1 . When did Mr. Morgan have a check-up last time?

A．Last year.

B．Five years ago.

C．Six years ago.

2 . Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can onlybe used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A.function        B.total          C.worthwhile          D.distinguishing       E.achievements F.flowing   G.acknowledge   H.promising   I.treatment     J.prescribed     K.suffered

Over the last 150 years, the field of medicine has accomplished many astonishing things. Some of these medical     1     are well-known, antibiotics, vaccines and organ transplants, for example. Here are three success stories in the world of medical science.

Surviving without a Heart

On July 2, 2008, D’Zhana Simmons from South Carolina was given a heart transplant. She     2     Kfroma condition called dilated cardiomyopathy(扩张型心肌病), which meant that her heart was weakened and her blood wasn’t being pumped efficiently. Her new heart failed to     3     properly, so doctors fitted two pumps to keep her blood     4     while they went looking for a new heart. It was almost four months later, on October 29, that another transplant was carried out successfully. In     5    , she’d lived without a heart for 118 days. This is thought to be the longest a pediatric patient has been kept alive without any heart at all.

Waking People from Comas

In1999, a patient in a persistent vegetative state(植物人状态) due to a motor accident was seen to be twitching(抽动) by one of his nurses. His doctor     6     a common sleeping pill, zolpidem, in case this twitching was caused by discomfort. The doctor crushed it on a spoon, fed it to the patient, and was shocked when just half an hour later, the comatose(昏迷的)person made a noise for the first time in five years. This simple     7     has since been tried with several other patients with marvelous results. Not all patients respond--in fact, around forty percent don’t show any improvement--but those who are successfully rescued from their comas are finally able to     8     their loved ones, and even have conversations.

Restoring Sight to the Blind

Blindness is not a single, uniform condition; it can be variously caused by problems in the eyes, the nerves and the brain. Thanks to machine implants, people who were completely blind sometimes become capable of    9     colours and describing objects.

The device works like a digital camera, creating an image and then sending signals through nerve cells to the brain. Doctors were also able to restore sight to a man who had been blind for forty-three years; they did this with the help of stem cells, one of the most     10     fields in medicine. Neither of these treatments are yet perfect, but they show what science may be capable of in the future.

3 . Have you heard of depression (抑郁)? It’s a mental illness. People who have it may feel sad all the time or do something to hurt themselves. Now, doctors can put a “happy switch” in their heads to help them.

Doctors at Shanghai Ruijing hospital helped a patient Wu Xiaotian. Wu, 31, has had depression since he was 15 years old. The doctor did an operation on Wu. They put two long lines of electrodes (电极) inside his brain. The 16 electrodes are used to let out electricity on different parts of the brain, which can change the patient’s feelings. Wu can control the “happy switch” through an app on his phone. When feeling down, Wu turns on the switch and the electrodes start working. He is soon cheered up. “It feels like there is power rising from the inside of my body,” Wu said.

The hospital has tested the switch on 26 patients since 2020. Up to now, it has helped cut down a patient’s sad feelings by 60%, said the hospital.

But is the switch safe enough? Although patients like Wu feel great using it, the operation is actually a dangerous one. And doctors are still working to improve it. Also, doctors have to make sure that patients don’t rely on it. Healthy people shouldn’t use it, or it may be like a kind of drug for them.

1. What really makes the “happy switch” work?

A．The small “box”.

B．Electrodes.

C．Electricity.

D．An App.

2. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Why people have bad feelings.	B．How the “happy switch” works.
C．How doctors do operations on brains.	D．Who will have the switch on their brains.

3. What do we know about the switch?

A．The switch still needs improving.	B．The switch is a kind of drug.
C．All patients who used it became healthy.	D．It can make all sadness go away.

4. What might the writer agree with?

A．The new operation is safe for humans.

B．Some people may use the switch to sell drugs.

C．Different kinds of people should try the switch.

D．People should also care about the bad points of the switch.

4 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is Jenny’s problem?

A．She has high blood pressure.

B．She is under great stress.

C．She can’t get along with her workmates.

2. What mainly makes Jenny look tired?

A．The new job.

B．The medicine.

C．The dog.

3. What did the doctor advise Jenny to do?

A．Take some medicine.

B．Do more exercise.

C．Keep a pet.

5 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. Where are the speakers?

A．In a hospital.

B．In a gym.

C．In a park.

2. What happened to the woman yesterday?

A．She fell off the bed.

B．She had trouble in breathing.

C．She almost died of heart disease.

3. What was the woman’s decision?

A．Changing her lifestyle.

B．Drinking less coffee.

C．Seeing the doctor regularly.

4. What annoys the woman most?

A．Having scary dreams.

B．Giving up fried chips.

C．Getting up early.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个恰当的单词，或括号内单词的正确形式。

This year marks the 50th anniversary (周年) of the discovery of qinghaosu,     1     is used as the main part for the most common and effective antimalarial treatment today. According to the World Health Organization, qinghaosu is     2     (benefit) to about millions of people in the world.

Until now, China     3     (train) thousands of anti-malaria workers for developing countries     4     built malaria prevention and control centers for 30 countries. During the 1940s, China was attacked by malaria, with nearly 30 million cases each year. In June 2021, the WHO announced China had finished the     5     (remove) of this disease within its borders.

Tu Youyou was excited to hear the WHO’s announcement. But a sense of responsibility quickly followed,     6     (inspire) Tu to ask her workmates how many countries had not destroyed malaria and how Chinese researchers could help.

Last month, during a meeting    7     (organize) by some officials, Tu said     8     number of cases and death rates of malaria has increased in some parts of the world. The disease     9     (remain) a serious public health challenge, and it is important for the international society to work together to achieve a malaria-free world, she added.

At the age of 92, Tu may not be able to work as hard as she did decades ago, but she reads monthly news on her team’s research and often offers her advice     10     key projects.

7 . With artificial intelligence (AI) seemingly working its way into every technology out there, one area where it’s considered particularly promising is in helping doctors. And already, AI is entering some doctors’ offices.

Dr. Michael Mansour of Massachusetts General Hospital is an early user who’s helped by a form of AI that could someday change the way doctors get information. When a patient comes in with unknown infection (感染), Mansour turns to a computer program called UpToDate. It’s a common tool, with more than 2 million users at 44,000 health care organizations in over 190 countries. Basically, it’s Google for doctors — searching a huge database (数据库) of articles written by experts in the field, who are all getting information from the latest research.

Wolters Kluwer Health, the company that makes UpToDate, is trying to incorporate (整合) AI so that doctors can have more of a conversation with the database.

Some doctors hope to use AI to comb through a patient’s medical history before an appointment (预约). In some cases, Dr. June-Ho Kim, who directs a program on primary care at Ariadne Labs, says AI technology may also help primary care doctors look after patients without the help of specialists. “It will free up specialists’ time to focus on more difficult cases that they need to really home in on, rather than the ones that could be answered through a few questions,” he says.

Dr. Marc Succi, who was a co-worker of Kim, says, “AI will finally prove to be a trusted medical tool. AI won’t replace doctors, but doctors who use AI will replace doctors who do not. It will become very common just like designing a PPT on a computer. It’s that level of leap.”

1. How does UpToDate help a doctor?

A．It looks after patients.	B．It does a temperature test.
C．It offers useful information.	D．It leads patients to doctors.

2. What do the underlined words “home in on” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Concentrate on.	B．Adapt to.
C．Waste time on.	D．Have interest in.

3. What does Succi want to explain by mentioning PPT in the last paragraph?

A．The difficulty of writing.	B．The user-friendlines s of AI.
C．The importance of a doctor.	D．The advantages of office software.

4. What is the best title for the text?

A．AI in the Field of Medicine	B．The Challenges of AI
C．Changes That AI Has Brought	D．Doctors at Home or in the Office

8 . In early July, FDA granted traditional full approval of Leqembi for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). This is the first approved medication proven to slow the progression of AD’s clinical symptoms. A phase three trial among 50-to-90-year-old patients with early AD showed that it can do so by about 27% over an 18-month period. While we cannot extrapolate (推断) beyond 18 months, this represents about a six-month delay in progression of AD symptoms.

A second disease-slowing drug, donanemab, has recently shown similar effects and may get FDA approval by the end of the year.The development of Leqembi is a notable success for medical science in that a disease previously impervious to any disease-modifying medical intervention now has an available, effective treatment. However, paraphrasing Winston Churchill, this is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning. The drug does not reverse disease symptoms or prevent progression, it slows progression. And there are considerations that make it inappropriate for many patients with AD. It does, however, lay the groundwork for future AD medications that could alleviate (减轻) suffering from this devastating disease for generations to come.

An important factor for new drugs is their cost. Leqembi’s price tag is $26,500 per year — much more than the current symptomatic medications for AD but comparable or less expensive than new medications for other conditions, for example multiple sclerosis or ALS.

Medicare has announced that it will provide coverage for this medication, although it is requiring that physicians perform certain clinical measures and enter the patient’s data in a registry in order for the drug to be covered, which will increase physician and patient burdens. What’s more, traditional Medicare only covers 80% of outpatient costs, so for those patients without supplemental insurance, a 20% copay for the drug and required MRI scans (核磁共振扫描) might amount to up to $10,000 or more per year out of pocket, but still only a fraction of the cost of a year of in a nursing home.

1. What can we learn from the first two paragraph?

A．Leqembi can make a six-month delay of AD’s symptoms over a two-year period.

B．To some degree, Leqembi is effective to slow the progression of AD symptoms.

C．Both donanemab and Leqembi have got FDA approval.

D．The drug is appropriate for any patient with AD.

2. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 means _____ in the passage.

A．although the new drug has undergone trials, it is still not effective enough

B．though Leqembi can slow the progression of AD’s symptoms, we still have a long way to go

C．the research of the Leqembi will come to an end

D．some others problems related to the the medicine have been caused

3. Leqembi’s price is _____ according to the passage.

A．much cheaper than other medications for AD

B．much more than current medications for other conditions

C．affordable to almost every patient

D．cheaper than new medications for ALS

4. Medicare will provide coverage for this medication on condition that _____.

A．physician and patient burdens are increased

B．patients do not have supplemental insurance

C．patient’s data is registered and clinical measures are carried out by doctors

D．patients pay the cost of a year of in a nursing home

9 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is Jim?

A．A chemist.

B．A dentist.

C．An eye doctor.

2. Why does the woman need a new pair of glasses?

A．The old ones are broken.

B．Her eyesight becomes poorer.

C．She wants to look much smarter.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the matter with Mr. Smith?

A．He ate a lot.

B．He got a sore throat.

C．He can’t sleep at night.

2. What does Mr. Smith teach?

A．English.

B．Chinese.

C．Physics.

3. Why doesn’t Mr. Smith want to take a rest?

A．He has rested for a week.

B．He has to help his students.

C．He wants to visit a university.