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enHomeopathy: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
Although during the past 200 years many people in Britain, Europe and America (1) ______ better for consulting a homeopath, orthodox doctors are scornful. Scientists are skeptical because they are convinced that the remedies do not contain (2) _______ substance to have any effect. But the idea of taking the smallest possible (3) _______ , or minimum dose, of the remedy is fundamental to homeopathy. The (4) _______ 1986 report (5) _______ alternative medicine rejected homeopathy out of hand - the theory of minimum dose was irrational.
Dr Samuel Hahnemann, (6) _______ father of homeopathy, (7) _______ the barbarous practices of allopathic medicine. 18th century doctors (8) _______ blood letting and prescription of poisonous mixtures of drugs. Hahnemann noticed that substances which (9)_______ the same symptoms as a particular disease could be used (10) ______ it.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | have felt | have been felt | had felt | feel |
| 2 | an enough | enough of the | enough of | the enough of |
| 3 | the amount | great deal of | amount | number |
| 4 | British Medical Associations’ | British Medical Association’s' | British Medical Association | British Medical Association's |
| 5 | about | for | on | in |
| 6 | an | — | the | a |
| 7 | was objected to | objected about | objected against | objected to |
| 8 | relied on | were relied on | relying on | have relied on |
| 9 | to produce | produced | producing | were produced |
| 10 | to get cured | to be cured | to curing | to cure |
1.A; 2.B; 3.C; 4.D; 5.C; 6.C; 7.D; 8.A; 9.B; 10.D
