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Read the text.A Blurry Worldview1In school, have you ever struggled to see what the teacher wrote on the board? Maybe you can easily read from a book, but things farther away—like highway signs—look blurry. This blurry distant vision is the main symptom of myopia, a condition that affects about a third of American adults. If you have myopia, you'll have trouble seeing things far away, but you'll be able to see nearby things clearly. This is why myopia is commonly called nearsightedness. Other symptoms of myopia include headaches, eyestrain, and squinting.2Myopia typically begins in childhood. "Children often don't realize they are myopic," says Dr. Mary Frances Cotch of the National Eye Institute, "because myopia develops gradually and they don't have any way of knowing that their blurry vision is different from others'." In most cases, the degree of nearsightedness stabilizes by the time a person reaches adulthood. Some people, however, may have myopia that continues to worsen with age.So what causes this vision problem? Consider how the eye works. When you look at an object, the light rays of that object pass through the outermost layer of the eye (the cornea) and the lens. The cornea and the lens refract, or bend, the light and focus it on the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (the retina). If you have perfect vision, the rays focus directly on the surface of the retina. In a myopic eye, the eyeball is usually too long from front to back. This causes light rays to focus at a point in front of the retina, rather than directly on its surface. This makes distant objects appear blurry.Myopia can also be the result of a cornea that is too curved or a lens that is too thick. For some, myopia is caused by a combination of these problems.What causes the eyeball to grow too long isn't completely known, but researchers are exploring several possibilities. For many people, myopia appears to be inherited, so if you have a parent with myopia, you're at increased risk for developing it yourself.Myopia is becoming increasingly common, both in the U.S. and around the world. In a study published in 2008, experts found that the number of Americans with myopia increased significantly from the 1970s to the early 2000s. And myopia is especially prominent among school-age children living in urban areas in some Asian countries. Researchers are looking to see if and how myopia might be related to a person's sex, age, ethnicity, and environmental exposures—such as sunlight or the amount of time spent doing close-up work. In the past, experts thought that myopia might arise in children who spent too much time indoors reading and writing—activities that require close-up vision—or from reading in poorly lit rooms. Recent studies, however, suggest that increased myopia in children might instead be related to kids spending less time outdoors. Continued investigation into how myopia develops will help researchers more precisely determine the potential causes and influences.Adapted from NIH News in Health, "A Blurry Worldview: Understanding Myopia"What is the main focus of the text?cutting-edge research about myopiathe dangers of myopiaan overview of myopiaSubmit

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Read the text.A Blurry Worldview1In school, have you ever struggled to see what the teacher wrote on the board? Maybe you can easily read from a book, but things farther away—like highway signs—look blurry. This blurry distant vision is the main symptom of myopia, a condition that affects about a third of American adults. If you have myopia, you'll have trouble seeing things far away, but you'll be able to see nearby things clearly. This is why myopia is commonly called nearsightedness. Other symptoms of myopia include headaches, eyestrain, and squinting.2Myopia typically begins in childhood. "Children often don't realize they are myopic," says Dr. Mary Frances Cotch of the National Eye Institute, "because myopia develops gradually and they don't have any way of knowing that their blurry vision is different from others'." In most cases, the degree of nearsightedness stabilizes by the time a person reaches adulthood. Some people, however, may have myopia that continues to worsen with age.So what causes this vision problem? Consider how the eye works. When you look at an object, the light rays of that object pass through the outermost layer of the eye (the cornea) and the lens. The cornea and the lens refract, or bend, the light and focus it on the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (the retina). If you have perfect vision, the rays focus directly on the surface of the retina. In a myopic eye, the eyeball is usually too long from front to back. This causes light rays to focus at a point in front of the retina, rather than directly on its surface. This makes distant objects appear blurry.Myopia can also be the result of a cornea that is too curved or a lens that is too thick. For some, myopia is caused by a combination of these problems.What causes the eyeball to grow too long isn't completely known, but researchers are exploring several possibilities. For many people, myopia appears to be inherited, so if you have a parent with myopia, you're at increased risk for developing it yourself.Myopia is becoming increasingly common, both in the U.S. and around the world. In a study published in 2008, experts found that the number of Americans with myopia increased significantly from the 1970s to the early 2000s. And myopia is especially prominent among school-age children living in urban areas in some Asian countries. Researchers are looking to see if and how myopia might be related to a person's sex, age, ethnicity, and environmental exposures—such as sunlight or the amount of time spent doing close-up work. In the past, experts thought that myopia might arise in children who spent too much time indoors reading and writing—activities that require close-up vision—or from reading in poorly lit rooms. Recent studies, however, suggest that increased myopia in children might instead be related to kids spending less time outdoors. Continued investigation into how myopia develops will help researchers more precisely determine the potential causes and influences.Adapted from NIH News in Health, "A Blurry Worldview: Understanding Myopia"What is the main focus of the text?cutting-edge research about myopiathe dangers of myopiaan overview of myopiaSubmit

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The main focus of the text is an overview of myopia.

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State one cause of near-sightedness

Hyperopia is a farsighted vision, the individual has difficulty of seeing:

For a person with perfect vision, light from an object is properly refracted by the eye lens to converge on a single point at the retina, forming a clear image of the object.  Vision defects result from eye shape abnormalities or errors in the refractive power of the eye lens.  Myopia (nearsightedness) occurs when light from a distant object is incorrectly focused in front of the retina.  Hyperopia (farsightedness) occurs when light rays from a nearby object are focused beyond the retina.Many optical techniques are available to measure the refractive error of an individual to determine the necessary correction.  Photorefraction is a photographic technique often used with young children because it does not require the individual to be still for a lengthy duration.  When the patient is looking at the camera, a flash photograph is taken of the eye to determine the amount of light that is reflected off the retina and captured by the camera lens.In healthy eyes, all the light from the flash that enters the eye is reflected off the retina and returns back to the camera's light source.  Because the camera lens does not receive this light, the pupil is completely dark in the resulting image.  A myopic eye cannot properly focus the light at the retina.  Due to the geometry of the eye and its lens, some of the light is reflected to the top portion of the camera lens.  The camera captures an image of a pupil with a crescent of light at the top.  In a hyperopic eye, the crescent appears at the bottom of the pupil.  Ray diagrams for photorefraction are shown in Figure 1.Figure 1  Paths of light in photorefraction for different eyes:  (A) Healthy, (B) Myopic, and (C) Hyperopic.HC. Howland, "Optics of photorefraction: orthogonal and isotropic methods." ©1983 Optical Society of America. Question 35The image of an object projected onto a fixed screen through a lens using red light is clear and focused.  Using the same set-up, the image is slightly unfocused when violet light is used.  This is because violet light:A.refracts more than red light.B.is more polarized than red light.C.is unaffected by spherical aberrations.D.has greater phase shifts in glass.

Mindy has started having trouble focusing on nearby objects, but is able to see objects at a distance clearly. What condition does Mindy suffer from? A. myopia B. hypertropia C. hyperopia D. hypotropia E. exotropia

Someone who suffers from hyperopia:Group of answer choicesA. has good distance vision but has difficulty seeing things up close.B. can see things well up close but has poor distance vision.C.has color blindness that affects only one of the color systems.D. has only black-and-white vision.

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