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5 Do you know anyone who is extremely shy? Is it hard to get them to extremely: to a very
great degree
engage in a conversation? Do they only give short answers, or do they
social anxiety
try to end the conversation quickly? Then maybe you know someone
disorder: serious
with social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder is a mental fear in social
problem in which a person gets very uncomfortable around other situations
mental: related to
people. It is generally not a serious problem and can usually be treated
emotions
easily by a psychologist.
psychologist: a
medical specialist in
Q. The word engage in the paragraph is closest in meaning to mental diseases
(A) avoid
(B) take part
(C) enjoy
(D) listen
6 Many companies these days have several offices in different cities, or allow: to make
it possible for
even in different countries. This causes problems when the company
someone to do
needs to have a meeting. They may need to have people from their something
different offices at the meeting, but buying plane tickets to fly all of
those people to the meeting would be very expensive. Instead, they
hold a conference call. A conference call requires a special telephone
line from the phone company. It is much less expensive than buying
plane tickets, and it allows the people from different offices to talk as a
group without actually being in the same room.
Q. Based on the information in the paragraph, the term conference call can best be explained as
(A) a meeting for an international company
(B) a telephone call in which more than two people can talk
(C) a meeting organized by the telephone company
(D) an inexpensive way to travel to a meeting
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