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(a) he became the leader of a style known as “organic architecture”

(b) he died at the age of 92

(c) he commenced university studies at the age of 15

(d) some of his most spectacular buildings were not in America

Questions 41-50 

The healing power of maggots is not new. Human beings have discovered it several times. The Maya are said to have used maggots for therapeutic purposes a thousand years ago. As early as the sixteenth century, European doctors noticed that soldiers with maggot-infested wounds healed well. More recently, doctors have realized that maggots can be cheaper and more effective than drugs in some respects, and these squirming larvae have, at times, enjoyed a quiet medical renaissance. The problem may have more to do with the weak stomachs of those using them than with good science. The modern heydey of maggot therapy began during World War I, when an American doctor named William Baer was shocked to notice that two soldiers who had lain on a battlefield for a week while their abdominal wounds became infested with thousands of maggots, had recovered better than wounded men treated in the military hospital. After the war, Baer proved to the medical establishment that maggots could cure some of the toughest infections.

41. Why did the author write the passage?

(a) because of the resistance to using the benefits of maggots

(b) to demonstrate the important contribution of William Baer

(c) to outline the healing power of maggots

(d) to explain treatment used before the first antibiotics

42. The word “renaissance” in line 6 is closest in meaning to

(a) revival

(b) resistance

(c) support

(d) condemnation

(a) two soldiers had lain on the battlefield for a week

(b) the medical establishment refused to accept his findings

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