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BAU Proficiency Reading Sample2
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BAU Proficiency Reading Sample2
The history of clinical nutrition, or the study of the relationship between health and how the body
takes in and utilizes food substances, can be divided into four distinct eras: the first began in the
nineteenth-century and extended into the early twentieth century when it was recognized for
the first time that food contained constituents that were essential for human function and that different
foods provided different amounts of these essential agents. Near the end of this era, research studies
demonstrated that rapid weight loss was associated with nitrogen imbalance and could only be
rectified by providing adequate dietary protein associated with certain foods.
The second era was initiated in the early decades of the twentieth century and might be called the
vitamin period. Vitamins came to be recognized in foods, and deficiency syndromes were
described. As vitamins became recognized as essential food constituents necessary for health, it
became tempting to suggest that every disease and condition for which there had been no previous
effective treatment might be responsive to vitamin therapy. At that point in time, medical schools
started to become more interested in having their curricula integrate nutritional concepts into the
basic sciences. Much of the focus of this education was on the recognition of deficiency symptoms.
Herein lay the beginning of what ultimately turned from ignorance to denial of the value of
nutritional therapies in medicine. Reckless claims were made for the effects of vitamins that went far
beyond what could actually be achieved from the use of them.
In the third era of nutritional history in the early 1950s to mid-1960s, vitamin therapy began to fall
into disrepute. Concomitant with this, nutrition education in medical schools also became less
popular. It was just a decade before this that many drug companies had found their vitamin sales
skyrocketing and were quick to supply practicing physicians with generous samples of vitamins and
literature extolling the virtue of supplementation for a variety of health-related conditions.
Expectations as to the success of vitamins in disease control were exaggerated. As is known in
retrospect, vitamin and mineral therapies are much less effective when applied to health-crisis
conditions than when applied to long-term problems of undernutrition that lead to chronic health
problems.
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1. What does the passage mainly discuss?
a. The stages of development of clinical nutrition as a field of study
b. The history of food preferences from the nineteenth century to the present
c. The effects of vitamins on the human body
d. Nutritional practices of the nineteenth century
2. It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following discoveries was made during the
first era in the history of nutrition?
a. Certain foods were found to be harmful to good health.
b. Vitamins were synthesized from foods.
c. Effective techniques of weight loss were determined.
d. Protein was recognized as an essential component of the diet.
3. The word "tempting" is closest in meaning to.
a. realistic b. necessary c. correct d. attractive
4. It can be inferred from the passage that medical schools began to teach concepts of nutrition in
order to
a. encourage medical doctors to apply concepts of nutrition in the treatment of disease
b. support the creation of artificial vitamins
c. convince doctors to conduct experimental vitamin therapies on their patients
d. convince medical doctors to participate in research studies on nutrition
5. The word Reckless is closest in meaning to?
a. recorded b. irresponsible c. İnformative d. urgent
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6. The word them refers to
a. effects b.vitamins c. claims d. therapies
7. Why did vitamin therapy begin losing favor in the 1950s?
a. Medical schools stopped teaching nutritional concepts
b. Nutritional research was of poor quality
c. The public lost interest in vitamins
d. Claims for the effectiveness of vitamin therapy were seen to be exaggerated.
8. The phrase concomitant with is closest in meaning to
a. in dispute with b. prior to c. in conjunction with d. in regard to
9. The word skyrocketing is closest in meaning to
a. internationally popular b. increasing rapidly c. surprising d. acceptable
10. The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses
a. Why nutrition education lost its appeal
b. Problems associated with undernutrition
c. The fourth era of nutrition history
d. How drug companies became successful
BAU Proficiency Reading Sample2
1A 2D 3D 4A 5B 6B 7D 8C 9B 10C
