Have You ever gone to a concert and realized that your seats were right next to the booming speakers? Are you guilty__________ .turning up the volume on your portable cassette or CD player to drown out the whiningof your little brother? Sometimes its difficult to avoid loud music or noises,but they can be bad news because loud noises can__________ temporary or permanent hearing loss. Extremely loud music and noises that go on for long periods of __________ are common causes of deafness.If a noise is so loud that you have to shout to make yourself__________ ,there is a __________ that the mechanism inside your ear can be injured Temporary hearing loss can happen after youve been __________ to loud noise for only 1 minutes.If you have temporary hearing loss.you wont be able to hear as __________ as you normally can,and you may have tinnitus ,which is a fancy word for ringing in the ears.Your ears call feelfull,too __________ these things usually go away and your hearing soon returns to normal. Permanent hearing loss can happen when,someone is exposed to loud noise__________ and over.Construction workers and people who work in factories must__________10)ear protectors because the equipment they use can be extremely loud.But even some lawn mowersand power tools can permanently __________ a persons ability to hear high-pitched noises and can also give him permanent tinnitus.Listening to extremely loud music over and over call also have the same effect on a persons __________ .And using headphones on a portable cassette or CD player can be dangerous __________ if the volume is too high and the headphones are used a lot,the noise can damage the ears. |