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From the statement in the passage, we can infer that some people

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   regard crying as a weakness or failure
   
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   don't consult their doctors about certain ailments
   
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   find that migraine headaches cause them to weep
   
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   develop personality problems from ailments such as asthma
   
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   go to the doctor for emotional reasons more than for physical
   

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   According to the writer, not crying
   

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   is a common characteristic of asthmatics
   
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   is a sign that a person is in poor health
   
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   causes the digestion to shut down
   
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   helps us to control our feelings of shock or anger
   
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   can bring on many unpleasant side-effects
   

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   In the writer's opinion
   

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   people should visit their doctors in times of emotional emergency
   
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   we need to cry in order to recover from traumas
   
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   weeping can cause alarm, shock, or even anger in others
   
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   doctors don't do enough to help patients with emotional problems
   
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   crying when we feel ill is as beneficial as visiting the doctor
   

44 THE BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY
Science and technology are getting a bad press these days. Increasingly scornful of the materialism of our culture, some people speak about returning to a simpler, pre-industrial, pre-scientific day. They fail to realize that the "good old days" 1 were actually horribly bad old days of ignorance, disease, slavery, and death. They I fancy themselves in Athens, talking to Socrates or watching the latest play by Sophocles but never as a slave brutalized in the Athenian silver mines. They imagine themselves as medieval knights on armoured chargers but never as starving peasants. They also ignore the fact that, before modern technology, the full I flower of art and human intellect was reserved for the few. It was the technical advances that brought many of the marvels of mankind to even the poorest.

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