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EXAMINING THE PLACEBO EFFECT

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    [IELTS 6.5] READING LESSON 3
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  • QUESTION 2
    YES (PARAGRAPH 3)
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  • QUESTION 3
    NOT GIVEN
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  • QUESTION 4
    YES (UNSURPRISINGLY - PARAGRAPH 10)
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  • QUESTION 5
    NO (THE LAST PARAGRAPH)
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  • QUESTION 6
    H
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  • QUESTION 7
    A
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  • QUESTION 8
    C (The drug tested extremely well early on... )
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  • QUESTION 9
    G (True, many test subjects treated with the medication felt their hopelessness and anxiety lift.)
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  • QUESTION 10
    E (Ultimately, Merck's venture into the antidepressant market failed. In the jargon of the industry, the trials crossed the "futility boundary".)
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  • QUESTION 11
    C ( ... Potter combed through his company's database of published and unpublished trials -- including those that had been kept secret because of high placebo r
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  • QUESTION 12
    B (Potter discovered, however, that geographic location alone could determine the outcome.)
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  • QUESTION 13
    A In the case of trial observers, it is the level of improvement among volunteers in standard tests. A tight race is one where the participants finish very clos
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  • QUESTION 14
    A (And the benefits of their "bogus" treatment persisted for weeks afterward, contrary to the belief-widespread in the pharmaceutical industry-that the placebo
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