Want a glance of the future of health care? Take a look at the way the various networks of people about 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 norman symptoms（症状）are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis（远程诊断）will be based on real physiological data（生理数据）from the actual patient. A group from the University of Kentucky has shown that by using personal data assistance plus a mobile phone ,it is perfectly practical to send a patient’s important signs over the telephone. With this kind of equipement, 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 （countryside） care. And at least one team wants to use telemedicine as a tool for disaster need - especially after earthquakes. On the whole, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and experts’ opinions.
  But there is one problem. Bandwidth（宽带） is the limiting factor for sending complex （复 杂 ）medical pictures around the world,―CU photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users. Communication satellites say be able to deal with the short - term needs during disasters such as earthquakes or wars. But medicine is looking towards both the second - generation Internet and third generation mobile phones for the future of remote medical service.
  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 start a new time when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, experts’opinions and diagnosis are common.

  68．The writer chiefly talks about ________ .
  A. the use of telemedicine
  B. the on -lined doctors
  C. medical care and treatment
  D. communication improvement
  69．Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
  A. Patients don’t need doctors in hospitals any more.
  B. It is impossible to send a patient’s signs over the telephone.
  C. Many teams use telemedicine dealing with disasters now.
  D. Broadband communications will become cheaper in the future.
  70．The“problem”in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that ________ .
  A. bandwidth isn’t big enough to send complex medical pictures
  B. the second - generation of Internet has not become popular yet
  C. communication satellites can only deal with short - term needs
  D. there is not enough equipment for spreading the medical care

Last week, I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth Hospital. In one of the rooms a patient, an old man, got up from his bed and moved slowly towards me. I could see that he hadn’t long to live, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor.
“Frank!” I cried in surprise. He couldn’t answer, as I knew, but he tried to smile, all the time keeping his foot close to mine.
My thoughts raced back more than thirty years － to the dark days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The scene was an air-raid shelter (防空洞), in which I and about a hundred other people slept every night. Among them were Mrs West and her son Frank, who lived nearby. Sharing wartime problems, we got to know each other very well. Frank interested me because he was not normal. He had never been normal, ever since he was born. His mother told me he was 37 then, but he had less of a mind than a baby has. Mrs West, then about 75, was a strong, able woman, as she had to be, of course, because Frank depended on her completely. He needed all the attention of a baby.
One night a policeman came into our shelter and told Mrs West that her house had been all destroyed. That wasn’t quite true, because the Wests went on living there for quite some time. But they certainly lost nearly everything they owned.
When that kind of thing happened, the rest of us helped the unlucky ones. So before we separated that morning, I stood beside Frank and measured my right foot against his.
They were about the same size. That night, then, I took a spare pair of shoes to the shelter for Frank. As soon as he saw me, he came running － and paced his right foot against mine. After that, he always greeted me in the same way.
【小题1】 How did the writer know that the patient was Frank?

A．to be friendly towards Frank

B．to see if Frank’s feet were normal

C．to find out if Frank could put on his shoes

D．to teach Frank to greet people in a special way

One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quiet  16  of the splendid artwork. A young     17  viewing the paintings ahead of me  18  nonstop between themselves.

I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s  19  for putting up with her  20  stream of words.  21  by their noise, I moved on. I met them several times as I moved  22  the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away  23  .

I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a  24  when the couple approached the  25  .Before they left, the man  26  into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He  27  it into a long stick and then  28  his way into the coatroom to get his wife’s jacket. “He’s a  29  man,” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we became blind at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise that his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in  30  there is a new art show.” “But what does he get out of the art?” I asked. “He can’t see.” “Can’t see! You’re  31  .He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said. “His wife  32  each painting so he can see it in his head.”

I learned something about patience,   33  and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without  34  and the courage of a husband who would not  35  blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, their arms intertwined（挽在一起）.

16．A. touch                B. view                        C. wander                    D. scenery

17．A. lady                  B. man                         C. couple                      D. clerk

18．A. chatted              B. argued                      C. screamed                 D. shouted

19．A. attempt             B. independence            C. wisdom                    D. patience

20．A. vivid                 B. constant                   C. casual                      D. exciting

21．A. Adopted            B. Adapted                    C. Conducted                D. Disturbed

22．A. through             B. to                                   C. towards                   D. from

23．A. anxiously           B. slowly                      C. quickly                D. sensibly(明智地)

24．A. comment           B. decision                    C. purchase             D. profit

25．A. entrance            B. exit                          C. front                    D. queue

26．A. plugged             B. held                         C. reached                    D. bent

27．A. made                B. lengthened                C. brought                    D. broadened

28．A. led                    B. found                       C. forced                      D. tapped

29．A. brave                B. rough                       C. smart                D. generous

30．A. wherever           B. whatever                  C. whichever         D. whenever

31．A. wrong               B. silly                          C. equal                 D. unique

32．A. describes           B. draws                      C. shows               D. decorates

33．A. kindness          B. pride                        C. enthusiasm        D. courage

34．A. support             B. sight                        C. expectation        D. confidence

35．A. make                B. hope                        C. allow                D. cause