Many patients control their blood pressure with the relaxation response. This takes four simple things: a quiet environment, a comfortable position (sitting or lying down), the repeating of a word, prayer or phrase each time you breathe and having none of other thoughts.
Something remarkable happens when you do this, according to research in Boston. Relaxation of the mind and body has the effect that some blood-pressure pills would have. What’s more, the blood pressure stays lower, just as it would with a pill, after you have stopped the relaxation and have returned to the stress of daily life.
31. The first paragraph tells us the reason why your blood pressure goes up is that__________.
A. you read aloud a sentence B. the man you talk to is your boss
C. you’re not married D. you’re nervous
32. Which of the following statements is not true?
A. One’s blood pressure changes many times every day.
B. Your blood pressure changes with your feelings.
C. When you’re doing different things, your blood pressure, perhaps, is different.
D. The changes of blood pressure only happen to people with high blood pressure.
33. The last paragraph tells us relaxation therapy__________.
A. needs a new kind of medicine
B. has the same effect as blood-pressure pills
C. is more than blood-pressure pills
D. is working and can be improved
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