Directions: Read the Following Excerpt Adapted from the Health Textbook

question 7

Multiple Choice

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from the health textbook An Invitation to Health: Choosing to Change (p. 400) by Dianne Hales. Apply the knowledge you have gained about verbs from Chapter 19 to select the best answer for the following questions.
        ¹ An estimated 8 million adults in the United States have alcohol dependence.²Only a minority are undergoing treatment for alcohol-related problems.³Until recent years, the only options for professional alcohol treatment were, as one expert puts it, "intensive, extensive, and expensive," such as residential programs at hospitals or specialized treatment centers.⁴Today individuals with alcohol problems have chosen from a variety of approaches, including medication, behavioral therapy, or both.⁵Patients are treated with several kinds of programs.⁶Treating with one kind of therapy may work well for one person but may not work for another.⁷As research into the outcomes of alcohol treatment has grown, more attempts are made to match individuals to approaches tailored to their needs and more likely to help them overcome their alcohol problems.⁸A wide variety of treatments may offer help and hope to those with alcohol-related problems.
Which of the following sentences contains a gerund phrase used as a subject?

• A) sentence 5
• B) sentence 6
• C) sentence 7
• D) sentence 8

Assess the significance of migration, diaspora communities, and their effects on global demographics.

Understand the challenges and effects of urbanization, including slum dwellings and their societal implications.

Identify world organizations and movements that contribute to global integration and their opposite forces.

Comprehend the relationship between technology, development, and societal change.

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Definitions:

Risk Of Loss

The legal responsibility for the accidental destruction or deterioration of goods, often determining which party bears the risk during transactions.

Ownership

The state or fact of possessing something, typically property or goods, having legal rights and full control over it.

Bulk Sales

A transaction in which a business sells a significant portion of its inventory to a single buyer, often as a part of liquidation.

Article 6

A specific provision within a legal document or constitution; the context varies depending on the document (e.g., U.S. Constitution's Article 6 establishes federal laws as the supreme law of the land).