The Princeton Review - Princeton Review PSAT 8_9 Prep-Random House Children's Books (2021)

D) would like to conduct
20. A) NO CHANGE
B) As the research done by Pope and his team demonstrates,
C) As an indication of the research done by Pope and his team,
D) Due to the research done by Pope and his team,
Questions 21-30 are based on the following passage and supplementary material.
Modern Medicine
Robotic surgery, also known as robot-assisted surgery,
is a medical technology in which an advanced robot with
arms and small instruments is controlled by a surgeon.
This allows the doctor to perform 21 puzzling procedures
without having to make significant incisions on 22
patients’ bodies. The first surgical robot was created in
1985, but the uses for surgical robots were initially
limited. In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration
approved the da Vinci system for general laparoscopic
surgery. Now, surgical robots have changed the medical
23 industry. They allow doctors to make precise cuts,
even from afar.
In the past, a surgeon would have had to make a long
cut for most operations. This can result in more blood loss
and longer recovery times for patients. With a surgical
robot, after he or she makes a tiny cut, a physician 24
have been able to use a camera to see inside the patient.
Then, the doctor can use the controls to conduct the
surgery with the robot’s miniature tools. Since this
technology is fairly new, a study was completed in 2018 to
determine how doctors are trained to use surgical robots
before operating on patients. Of the 71 programs that
were surveyed, 99 percent used a robotic simulator, and
25 medical programs used robots in 86 percent of their