1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Many hospitals employ therapy (治疗) dogs to comfort patients, but at Calais Hospital in

Northern France, a different sort of therapy animal wanders in the halls. Peyo is a 15-year-old horse who used to compete professionally     1     his trainer Hassen Bouchakour. Now, he’s comforting patients and family members alike.

“Doctor Peyo”, as he is known to the hospital staff, seems to have a special gift for detecting     2     sick or injured. Bouchalour says that even at competitions, Peyo seemed to seek out contact specifically with those     3     (struggle) physically or mentally. After a few years of research, vets believe Peyo’s brain     4     (function) in a unique way.

In the hospital, Peyo goes from door to door in the care center.     5     is no doubt that Peyo has been fairly effective in reducing the     6     (anxious) of patients as well as their family members. According to doctors, they knew how     7     (benefit) Peyo’s presence was when they noticed that patients     8     were regularly interacting with him required fewer intense drugs. Peyo has stayed with many patients right until the end of their lives.

Animals have an amazing power     9     (comfort) us even during our     10     (hard) times. Perhaps this uplifting story of animal companionship will encourage more medical institutions to look into the healing benefits of animals.

2 . Taking a picture of your tongue with a mobile phone could soon tell you how healthy you are. Researchers believe the images can reveal important information about a patient’s health and even give them early warning of serious illness.

A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle, which is based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body, and uses the tongue as a key to learning about a person’s physical health, or “zheng” according to Chinese medicine.

“Within a year, our goal is to create an application for smart phones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the state of their zheng,” said Dong Xu, chair of MU’s Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering and the co-author of the latest study.

The software analyzes images based on the tongue’s color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of “hot” or “cold” zheng. Shades of red and yellow are connected with hot zheng, while a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng.

“Hot and cold zheng doesn’t refer directly to body temperature,” said Xu, “Rather, it refers to a series of symptoms connected with the state of the body as a whole.”

For the study, 263 gastritis patients and 48 healthy volunteers had their tongues analyzed. The gastritis patients were classified by whether they showed infection by a certain bacteria as well as the intensity of their gastritis symptoms. In addition, most of the gastritis patients had been previously classified with either hot or cold zheng. This allowed the researchers to test the accuracy of the software’s analysis.

“Our software is able to classify people based on their zheng state. And as we continue to work on the software, we hope to improve its ability,” said another co-author Ye Duan, “Eventually everyone will be able to use this tool at home using smart phone applications, which will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.”

1. The software mentioned in the passage is based on ________.

A．the latest development of smart phones	B．a traditional Chinese medical principle
C．the changes in one’s flow and energy	D．symptoms connected with the state of the body

2. According to Chinese medicine, zheng refers to ________.

A．one’s body temperature	B．the physical health of a person
C．the possible disease of a person	D．the color and coating of one’s tongue

3. The underlined word “ailments” can be replaced by _________.

A．analysis

B．effects

C．illnesses

D．applications

4. It can be inferred from the passage that _________.

A．the software still needs improvement	B．the subjects in the study are all gastritis
C．the software has been in market for a year	D．the subjects in the study are classified by age