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{{B}} Online Cancer Chat with a Safety Net{{/B}}
Cancer Research ,UK has launched an online chat forum for cancer patients to swap(交换)stories and share experiences on how to cope with such a devastating disease.
But Cancer Chat is a forum with a difference: it has an information safety net.
This means that a Cancer Research UK team will keep a watching brief to ensure that patients are not subjected to rogue (劣等的) "cancer cures" or scientifically unsound information.
Anyone can have access to the messages posted on Cancer Chat, but if people wish to post a message, they will need to register.
And Rebekah Gibbs, cancer patient and star of TV's Casualty, has pledged her support for the new project. "I think Cancer Chat is a brilliant idea," she said. "I have written a public diary about what I went through with breast cancer and I have had such a heart-warming response from other people going through the same thing."
"The idea of a Cancer Chat forum means you can share information about treatment and side effects and you can really open up about your feelings online in a way that can be difficult when talking to close friends and family. And with Cancer Research UK monitoring the forum, people can be reassured about the quality of information being exchanged."
Cancer Chat will also encourage its users to check out any cancer questions on its CancerHelp UK website, which is specially designed to give patients and their families 6,000 pages of up-to-date information that is easy to understand and explains a wide range of treatments for different types of cancer and gives details of clinical trials. There is also a UK database of cancer clinical trials.
The award-winning website attracts around one million visitors a month and Cancer Research UK hopes that some of these visitors will also want to post comments on the Cancer Chat forum.
For those who do not have access to computers and have questions about cancer, the charity's team of cancer information nurses are available during office hours to talk over patients' concerns on the phone.
单选题 Cancer Chat is different from other forums chiefly in that
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 题意：“癌症畅谈”和其他论坛的主要不同之处在于它的信息来源是安全可靠的。 短文第二段明确指出“癌症畅谈”与众不同之处，即it has an information safety net(它的信息是绝对安全的)，故选C。
单选题 All the statements about Rebekah Gibbs are true EXCEPT
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 题意：有关于丽贝卡·吉布斯的所有的论述中，除了她一直在写一本关于自己疾病的私人日记外，其他的都是正确的。 其他三项在文中都有提到，短文第五段说丽贝卡·吉布斯的日记是公开的，而不是私人的，故选C。
单选题 Which is true of the messages posted on Cancer Chat?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 题意：关于在“癌症畅谈”上公布的信息，下列说法哪一个是正确的?所有登陆该网站的人都可以看得到公布在论坛的信息。 答案可以从短文第四段和第六段找到。第四段说到“所有人都共享发布到论坛上的消息，但如果有人要发表信息必须事先注册”，可知B项、D项为错误的。第六段指出“癌症病人可以交流治疗方法和副作用的信息”，因此C项“病人只交流治疗方法”也是错误的，故选A。
单选题 Which statement about the CancerHelp UK website is NOT true?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 题意；关于“英国癌症救助”网站的说法哪一个是不正确的?只有英国公民才能登陆该网站。 短文倒数第三段提到“该网站可为病人和家属提供6000多页的最新信息，这些信息针对癌症的不同类型提供了大量治疗方法和临床诊断细节”，倒数第二段提到“这个获奖的网站每月吸引了超过100万的访问者”，因此前三项“该网站提供大量治疗方法和临床诊断细节；吸引众多的访问者，曾经获奖”的说法均是正确的，故选D。
单选题 The word "charity" in the last line but one refers to
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 题意：最后一行中，charity一词指的是英国癌症研究中心。 通过上下文推断可得，the charity指的是Cancer Research UK这一慈善机构，故选D。