Questions 1-10

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Complete the flow-chart The History of Antibiotics in Exercise 1 by choosing 
from options A-I.
1 
Woman:
 So I think it was in 1928, wasn’t it – that Alexander Fleming 
discovered penicillin. And whereas before – if people had a cut that 
went sceptic – say on their hand – or a sore throat - they knew it could 
potentially kill them – but penicillin changed all that. You could recover 
really quickly if you were treated with penicillin, so people weren’t so 
frightened any more.
2 
Man:
 And then chloramphenicol was discovered after penicillin, and 
these antibiotics were so successful that pharmaceutical companies 
really began to take notice. They thought that if they could go out and 
find new antibiotics, the financial gain would be enormous. And so…
3 
Woman:
 And because of that, the companies hired hundreds of people 
and sent them out to places like jungles and mountains. And their job 
was to collect specimens from the soil - specimens that would hopefully 
contain the kind of microorganisms that could help the companies create 
new antibiotics.
4 
Man:
 And so, because it was so expensive and so time-consuming, and 
they hadn’t really achieved anything, manufacturers in the US and in 
Europe gave up on that approach. And instead they decided to make 
artificial kinds of antibiotic - try and reproduce them in the laboratory,  
I mean.
5 
Woman:
 And since the 1970s, almost no new antibiotics have been made. 
And that’s why doctors and surgeons are just prescribing the same ones 
again and again, even if they know they aren’t really going to work.
6 
Man:
 And according to the research I read, there’s about 700,000 people 
a year now, who – well, when they get sick – and it could be a small thing 
or a major illness – they don’t get better when they’re given antibiotics. 
And this kind of drug resistance is becoming more common.
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