1. Pioneer women in the American West often had to take on medical roles and treat illnesses without proper training or reliable medicines.
2. When doctors were available, they were not always more knowledgeable than patients about conditions like rattlesnake bites or arrow wounds in the unfamiliar Western environment.
3. Pioneer women treated illnesses and injuries with homemade remedies using materials available like salt, gunpowder, turpentine, and animal fats since patent medicines were often unreliable.
1. Pioneer women in the American West often had to take on medical roles and treat illnesses without proper training or reliable medicines.
2. When doctors were available, they were not always more knowledgeable than patients about conditions like rattlesnake bites or arrow wounds in the unfamiliar Western environment.
3. Pioneer women treated illnesses and injuries with homemade remedies using materials available like salt, gunpowder, turpentine, and animal fats since patent medicines were often unreliable.
1. Pioneer women in the American West often had to take on medical roles and treat illnesses without proper training or reliable medicines.
2. When doctors were available, they were not always more knowledgeable than patients about conditions like rattlesnake bites or arrow wounds in the unfamiliar Western environment.
3. Pioneer women treated illnesses and injuries with homemade remedies using materials available like salt, gunpowder, turpentine, and animal fats since patent medicines were often unreliable.
Ⅱ. Choose the best one for the blank in (B) was (C)a beauty contest winner before she the following conversation. became president of the company (D)upon the death of her husband. 11. "I had to play ten dollars for this bowl.""It's probably ." (A) worth (B) worth so (C) worth them (D) worth it Ⅵ. Read the following passage and choose a right answer. 12. "Is the lost truck located?" 31-36) As protector of her family's health, the pioneer "It was found on Highway 63" woman confronted situations she never imagined before (A) to be abandoned (B) to be abandoning crossing the Mississippi. Few woman came West (C) abandoned (D) abandon prepared to deal with desert sunburn, rattlesnake bites, or arrow wounds. Even when doctors were available, 13. "What did John say about his teeth, Eliza?" they were often no more knowledgeable than their "He said his teeth need ." patients. And most patent medicines were no more (A) to repair (B) to be repairing reliable than the itinerant merchants who sold them. In (C) repairing (D) repaired certain cases, a woman could draw upon the folk wisdom and remedies she had learned back home; 14. "I hear that he is sick again" Western mosquitoes, for example, "He ignored his teeth need his doctor's advice that proved to be as repelled by a paste of vinegar and salt he a vacation." as were their Eastern cousins. More often, however, a (A) take (B) takes (C) took (D) would take woman was guided only by her own ingenuity in concocting tonics, powders, poisons, and polishes from 15. "Two of the books were interesting." whatever she had at hand: salt made a passable "But were dull" toothpaste; gunpowder was applied to warts, and (A) the other book (B) the others turpentine to open cuts; goose grease, skunk oil, and (C) others (D) other books the ever-present lard were basic liniments; medicinal teas and tonics were brewed from sunflower seeds and Ⅴ. Select the part which is not acceptable roots. for standard English. 31. According to the passage, why were the doctors in 26. Some of the questions that scholars (A)ask seem to the West sometimes unable to help their patients? the world to (B)be scarcely worth (C) to ask, let (A) They did not know how to treat the unfamiliar alone (D)answering. illness. (B) They were more interested in establishing 27. (A)What makes a study scientific is not the nature practices in the cities. of the things (B) by which it is concerned, but the (C) They were more concerned with doing research method (C) by which it (D) deals with these things. than with treating patients. (D) They were often overcome by diseases caught 28. (A) Whatever the (B) coming discussion between from their patients. (C) the two might be, it is (D)obvious an important matter in their estimation. 32. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage about patent medicines? 29. There is (A)plenty of (B)evidences (C)that (D)late (A) They did not cost much. children often have problems that other kids do not (B) They helped heal snakebites. face. (C) They did not work very well. (D) They had a strong taste. (A) material objects (B) useful items (C) articles stored in museums 33. It can be inferred that most of the pioneers referred (D) difficult things to obtain to in the passage were originally from where in the United States? (A) The desert (B) The West 39. According to the passage, coins once had real (C) The state of Mississippi (D) The East value as currency because (A) represented a great improvement over barter. 34. As used in line 10, the word "cousins"refers to (B) could become collectors' items. (A) similar medicines (B)mosquitoes in the East (C) permitted easy transportation of wealth. (C) people with the same beliefs (D) were made of precious metals (D) family members in the West 35. All of the following were mentioned in the passage 40. Which of the following statements about as being encountered by the pioneers EXCEPT computerized monetary system is NOT supported by (A) arrow wounds (B) severe frostbite the passage? (C) desert sunburn (D) rattlesnake bites (A) They promote international trade. (B) They allow very rapid money transfer. 36. It can be inferred from the passage that in order to (C) They are still limited to small transactions. survive in the West, the pioneer had to be (D) They are dependent on good telecommunications (A) sincere (B) young (C) resourceful (D) rich systems.
37-40) In ancient times wealth was measured and
exchanged tangibly, in things that could be touched: food, tools, and precious metals and stones. Then the barter system was replaced by coins, which still had real value since they were pieces of rare metal. Coins were followed by fiat money, paper notes that have value only because everyone agrees to accept them. Today electronic monetary systems are gradually being introduced that will transform money into even less tangible forms, reducing it to arrays of "bits and bytes," or units of computerized information, whizzing between machines at the speed of right. Already, electronic fund transfer allows money to be instantly sent and received by different banks, companies, and countries through computers and telecommunications devices.
37. Which of the following would be most appropriate
title for the passage? (A) International Banking Policies (B) The History of Monetary Exchange (C) The development of Paper Currencies (D) Current Problems in the Economy
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