

• involve getting used to friendly dogs.

• abe to get rid of pain and sickness, but not the phobia.

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What is the main idea of the passage?

• Fears are most common during Halloween, but they can also occur at other times.

• Fears can sometimes be extreme, but they can also be treated and overcome

• Everyone gets scared, so it shouldn't be embarrassing.

• Phobias can be about many things and have severe effects on people's health.

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"Doctors believe that most of these phobias, like Greg's, are learned. But in some cases, a phobia follows an unrelated trauma, such as a death in the family".

What does the word trauma mean in this sentence from the passage?

• A meeting

• A failure

• A difficult event

• A birthday party

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Fill in the blank with a vocabulary word from the passage:

"Some ______________ have weird names like arachnophobia (fear of spiders) or brontophobia (fear of thunderstorms)".

• traumas

• anxieties

• phobias

• fears

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Fill in the blank with the correct words:

"___________ just make you feel slightly nervous, while __________ are intense and can make you feel sick and out of control"

• Fears, phobias

• Phobias, fears

• Anxiety, fears

• Anxiety, phobias

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What is the meaning of the word anxiety?

• a vague unpleasant emotion

• an uneasy or distressing desire

• a group of cattle or sheep

• answers 1 and 2 only

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Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word:

"I have _________ about flying in a plane"

• fear

• phobia

• anxiety

• trauma

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