8. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
A. Women are vulnerable to spiders. b. Some Europeans really like spiders.
c. Prejudice against spiders has a long history.
d. Buming spiders was the best way to avoid the plague.
9. What caused the spread of the Black Plague?
a. Infected rats
b, Raw food
c. Unknown viruses
d. Poisonous spiders
10. Which of the following is true? a. There are two ways to help patients from arachnophobia.
b. During the 14th century,people believed that rats bring death.
c. Different people suffer from arac hnophobia to the same degrees.
d. Hollywood movies about giant spiders can help people with arachnophobia.
11. One of the best ways to treat arachnophobia is.........................
d. aversion therapy
a. medication
b. obsession
c. encouragement
12. To accomplish his point, the writer uses a tone that is......
A. informative and factual
b. creative and comparative
c. opinionated and ineffectual
d, argumentative and analytical
13. have pain, sadness, etc."
b. scream
a. Scare
c. suffer
d. scientific
14. sick person whom a doctor is looking after"
a. Treat
b. Black Plague
c. patient
d. therapist
15, "give someone hope"
a. fiction
b. comfortable
c. encourage
d. gradually