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   Depression is the second mOSt common cause of disability worldwide after back pain, according to a review of research. The disease must be treated as a global public health priority (优先），experts report in the journal PLOS Medicine. The study compared clinical depression with more than 200 other diseases and injuries as a cause of disability. Globally，only a small part of patients Have opportunities to be treated, the World Health Organization says.

   Depression was ranked at number two as a global cause of disability,  but   its    effects varied in  different countries and regions. For example, rates of major depression were highest in Afghanistan and lowest in Japan. In the UK, depression was ranked at number three in terms of years lived with a disability.

   Dr Alize Ferrari from the University of Queensland、School of Population Health led the study. “Depression is a big problem and we definitely need to pay more attention to it than we are now，，，she told BBC News. “There’s still more work to be done in terms of awareness of the disease and also in coming up with successful ways of treating it. The burden is different between countries, so it tends to be higher in low and middle income countries and lower in high income countries. Policy-makers had made an effort to bring depression to the forefront, but there was a lot more work to be done.”

  “There’s lots of stigma (恶名）we know related to mental health，，，Prof. Alize Ferrari explained. “What one person recognizes as disabling might be different to another person and might be different across countries as well. There are lots of cultural effects and explanations that come in place, which makes it all the more important to raise awareness (关注）of the size of the problem and also signs and how to find depression.”

32.   According to the passage, back pain ranks NO.          among the causes of disability.

A. 1      B.       2        C. 3     D. 4

33.   What can we learn from the first paragraph?

A.    The disease has been treated as a global public health priority.

B.    PLOS Medicine is a website dealing with medical problems.

C.    The study only analyzes the depression all over the world.

D.    Most patients with depression haven’t been treated.

34.   Who is Alize Ferrari?

A.    She is a doctor working in a hospital.

B.    She is a professor of a university leading the study.

C.    She is an official from the government.

D.    She is a common teacher taking part in the study.

35.   We can infer from the fourth paragraph that       .

A.    mental health has raised much attention among the people

B.    most reasons for disability are similar

C.    how to find the patient’s depression is not easy

D.    the doctors have succeeded in make the public pay attention to depression

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