Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Response to noise in hospital was 1 related to custom and background. All patients of professional classes discussed ward noises, and expressed varying degrees of dissatisfaction 2 what they thought of as "avoidable noise". The 74 people who made no comment on noise and the 19 who 3 that the ward was not noisy were either in unskilled work, often factories, or the wives of unskilled workers living a comparatively communal life. There is also a suggestion 4 noise is related to severity of illness, and resultant length of stay in 5 . Noise that may not 6 a seriously ill patient because of his condition, begins to irritate as he 7 strength. It would not be profitable to list 8 by patients, but it would perhaps be 9 to look at what were broadly thought of as "hospital noises", that is, noise inherent in a 10 situation and accepted, if not 11 by patients; and then to consider the " avoidable noises"—those made through, perhaps, 12 of thought or care. Because of the structure of the wards in which the patients were nursed, 13 to the noise of the other members of the community was 14 and accepted by all patients as such, however much it may have disturbed them both 15 and emotionally. It has already been discussed that patients suggested the 16 of seriously ill or disturbed patients from this main ward, but, so long as the patients in the wards, this will always be a 17 of hospital noise. Many patients express the 18 that they might, some day, be responsible for the 19 of others in a similar way. The fact that patients were always tolerant of noises 20 that they were tolerant because they themselves were concerned, but many questioned the effect of such noise by, for example, young people in the ward.