CLOZE TEST The term stress has been defined 1)______________ several ways.

Sometimes the term is applied to stimuli or events in our environment that make physical or emotional demands on us and sometimes it 2) _________________ applied to our emotional and physical reactions to such stimuli. Many sorts of events can be stressors, including disasters such as hurricanes or tornadoes, major life events such as divorce or the loss 3)_________________ a job, and daily hassles such as having to wait 4)_____________________ line at the supermarket, when you need to be somewhere else in ten minutes. What all these events have in common is 5)_____________________ they interfere with our accustomed way of life. 6)__________________ we experience such stressors, we must pull together our mental and physical resources in order to deal with the challenge. Hans Seyle has been the most influential researcher and writer on stress. Seyle has proposed that 7)______________________ humans and other animals react to stressors in three stages. Seyle developed his model of the adaptation syndrome 8)____________________ a result of research with rats and other animals. In rats, certain stressors consistently lead to the same sorts of stress reactions. In humans. 9)_____________________ , it is harder to predict what what will be stressful to a particular person. In humans, the specific stress reaction is likely to vary widely; some stressful situations give rise predominantly 10)___________________ emotions of fear, some to anger, and some to depression.

The text taken from Seal, B. (2009). Academic Reading Encounters. CUP.

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