Questions 71-75         In modern hospitals, the most popular treatment for bacterial infection isantibiotics. While these medicines are generally highly effective in fighting theinfection, one problem is that over a period of time bacteria begin to mutate-change their structure- in order to resist the antibiotics. (71) , as the humanpopulation consumes more antibiotics, the infection-producing (72) becomestronger and more resistant to the drugs.        Another reason for the increased consumption of antibiotics is that doctorsoften prescribe them to patients too freely. Both doctors and patients prefertreatment providing fast relief, rather than (73) the body to battle the infectionby itself. (74) unnecessary prescriptions are not the only source of antibiotics.They have been increasingly (75) on farms, where chickens and pigs arefrequently fed antibiotics to combat disease. The result is that when the generalpublic eats the meat products, they consume the animals’ antibiotic-resistantbacteria as well.
【題組】71.
(A) Consequently
(B) Fortunately
(C) Hopefully