“Real dangers exit, although the drug user often assumes they do not because the harmful side effects are not immediately apparent.

Question

Read the following excerpt and answer the questions that follow. 

“Real dangers exit, although the drug user often assumes they do not because the harmful side effects are not immediately apparent. Possible results range from incidental delirious effects to death from overdose; the dangers that lie between the extremes are the degeneration of health and the depletion of brain function.” 

a) Why does the drug user assume that there is no danger? 

b) What are the possible and harmful side effects? 

c) Word opposite in meaning to ‘apparent’ is

a) dubious 

b) clear 

c) evident 

d) doubtless

Answer 1

a) The drug user often assumes that there is no danger because the harmful side effects are not immediately apparent. 

b) Possible results range from incidental delirious effects to death from overdose the dangers that lie between the extremes are the worsening of health and reduced brain function. 

c) dubious