1 . Acupuncture (针灸) is a traditional Chinese medical practice of treating various physical and mental conditions. It won respect and interest in the United States after New York Times reporter James Reston visited China with President Nixon and needed an operation.
Chinese doctors used acupuncture on James after surgery (外科手术) to reduce his pain, and his recovery was quick. Curious about this, James was allowed to watch surgery on patients who received acupuncture for anesthesia (麻醉). Patients talked with their doctors during the operation and then walked back to their rooms on their own.
Acupuncture left James such a deep impression that he wrote a front-page article in New York Times about his operation upon returning to the United States. “A leading medical expert sent by Premier Zhou Enlai removed my appendix (阑尾). I was awake in the whole process.”
The National Institutes of Health began to organize some of their top doctors to visit China to investigate acupuncture and its possible functions in western medicine. With years going by, acupuncture has become popular across the world with magical effect.
1. What did James Reston do?A.A reporter. | B.A doctor. | C.A translator. | D.A scientist. |
A.It is a traditional Chinese medical practice. |
B.It treats physical and mental conditions. |
C.It is a kind of surgery to reduce pain. |
D.It is popular for its magical effect. |
A.Receive. | B.Study. | C.Create. | D.Develop. |
A.The Features of Acupuncture | B.The Development of Acupuncture |
C.The History of Acupuncture | D.The Spreading of Acupuncture |
A.Once a year. | B.Twice a year. | C.Three times a year. |
3 . It might seem like something from a science fiction movie, but scientists today are working on ways to combine certain kinds of bacteria with tiny robots. Scientists want to use these creations to improve the way we give medical treatment. They claim that drug therapy (疗法), disease diagnosis, and even surgery could be greatly aided by the use of nanobiotechnology. Nano-means “tiny”, and bio-means “life”. This tiny technology will use living organisms in combination with electronics.
Electronics makers already use tiny robots to build complex but very tiny circuits. Medical scientists want to use these robots to repair patients’ damaged organs or to direct medicines to affect specific cells. For example, tiny robots could be engineered to deliver chemotherapy (化疗) directly to cancer instead of to the entire body.
Existing electronics are the right size, but they lack practical use. Robots that can be built small enough to enter a person’s cells would be too tiny to move on their own. Therefore, scientists want to use tiny organisms such as bacteria to act as vehicles for the robots. The bacteria will be “driven” through the bloodstream by magnetic pulses (磁脉冲). Once the bacteria are in the correct locations, the robots will be able to do their jobs. In theory, these robots will cause less damage to the body than traditional methods of delivering medicines or performing surgeries.
Nanobiotechnology has yet to be put into practice, but many people already have concerns about its use. Some people worry about the ethic (道德标准) involved with controlling live organisms—and the possible side effects for their human hosts.
1. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?A.The application of tiny robots. | B.The influence of tiny robots. |
C.The operation of tiny robots. | D.The origin of tiny robots. |
A.Cheaper medicine. | B.Less harm to the body. |
C.Longer life expectancy. | D.Faster performance of surgeries. |
A.can locate he bacteria. | B.are driven by medicine. |
C.can act as vehicles. | D.are carried by bacteria. |
A.A computer textbok | B.A life magazine |
C.A science magazine | D.A biology textbook |
4 . If doctors want to test you for something, they’ll usually take a blood or urine sample. But wouldn’t it be much more convenient if they just asked you to breathe through a special instrument?
In fact, your breath can say a lot about you. In traditional Chinese medicine, doctors draw a conclusion about the health state of a patient based on the smell of his or her breath; trained dogs and rats can identify the smells of the breaths of people suffering from certain cancers; traffic police also monitor drivers’ alcohol consumption by testing their breaths.
Just like blood and urine, your breath contains lots of “metabolites” —the waste chemicals that the body produces, which vary from person to person. They are like personal health fingerprints, which is why scientists sometimes call them “breathprints”, according to Science Daily.
Compared to blood or urine testing, breath testing takes only seconds instead of hours, and it requires neither a needle nor a container to hold the body fluids(液). This means the test can be taken frequently to better detect early signs of diseases and monitor the progress of a medical treatment.
On the other hand, as an identifier, you might think that breaths are not as reliable as fingerprints since they might change based on what you eat. However, researchers in Zurich, Switzerland mapped 11 healthy volunteers’ chemical patterns by having them breathe through a special instrument, and they found that each pattern was unique and the patterns didn’t change much throughout the day, reported BBC.
“Our goal is to develop breath analysis to the point where it becomes competitive with the established analysis of blood and urine,” said Malcolm Kohler, professor at the University Hospital Zurich.
1. According to the text we know that______.A.breath varies from person to person based on food |
B.your breath may give you away if you are not careful |
C.doctors can test one’s breath to find about his illness |
D.trained dogs can identify people with certain cancers |
A.comfortable and convincing | B.traditional and reliable |
C.accurate and competitive | D.quick and convenient |
A.Doubtful. | B.Approving. |
C.Unconcerned. | D.Worried. |
A.Breath testing is reliable and may have a bright future. |
B.Blood or urine testing will be less used in medical treatment. |
C.Doctors have found the best way to detect early signs of diseases. |
D.Traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular. |