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      It started with turmeric. An essential 37 of most Indian curries, the spice was paid tribute by Marco Polo. He38 it favorably to saffron, and noted its importance in traditional medicines. Indeed, Indian doctors have longreached for the knobby yellow root to 39 a variety of ailments from skin disease to stomachache and infection. Sowhen two US-based researchers were 40 a patent in 1995 on turmeric’s special wound-healing properties, acollective howl of outrage arose from the subcontinent. “Housewives have been using turmeric for centuries,” says V.K.Gupta, director of India’s National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources in New Delhi. “It’soutrageous that someone would try and patent it.” The patent was eventually revoked, 41 a decade-long battle inwhich the Indian government and private sector spent millions of dollars on research and legal matters to prove thatturmeric’s qualities were well documented in ancient medical textbooks.
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(A) factor
(B) ingredient
(C) procedure
(D) segment

參考答案

答案：B
難度：困難0.333333
統計：A(2),B(1),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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