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PAGE PAGE 20 Health & Environment Health & Environment·The Impact of Anger Questions Read the passage and then try to answer the questions 1. What does the phrase" repress anger" mean in Paragraph 2? 2. When you get angry, which of the following should you do for the good of health? 3. What is the central topic of this passage about? Keys: 1. Keep one's anger inside. 2. Treating the anger properly. 3. The dangers of anger and the solution. Reading Reading Warm-ups The Impact of Anger Doctors say anger can be a very harmful emotion unless you learn how to deal with it. They warn that angry feelings can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer. Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. Some people express anger openly in a calm reasonable way. Others burst with anger, losing control of themselves. But other people repress their anger. They cannot or will not express it. For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a person's health than expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain gives off the same hormones that are produced during tense situations. They speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure, or sugar into the blood and narrow the blood vessels to the interstices. In general, the person feels excited and ready to act. Doctors said that repressing these feelings only makes the feelings continue. And this can lead to many medical problems. Doctors thought a person could prevent these problems by letting the anger out by expressing it freely. But recently some doctors held a different view. They said that people who express anger repeatedly and violently did become, in fact, more and not less angry. They said this, too, can cause medical problems. Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who express anger violently may be more likely to develop heart disease, and they believe that