Inthepast,operationsweredifficult.Untilthemiddleoftheeighteenfifties,surgerywasverydangerous.Manypatientsdiedaftereventhesmallestoperations.Thiswasbecausebacteriaenteredthecutsinthepatientsbodied’andstartedinfection.Insomecountries,upto90percentofpatientsdiedfrominfectionafteroperations.In1865,however,JosephLister,aBritishsurgeon,foundananswertotheproblem.Heusedan“antisepticduring”andafteroperations.Thiskilledthedangerousbacteriaandmostofhispatientslived.Sincethen,surgeonshaveusedantisepticsinalloperations.SurgeryhasdevelopedinmanyimportantwayssincethedayofJosephLister.Today,whenpatientsgotohospitalforanoperation,theycanexpectthebesttreatment,incleanandhygienicconditions.
33.Operationsweredifficultanddangerousuntil_______.
A.1850
B.themiddleof1850
C.themiddleofthefiftiesoftheeighteenthcentury
D.themiddleofthefiftiesofthenineteenthcentury
34.Inthepassage,surgerymeans__________.
A.Theperformingofanoperation
B.cure
C.treatment
D.medicine
35.Inthepast,upto90percentofpatientsdiedafteroperationsmainlyb
ecause__________.
A.bacteriaenteredthecutsinthepatientsbodies’andinfectiontookplace
B.theconditionsinhospitalswerebad
C.theskillofsurgeonswasnotsogood
D.therewerenogoodmedicineatthattime
36.Whichtopicofthefollowingbestsuitsthepassage?
A.Operationsweredifficultinthepast
B.ThedevotionofJosephListertomedicalscience
C.Surgeryhasbecomesafer
D.Developmentsinsurgery
37.JosephListerwas________.
A.aFrenchman
B.aGerman
C.anEnglishman
D.anAmeric
33. B 34. A 35. A 36.D 37. C
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Thepatient______now______carefully.
MiddleSchoolstudents______nottosmoke.
Thefoodweeatseemstohaveprofoundeffectsonourhealth.Althoughsciencehasmadeenormousstepsinmakingfoodmorefittoeat,ithas,atthesametime,mademanyfoodsunfittoeat.Someresearchhasshownthatperhapseightypercentofcancerisrelatedtothedietaswell,especiallycancerthecolon.Differentculturesaremorepronetocontractcertainillnessesbecauseofthefoodthatischaracteristicinthesecultures.Thatfoodrelatedtollnessisnotanewdiscovery.In1945,governmentresearchersrealizedthatitratesandnitrites,commonlyusedtopreservecolorinmeats,andotherfooddditives,causedcancer.Yet,thesecarcinogenicadditivesremaininourfood,nditbecomesmoredifficultallthetimetoknowwhichthingsonthepackginglabelsofprocessedfoodarehelpfulorharmful.Theadditiveswhichweeatarenotallsodirect.Farmersoftengivepenicillintobeefandpoultry,andbecauseofthis,penicillinhasbeenfoundinthemilkoftreatedcows.Sometimessimilardrugsareadministeredtoanimalsnotformedicinalpurposes,butforfinancialreasons.Thefarmersaresimplytryingtofattentheanimalsinordertoobtainahigherpriceonthemarket.AlthoughtheFoodandDrugAdministration(FDA)hastriedrepeatedlytocontroltheseprocedures,thepracticescontinue.
48.Whatisthemaintopicofthepassage?
A.Foodandourhealth
BFoodandadditives
C.Foodandcancer
DFoodandculture
49AllofthefollowingstatementsaretrueEXCEPT_______.
AFortypercentofcanceriscausedbyproblemsrelatedtofood.
BResearchershaveknownaboutthepotentialdangeroffoodadditivesformanyyears
C.Weeatsomeofthefoodadditivesdirectlyandsomeindirectly
DDrugsarealwaysgiventoanimalsformedicinalpurposes
50.Whydofarmersgivedrugstotheiranimals?
A.tospeedupthegrowthofanimals
BTomaketheanimalsfatter
Ctomaketheanimals’meatfittoeat
DTomaketheanimals’meatrichinnutrients
51.Itcanbeinferredfromthepassagethat_________.
Ascientisthavemadeallthefoodfittoeat
Bonlyinrecentyearshavepeoplefoundthatthefoodisrelatedtoone’sillness
Callkindsofcancerarerelatedtothediet
Dsomeadditivesareharmfultoourhealth
52.Theword“this”inthesecondsentenceofparagraph2mostprobablyrefersto__________.
Afarmer
Bpenicillin
Cbeefandpoultry
Dthefactthatfarmersoftengivepenicillintoabeef
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