单选题 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 firs aid kit (急救包), 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 (迎来) 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】[解析] the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house could well be a thing of the past这句话的含义是：询问医生在不在已成为了过去。该句的中心部分在于a thing of the past，据此可以推断选项A(现在病人很可能不会问医生在不在了)为正确答案，这是因为出现急诊时，他在自己家里通过个人数据辅助系统就可以对病人做出诊断。

单选题 All the following statements are true EXCEPT that ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 选项A、C均可在原文中找到相关论述，如选项A(现在通过长途电话为病人发送信息是不可行的)与原文Bandwidth is the limiting factor for transmitting complex medical images around the world…相符，选项C(应用远程医疗的趋势是趋向提供全球性的医疗数据)与第三段末尾…me trend is towards providing global access to medical data and expertise的意思亦完全相同。由于原文中并没有提及flood(洪水)，故选项B(“洪水”不包括在文章所说的自然灾害之列)亦正确。只有D项与原文所说And at least one team wants to use telemedicine as a tool for disaster response相反，故正确答案应当选D项。

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

单选题 A proper title for the passage may be ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 由于选项A与文章的内容无关可首先排除。选项C(Application of Telemedicine)过于偏向于应用而忽视了对主题的全面探讨，选项D(How to Make Remote Diagnosis)则偏重诊断方法而没能全面反映远程医疗保健这一主题。而只有选项B“The Online Doctor Is In(网上医生就要进入家庭)”符合全文的内容，故为正确答案。