1 . Fergal Keane is a well-known BBC war reporter. His reporting helped his television audiences make sense of the horrors of war, but underneath there were more personal scars attracting him to the frontline.

Fergal had seen violence ever since the early days of his work covering the fighting in Belfast. Having reported wars all over the world, in 1994, he was sent to cover the civil war in Rwanda. But what Fergal saw there shocked him like nothing before, as he told BBC World Service programme, Lives Less Ordinary. “I began to have terrible dreams of Rwanda. And of course, at that stage, it was clear that I was mentally hurt. Did I go to the experts in hospital? No, I didn’t.”

Instead, Fergal turned to drinking alcohol and he had another addiction to deal with - the need to keep returning to war. Fergal knew it wasn’t healthy, but he couldn’t stop.

Around the year 2001, it seemed that war was everywhere, and Fergal kept on reporting - in Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. But the nightmares didn’t stop, and his mental health got worse and worse. You might expect Fergal to call it a day at this point, but that’s not how addiction works. He just kept getting pulled back in. He reached a point where he couldn’t carry that anymore, and it’s not dramatic, it’s a slow, steady ruin. Fergal had a nervous breakdown - a period of dangerous mental illness, leaving him unable to face his life. At last, he was admitted into hospital, and this time diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD - a mental illness experienced after violent or shocking events.

After his diagnosis of PTSD, he got support and was finally able to stay away from alcohol and war. In his new book, The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD, Fergal discusses his horrible life living with PTSD.

1. What caused Fergal’s illness?

A．The fighting he covered in Belfast.	B．The violence he saw in Rwanda.
C．The terrible dreams he had in Rwanda.	D．The wars he reported all over the world.

2. How did he treat his illness?

A．He got drunk and slept well.	B．He talked to the experts at once.
C．He told the audiences through BBC.	D．He abandoned himself to alcohol and the frontline.

3. What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 4 possibly mean?

A．To call for help.	B．To make phone calls one day.
C．To cry all day.	D．To put a stop to it.

4. Which can be inferred from Fergal’s experience?

A．Overwork can make a person mad.	B．Every experience ends in a book.
C．Wars are cruel and damaging.	D．Devotion to one’s job is respectable.