English Quiz 3
The need for surgical especially an emergency operation, operation, almost always comes as severe shock to the patient and his family. Despite modern advances, most people still have an irrational fear of hospitals and anaesthetics. Patients do not often believe they really need surgery-cutting into a part of the body as opposed to treatment with drugs. In the early years of his century, there was little specialization in surgery. A good surgeon was capable of performing almost every operation that had been devised up to that time. Today the situation is different. Operations are now being carried out that were not even dreamed of fifteen years ago. The heart can be safely opened and its valves repaired. Clogged blood vessels can be cleaned out and broken ones mended or replaced. A lung, the whole stomach, or even part of the brain can be removed and still permit the patient to live a comfortable and satisfactory life. However, not every surgeon wants to, or is qualified to, carry out every type of modern operation.
(1) Most people are afraid of being operated on:-
(a) in spite of improvements in modern surgery
(b) because they think modern drugs are dangerous
(c) because they do not believe they need anaesthetics
(d) More than one of the above
(e) None of the above
(a) in spite of improvements in modern surgery
(2) Surgeons in the early years of this century, compared with modern ones:-
(a) had less to learn about surgery
(b) needed more knowledge
(c) could perform every operation known today
(d) More than one of the above
(e) None of the above
(a) had less to learn about surgery
(3) Open-heart surgery has been possible:-
(a) since the invention of valves
(b) only in the last fifty years
(c) from prehistoric times
(d) More than one of the above
(e) None of the above
(b) only in the last fifty years
(4) Modern surgeons:-
(a) do not like to perform operations of the new type
(b) are not as highly qualified as the older ones
(c) are obliged to specialize more than their predecessors
(d) More than one of the above
(e) None of the above
(c) are obliged to specialize more than their predecessors
(5) In modern surgery:-
(a) it is impossible to use drugs
(b) you cannot operate on the lungs
(c) you can even remove a portion of the brain
(d) More than one of the above
(e) None of the above
(c) you can even remove a portion of the brain
