3. In the 1980s, new findings rekindled (1) _____ in aspirin. The 1982 Nobel Prize winners found it inhibits thromboxanes, reducing blood (2) _____. A study showed aspirin lowers (3) _____ risk by 44%, and it may also cut the risk of colorectal cancer.

3. The amount of water we need to drink mostly relies on our (1) ______ and (2) ______.

Passage:

When Andy Warhol, one of the twentieth century's most influential artists, died his four-floor house was so full of items that the only rooms you could walk through were the kitchen and the bedroom. It turned out that Warhol had compulsive hoarding disorder, which is defined as the excessive accumulation of objects and a refusal to throw them away. But Warhol's case is not uncommon; around five per cent of Americans - nearly 15 million people - suffer from compulsive hoarding disorder. This disorder interferes with daily activities such as sleeping and cooking, and in an extreme form it can harm one's health, be a fire risk and even lead to death.

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Passage:

The narrative can go, effortlessly, anywhere: into space, people's heads, palaces, prisons and pyramids, without any consideration of cost or practical feasibility. In determining the shape and content of his narrative, the writer of prose fiction is constrained by nothing except purely artistic criteria.

This does not necessarily make the task any easier than that of the writer of plays and screenplays, who must always be conscious of practical constraints such as budgets, performance time, casting requirements, and so on. The very infinity of choice enjoyed by the novelist is a source of anxiety and difficulty.

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3. The dust on Mars scatters sunlight in a way that makes the sky appear _________.