週刊ST10月27日号 TOEFL(R)iBT対策講座　リスニング音源

Independent Listening : “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”

Now get ready to listen to a lecture and take notes on it.
Listen to part of a lecture in a psychology class.
Listen to part of a lecture in a history class.
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Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you answer.

1.What is this talk mainly about?
(A) Psychological disorders in general.
(B) The symptoms and treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(C) The similarities between agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
(D) How panic disorders evolve into more serious disorders.

2.What two symptoms may accompany compulsive behavior?
(A)Washing one’s hands over and over.
(B)Having suicidal tendencies.
(C)Repeatedly checking that one’s doors are locked at night.
(D)Having thoughts that are not in proportion to one’s reality.

3.What benefit does performing rituals serve for the OCD sufferer?
(A)They temporarily decrease anxiety.
(B)They decrease the ritualistic behavior over time.
(C)The intensity of the behavior decreases immediately.
(D)They provide an overall feeling of well-being.

4.What does the professor say about drugs used to treat OCD?
(A)They are useless without behavioral therapy.
(B)They must be continued for the duration of therapy.
(C)They are only administered to highly advanced cases.
(D)They lower the frequency and intensity of the symptoms.

５.Why does the professor say this?
(A)To explain how similar OCD behavior is to normal behavior.
(B)To explain why not all OCD cases are treated.
(C)To explain why people with OCD may feel ashamed of their behavior.
(D)To explain how an illness such as OCD is caused.