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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