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山西省运城等五市2018-2019学年高三上学期英语期末考试试卷
Do you know some surprising innovations (创新) came from World War I? Here are some introductions to you.
⒈Daylight Saving Time The idea of fiddling with (拨弄) the clock has been around since ancient times, but it was not until World War I that governments around the globe officially adopted daylight saving time. Why? To save resources such as fuel and extend the workday for the war effort. , and the Allies followed shortly after. To clear up confusion about the concept, the Washington Times used a comic strip to explain the first “spring forward” in the United States in 1918.
⒉Blood Banks , but doctors rarely performed them before World War I, when they were accomplished by transfusing blood directly from one person to another. Captain Oswald Robertson, a U.S. Army Reserve doctor consulting with the British army, recognized the need to stock blood before casualties (伤亡) occurred. .
⒊Hollywood With so much of Europe in the line of fire, the European film industry had to scale back (相应缩减) dramatically. . Hollywood was still in its early stage, but its studios soon made fortunes producing wartime movies. The war itself provided material for countless movies in the 1920s and '30s, including Wings, the winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
⒋Plastic Surgery . British army surgeon Harold Gillies and his colleagues performed more than 11,000 operations, mostly on soldiers suffering from facial wounds from gunshots. .
There were other innovations made during World War I, such as wristwatches, modern passports, zippers, drones, etc.
A. The Germans did it first, in 1916
B. That opened the door for the Americans
C. Blood transfusions (输血) date back to the 1600s
D. Gillies' operation became successful immediately
E. World War I left thousands of men scarred and maimed (伤残的)
F. Gillies became known as the father of modern plastic surgery
G. After World War I the blood banks appeared in the United States.
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