A: Hi, Tom. You were not here yesterday afternoon. What was
B: There was something wrong with my eyes. They hurt badly.
A:I am
B: Two days ago.
A:
B: Much better. The pain is gone. But I still can’t spend a long time reading.
A: Did you go to the doctor?
B: Yes, I did. The doctor gave me some medicine and asked me not to play computer games anymore.
A: That’s not enough! You should use mobile phones less.
B:
___heart attack ___drowning __sprained ankle ___poisoning ___bad cut/bleeding |
2. What do you think the Heimlich manoeuvre is?
4 . A trial project by the Montreal Children’s Hospital suggested that the use of medical hypnosis (催眠) can reduce pain and anxiety in patients. The project also resulted in a reduction in the amount of medicines used to perform medical-imaging (医学影像) procedures.
“During the examination children don’t move. It works perfectly. It’s amazing,” said Johanne L’Ecuyer, a medical-imaging technologist at the hospital.
The project was inspired by a French team from Rouen University Hospital Centre where examinations are done under hypnosis instead of general anesthesia (麻醉).
A French medical-imaging technologist—also a hypnotist—was invited to train a few members in the medical-imaging department of the children’s hospital. In all, 80 examinations were conducted for the project between January and September, 2019, focusing on the imaging procedures that would cause anxiety.
Hypnosis is not a state of sleep: It is rather a modified (改变的) state of consciousness. The technologist will guide the patient to this modified state—an imaginary world that will disassociate itself more and more from the procedure that follows.
“The technologist must build up a story with the patient,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. “The patient is left with the power to choose what he wants to talk about. Do you play sports? Do you like going to the beach? We establish a subject that we will discuss throughout the procedure.”
Everything that happens next during the procedure must be related to this story—an injection (注射) becomes the bite of an insect; the heat on the skin becomes the sensation of the sun and a machine that rings becomes a police car passing nearby.
“The important thing is that the technologist associates what is happening outside the patient’s body with what the patient sees in his head,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. “It requires creativity on the part of the technologist, imagination, a lot of patience and kindness.”
The procedure appealed to the staff a lot when it was introduced in January. “It spread like wildfire that someone from France was here to train the technologists,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. She added that she had a line of staff at her door wanting to take the training
What can we learn about the story used in the procedure?
| A．It should keep pace with the procedure. |
| B．It reflects the patient’s creativity. |
| C．It is selected by the technologist. |
| D．It tells what doctors are doing to the patient, |
5 . A trial project by the Montreal Children’s Hospital suggested that the use of medical hypnosis (催眠) can reduce pain and anxiety in patients. The project also resulted in a reduction in the amount of medicines used to perform medical-imaging (医学影像) procedures.
“During the examination children don’t move. It works perfectly. It’s amazing,” said Johanne L’Ecuyer, a medical-imaging technologist at the hospital.
The project was inspired by a French team from Rouen University Hospital Centre where examinations are done under hypnosis instead of general anesthesia (麻醉).
A French medical-imaging technologist — also a hypnotist — was invited to train a few members in the medical-imaging department of the children’s hospital. In all, 80 examinations were conducted for the project between January and September, 2019, focusing on the imaging procedures that would cause anxiety.
Hypnosis is not a state of sleep: It is rather a modified (改变的) state of consciousness. The technologist will guide the patient to this modified state — an imaginary world that will disassociate itself more and more from the procedure that follows.
“The technologist must build up a story with the patient,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. “The patient is left with the power to choose what he wants to talk about. Do you play sports? Do you like going to the beach? We establish a subject that we will discuss throughout the procedure.”
Everything that happens next during the procedure must be related to this story — an injection (注射) becomes the bite of an insect; the heat on the skin becomes the sensation of the sun and a machine that rings becomes a police car passing nearby.
“The important thing is that the technologist associates what is happening outside the patient’s body with what the patient sees in his head,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. “It requires creativity on the part of the technologist, imagination, a lot of patience and kindness.”
The procedure appealed to the staff a lot when it was introduced in January. “It spread like wildfire that someone from France was here to train the technologists,” Ms. L’Ecuyer said. She added that she had a line of staff at her door wanting to take the training
What is the passage mainly about?
| A．An easy way to communicate with patients. |
| B．The standard method of conducting hypnosis. |
| C．An introduction of medical-imaging technology. |
| D．The use of hypnosis in medical-imaging procedures. |
6 . The Washington Post first reported the transplant patient s criminal record and the attack that led to it. The revelations have prompted debate about how patients are selected for high-tech medical care.
“The transplant gave him life,” Edward’s sister voiced her displeasure with the transplant for Bennett. “But my brother never got a second chance at life.”
But Bennett’s doctors said that such unsetting historical records do not disqualify patients from getting cutting-edge medical procedures.
What is the attitude of Edward’s sister towards the transplant?
| A．Skeptical | B．Disapproving. | C．Impartial. | D．Indifferent. |
7 . The “junk DNA” may be useful in developing future cancer treatments, according to a new report in the journal Nature Immunology. The discovery was led by Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators and University of Rochester biologists Vera Gorbunova, Ph.D., and Andrei Seluanov, Ph.D..
The DNA elements under research are known as retrotransposons (逆转录转座子). The bad side of them is that if left to run amok, they can give rise to tumors (肿瘤). Researchers, however, discovered that if they are kept in the correct balance and controlled properly, retrotransposons can cause the immune system to destroy cancer..
What does the underlined “amok” in paragraph 2 mean?
| A．Unbelievably. | B．Unreasonably. |
| C．Insensitively. | D．Independently. |
8 . Muscle tissue also tends to keep vaccine reactions localized at the injection site. If certain vaccines are injected into fat tissue, the chance of irritation and side effect increases because fat tissue has poor blood supply, leading to poor absorption of some vaccine components. Vaccines must be given in a muscle to avoid widespread side effect.
Yet another deciding factor in vaccine administration location is the size of the muscle as well as convenience.
What may the underlined word in the sixth paragraph mean?
| A．Common feeling of sorrow. | B．Abnormal sensitivity to stimulation. |
| C．Terrible wound in the muscle. | D．Absorption of vaccine components. |
