Anesthesiology IELTS Reading Answers

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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.

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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; Line 4
2	TRUE	The mandragora (now known as the mandrabe plant) was one of the first plants to be used as an anesthetic	Paragraph B; Line 2
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; Line 2
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; Line 5
6	FALSE	The number of anesthesiologists in the United States has more than doubled since the 1970s,	Paragraph F; Line 1
7	D	Simpson sprinkled chloroform on a handkerchief	Paragraph D; Line 3
8	B	Local anesthetic is used only at the affected site and causes a loss of sensation.	Paragraph E; Line 8
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; Line 7
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; Line 3
11	C	Regional anesthetic is used to block the sensation and possibly the movement of a larger portion of the body.	Paragraph E; Line 9
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; Lines 4 – 5

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