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Under no circumstances shall McGraw-Hill and/or its licensors be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or similar damages that result from the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages. | 84 TOEFL Success Read the passage to review the vocabulary you have learned. Answer the questions that follow. Until a century ago military medicine was poor at battling ratio of soldiers killed by diseases to those killed in combat was probably Bonus Structure Until a century ago indicates that the condition to be described stopped about 100years ago. at least two to one. For strategic reasons military camps were often set up near a body of water. This gave some protection from enemy artillery but it exposed soldiers to diseasecarrying mosquitoes. Mosquitoes also plagued troops in the trenches. Low -ranking troops suffered the most. Officers who were advanced enough in the hierarchy slept in separate tents on high ground. The long-held belief that disease resulted from evil spirits or bad air eventually ceased to rule military medicine. The germ theory mobilized actual science against disease. General George Washington ordered that his men be vaccinated against smallpox. Their allegiance to him can be measured by the fact that they obeyed for Washington s doctors used the actual smallpox virus not the safer vaccination that Edward Jenner would introduce in 1798. 1. Which sentence best expresses the essential information of this passage a. Army officers were far healthier than common foot soldiers. b. For a long time a soldier was more likely to die of disease than in battle. c. Armies should camp on dry ground not near water. d. Diseases are caused by viruses and spread by mosquitoes. 2. Why does the author mention that military camps were often set up near water a. to explain why soldiers were not usually killed by artillery b. to show that officers and men did not mix c. to explain how soldiers came into contact with disease-carrying mosquitoes d. to show that water was valuable in treating camp fever 0äd. 85 Lesson 17 Military Operations TOEFL Prep I 1. c 2. e 3. a 4. d 5. b TOEFL Prep .