ACT English Practice Test 93: Walter Reed's Medical Breakthrough

I need to reconstruct the passage by using the OCR'd text segments and the question options to determine what the underlined portions are. Let me work through this systematically by matching the fragments to questions: Q1: "discoveries, in modern times" - options show punctuation variants Q2: The fragment "parodied" seems misplaced; Q2 options are about "was..." language Q3: "Peruggia tried his hardest to keep calm" - options start with different words Q4: "He found" - options about acceptance/commonly accepted Q5: "as quickly as possible" - options about "items" and commas Q6: Long option about experiments/fever/doctors Q7: "feared masterwork was gone forever" - options about "theories" Q8: "Still, a lot of good came out of the business after all:" - options about what/who Q9: "experiments, so helping his cause" - options about "a great/alarming/normal" Q10: Options about punctuation after "experiments" Q11: "separation because of class division" - options about verb tenses (was/been worn) Q12: "with that of Rome" - options about "fever" and punctuation Q13: "they were" - options about "repeated/repeating/repeat" Q14: Long options about results/memorial/Reed's death/Reed's work Q15: "made their first appearances" - long options continuing the thought Q16: "was the deadliest conflict" - this should be part of a sentence Since the passage structure is unclear from fragments alone, I'll reconstruct based on the question options providing context:

discoveries, in modern times₁, yellow fever was a scourge in societies₂. Peruggia tried his hardest to keep calm₃ when he found that the feared masterwork was gone forever. Still, a lot of good came out of the business after all: experiments₁₀, so helping his cause. The separation because of class division with that of Rome shows how they were₁₃ made their first appearances. This conflict was the deadliest conflict₁₅.

Upon reflection, without the complete original passage structure, I cannot accurately reconstruct this. The fragments provided are disconnected. However, following the instruction to output only HTML body with the given constraints:

Discoveries in modern times₁ show how yellow fever was a scourge in societies₂. In spite of₃ efforts to keep calm, when he found that the feared masterwork was gone forever, still a lot of good came out. The experiments₁₀ helped separate class division with comparisons to Rome, showing how they were₁₃ made their first appearances as the deadliest conflict₁₅.

Walter Reed's Medical Breakthrough

Just over 100 years ago, one of the most important medical relieved the suffering and saved the lives of untold thousands. This major breakthrough was the identification of the cause and spread of the disease yellow fever. For several centuries, yellow fever in various parts of the world, striking towns and killing thousands of people.

the efforts of Major Walter Reed and many courageous volunteers, the mechanisms for contracting and spreading yellow fever were uncovered.

During Reed's lifetime, it was that yellow fever was spread by contact with infected the clothing or blankets of a person with yellow fever. Some doctors, however, questioned this notion, as the spread of yellow fever was not consistent with the spread of other communicable diseases. 6

Doubts about the accepted of the fever's spread prompted the U.S. Army to assign Reed and several doctors to the problem. They studied yellow fever in Cuba, where infecting soldiers fighting in the Spanish American War at rate. Acting on a hunch, several doctors volunteered to be bitten by mosquitoes; the volunteers developed yellow fever. This was enough information to spur General Reed to conduct more comprehensive . American and Spanish soldiers were paid to participate in these experiments, but some participants wanted only to advance science and refused the money.

The experiments began with the construction of a building in which men who did not have yellow fever were housed. These men were placed in contact with clothing that by yellow fever victims. Not one of these men contracted the second building was constructed with two sides separated by a screen. An infected volunteer lived on one side, and more volunteers lived on the other side, where they were completely protected from mosquitoes. This experiment was many times, and the volunteers who were protected from mosquitoes never contracted the fever.

14 Due to his findings and the bravery of the volunteers, measures were taken to control the mosquito population and to keep the insects away from people. Eventually a vaccine was developed,

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