In the past 50 years, doctors across the world have accepted the practice to prescribe antibiotics at the first sign of a trivial infection or treat patients with a handful of antibiotics. These days it is not uncommon to see practitioners prescribing multiple antibiotics without arty real indication or relevance for such a combination of drugs. Antibiotics have traditionally been known as miracle drugs, but there is growing evidence that they are overworked miracles, especially in countries like ours where there is easy access to drugs across the counter, including antibiotics. We cannot think of a return to pre-antibiotic days. Yet the unbridled use of these agents is inexorably propelling us in that direction.
1. Antibiotics are called ‘Over worked miracles’ because (c)
(a) they performed miracles
(b) they are hardly used
(c) they are over-used
(d) they exhausted their miracles
2. ‘We cannot think of a return to pre-antibiotic days’ means (c)
(a) Antibiotics became indispensable
(b) We must go back to pre-antibiotic days
(c) We cannot stop using antibiotics
(d) We can stop using antibiotics
3. The passage tells us that (d)
(a) the antibiotics work miracles
(b) the antibiotics are available at the counters
(c) the use of antibiotics is uncontrollable
(d) antibiotics are used indiscriminately
4. The passage discusses the use of: (c)
(a) drugs in general
(b) miracle drugs
(c) antibiotics
(d) combination of different drugs
5. These days it is not uncommon to prescribe antibiotic means (b)
(a) It is rare to prescribe antibiotics
(b) It is a common practice to prescribe antibiotics
(c) It is not a common practice to prescribe antibiotics
(d) It is compulsory to prescribe antibiotics