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OPTION B “Seeking therapy for anger”
Mary knew she had a problem when she found herself screaming at her university professor. 1 He had caught her
2 having an aggressive argument with a classmateand, after several complaints from other students, spoke to her
3 about it.
4 “All my life I’ve had a temper,” she admits. “I got into fights at school and university, and would lose control over
5little things.” When the tutor said Mary would have to look for professional help or leave the course, she went to see
6 the university counsellor. It was a decisive moment for Mary, who had arrivedin the UK at the age of 10 while trying
7 to recover from her sister’s death.
8 “It changed my life,” she says. “Suddenly I was speaking about things I had never talked about, such as how I
9 wasbullied at school when I first came to the UK because I couldn’t speak English and how I had watched my sister
10 die months before. My mother sent me back to school that day. We never spoke about itagain. Now, if I get angry, I
11 can talk about it.”
12 Many are not so fortunate. “We suspect that anger in our society is reaching dramatic levels, but there’s very little
13 help available,”says the director of the British Association of Anger Management. Last January, his association,
14 which operates several clinics across the UK, received an unprecedented number of reservations for itscourses,
15 despite January traditionally being its quietest month. “This could mean more people are seeking for help; nowadays,
16 domestic violence is increasing—eight women on average are killedevery month—and workplace stress is also
17 rising. Everybody knows that where there is stress, there is also anger,” he says.
I * COMPREHENSION (4 points: questions 1-3, 1 point each; 4-5, 0.5points each)
ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-3 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN
WORDS.
1. What was the first difficulty Mary had to face after moving to the UK?
2. How did therapy...