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7 Allergic reactions to cosmetics

In a recent survey, it was found that 25 percent of the women interviewed reported drying and burning of the skin after using certain soaps, ten percent had eye and nasal irritations after using certain perfumes, and eight percent had cracked lips after using certain lipsticks. The most common symptoms of allergic dermatitis are extremely dry skin, scaling, and redness with swelling and itching. The products most likely to cause this condition are lipstick, nail polish, soap, hair preparations, deodorants, and perfumes. Various drugs are being developed for the relief of allergy sufferers. However, your best help is to convert to a cosmetic product to which you have no harmful reaction. Remember that the product is not at fault or in any way injurious; it is your particular sensitivity to it that creates the problem. A line of hypo-allergenic cosmetics that are relatively free from substances that have been found to create allergic reactions is on the market.

1. The writer advises those with allergic reactions to

A) stop using soap B) take anti-allergenic drugs C) change their brand of cosmetics D) avoid all cosmetics

2. It's likely that the aim of the survey was

1. 
   to test how well a particular brand of soap was selling
   
2. 
   to aid the drug manufacturers in their development of remedies
   
3. 
   to get evidence to support a legal claim for damages against a cosmetics company
   
4. 
   to get an idea of how women react physically to cosmetics
   

3. Certain products cause allergies because

A) they are very low quality B) the women are taking drugs which react adversely to the cosmetics
C) the women overuse them by as much as 25 percent D) certain people are sensitive to their ingredients


8 The ‘Jazz Age’

Some of America's finest novelists began to write in the 1920s, or the "Jazz Age", as this decade is sometimes termed. Older authors such as Theodore Dreiser and Ellen Glasgow were still writing, but new authors wrote with new attitudes and styles. Most of the serious novelists critically analyzed American society and ways of life and tried to depict Americans as they really were. F. Scott Fitzgerald caught the restless spirit of the 1920s in his The Great Gatsby. Ernest Hemingway depicted war and disillusionment in his The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. With his direct, unadorned style and forceful dialogue, Hemingway set a pattern for much future American literature. Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, satirized the American businessman and small town in his Main Street and Babbitt. His style was mediocre, but his work vividly dissected a large section of American life.

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1. 
   Ernest Hemingway's style A) was extremely satirical
   

B) influenced a great many American writers

C) made him the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature D) was criticized by most of the serious novelists

2. 
   Until Sinclair Lewis,
   

1. 
   no other writer had used satire
   
2. 
   American writing was considered mediocre
   
3. 
   the only successful writer was Ernest Hemingway
   
4. 
   no American author had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
   

3. According to the passage, many authors of the "Jazz Age"

A) were disillusioned because of the war B) received awards such as the Nobel Prize for Literature
C) had a mediocre style D) wrote about the realities of American life