<span>Alcohol can reduce stress. It can also lessen fears and take off troubles from our mind. It is not dangerous when taken occasionally but once a person starts drinking alcohol to cope with stress; he is more likely to build a tolerance to the de-stressing effects of alcohol. This makes anxiety and stress more difficult to cope with later.</span>
Hi!
Your answer is B.
It is <u><em>not</em></u> A because this doesn't really make sense. It's not the best answer.
It <u><em>is</em></u> B because, in sentences, the words around it will likely give the information you need to infer what the word means.
(For example, if I were to say "<em>She was </em><u><em>continuously</em></u><em> singing, for yesterday she sang for 4 straight hours, and it was extremely annoying</em>", pretend you do not know what "continuously" means. By using the words around it, such as "4 straight hours" you can predict that it means "never stopping".)
It is <u><em>not</em></u> C because not every single sentence contains a synonym or antonym.
(See the sentence above. The antonym of "continuously" would be 'never' or 'sometimes' or possibly 'discontinous'. There isn't always an antonym or synonym there, is there?)
It is <u><em>not</em></u> D because not every single word is defined in a passage.
(When you open an average book, is there just an entire page(s) dedicated to every single definition of a word? Most often, no, there is not.)
<span>They moved the fighting to the Southern colonies because
they believed that they would help them in the war. Most of the colonists in the area were Tories
or those loyal to the Crown. In
addition, the large number of slaves made the British believe that this would
be to their advantage.</span>
<span>the fact that Bob smoked for six decades before being diagnosed with chronic emphysema and his symptoms have now progressed to a point at which his day-to-day activities are drastically restricted and because of this he feels ashamed and guilty for not having quit smoking when he was young means that he is experiencing the depression stage of the Kübler-Ross model. The Kuebler-Ross model is a </span><span> five </span>stages<span> of grief model that postulates a progression of emotional states experienced by both terminally ill patients after diagnosis .</span>
