Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks from 5 to 10.

Phobias

     The  point  of  Phobia  Awareness  Week  is  to  highlight  the  difficulties  that  many  people  (5)  ……….. everyday situations. It is important to distinguish between a fear and a phobia. It‘s (6) ……….. usual for all of us to have our own peculiar fears, for example, being anxious around snakes or nervous about flying. However, only a very small proportion of us actually have a phobia of  these things. When these  fears  begins to (7) ……….. you embarrassment or you feel that  your life  is being disrupted then you would be wise to (8) ……….. treatment for what could potentially be a phobia. By far the most  common  phobia and potentially the most disruptive is agoraphobia. The word derives from  Greek  and  (9)  ………..  means  fear  of  the  marketplace‘  but  we  apply  to  today  to  describe  a distressing (10) ……….. in which people (12) avoid going outside because of the awful feelings of anxiety that arise.

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