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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 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. Bandwidth is the limiting factor for transmitting complex medical images around the world—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 an era when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, expert opinion and diagnosis are common.

单选题 The basis of remote diagnosis will be______.

单选题 The sentence "the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house could well be a thing of the past" means______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】第二段后两句提到，肯塔基大学的一组医生说明，利用像掌上控制器加一部移动电话这样的现成的个人数据辅助系统，从电话上传送病人的一些关键症状是完全可能的。急救包里如果有这样一个系统，到医生家里急呼医生的做法很可能就成为历史了。言外之意，在发生急诊时，不需要再去亲自到医生家里去请他，他在自己家里通过个人数据辅助系统就可能对病人做出诊断。在本句中，could well be表示“很可能”，恰与选择项A中probably对应。而其他选择项不表示可能性。

单选题 All the following statements are true EXCEPT that______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】第三段提到，其他医疗技术小组正在尝试将远距离医疗的方法应用于乡间的医疗服务，而且，至少有一个小组想使用远距离医疗作为对付灾难——如地震的工具。可见，选择项D的主要问题在many上。有关A参阅第二段第三、四句。有关B参阅第四段第三句。有关C参阅第三段第三句。该句的意思是：总的来说，(这种做法的)发展趋势是向全球范围内提供医疗数据和医术服务。

单选题 The word "problem" in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】第四段第一句提到的问题实际上指本段第二句表达的内容。该句可以理解为：宽带是制约着在全球范围内传送复杂的医用图像的一个因素——CT扫描图像是需要宽带传输的数据之一。言外之意是：由于全球范围内计算机网络尚未普遍采用宽带传输数据，致使CT扫描图像无法传送。第四段最后一句话的意思是：医学正期待着第二代因特网和第三代移动电话的诞生，以便将来能传输医疗情报。第四段第三句的意思是：当像地震、战争或饥荒这样的灾难发生时，通讯卫星能够满足短期需要。选择项D似乎与原文一致，但这句话表达的并不是“问题”的所在。本段第二句表达的才是现存的问题。