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Task 1. Complete the sentences (14-23) with appropriate word from the box. There are two words you do not need to use.



Any phobia is characterized by (an attack of) 14)……. . Fear makes our brain react, sending 15)……… to activate our body’s 16) ……. system. Sometimes fear helps to 17) ……… because it gives the signal “to fight or flight/run”. Each of us has once experienced some fear that turns your legs to jelly, you shake like a 18)…….. or start to scream. Fear, of course is 19)…….. to health. It is not a good thing that is why one should fight out phobias. It is necessary to find the 20)……. of your fears; that will help to realize that they’re irrational.

Eventually fears will melt over. In her childhood my sister was awfully 21)……. spiders. When she saw one she screamed so loudly that she 22)…….people around. If her friends hadn’t teased her and she hadn’t felt so embarrassed after, she wouldn’t have fought out her 23)…….