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Directions: The following questions are based on a number of reading passages. Each passage is followedby a series of questions. Read each passage carefully, and then answer the questions based on it. You mayreread the passage as often as you wish. When you havefinished answering the questions based on onepassage, go right on to the next passage.

Choose the best answer based on the information given and implied.

Questions 1 – 4 refer to the following passage. Passage 1

Infectious Disease

An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of pathogenic agents, such

viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multi-cellular parasites, and unusual proteins known as prions. Infecti

pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissiblediseases, due to their potential

transmission from one person or species to another by a replicating agent (as opposed to a toxin).

Transmission of an infectious disease can occur in many different ways. Physical contact, liquids, foobody fluids, contaminated objects, and airborne inhalation can all transmit infecting Agents.

Transmissible diseases that occur through contact with an ill person, or objects touched bythem, arespecially infective, and are sometimes referred to as contagious diseases.

Communicable diseases that require a more specialized route of infection, such as through blood or needltransmission, or sexual transmission, are usually not regarded as contagious.

The term infectivity describes the ability of an organism to enter, survive and multiply in the host, whilethe infectiousness of a disease indicates the comparative ease with which the disease is transmitted. Aninfection however, is not synonymous with an infectious disease, asan infection may not cause importantclinical symptoms.

1. What can we infer from the first paragraph in this passage?

a. Sickness from a toxin can be easily transmitted from one person to another.

b. Sickness from an infectious disease can be easily transmitted from one person to another.

c. Few sicknesses are transmitted from one person to another.

d. Infectious diseases are easily treated.

B

We can infer from this passage that sickness from an infectious disease can be easilytransmitte

from one person to another.

From the passage, “Infectious pathologies are also called communicable diseases or transmissibldiseases, due to their potential of transmission from one person or species toanother by a replicatinagent (as opposed to a toxin).”

2. What are two other names for infections’ pathologies?

a. Communicable diseases or transmissible diseases