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1、考研英语阅读理解模拟题及答案：医学类(26套)Valeta Young， 81， a retiree from Lodi， Calif.， suffers from congestive heart failure and requires almost constant monitoring. But she doesnt have to drive anywhere to get it. Twice a day she steps onto a special electronic scale， answers a few yes or no questions via push butt
2、ons on a small attached monitor and presses a button that sends the information to a nurses station in San Antonio， Texas. “Its almost a direct link to my doctor，” says Young， who describes herself as computer illiterate but says she has no problems using the equipment.Young is not the only patient
3、who is dealing with her doctor from a distance. Remote monitoring is a rapidly growing field in medical technology， with more than 25 firms competing to measure remotelyand transmit by phone， Internet or through the airwaveseverything from patients heart rates to how often they cough.Prompted both b
4、y the rise in health-care costs and the increasing computerization of health-care equipment， doctors are using remote monitoring to track a widening variety of chronic diseases. In March， St. Francis University in Pittsburgh， Pa.， partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural d
5、iabetes patients use wireless glucose meters and armband sensors to monitor their disease. And last fall， Yahoo began offering subscribers the ability to chart their asthma conditions online， using a PDA-size respiratory monitor that measures lung functions in real time and e-mails the data directly
6、 to doctors.Such home monitoring， says Dr. George Dailey， a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego， “could someday replace less productive ways that patients track changes in their heart rate， blood sugar， lipid levels， kidney functions and even vision.”Dr. Timothy Moore， executive vice presid
7、ent of Alere Medical， which produces the smart scales that Young and more than 10，000 other patients are using， says that almost any vital sign could， in theory， be monitored from home. But， he warns， that might not always make good medical sense. He advises against performing electrocardiograms rem
8、otely， for example， and although he acknowledges that remote monitoring of blood-sugar levels and diabetic ulcers on the skin may have real value， he points out that there are no truly independent studies that establish the value of home testing for diabetes or asthma.Such studies are needed because
9、 the technology is still in its infancy and medical experts are divided about its value. But on one thing they all agree： you should never rely on any remote testing system without clearing it with your doctor.注(1)：本文选自Time;8/9/2004， p101-101， 1/2p， 2c;注(2)：本文习题命题模仿对象2004年真题text 1;1. How does Young
10、monitor her health conditions?A By stepping on an electronic scale.B By answering a few yes or no questions.C By using remote monitoring service.D By establishing a direct link to her doctor.2. Which of the following is not used in remote monitoring?A carB telephoneC InternetD the airwaves3. The wor
11、d “prompted” (Line 1， Paragraph 3) most probably means _.A madeB remindedC arousedD driven4. Why is Dr. Timothy Moore against performing electrocardiograms remotely?A Because it is a less productive way of monitoring.B Because it doesnt make good medical sense.C Because its value has not been proved
12、 by scientific studyD Because it is not allowed by doctors5. Which of the following is true according to the text?A Computer illiterate is advised not to use remote monitoring.B The development of remote monitoring market is rather sluggish.C Remote monitoring is mainly used to track chronic disease
13、s.D Medical experts agree on the value of remote monitoring.答案：CADBCDr. Wise Young has never met the hundreds of thousands of people he has helped in the past 10 years， and most of them have never heard of Wise Young. If they did meet him， however， theyd want to shake his handand the remarkable thin
14、g about that would be the simple fact that so many of them could. All the people Young has helped were victims of spinal injuries， and they owe much of the mobility they have today to his landmark work.Young， 51， head of the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University in Ne
15、w Brunswick， N.J.， was born on New Years Day at the precise midpoint of the 20th century. Back then， the thinking about spinal-cord injury was straightforward： When a cord is damaged， its damaged. Theres nothing that can be done after an injury to restore the function that was so suddenly lost. As a medical student at Stanford University and a neurosurgeon at New York University Medical Center， Young never had much reason to question that received wisdom， but in 1980 he began to have his doubts. Spinal cords， he knew， experience progressive damage after theyre injured， including swel
