Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
The Romans built great aqueducts to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities. Many of these aqueducts are still standing today. The Roman _____even set up a ___ health service. They built the first great public hospitals in Europe, and they paid doctors to look after poor people.
When the Roman Empire fell to pieces, these _____ methods of treatment _____ from most of Europe, for more than a thousand years. People went back to the old ways. They lived in dirty conditions, which helped to cause diseases; and they asked God to cure the _____. They shut up _____ sick people in prisons. Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have _____ powers. But the work of the Greek and Roman doctors was not lost.
Over a thousand years ago, the Arabs moved into many of the Mediterranean countries. They took big parts of the old _____ lands. __________ Arab doctors themselves made many new discoveries.
_______________ Slowly, European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known so long ago. _____
36. Emperors
37. government
38 .civilized
39. disappeared
40. diseases
41. mentally
42. magic
43. Roman
44. They translated the Greek and Roman medical books into Arabic.
45. When civilization at last came back to Europe, men once again translated the Greek and Roman works on medicine into Latin.
46. Slowly, they began to make new discoveries and found out more about the way the body works.
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