Tu Youyou, a Chinese scientist, became the first female scientist from China
2 . Can a robot provide helpful answers to your health concerns? That’s the goal of Reach Digital Health, an organization that uses mobile technologies, like text messages, to provide helpful health-care information and guidance to people across Africa who can’t easily reach a health-care provider. The continent has 17.89% of the world’s population, 23% of the diseases that disable and kill people, and only a small part of the world’s health workers.
Reach Digital Health deals with millions of questions and sends millions of mostly automatic (自动的) and computerized answers per day. That is, “We first try to respond automatically to any question that they might have,” says Debbie Rogers, CEO of Reach Digital Health, “because we want to be able to give them an answer as quickly as possible.” Besides, some words or responses can bring other interventions (干预). If someone describes an emergency like “bleeding” in their message, for example, the system will instruct them to visit their nearest hospital as soon as possible. In addition, signs and diagnoses (诊断) reported through Reach Digital Health can be sent to governments in real-time so that informed public health decisions can be made quickly and responsibly.
Reach Digital Health also uses the information they collect to improve the health offerings of equipment, district or even entire country. It collects information from millions of women, which allows for shortcomings in training or medical supplies to be identified and corrected by providers and governmental health agencies.
The organization isn’t just in South Africa. It’s working in eight other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, through teamwork with the World Health Organization starting in 2020, they’ve enlarged their services across the globe and set up programs in Bangladesh and Indonesia.
1. Reach Digital Health was founded to _________.| A．prevent Africans from hunger | B．invent a powerful medical robot |
| C．offer Africans useful healthcare information | D．make medical investigation in Africa |
| A．By directing him to the nearest hospital. | B．By sending him to a hospital. |
| C．By making diagnoses for him. | D．By giving him free medicine. |
| A．Puzzled. | B．Unclear. | C．Doubtful. | D．Supportive. |
| A．Debbie Rogers: a far-sighted leader |
| B．Healthcare in Africa: a long way to go |
| C．Reach Digital Health: an incredibly profitable organization |
| D．Reach Digital Health: answering health concerns |
1. What does the woman probably do?
| A．A doctor. | B．An assistant. | C．A professor. |
| A．On Wednesday. | B．On Thursday. | C．On Friday. |
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1. What part of the man’s body is hurting?
| A．The top of his head. |
| B．The right side of his face. |
| C．The left side of his mouth. |
| A．To a hospital. |
| B．To a dentist’s office. |
| C．To his regular doctor’s office. |
| A．By bus. | B．By bike. | C．By car. |
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7 . These days, more people in Denmark are surviving serious heart attacks. Some of that good news is thanks to a smartphone app called Heartrunner.
Many heart attacks happen when people are not near doctors. The most serious type of heart attack is when the heart stops. In Denmark, the survival rate for people whose heart had stopped when they were not near doctors used to be 4%. In the past 20 years, it has risen to 16%. Denmark has seen a dramatic change in survival from heart attacks after it began recruiting (招募) volunteers and arming some of them with smartphone technology.
Denmark’s emergency number is 112. Call center workers can use Heartrunner to contact up to 20 volunteers within 1.1 miles of an emergency. Workers also send out an ambulance. They often tell the caller how to start CPR. Heartrunner sends an alert (警报) to volunteers. It asks, “Can you run?” If a person says yes, the app sends the address. If there is an AED nearby, the app tells volunteers where to find it.
More than 100,000 people in Denmark volunteer for Heartrunner. About 75% of them are not health care workers. That’s OK, said expert Freddy Lippert. “The patient is dead, and if you don’t do anything, nine out of 10 will be dead forever. The faster CPR begins, the better the chance of restarting the heart. In Denmark, everyday people responded faster than professionals to more than four in 10 heart attacks.”
Erik Kaxe, 81, lives in a small Danish town. Recently, his heart stopped. His wife called 112. The ambulance was sent. And the Heartrunner alert went out. Within minutes, 10 strangers who lived nearby showed up at their house. The ambulance came 17 minutes after the call. So many helpers showed up that they were able to do far more than just CPR. When the ambulance showed up, Kaxe was breathing again. He lived and is now back at home.
“Dying wasn’t difficult” he said. “But waking up is.”
1. What do the numbers mentioned in paragraph 2 show?| A．Heartrunner has raised a lot of concern. |
| B．Heartrunner has made a big difference in Denmark. |
| C．An increasing number of people have suffered heart attacks. |
| D．Danish doctors have successfully improved heart attack survival rates. |
| A．It calls 112 immediately. | B．It contacts an ambulance. |
| C．It sends helpers to victims. | D．It sends alerts to AED owners. |
| A．Every minute counts for victims. | B．Ambulances respond slowly in Denmark. |
| C．There is a serious lack of health care workers. | D．Volunteers for Heartrunner should be professionals. |
| A．To tell a touching story. | B．To remind us to value life. |
| C．To show how Heartrunner saves lives. | D．To teach us how to use the life-saving app. |
8 . In 2015, Professor Wang Zhenyi, who specializes in treating acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) (急性早幼粒细胞白血病), received a letter of thanks from America. The writer of the letter was Mrs. Berna- dette Giandomenico, who once suffered from APL but was cured with all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) (全反式维甲酸), a treatment developed by Wang and his medical team.
Working at Ruijin Hospital, Wang has been devoting his life to the treatment of leukenia. He received the country’s highest honor in science and technology in 2010.
Born in 1924 in Shanghai, Wang was inspired by a family friend’s experience of pursuing a career in medicine as a child. His grandmother’s death caused by typhoid (伤寒) further strengthened his resolve (决心) to fight against diseases and rescue patients. With outstanding academic performance, Wang became a doctor at Guangci Hospital, today’s Ruijin Hospital,
In 1978, a research paper from Israeli experts gave Wang inspiration on studying how leukemia cells could become normal. His research didn’t progress as expected, though. In 1983, another research paper shed light on his study. As the paper suggested, after being treated with 13-cis-retinoic acid, white blood cells in patients with APL could become normal. Considering the difficulties and high cost of producing a drug made from 13-cis-retinoic acid, Wang’s team decided to replace that ingredient with ATRA, and they verified its positive effect after several months’ experiments. In 1986, the drug was first adopted in treating a five-year-old patient. It turned out successful. After eight years of research, Wang’s team eventually made the first breakthrough in the battle against APL.
To make sure every APL patient could afford the medicine, Wang has not patented (获取专利权) his research result to date. “One cannot be a real doctor if one does not have expertise in medicine,” Wang said in an interview. “However, without a kind heart, a skilled doctor may cause harm to patients.”
Having worked in the field of hematopathology for over 70 years, Wang has been well recognized for his remarkable contribution to saving lives.
1. Why did Mrs.Giandomenico write a letter to Professor Wang?| A．To express her thanks. | B．To ask for medical suggestions. |
| C．To share her battle against APL. | D．To update information about APL treatment. |
| A．His grandmother’s death. | B．The example of a family friend. |
| C．His great academic achievements. | D．The inspiration from foreign experts. |
| A．Denied. | B．Researched. | C．Predicted. | D．Confirmed. |
| A．The application of ATRA | B．A doctor with a kind heart |
| C．The Chinese cure for APL patients | D．The remarkable honors a lifesaver got |
1. How does the man feel?
| A．Tired. | B．Thirsty. | C．Curious. |
| A．She had a fever. | B．She had a fall. | C．She had a headache. |
| A．A teacher. | B．A doctor. | C．A policeman. |
1. What did the man do yesterday?
| A．He went to see a doctor. |
| B．He painted his house. |
| C．He repaired his housetop. |
| A．He caught a cold. | B．He hurt his ear. | C．He fell off the housetop. |
| A．Lie in bed. | B．Buy medicine. | C．Drink hot water. |
