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09/08/2023 628Read the following passage and circle the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health and how the body takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into four distinct eras: the first began in the nineteenth century and extended into the early twentieth century when it was recognized for the first time that food contained constituents that were essential for human function and that different foods provided different amounts of these essential agents. Near the end of this era, research studies demonstrated that rapid weight loss was associated with nitrogen imbalance and could only be rectified by providing adequate dietary protein associated with certain foods. The second era was initiated in the early decades of the twentieth century and might be called "the vitamin period. " Vitamins came to be recognized in foods, and deficiency syndromes were described. As vitamins became recognized as essential food constituents necessary for health, it became tempting to suggest that every disease and condition for which there had been no previous effective treatment might be responsive to vitamin therapy. At that point in time, medical schools started to become more interested in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the basic sciences. Much of the focus of this education was on the recognition of deficiency symptoms. Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of nutritional therapies in medicine. Reckless claims were made for effects of vitamins that went far beyond what could actually be achieved from the use of them. In the third era of nutritional history in the early 1950's to mid-1960's, vitamin therapy began to fall into disrepute. Concomitant with this, nutrition education in medical schools also became less popular. It was just a decade before this that many drug companies had found their vitamin sales skyrocketing and were quick to supply practicing physicians with generous samples of vitamins and literature extolling the virtue of supplementation for a variety of health-related conditions. Expectations as to the success of vitamins in disease control were exaggerated. As is known in retrospect, vitamin and mineral therapies are much less effective when applied to health-crisis conditions than when applied to long-term problems of under nutrition that lead to chronic health problems.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
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Chọn A
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Câu 2:
It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following discoveries was made during the first era in the history of nutrition?
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Chọn D
Câu 3:
The word "tempting" is closest in meaning to.
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Chọn D
Câu 4:
It can be inferred from the passage that medical schools began to teach concepts of nutrition in order to
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Chọn A
Câu 5:
The word "Reckless" is closest in meaning to?
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Chọn B
Câu 7:
Why did vitamin therapy begin losing favor in the 1950's ?
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Chọn D
Câu 8:
The phrase "concomitant with" is closest in meaning to
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Chọn C
Câu 9:
The word "skyrocketing" is closest in meaning to
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Chọn B
Câu 10:
The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses
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Chọn C
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Câu 2:
Choose the word whose stress pattern is different from the other three in the following question
Câu 4:
As its sales have increased, that computer company is going to _________ more staff.
Câu 5:
It was wrong of you to allow a 4- year-old child to walk home alone.
You should______________________________________________________________.
Câu 6:
According (0)______ a magazine article I read recently, we (1)______ live in an age of increasing leisure.
Câu 7:
He drove so carelessly that he had an accident last month. (SUCH)
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