Today，doctors know a lot about how to stop germs （細菌） from spreading.They advise people to cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze.Washing hands also helps.Storing food correctly can help prevent illness as well.
    However，people didn't use to know a lot about germs.For many years，even doctors didn't really understand how illnesses spread.They did many things to avoid getting sick.Some doctors even tried dressing like birds.
    In 1619，Charles de Lorme designed a special uniform for doctors treating plague （瘟疫） patients.The uniform had a long coat，gloves，boots and a wide-side hat.The doctors also carried long，wooden sticks so that they wouldn't have to touch the patients.The mask made the doctors look like birds.It had a long beak with about 15 cm from the face.There were also two eye holes covered in glass and two nose holes.
    At that time，doctors believed the plague was spread by bad air.So the doctors put medicine and flowers in the beaks of their masks.They believed this would remove the bad smell from air before breathing it，preventing them from being affected by the plague.
    Did it work？Well，not really.The germs that caused the plague did sometimes travel through the air，but good – smelling medicine wasn't able to stop them.Many doctors still got sick by breathing through the nose holes in their masks.Some plague only spread through bites from fleas（跳蚤）and rodents（嚙齒動物）.The doctors' uniforms did help protect them from this danger.However，it was largely the coat，gloves，boots and hat that did the job，not the bird mask.
（1）How many ways of stopping germs from spreading are mentioned in the first paragraph？

Three.

Three.

（2）What did the uniform Charles de Lorme desighed for doctors look like？

The uniform had a long coat，gloves，boots and a wide-side hat.

The uniform had a long coat，gloves，boots and a wide-side hat.

（3）Why did the doctors put medicine and flowers in the beaks of their masks？

Because doctors believed the plague was spread by bad air.

Because doctors believed the plague was spread by bad air.

（4）What does the underlined part "this danger" in Paragraph 5 refer to？

Some plague which spreads through bites from fleas and rodents.

Some plague which spreads through bites from fleas and rodents.

（5）How did you avoid the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic？ （請自擬一句話作答）

I wore a face mask when going out and washed my hands after going back home.

I wore a face mask when going out and washed my hands after going back home.