1 . Have you ever had cataracts (白内障) removed? Then you may see a bit more clearly due to the achievements made by Dr. Patricia Bath. She was born on November 4, 1942 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Different from girls of her time, she was fond of science as a young girl and greatly contributed to a cancer study while in high school. After earning a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York City in 1964, Bath attended Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C. and got a medical degree there in 1968.
After graduating from Howard University, Bath worked at Harlem Hospital; later she noticed that in her neighborhood, people leading a hard life suffered from blindness that could have been prevented. From then on, Bath determined to create a new field called “community ophthalmology (眼科学)”. It aims to offer eye care to patients who have a hard time gaining regular eye care. Volunteers are trained to examine patients in senior centers or day care programs to test for serious eye conditions and to do vision (视力) testing. Community ophthalmology led to Bath and two others founding the non-profit American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in 1976. The purpose of the organization is to protect, preserve and restore the sight of patients all over the world.
Bath’s work with patients with cataracts inspired her to develop a new surgical technique. Cataracts are cloudy things on the eyes that, if not removed, will lead to blindness. Bath wanted to use lasers (激光) to remove them, but the technology did not exist at that time. She spent almost five years researching and developing the technique and equipment. Because of that, Bath earned a medical patent in 1988. Her technique of using lasers to remove cataracts has improved and restored the vision of millions of patients around the world.
1. What do we know about Bath from the first paragraph?| A．She showed interest in science. | B．She treated a lot of cancer patients |
| C．She received no formal education. | D．She failed to get along with others. |
| A．To train volunteers to do vision testing. |
| B．To raise people’s awareness of eye care. |
| C．To help patients lacking access to regular eye care. |
| D．To protect and restore the sight of patients worldwide. |
| A．Because she established community ophthalmology. |
| B．Because she suggested new ideas of protecting eyes. |
| C．Because she applied lasers to the removal of cataracts. |
| D．Because she helped all the blind people see clearly. |
| A．Bath’s dream of becoming a scientist. |
| B．A new method to cure all the blindness. |
| C．The start of community ophthalmology. |
| D．Bath’s achievements as an eye doctor. |
Traditional Chinese medicine originated in ancient and developed for
TCM is an important part of Chinese culture. It has made great
For Malian people in West Africa,Chinese doctors are their trusted and
A ceremony was to mark the opening of a Luban Workshop in Bamako, the capital and
The 400-square-meter Luban Workshop at the University of Arts and Humanities of Bamako offers practical courses about traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). In the TCM sample display area, Sade, a student at the university, finds artemisinin (青蒿素) among over two hundred
In the future, Chinese medicine technology is expected to be incorporated(包含)into the teaching system of Malian institutions of higher
4 . Sunstroke is a condition that can quickly go from dangerous to deadly, especially if proper care isn’t given immediately.
Sunstroke, sometimes called heatstroke, is a result of the body temperature rising above the safe limit. This causes the body’s necessary functions to stop working.
It’s usually pretty easy to avoid sunstroke, as long as proper action is taken. In that case, you need to act as quickly as possible to return that person’s body to a safe temperature. Here are a few tips to help treat sunstroke.
Call for help
Call to get an ambulance as quickly as possible. This should be the first thing you do, especially if the sunstroke person has fainted (昏倒)。Also, call for help from anyone nearby if you’re in a public place. If there’s no one around, call someone nearby if they can get there sooner than an ambulance. Ask everyone to bring you as much water as possible, if there isn’t much nearby.
Get the person to a cooler area
If there’s a building nearby, aim for that. Anywhere with plenty of air conditioners and water is perfect. If a building isn’t available, bring the person to a well-shaded area.
Get the water flowing
If the person is still conscious, get him or her to drink water. If there’s a bathtub available, fill it with cool water and put the person in it.
If your water supply is limited, you have to save it. Dampen a towel or shirt and put it on the person’s body. Focus on the face, neck, and chest.
Fan the person
Getting moving air over the person cools him or her down. Use anything, a towel or sheet, a shirt, your hands, or a piece of board. This is where having many people around really helps, as they can combine to fan the entire body.
1. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?| A．Call for assistance from others. |
| B．Leave the sunstroke person in the shade. |
| C．Put a wet towel on the person’s face. |
| D．Help the person take some medicine. |
| A．When the body doesn’t function. |
| B．When proper care is given immediately. |
| C．When someone is exposed to the sun too long. |
| D．When the body temperature goes up beyond what one can bear. |
| A．guidebook | B．book review |
| C．medical magazine | D．official document |
5 . If a person forgets names, places or facts — and has trouble with everyday things like reading or shopping — it may not mean you are getting old. It could be Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默病) disease. So it’s important to see a doctor as soon as you can.
There is no cure for Alzheimer’s. But a medicine called ARICEPT (安理申) has been used by millions of people to help their symptoms (症状).
In studies, ARICEPT has been proved to work for Alzheimer’s. It has helped people improve their memory over time. It has also helped them to keep doing everyday things on their own.
Ask your doctor if ARICEPT is right for you or your loved one. It is the Number One medicine for Alzheimer’s in the world. The sooner you know it’s Alzheimer’s, the better ARICEPT can help.
ARICEPT is good for many but may not be good for everyone. Some people may experience not sleeping well, feeling very tired, or not wanting to eat. In studies, these side effects weren’t serious at all and went away over time. Some people taking ARICEPT may feel light-headed. In this case you should tell your doctors because your condition may get worse.
1. If one suffers from Alzheimer’s, ________.| A．he can’t move about | B．he has trouble with his memory |
| C．he gets old more quickly | D．he can’t do everyday things on his own |
| A．A medicine to cure Alzheimer’s. |
| B．A medicine to cure brain damage. |
| C．A medicine to reduce the signs of getting old. |
| D．A medicine to ease the symptoms of Alzheimer’s. |
| A．If he can’t fall asleep. | B．If he feels like a drunken man. |
| C．If he has no desire to eat. | D．If he feels tired out. |
6 . Sam is a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School, but poetry is still a big part of his life, now with a new teacher, Rafael Campo, who believes poetry can benefit every doctor’s education and work. Rafael is a physician, professor and a highly respected poet.
“Poetry is in every encounter (相遇) with my patients. I think healing is really in a very great way about poetry. And if we do anything when we’re with our patients, we’re really absorbing ourselves in their stories, really hearing their voices. And, certainly, that’s what a poem does,” he said.
Rafael worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education today: humanity, which he finds in poetry. To end that, he leads a weekly reading and writing workshop for medical students and residents.
He thinks medical training focuses too much on distancing the doctor from his or her patients, and poems can help close that gap.
Third-year resident Andrea Schwartz was one of the workshop regulars. She said, “I think there’s no other profession other than medicine that produces as many poets as it does. And I think that is because there’s just so much power in doctors and patients interacting when patients are at their saddest.” Not everyone believes that’s what doctors should do, though.
Rafael said, “I was afraid of how people might judge me, actually. In the medical profession, as many people know, we must always put the emergency first. But, you know, that kind of treatment, if it’s happening in the hospital, very regrettably, sadly, results in a bad outcome. The family is sitting by the bedside. The patient hasn’t survived the cancer. Don’t we still have a role as healers there?”
In a poem titled “Health”, Rafael writes of the wish to live forever in a world made painless by our incurable joy. He says he will continue teaching students, helping patients and writing poems, his own brand of medicine.
1. What do Rafael’s words in the second Paragraph show?| A．Medical training is significant. | B．Poetry has no effects on medical treatment. |
| C．Poetry is similar to medical work in a sense. | D．Patients are closely linked to doctors. |
| A．It relieves patients’ family members. | B．It contributes to medical work a lot. |
| C．It has nothing to do with patients. | D．It prevents doctors understanding patients. |
| A．Assist the students in medical schools. | B．Teach those patients in the hospital. |
| C．Write poems for his medical students. | D．Stick to his unique way in the medical field. |
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8 . Health chiefs are to use artificial intelligence to screen and treat people at risk of hepatitis C (丙型肝炎) under plans to wipe out the life-threatening disease by 2030.
The National Health Service (NHS) scheme, due to start within weeks in England, aims to identify thousands of patients unaware that they have the virus so that treatment can be given before it is too late. Staff will use AI to comb through patient health records and look for significant risk factors, such as historical blood transfusions (输血) or an HIV diagnosis. Hepatitis C often has no noticeable symptoms until the liver is severely damaged, which means the infected party may not know they are living with a potential killer. It can be cured with modern treatments.
Anyone identified by the AI software will be invited for a consultation by their doctors and, if necessary, will experience further screening for hepatitis C. Patients who test positive for the virus — which can be caught from contact with the blood of an infected person, such as by sharing a needle — will be offered antiviral medicines after NHS England struck a deal with three drug companies. Professor Graham Foster, the national clinical chairman for NHS England’s hepatitis C elimination (消灭) programmes, described the scheme as “a significant step forward” in the fight to eliminate the virus.
Hepatitis C deaths fell by 35 percent in the five years to 2020, from 482 to 314, according to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency. The fall in deaths was thanks to earlier detection of the virus and improved access to treatments, health experts said.
NHS staff will also visit at-risk communities in specially equipped vans (货车), to test for the virus and carry out liver health checks, in a bid to wipe out the virus in England before the 2030 goal set by the World Health Organization.
1. What is the purpose of the NHS scheme?| A．To make the most of artificial intelligence. |
| B．To record the blood transfusions in the history. |
| C．To diagnose the patients with serious unnoticeable symptoms. |
| D．To pick out the potential patients to provide timely treatments. |
| A．NHS scheme can be helpful in removing the hepatitis C virus. |
| B．Hepatitis C can be spread through contact with blood of patients. |
| C．All the patients have to be re-examined again for the hepatitis C. |
| D．Related consulting service will be arranged by the doctor for free. |
| A．Because the related figure was updated on time. |
| B．Because the liver healthy check-ups were scheduled. |
| C．Because the virus was discovered earlier and better treatments were available. |
| D．Because the virus was tested in advance and communities were well-equipped. |
| A．Hepatitis C is a life-threatening disease. |
| B．Hepatitis C deaths in the UK have declined. |
| C．NHS scheme helps to kill the hepatitis C virus. |
| D．AI is a new weapon against deadly hepatitis C. |
9 . The National Health Service (NHS) in England is to pay for 10 people, to whom a “bionic eye” will be implanted (植入). It is a pioneering technology that can help those who have been blind for years to gain some sight.
Only a small number of people have received surgery in trials so far to equip them to use Argus Ⅱ, which uses a camera fixed in a pair of glasses and a tiny computer to send signals directly to the nerves (神经) controlling sight. Those who will get the equipment can currently see nothing more than the difference between daylight and darkness. The system allows the brain to decode (解读) flashes of light, so that they can learn to see movement.
One of three patients who have had the implant into the retina (视网膜) in trails at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital is Keith Hayman, 68, from Lancashire, who has five grandchildren. He was blind in his 20s. The disease causes cells in the retina gradually to stop working and die. Hayman was forced to give up his work. “Having spent half my life in darkness, I can now tell when my grandchildren run towards me and make out lights,” he said. “I would be talking to a friend, who might have walked off and I couldn’t tell and kept talking to myself. This doesn’t happen anymore, because I can tell when they have gone. They may seem like little things, but they make all the difference to me.”
After the surgery, 10 patients will be carefully followed, to gather data on their progress and assess how much the bionic eye improves their daily lives. If the results are good, more patients will be likely to receive the treatment in the future. The “bionic eye” treatment, including surgery, follow-up, equipment and recovery, costs £150,000.
1. What is Argus Ⅱ mainly made up of?| A．A camera, a pair of glasses and a bionic eye. |
| B．The nerves, a pair of glasses and some signals. |
| C．A camera, a pair of glasses and a tiny computer. |
| D．A new retina, a flash light and a tiny computer. |
| A．Hayman has become a normal person. |
| B．The retina is necessary for one to see well. |
| C．Blind people are eager to have a bionic eye. |
| D．The technology is of great importance to blind people. |
| A．They will be in very poor health after the surgery. |
| B．They won’t be used to the bionic eye for some time. |
| C．The exact result of the treatment needs to be known. |
| D．The bionic eye will be improved according to the data. |
| A．A Failure in Treating the Blind People |
| B．10 Blind Patients Will Be Fitted with a Bionic Eye |
| C．Blind People’s Daily Lives Improved with a Bionic Eye |
| D．The NHS in England Cares Much about the Blind People |
10 . As a student at a medical school, Sam thinks poetry is a big part of his life, thanks to his new teacher, Rafael Campo, who believes poetry can benefit every doctor’s education and work. Rafael is a physician, professor and a highly respected poet.
“Poetry is in every encounter with my patients. If we do anything when we’ re with our patients, we’re really immersed in their stories, really hearing their voices. And, certainly, that’s what a poem does, ” he said.
Rafael worries that something important has been lost in medicine and medical education today: humanity, which he finds in poetry. To end that, he leads a weekly reading and writing workshop for medical students and residents. He thinks medical training focuses too much on distancing the doctor from his or her patients, and poems can help close that gap.
Third-year resident Andrea Schwartz was one of the workshop regulars. She said, “I think there’s no other profession other than medicine that produces as many writers as it does. And I think that is because there’s just so much power in doctors and patients interacting when patients are at their saddest moments. ” Not everyone believes that’s what doctors should do, though.
Rafael said, “I was afraid of how people might judge me, actually. In the medical profession, as many people know, we must always put the emergency first. But, you know, that kind of treatment, if it’s happening in the hospital, very regrettably, sadly, results in a bad outcome. The family is sitting by the bedside. The patient hasn’t survived the cancer. Don’t wve still have a role as healers there?”
In a poem titled “Health”, Rafael writes of the wish to live forever in a world made painless by our incurable joy. He says he will continue teaching students, helping patients and writing poems, his own brand of medicine.
1. What does the underlined word “immersed” in paragraph 2 mean?| A．Committed. | B．Forced. | C．Persuaded. | D．Absorbed. |
| A．It has nothing to do with doctors. |
| B．It is mostly produced by doctors. |
| C．It contributes to medical work. |
| D．It keeps doctors away from patients. |
| A．Capable and responsible. |
| B．Gifted but overconfident. |
| C．Honest and modest. |
| D．Cold but respected. |
