EXERCISES, LESSON 3
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following exercises by marking the lettered response that
best answers the question, by completing the incomplete statement, or by writing the
answer in the space provided at the end of the exercise.
After you have completed all of these exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the
end of the lesson, and check your answers. For each exercise answered incorrectly,
reread the material referenced with the solution.
1. Tuberculosis and influenza are examples of diseases whose symptoms are
localized in the respiratory tract, diseases that are transmitted by
___________________________________________________________.
2. Recruits are (more)(less) susceptible to respiratory infections than the "seasoned'
soldier.
3. The groups of diseases responsible for more noneffectiveness than any other group
of communicable diseases are the __________________________________.
4. Pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae or various viruses is known as
_________________________________________.
5. Influenza is caused by a __________________.
6. The most frequently occurring respiratory disease is _____________________.
7. Measles, mumps, and scarlet fever are examples of diseases transmitted by
_______________________________with symptoms not localized____________.
8. a.
In normal respiration, moisture drops exhaled by an individual travel
_____________ feet horizontally through the air before falling because of their
weight.
b.
If the moisture droplets are forcibly exhaled by a
or a _________, they
may travel much farther.
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