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7. A reader of the article could determine that
a. antibiotics are poisonous
b. hospitals need to stop giving antibiotics for infections

c. since antibiotics are used often, there is a need to discover new antibiotic
drugs
d. there are a lot of problems with the antibiotics due to mistakes from the
pharmaceutical companies

8. Which of these states an opinion?
a. Antibiotics are not effective in viral, fungal and other nonbacterial infections.
b. Treatments for infections used to include poisons like arsenic.
c. Using antibiotics drugs is the best way to treat infections.

d. Antibiotic drugs have been hailed as “magic bullets.”

9. The article was created mainly to
a. entertain the reader with a medical breakthrough known as antibiotics

b. share an opinion about not using antibiotic drugs
c. inform the reader about the effectiveness of antibiotic drugs
d. persuade the reader to use antibiiotic drugs for all types of infections

10. The words magic-bullets describe
a. special bullets only the police have
b. antibiotic drugs

c. magical beans
d. bacteria strains

True or False

Check “T” for true and “F” for false.

a. Previous treatments for infections included T F

substances like sulfur.
b. The arrival of antibiotic drugs was considered a T F

medical breakthrough.

c. The antibiotic drug prevents or kills the growth of T F
bacteria.

d. There is a race to discover new and different T F
antibiotics.

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