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Chemists have been studying why people cry. They say the body produces two kinds of tears. One kind cleans out
the eye if it gets dirt in it. But when people cry because of their feelings, these tears have poisonous chemicals in them. The body is getting rid of chemicals produced by strong feelings.
In the United States men have heart diseases more often than women do. Doctors say heart diseases and some other diseases have something to do with the pressure. Perhaps men suffer more from these diseases because they do not
cry enough. And it is possible that as more and more women work outside their homes, they will also suffer from more
pressures. Then everyone will need to cry more.
1. Chemists are trying to understand _________.
A. how many kinds of tears the body makes
B. why people cry
C. the diseases in a modern society
D. why men have heart diseases more than women
2. What is happening now?
A. More women are now working outside their homes.
B. More men than women are now crying.
C. The poison found in the tears is killing more and more people.
D. Heart diseases are on the rise.
3. Why do people cry?
A. They can get rid of the poison produced by strong feelings.
B. For no reason at all.
C. They cry when someone they know dies from a heart disease.
D. People cry because they have to work outside their homes.
4. Heart diseases and other diseases have something to do with _________.
A. chemicals
B. crying
C. pressures
D. tears
5. Men have heart diseases more often than women because _________.
A. there's something special in men's body
B. men suffer more from their work than women do
C. men have to work outside their homes
D. there's no poison in women's tears