Section A
1.M: What’s the matter with this little boy?
W: He has a chesty cough all the time. His temperature is high. And he keeps telling me he wants to be sick.
M: Does he bring anything up?
W: No, because he has been off his food for the past two days. He just brings up (呕吐) bile (胆汁).
Q: Which of the following is not the boy’s symptom?
2.W: Good afternoon, doctor. I have a terrible headache. Yesterday I had a runny nose. Now my nose is stuffed up.
M: Let me give you an examination. First, let me have a look at your throat. Ok, now let me examine your chest. Do you have a history of tuberculosis?
W: No, I don’t think so.
M: Your throat is inflamed and your tongue is thickly coated. You have all the symptoms of influenza.
Q: What is the woman suffering from?
3.W: What are you looking for?
M: My laptop. I can’t find it in my bag or anywhere.
W: I can’t remember you carrying it here. Think about it one more time.
M: That’s right. I left it at home.
Q: Where is the man’s laptop?
4.M: How is your work going?
W: I think I will be finished soon.
M: Well, I won’t be finished for a while.
Q: What can be inferred about the man?
5.W: When are doctor Peterman’s office hours?
you are not alone 下载M: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from to noon.
W: That’s not very convenient for me. I have pathology class then.
Q: What is the man?
6.W: Hello, Eric, what can I do for you?
M: I was wondering if you had the results.
W: Oh, yes, the results. We’ve got them.
M: Great.
W: Here we go. Urea (尿素) 2.6 , Sodium (钠) 136, and Potassium (钾) 3.9.
M: 3.5.
W: No, that’s 3.9.
Q: What is the man’s sodium level?
7.M: Hello, this is Don North from Pediatrics. I’d like a word with Doctor Wilson if it’s possible.
W: I’m sorry, but he left for Michigan to attend a conference this morning. He was in fact looking for you just before he left.
Q: What is true about Doctor Wilson?
8.M: I spent my one-month salary buying a pair of skis.
W: Are you crazy? You’ve got a ski fever.
Q: What can we say about the man?
9.W: Most people feel culture shock when traveling to a foreign culture.
M: That’s for sure. But they should do as Romans do.
Q: According to the man, what are people supposed to do when traveling to a foreign culture?
10.W: Cindy just got divorced.
M: So soon! She got married only last summer.
W: Well, she found out that her husband was not the millionaire she thought he was.
Q: What does the woman imply about Cindy?
11.M: Kate was the only one brave enough to speak her mind at the meeting today.
M: Yeah, a lot of people felt the same way, but were too scared to say anything.
She just voiced the aspiration of them.
Q: Which of the following words can best describe Kate?
12.W: Why didn’t you come to work yesterday?
M: I was feeling a little under the weather.
W: Did you go to see the doc?
M: No, nothing serious.
Q: Why didn’t the man go to work yesterday?
13.M: Have you heard of the magazine The World of English?
W: Of course. It is one of many English magazines that are now flying off book seller shelves.
Q: What does the woman imply about the The World of English?
14.M: Hello Doctor Marks. It’s Tim Tailor from ANNE at Edinburgh Central.
W: Hello.
M: I’ve got a young woman, a 30-year-old woman referred up by her GP with a kind of ____________ for about 10-15 days.
W: Right.
M: She’s been on antibiotics and basically it needs to be incised. Can you take her?
W: Of course. What’s the patient’s name?
Q: What is the woman?
15.W: What do you know about treatments of cancer?
M: Chemotherapy. But that makes your hair fall out, doesn’t it?
W: Yes, there are some unpleasant side-effects. I’m not sure we need to consider that at this stage. We should see whether a series of injection will help.
Q: What treatment will the man probably receive first?
Section B
W: Hello doctor Smith, welcome to our program “Health Journey”. Could you tell us something about swine flu.
M: Well, it’s a common respiratory ailment in pigs that doesn’t usually spread to people.
W: But why are so many people infected?
M: Unlike most cases, this flu virus appears to be a sub-type not seen before in humans or pigs. It has
genetic material from pigs, birds and humans, according to the WHO.
W: Then why is it called swine flu? Why pigs are the carriers of this virus?
M: Um. It’s closer to say that pigs were the mixing balls for this virus.
W: What does it mean?
M: I mean birds cannot pass bird flu to people. But pigs are susceptible to getting flu viruses that infected birds. The virus inside the infected pig might mutate to a form that could also infect other mammals.
W: Wow, so complicated. By the way, can we catch swine flu from eating pork?
M: Actually, ill pigs are not allowed to enter the market. Cooking also kills the virus. Only people who work with pigs can catch the virus.
W: How do they feel if infected?
M: The most common symptoms are fever, fatigue, lack of appetite and coughing, although some peop
le also develop runny nose, sore throat, vomiting or diarrhea. W: What should we do if we have these symptoms?
M: Stay home from work or school. Don’t get on a plane. Call your doctors to ask about the best treatment. Don’t simply show up at the clinic or hospital that is unprepared for your arrival.
W: Say, the antiviral study. How is it going?
M: This strain of swine flu does appear sensitive to the antiviral drugs Relenza (瑞乐沙) and Tamiflu (达菲), but not to Amantadine and Remantadine.
W: We’ve learned a lot tonight. Thanks for your coming, doctor Smith.
M: It’s my pleasure.
Questions:
16. What do we know about swine flu?
17. What may cause people to have swine flu?
18. According to the dialogue, which is among the most common symptoms of swine
flu?
19. What does the speaker advice the suspects of swine flu to do?
20. What can be said of the dialogue?
Passage One
Questions 21-25 are based on the following passage.
About 10 million people in the U.S. alone, from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones are suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss. The rise in trend is something that researchers and physicians at the University of Michigan Cresgo Hearing Research Institute are hoping to reverse, with the cocktail of vitamins and the mineral magnesium (镁) that shall promise as a possible way to prevent hearing loss caused by loud noise. The nutrients were successful in laboratory tests. And now researchers are testing whether humans will benefit as well. The combination of vitamins A, C and E plus magnesium is given on pill form to patients who are participating in the research. Developed at the UM Cresgo Hearing Research Institute, the medication,
called Oral Quell, is designed to be taken before a person is exposed to the loud noise. Until a decade ago, it was thought that noise damaged hearing by intense mechanical vibrations that destroyed delicate structures of the inner ear. There was no intervention to protect the inner ear other than reducing the intensity of sound reaching it, such as ear plugs which are not always effective. It was then discovered that noise caused intense metabolic activity in the inner ear and production of molecules that damage the inner ear cells. And that allows the discovery of intervention to prevent these effects. The laboratory research that led to a new understanding of mechanisms underlying noise-induced hearing loss was funded by NIH, the Preclinical Translation Research that led to the formulation of Oral Quell as effective preventative was funded by General Motors and the United Auto Workers. Now Oral Quell is being tested in a set of four multinational human clinical trials: military trials in Sweden and Spain, and industrial trials in Spain and the trial involving students at the University of Florida who listen to music at high volumes on their iPods and other PDAs
Questions:
21. According to the talk, how many victims of hearing problem are there in the United States alone?
22. Which did UM Cresgo Hearing Research Institute develop to prevent hearing loss?
23. According to the latest findings, what does loud noise damage?
24. According to the talk, who supported the lab research?
25. Which of the following is not included as the multinational human clinical trials for Oral Quell?
Passage Two
Questions 26-30 are based on the following passage.
Catherine and other colleagues from Britain’s New Castle University combined data from 18 studies to look at the risk of abnormalities of babies whose mothers
were obese or overweight. Obese women were nearly twice as likely to have a baby with neural tube defects which are caused by the incomplete development of the brain or spinal cord, the study found. For one such defect, spinal bifida (脊柱裂), the risk more than doubled. The researchers also detected increased chances of heart defect, cleft lip and palate, water on the brain (脑积水) and problems in the growth of arms and legs. The World Health Organization classifies around 400 million people around the world as obese, including 20 million under the age of 5, and the number is growing. Obesity raises the risks of diseases such as type II diabetes, heart problems and is a health concern piling pressure o
n an already overburdened national health system. Recent research has tight weight to other problems during pregnancy. A team from the Round Corporation Think Tank in California reported in 2008 that women who get pregnant after weight loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women. Further study may show how obesity may cause these problems, Juliet at New Castle University researcher who worked on the study said in a telephone interview. Women who are thinking about trying for a baby need to check their own weight first, and then think about seeking help if they are overweight.
Questions:
26. What is the talk mainly about?
27. Babies whose mothers are obese may have increased chances of the following diseases except?
28. According to the WHO, how many people are classified as obese around the world?
29. Which of the following can be a suggestion for obese women who plan to have a baby?
30. According to the talk, what may be the focus of further studies?