Your headache and you sneeze and cough. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these _____ that you have a cold, and you feel completely miserable. You are not sure if you will live through the day.
Everyone suffers ______ the common cold at some time or other. It isn't a serious illness, but over a billion dollars a year is spent on different kinds of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough less. Make your head intense, and stop your nose running for a while. However, it can cure your cold. So far ______ no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it. Althrough there is no cure or preventive medicine for cold, people have all kinds of ideas about _____ prevent and treat cold. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won't catch cold. Others say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled or you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so.
1. A. diseases B. fevers C. cures D. symptoms
2. A. about B. from C. of D. with
3. A. it is B. they are C. there is D. there are
4. A. what B. why C. where D. how
1. A. diseases B. fevers C. cures D. symptoms
2. A. about B. from C. of D. with
3. A. it is B. they are C. there is D. there are
4. A. what B. why C. where D. how