Anesthesiology IELTS Reading Answers
Anesthesiology IELTS Reading Answers
The Academic passage ‘Anesthesiology’ is a reading passage that appeared in an IELTS Test. Read the passage below and answer questions 1 – 12. Beyond the questions, you will find the answers along with the location of the answers in the passage and the keywords that help you find out the answers.
Anesthesiology
Answers
| Question number | Answer | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FALSE | His book, De materia medica, written in five volumes and translated into at least seven languages, was the primary reference source for physicians for over sixteen centuries. | Paragraph A;
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| 2 | TRUE | The mandragora (now known as the mandrabe plant) was one of the first plants to be used as an anesthetic | Paragraph B;
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| 3 | TRUE | Humphrey Davy, the inventor of the miner’s lamp, discovered that inhaling the toxic compound caused a strange euphoria, followed by fits of laughter, tears, and sometimes unconsciousness. | Paragraph C;
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| 4 | NOT GIVEN | – | – |
| 5 | TRUE | It takes over eight years of schooling and four years of residency until an anesthesiologist is prepared to practice in the United States. | Paragraph E;
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| 6 | FALSE | The number of anesthesiologists in the United States has more than doubled since the 1970s, | Paragraph F;
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| 7 | D | Simpson sprinkled chloroform on a handkerchief | Paragraph D;
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| 8 | B | Local anesthetic is used only at the affected site and causes a loss of sensation. | Paragraph E;
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| 9 | H | In his manual, Dioscorides suggested boiling the root with wine and having a man drink the potion to remove sensation before cutting his flesh or burning his skin. | Paragraph B;
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| 10 | F | U.S. dentist, Horace Wells, was the first on record to experiment with laughing gas, which he used in 1844 to relieve pain during a tooth extraction. | Paragraph C;
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| 11 | C | Regional anesthetic is used to block the sensation and possibly the movement of a larger portion of the body. | Paragraph E;
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| 12 | E | Two years later. Dr. William Morton created the first anesthetic machine. This apparatus was a simple glass globe containing an ether-soaked sponge. | Paragraph C;
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