問題詳情
IV. Discourse (每題 1 分，共 5 分)In 1854, Queen Victoria was on the throne, and Charles Dickens was writing Hard Times. Timeswere certainly hard for the poor of the London district of Soho, who lived in cramped, unsanitaryconditions. (26) Diseases were rife, but few people understood how diseases worked.Most believed they stemmed from a “miasma”—bad air full of pollution. Small wonder that in thesummer of 1854, there was a major outbreak of cholera, a deadly bacterial disease. (27)(28) Along with a local churchman, Reverend Henry Whitehead, Snow interviewedthe people of Soho about their living habits. He made a map showing where all the cholera cases hadoccurred, and pinpointed the source of the outbreak. It was a public water pump on Broad Street.Almost all of the cholera victims had used or drunk water from the pump. Snow insisted that thepump be disabled. (29)Snow published his findings in several articles.Later, it was found that a cesspit near the pump well wasleaking fecal bacteria into the water.(30)(Adopted from English Digest)This affected the way futurecities were built and how sewage and waste were managed, as well as influencing the future study ofdisease-causing microorganisms. Snow’s work was a huge step forward in both medical science andurban planning, two things we should be immensely grateful for.
【題組】26
(A) These helped to change public perception of how diseases spread and of the importance ofimproved sanitation.
(B) One person who didn’t accept the miasma theory was physician John Snow.
(C) They didn’t have sewers, so they threw their waste into cesspits.
(D) The evidence he provided was strong enough to convince the local authorities to do so,which helped end the outbreak.
(E) Hundreds died in the first two weeks, and many residents fled the area.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：困難0.25
統計：A(0),B(0),C(1),D(2),E(1)