考博英语-203
(总分100,考试时间90分钟)
Reading Comprehension
Passage 1
Americans usually consider themlves a friendly people. Their friendships, however, tend to be shorter and more casual than friendships among people from other cultures. It is not uncommon for Americans to have only one clo friend during their lifetime, and consider other "friends" to be just social acquaintances. This attitude probably has something to do with American mobility and the fact that Americans do not like to be dependent on other people. They tend to "compartmentalize (划分) friendships, having "friends at work", "friends on the softball team", "family friends", etc.
Becau the United States is a highly active society, full of movement and change, people always em to be on the go. In this highly changed atmosphere, Americans can sometime
s em brusque (无礼的) or impatient. They want to get to know you as quickly as possible and then move on to something el. Sometimes, early on, they will ask you questions that you may feel very personal. No insult is intended; the questions usually grow out of their genuine interest or curiosity, and their impatience to get to the heart of the matter. And the same goes for you. If you do not understand certain American behavior or you want to know more about them, do not hesitate to ask them questions about themlves. Americans are usually eager to explain all about their country or anything "American" in which you may be interested. So much so in fact that you may become tired of listening. It doesn"t matter becau Americans tend to be uncomfortable with silence during a conversation. They would rather talk about the weather or the latest sports scores, for example, than deal with silence.
On the other hand, don"t expect Americans to be knowledgeable about international geography or world affairs, unless tho subjects directly involve the United States. Becau the United States is not surrounded by many other nations, some Americans tend to ignore the rest of the world.
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1. The general topic of the passage is ______.
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研究目标怎么写A. American culture
B. American society
C. Americans" activities
D. Americans" personality
2. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. Americans do not like to depend on other people
B. Friendships among Americans tend to be casual
C. Americans know a lot about international affairs
钢琴名曲欣赏D. Americans always em to be on the go
3. The phra "highly changed" (Paragraph 2) most probably means ______.
A. extremely free
B. highly responsible
C. very cheerful闭幕
D. full of mobility and change
4. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. Americans want to participate in all kinds of activities
B. Americans" character is affected by their social and geographical environment
C. Americans do not know how to deal with silence
D. curiosity is characteristic of Americans
5. According to the passage, Americans tend to ignore the rest of the world becau ______.
A. they are not interested in other countries
B. they are too proud of themlves
鞋子牌子C. their country does not have many neighboring nations
D. they are too busy to learn about other countries
Passage 2
Want a glimp of the future of health care? Take a look at the way the various networks of people involved in patient care are being connected to one another, and how this new connectivity is being exploited to deliver medicine to the patient—no matter where he or she may be.
Online doctors offering advice bad on standardized symptoms are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis (telemedicine) will be bad on real physiological data from the actual patient. A group from the University of Kentucky has sh王维送别诗
own that by using an off-the-shelf PDA (personal data assistance) such as a Palm Pilot plus a mobile phone, it is perfectly feasible to transmit a patient"s vital signs over the telephone. With this kind of equipment in a firs aid kit (急救包), the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the hou could well be a thing of the past.
Other medical technology groups are working on applying telemedicine to rural care. And at least one team wants to u telemedicine as a tool for disaster respon-especially after earthquakes. Overall, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and experti.
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But there is one problem. Bandwidth is the limiting factor for **plex medical images around the world—CT scans being one of the biggest bandwidth consumers. Communications satellites may be able to cope with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes, wars or famines. But medicine is looking towards both the cond-generation Internet and third-generation mobile phones for the future of distributed medical intelligence.
Doctors have met to **puter-bad tools for medical diagnosis, training and telemedicine. With the falling price of **munications, the new technologies should usher in (迎来) an era when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, expert opinion. and diagnosis **mon.
1. The basis of remote diagnosis will be ______.
A. standardized symptoms of a patient
B. personal data assistance
