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Chapter 23 Personal health
Exercise
Multiple-choice questions (p. 23-21)
1 D
2 B
3 A
4 B
5 C
6 C
7 B
8 D
Short questions (p. 23-22)
9 a From left to right: Physical, Mental, Social 1m b Smoking / drinking alcohol / taking drugs / stress / eating too many fatty foods or too much salt / being overweight / obese / unhealthy diet 1m
10 (a) fibres 0.5m (b) decreases 0.5m (c) increases 0.5m (d) joints 0.5m
11 a From top to bottom: Increases, Slurs, Decreases 1m x 3 b Drug which the body cannot do without / has difficulty to give up. 1m
12 HKCEE Human Biology 2003 I Q3b
Structured questions (p. 23-23)
13 a Nicotine 1m b Any two from: 2.5m x 2 Carbon monoxide (CO) 0.5m CO binds to haemoglobin (Hb) to form carboxyhaemoglobin. 1m
Hb has greater affinity for CO. / CO irreversibly reduces the oxygen carrying ability of blood. 1m OR Tar 0.5m Tar accumulates in the lungs. 1m Tar increases the diffusion barrier. 1m Tar is carcinogenic. 1m Tar paralyses / damages cilia. 1m Tar increases mucus production. 1m Tar can lead to the production of scar tissue. 1m Tar reduces elasticity of the airway. 1m OR Carcinogen 0.5m It causes cancer. 1m It changes DNA. / It causes mutation. 1m It leads to uncontrolled mitotic cell division. 1m It leads to formation of a tumour. 1m c i The percentage of heavy smokers rises from professional (group 1) to unskilled manual workers (group 6). 1m Reference to figures 1m ii As the percentage of heavy smokers increases, so does the number of people with long-standing illness. / The relative increase in smoking is far greater than the relative increase in long-standing illness. 1m Reference to figures 1m
e.g. smoking increases more than 6-fold