Question

　　The technology is great. Without it we wouldn’t have been able to put a man on the moon, explore the ocean’s depths or eat microwave sausages. Computers have revolutionized our lives and they have the power to educate and pass on knowledge. But sometimes this power can create more problems than it solves.

　　Every doctor has had to try their best to calm down patients who’ve come into their surgery waving an Internet print-out, convinced that they have some rare incurable disease, say, throat cancer. The truth is usually far more ordinary, though: they don’t have throat cancer, and it’s just that their throats are swollen. Being a graduate of the Internet “school” of medicine does not guarantee accurate self-health-checks.

　　One day Mrs. Almond came to my hospital after feeling faint at work. While I took her blood sample and tried to find out what was wrong, she said calmly, “I know what’s wrong; I’ve got throat cancer. I know there’s nothing you doctors can do about it and I’ve just got to wait until the day comes.”

　　As a matter of routine I ordered a chest X-ray. I looked at it and the blood results an hour later. Something wasn’t right. “Did your local doctor do an X-ray?” I asked. “Oh, I haven’t been to the doctor for years,” she replied. “I read about it on a website and the symptoms fitted, so I knew that’s what I had.”

　　However, some of her symptoms, like the severe cough and weight loss, didn’t fit with it—but she’d just ignored this.

　　I looked at the X-ray again, and more tests confirmed it wasn’t the cancer but tuberculosis (肺結(jié)核)—something that most certainly did need treating, and could be deadly. She was lucky we caught it when we did.

　　Mrs. Almond went pale when I explained she would have to be on treatment for the next six months to ensure that she was fully recovered. It was certainly a lesson for her. “I’m so embarrassed,” she said, shaking her head, as I explained that all the people she had come into close contact with would have to be found out and tested.  She listed up to about 20, and then I went to my office to type up my notes. Unexpectedly, the computer was not working, so I had to wait until someone from the IT department came to fix it. Typical. Maybe I should have a microwave sausage while I waited?

　　63. Mrs. Almond talked about her illness calmly because ______.

　　A. she thought she knew it well

　　B. she had purchased medicine online

　　C. she graduated from a medical school

　　D. she had been treated by local doctors

　　64. It was lucky for Mrs. Almond ______.

　　A. to have contacted many friends

　　B. to have recovered in a short time

　　C. to have her assumption confirmed

　　D. to have her disease identified in time

　　65. Mrs. Almond said “I’m so embarrassed” (Para. 7) because ______.

　　A. she had distrusted her close friends

　　B. she had caused unnecessary trouble

　　C. she had to refuse the doctor’s advice

　　D. she had to tell the truth to the doctor

　　66. By mentioning the breakdown of the computer, the author probably wants to prove ______.

　　A. it’s a must to take a break at work

　　B. it’s vital to believe in IT professionals

　　C. it’s unwise to simply rely on technology

　　D. it’s a danger to work long hours on computers

　　

Answer 1

【語篇解讀】本文是一篇記敘文，題材是科普文章。文章開篇介紹了科技可以改變生活，也能制造出更多的麻煩，闡述了一些病人通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)高科技診斷自己得了不治之癥，醫(yī)生須盡力想方設(shè)法解釋的事情；文章接著講述一個(gè)病人自認(rèn)為得了喉癌，而“我”通過努力讓其相信病癥是肺結(jié)核而不是喉癌的事實(shí)，說明網(wǎng)絡(luò)科技給病人和我?guī)�來的麻煩；�?dāng)我拿著病人提供的需要仔細(xì)檢查的名單想輸入電腦時(shí)，高科技電腦又不能用了….

段落	關(guān)鍵詞、句	大意推測
第一部分（Para. 1）	technology; great; create more problems	科技是偉大的，但有時(shí)也帶來麻煩。
第二部分（Para. 2）	calm down patients; Internet print-out; incurable disease; guanrantee accurate self-health-checks	網(wǎng)絡(luò)科技給病人帶來的自我診斷是不準(zhǔn)確的。
第三部分（Para. 3-7）	throat cancer; website; symptoms; tuberculosis; recover; computer;  working	病人Mrs. Almond 依靠網(wǎng)絡(luò)自我診斷為喉癌，醫(yī)生確診病人是肺結(jié)核；醫(yī)生想輸入更多需要檢查的名單時(shí)，電腦不工作了

【解析】

63. A。推理判斷題。難度：較易。第三段“I know what’s wrong; I’ve got throat cancer. I know there’s nothing you doctors can do about it and I’ve just got to wait until the day comes.”可知病人自己認(rèn)為自己已經(jīng)得了throat cancer；第四段“I read about it on a website and the symptoms fitted, so I knew that’s what I had.”意即“我在網(wǎng)上查了，癥狀相符，因此我知道我得了（喉癌）”可知，病人自認(rèn)為對(duì)自己的病“成竹在胸”，所以選A。B、C選項(xiàng)文中未提及；D選項(xiàng)和文中“Oh, I haven’t been to the doctor for years,”不相符，排除D。

64. D。推理判斷題。難度：較易�！昂苄疫\(yùn)的是Mrs. Almond…”D選項(xiàng)是“她的病得到了及時(shí)確定對(duì)她來說是幸運(yùn)的”。作者否定了Mrs. Almond自己根據(jù)網(wǎng)上推斷自己得了喉癌，及時(shí)指出她得了肺結(jié)核，六個(gè)月可以康復(fù)，因此選擇D選項(xiàng)。A選項(xiàng)是“能接觸到很多朋友是很幸運(yùn)的”，文中有朋友是客觀事實(shí)，并未特別說明是幸運(yùn)的事；B選項(xiàng)說“很短時(shí)間會(huì)恢復(fù)健康”，而文中說需要6個(gè)月，不算很短的時(shí)間；C選項(xiàng)“假設(shè)被證實(shí)了假設(shè)”，假設(shè)是“她自認(rèn)為得了喉癌”，其實(shí)是肺結(jié)核；假設(shè)本身不對(duì)，證實(shí)是肺結(jié)核。

65. B。推理判斷題。難度：中等。Mrs. Almond感到窘迫、不好意思，是因?yàn)樗�了解了自己得的是肺結(jié)核，而不是喉癌，而她的堅(jiān)持說自己得了喉癌的確給醫(yī)生帶來了不必要的麻煩，因此選擇B選項(xiàng)。A選項(xiàng)說她打擾了她的朋友，文中未提及；C選項(xiàng)說她拒絕了醫(yī)生的建議，其實(shí)她聽從了醫(yī)生的建議；D選項(xiàng)“她不得不告訴醫(yī)生實(shí)話”，其實(shí)她說了實(shí)話，這并不是她窘迫的原因。

66. C。推理判斷題。難度：中等。作者從一開始就說科技有時(shí)會(huì)帶來麻煩，通過對(duì)Mrs. Almond病情的診斷又說明了不能依賴高科技；作者打算錄入電腦名單是，電腦恰恰有壞了，就進(jìn)一步說明了“簡單的依賴科技是不明智的”，所有選C。

干擾項(xiàng)排除：A選項(xiàng)“電腦工作中休息一下是必須的事”，恰好在醫(yī)生想錄入名單時(shí)休息，醫(yī)生就想證明這樣的事？不符合整篇文章和科技有關(guān)的主題；B選項(xiàng)“相信IT專業(yè)人員是很重要的”，醫(yī)生等IT專業(yè)人員來修理，也不知修的結(jié)果如何，作者只是說了一下，等人來修電腦，這和文章主題不相關(guān)；D選項(xiàng)“長時(shí)間在電腦上工作有危險(xiǎn)”，醫(yī)生也未說明電腦進(jìn)行了長久的工作，故排除D。

【難句學(xué)習(xí)】

1. Every doctor has had to try their best to calm down patients who’ve come into their surgery waving an Internet print-out, convinced that they have some rare incurable disease, say, throat cancer.

翻譯： 長久以來，每一位醫(yī)生不得不盡力去讓那些手揮動(dòng)著從網(wǎng)上打印的東西來到診療室確信他們患上了某種罕見的不可治愈的疾病，比如說，喉癌的病人鎮(zhèn)定下來。

分析：句子的主句是Every doctor has had to try their best to calm down patients，而who’ve come into their surgery waving an Internet print-out, convinced that they have some rare incurable disease, say, throat cancer.是定語從句，修飾patients，其中waving an Internet print-out用作伴隨狀語，convinced that they have some rare incurable disease, say, throat cancer的邏輯主語為patients，that引導(dǎo)的句子為其賓語從句；say是插入語。

2. “I’m so embarrassed,” she said, shaking her head, as I explained that all the people she had come into close contact with would have to be found out and tested. 

翻譯：當(dāng)我解釋說和她有親密關(guān)系的所有人都必須找到并須檢查的時(shí)候，她搖著頭，說，“我真不好意思”。

分析： 主句是“I’m so embarrassed,” she said，shaking her head用作伴隨狀語，as I explained that all the people she had come into close contact with would have to be found out and tested是as引導(dǎo)的時(shí)間狀語從句，I 是主語，explained是謂語動(dòng)詞， that 引導(dǎo)賓語從句；賓語從句中主句是all the people would have to be found out and tested是句子的主干，she had come into close contact with用作定語從句，修飾all the people.