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PAGE PAGE 1 大学英语A3 一、阅读理解 1、 In the past, operations were difficult. Until the middle of the eighteen fifties, surgery was very dangerous. Many patients died after even the smallest operations. This was because bacteria entered the cuts in the patients bodies and started infection. In some countries, up to 90 percent of patients died from infection after operations. In 1865, however, Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, found an answer to the problem. He used an antiseptic（消毒剂）during and after operations. This killed the dangerous bacteria and most of his patients lived. Since then, surgeo