Section D Directions: In this part,
there is one passage followed by a summary. Read the passage carefully and
complete the summary with the appropriate words from the passage. Remember to
write the answers on the Answer Sheet. Questions 71 -75 are based on the following
passage. On the Need for Medicine
From time to time, medical science has achieved an indisputable triumph
that is pure benefit for all levels of society. The conquests of tuberculosis,
smallpox, and syphilis of the central nervous system should be at the top of
anyone’s list. But there is still formidable agenda of diseases for which there
are no cures, needing much more research before their underlying mechanisms can
be brought to light. Among these diseases are some for which we have only
halfway technologies to offer, measures that turn out to be much more costly
than we had guessed and only partly, sometimes marginally, effective. The
overestimation of advance in medicine can lead to more trouble than anyone can
foresee, and a lot of careful thought and analysis ought to be invested before
any technology is turned loose on the marketplace. There are examples of this
sort of premature, sweeping adoption of new measures in medicine. Probably none
has resulted in more untoward social damage than the unpredicted, indirect but
calamitous effects of the widespread introduction twenty or so years ago of
Thorazine and its chemical relatives for the treatment of schizophrenia. For a
while, when it was first used in state hospitals for the insane, the new line of
drugs seemed miraculous indeed. Patients whose hallucinations and delusions
impelled them to wild, uncontrollable behavior were discovered to be so calmed
by the treatment as to make possible the closing down of many of the locked
wards in asylums. Summary:
Although medical science has (71) many diseases
previously thought incurable, some (72) have been
enthusiastically embraced and implemented before their potential consequences
have been clearly thought out. One example is the use of drugs like Thorazine to
(73) schizophrenics. Even though they could not cure
the disease, these drugs (74) patients and controlled
their bizarre (75) .