High-Q | סימולציה 4

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סימולציה מס' 4

– אנגלית פרק שני

Could Selkoe be right? Could it be that patients and physicians will view Alzheimer's disease in the same way they now view heart disease - as a serious illness that can be treated and even prevented? That's what Alzheimer's experts are hoping. Already, they observe, an estimated 12 million people are suffering from the disease worldwide. And as the population grows and people live longer, those numbers will explode - more than threefold by the year 2050, according to some estimates.

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Questions

13. The word "they" in line 6 refers to -

(1) parents (2) siblins (3) lights (4) patients

14. Which of the following could be inferred from the second paragraph?

(1) A cure for Alzheimer's disease might be found soon. (2) Researchers do not get enough funding for studying Alzheimer's. (3) There are already a few drugs capable of halting Alzheimer's. (4) Alzheimer's is a genetic disease.

15. According to the second paragraph -

(1) Alzheimer’s disease can be cured if treated at a young age (2) Alzheimer’s disease can be cured by genetic manipulation (3) There is not much progress in the last years in finding an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (4) Alzheimer’s disease will likely not be cured but treating it from an early stage will prevent almost all of its symptoms

16. The author mentions heart disease (line 15) -

(1) as an example of a curable disease (2) as an example of another horrible disease (3) as an example of another common disease (4) as an example of another scientific breakthrough

17. What is the best title to this text?

(1) Alzheimer's - Once a Nightmare (2) What is Alzheimer? (3) Alzheimer - the Dawn of a New Era (4) Alzheimer, Light, and What’s In-Between

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