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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 normal symptoms are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis will be based on real physiological data 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 equipment, 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 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 is the limiting factor for sending complex medical pictures around the world--CT photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users. Communication satellites may 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.
单选题 The writer chiefly talks about ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精解] 主旨题。题干意为“作者主要谈论的是什么?”通读全文可知，本文主要谈论的是远程医疗的应用。最佳答案为A。
单选题 The basis of remote diagnosis will be ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[精解] 细节题。题干意为“远程诊断将会基于什么?”从第二段第二句话中的... remote diagnosis will be based on real physiological data from the actual patient. 可以做出判断。
单选题 Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[精解] 细节题。题干意为“根据文章内容，下面哪项是正确的?”网上可以看病并不是说病人去医院就不需要医生了，排除A项；通过电话发送病人的信息是可行的，排除B项；现在的情况是至少有一个医疗队想用远程医疗来治疗疾病，但这并不代表着有很多医疗队想这样做，更不能说真的这样做，所以C项也不对；根据文章最后一句话可以肯定答案是D。
单选题 The "problem" in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[精解] 细节题。题干意为“第四段的problem指的是什么?”根据第四段第二句话Bandwidth is the limiting factor for sending complex medical pictures around the world—CT photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users. 可知答案为A。