Reading Comprehension and Long Passages Additional Practice
(page 2)  based on 22 ratings Updated on Aug 10, 2011     1. d.
 Many asthma sufferers have an inherited tendency to have
allergies, referred to as atopy in the third paragraph.   2. b.
 The fourth sentence of the second paragraph explains that
during an attack the person afflicted with asthma will
compensate for constricted airways by breathing a greater volume
of air.   3. c.   The first sentence of the passage begins, No
longer, indicating that in the past asthma was considered an
anomalous inflammation of the bronchi. Now asthma is considered
a chronic condition of the lungs.   4. b.   An exacerbation is
usually defined as an aggravation of symptoms or increase in the
severity of a disease. However, in this passage, exacerbations
is interchangeable with asthma attacks.   5. a.   Although
cramping may occur during asthma attacks, it is not mentioned in
the passage. See the bottom half of the second paragraph for a
full explanation of the morphol