IV. READING

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

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 (28)_____ that you have a cold, and you feel completely (29)_____. You are not sure if you will live through the day.

Everyone suffers (30)______ 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 (31)____, make your head intense, and stop your nose (32)_____ for a while. However, it can cure your cold. So far, there is no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it.

You know by these (28)_____ that you have a cold, ...