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The Romans built great “aqueducts” to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities. Many of these aqueducts are still standing today. The Romans also built great pipes under the ground to carry away the sewage (污水). In Rome, one of these sewage pipes is still used today; it is 2,000 years old. The Roman Emperors even set up a government 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 civilized (文明的) methods of treatment disappeared 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 diseases. They shut up mentally sick people in prisons. Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have magic (魔法的) powers.
But the work of 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 Roman lands. They translated the Greek and Roman medical books into Arabic. Arab doctors themselves made many new discoveries.
When civilization at last came back to Europe, men once again translated the Greek and Roman works on medicine into Latin. Slowly, very slowly, European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known, so long ago. Slowly, they began to make new discoveries. They found out more about the way the body works, the way our blood goes round our bodies, the way our nerves (神经) send messages from our brains to our muscles, the way these muscles move our bodies.
(1) The word “aqueduct” means ________.
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A．something built to carry away the dirty water
B．something that was built 2, 000 thousand years ago
C．something like a pipe under the ground
D．something built to supply clean water for the citizens
(2) Which of the following is not true?
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A．A sewage pipe built 2,000 years ago is still being used in Rome.
B．The first public hospitals in Europe were built by the Roman Emperors.
C．The ancient Romans got their drinking water from aqueducts.
D．Mentally sick people were shut up in prisons in the Roman Empire.
(3) “People went back to the old ways”means ________.
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A．they burnt mentally sick people alive
B．they asked God for help when they were ill
C．they lived in dirty conditions again
D．all of the above
(4) From this passage we've learned that ________.
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A．the Arabs took big parts of the old Roman lands 2,000 years ago
B．the Greeks discovered more about the way the human body works
C．the Arabs helped to preserve the Roman medical works
D．the Greeks made more discoveries than the Romans
(5) Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
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A．The rise and the fall of the Roman Empire.
B．The Arabs defeated the Romans in many ways.
C．The Romans and the Arabs did a great deal to improve healthy living conditions.
D．The Romans made many great discoveries.
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