Passage Two Want a glimpse 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 based on standardized symptoms are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis (telemedicine) will be based on real physiological data from the actual patient. A group from the University of Kentucky has shown that by using an off-the-shelf (现成的) 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 first-aid kit, the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house 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 use telemedicine as a tool for disaster response -- especially after earthquakes. Overall, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and expertise. But there is one problem. 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 second-generation Internet and third-generation mobile phones for the future of distributed medical intelligence. Doctors have met to discuss computer-based tools for medical diagnosis, training and telemedicine. With the falling price of broadband communications, the new technologies should usher in (迎来) an era when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, expert opinion and diagnosis are common. What does the last sentence in Paragraph 2 mean
A. It means patients often cried and asked if there was a doctor in the house.
B. It means now people will receive help even though there is no doctors on the spot.
C. It means patients are now still asking if there is a doctor in the house.
D. It means in the past people can often find a doctor near their house.
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Experts say children can begin learning a second language in preschool, and should begin before the age of ten to take advantage of young children’s natural ability to acquire language. This advantage is lost by the time most children encounter (遇到) a foreign language in the classroom, in middle school or high school.Dr. Noble Goss, an assistant professor of Spanish and German at Harding University in Arkansas, says, "As a father of bilingual (双语的) children (My wife is Mexican), I know that not only it is easy for children to learn one or more languages, but they have an amazing way of separating them out more successfully than you would think. "If a child hears two languages early, he accepts both equally. But if given a chance to speak both, can they be fluent in bothNot everyone agrees that early childhood is the only time to start a language, however. Reeves, the chairman and founder of the Center for Performance Assessment in Denver, Colorado, points to the Defense Language Institute’s success at training adult students to speak other language fluently."The frequently quoted argument that post-adolescence (青春期后) is too late to acquire foreign language skills is still a mystery," says Reeves.Still, if children are going to devote the six years or so of study it takes to master a second language, starting early just makes sense. The best title of the passage is().
A. The Earlier, the Better
B. Early Bird Can Get the Worm
C. Starting a Second Language Learning Early
D. Children Has a Natural Bilingual Ability
分配政策在一定程度上相当于企业再筹资政策。 ( )
A. 对
B. 错
Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
A. High school students are using electronic forms to apply for colleges.
B. High school students are sending more applications compared with the past.
C. The number of high school students’entering college is increasing.
D. High school students have to wait for the admission from top schools.
Since the 1960s, the British have become more adventurous in their diet and now eat a wide (67) of food from around the world. Many (68) foods such as beef and potatoes have given (69) to seafood and pasta dishes. Fast food has also become more (70) , and hamburger restaurants now (71) the traditional fish-and-chip shops (72) popularity. Numerous Chinese and Indian restaurants and pizza houses provide take-away (73) , and many pubs (public houses) serve (74) from snacks to full meals as well as alcoholic beverages. Traditional English dishes include roast beef and steak-and-kidney pie. The English generally eat three (75) a day. The traditional English breakfast consists (76) any or all of the following: bacon, sausages, grilled (77) fried tomatoes, mushrooms, eggs, or toast. (78) , fewer people now eat a cooked breakfast on a regular basis, (79) various combinations of cereal, toast, juice or fruit, and tea or coffee. The midday meal is usually (80) to as lunch and the evening meal as dinner or, when it is less formal, (81) supper. Northerners often (82) the midday meal dinner and the meal they have in the early evening "tea" The tradition of (83) tea, that is taking tea, biscuits, and cakes at about 4P. M., is (84) Similarly, many people (85) longer have more than a (86) lunch or snack in the middle of the day.
A. make
B. call
C. have
D. take