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三、綜合測驗（50%）(一) For thousands of years, people used the bark of willow trees to relieve pain. In the mid-18th century, scientists discovered which chemical in willow bark acts 26. a painkiller. Even though the chemical helped to reduce pain, it unfortunately had an unpleasant taste and upset people's stomachs.　　In 1897, Felix Hoffman, a chemist for a German drug company, called Bayer, decided to 27. the drug. His father suffered from painful arthritis, a condition in which joints swell painfully, and Hoffman wanted to create a medication to help him. His discovery of how to make the willow-bark extract gentler on the stomach was the birth of aspirin. Even though aspirin was developed 28. to relieve pain, Hoffman also noticed that it lowered fever and reduced swelling. This made it even better than expected for treating his father's arthritis.　　Unfortunately, aspirin causes damage 29. the digestive system. In 1956, researchers developed a new drug that could relieve pain and fever without this problem. However, it didn't treat swelling, so in 1969, yet another drug was developed that had all the benefits of aspirin, but without the damaging side effects.　　Today, aspirin is still used to relieve the pain associated 30. headaches, toothaches, and fevers from the flu and common cold. However, people now take small doses of aspirin to prevent heart attacks. This is because aspirin thins the blood, which helps the heart to function more efficiently. Aspirin has come a long way since it was just a piece of willow bark.
26.
(A) to
(B) as
(C) of
(D) with

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.647059
統計：A(5),B(11),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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