PTE Academic / listening / Academic
Science and technology
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Audio script (about 30 seconds): history of science lecture extract on the microscope and disease
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Lecturer: For most of human history, the causes of infectious disease were largely a matter of guesswork. Some people blamed bad air, others blamed bad luck or punishment. The microscope began to change that. Once researchers could actually see tiny organisms in samples taken from sick patients, explanations no longer had to rely on argument alone. Ideas about what caused an illness could, at last, be carefully [BEEP]
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Select Missing Word
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Which option best completes the lecture extract about the microscope and disease?
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