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[font=Times New Roman][size=4]Mar 24th 2006
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[b][color=black][font=微软雅黑][size=4]The medical uses of mobile phones show they can be good for your health[/size][/font][/color][/b]
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[size=4][font=Times New Roman]WHAT impact can mobile phones have on their users' health? Many people [b][u](A) [/u][/b]the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations1, despite the lack of credible evidence of any harm. But evidence for the beneficial effects of mobile phones on health is rather more abundant. Indeed, a systematic review [b][u](B) [/u][/b]by Rifat Atun and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, [/font][font=宋体]★[/font][font=Times New Roman]rounds up[1] 150 examples of the use of text-messaging in the delivery of health care. These uses [b][u]
(C) [/u][/b]three categories: efficiency gains; public-health gains; and direct benefits to patients by incorporating text-messaging into treatment regimes. The study, funded by Vodafone2, the world's largest mobile operator, was published this week.[/font][/size]
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[size=4][font=宋体]（[/font][font=Times New Roman]1[/font][font=宋体]）[/font][b][u][font=Times New Roman]Using [/font][/u][/b][b][u][font=宋体]★[/font][font=Times New Roman]texting[2] to boost efficiency is not rocket science, but big savings can be achieved. [/font][/u][/b][font=Times New Roman]Several trials carried out in England have found that the use of text-messaging reminders reduces the number of missed appointments with family doctors by 26-39%, for example, and the number of missed hospital appointments by 33-50%. If such schemes were [/font][font=宋体]★[/font][font=Times New Roman]rolled out[3] nationally, this would [b][u](D)[/u][/b] annual savings of &pound;256m-364m.[/font][/size]
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[font=Times New Roman][size=4]Text messages are also being used to remind patients about blood tests, clinics, scans and dental appointments. Similar schemes in America, Norway and Sweden have had equally satisfying results—though the use of text-message reminders in the Netherlands, where non-attendance rates are low, at 4%, had no effect other than to annoy patients.[/size][/font]
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[font=Times New Roman][size=4]Text messages can also be a good way to disseminate public-health information, particularly to groups who are hard to reach by other means, such as teenagers, or in developing countries where other means of communication are unavailable. Text messages have been used in India to inform people about the World Health Organisation's strategy to control tuberculosis, for example, and in Kenya, Nigeria and Mali to provide information about HIV and malaria. In Iraq, text messages were used to support a campaign to vaccinate nearly 5m children against polio.[/size][/font]
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[size=4][font=Times New Roman]Finally, there are the uses of text-messaging as part of a treatment regime. These involve sending reminders to patients to take their medicine at the right time, or to encourage compliance with exercise regimes or efforts to stop smoking. [/font][font=宋体]（[/font][font=Times New Roman]2[/font][font=宋体]）[/font][b][u][font=Times New Roman]The evidence for the effectiveness of such schemes is generally [/font][/u][/b][b][u][font=宋体]★[/font][font=Times New Roman]anecdotal[4], however,[/font][/u][/b][font=Times New Roman] notes Dr Rifat. More quantitative research is needed[/font][font=宋体]—[/font][font=Times New Roman]which is why his team also published three papers this week [b][u](E)[/u][/b] the use of mobile phones in health care in more detail. One of these papers, written in conjunction with Victoria Franklin and Stephen Greene of the University of Dundee, in Scotland, reports the results of a trial in which diabetic teenagers' treatment was [b][u](F)[/u][/b] with text messaging.[/font][/size]
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[size=4][font=Times New Roman]Diabetes needs constant management, and requires patients to take an active role in their treatment by measuring blood-sugar levels and administering insulin injections. [/font][font=宋体]（[/font][font=Times New Roman]3[/font][font=宋体]）[/font][font=Times New Roman][b][u]The most effective form of therapy is an intensive regime in which patients adjust the dose of insulin depending on what they eat. [/u][/b]This is more [/font][font=宋体]★[/font][font=Times New Roman]onerous[5] for the patient, but [b][u](G)[/u][/b] a greater dietary variety. Previous studies have shown that intensive treatment is effective only with close supervision by doctors. Dr Franklin and her colleagues devised a system called Sweet Talk, which sends patients personalised text messages reminding them of the treatment goals they have set themselves, and allowing them to send questions to doctors. The Sweet Talk system was tested over a period of 18 months with teenage patients receiving both conventional and intensive diabetes treatment. A control group received conventional treatment and no text messages.[/font][/size]
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[font=Times New Roman][size=4]The researchers found that the use of text-messaging significantly increased “self-efficacy”3 (the effectiveness of treatment, measured by questionnaire). More importantly, among patients receiving intensive therapy, the level of haemoglobin HbA1c4—an indicator of blood-glucose and hence of glycaemic control—was 14% lower than for those in the control group. Since even a 10% decline in HbA1c level is [b][u](H)[/u][/b] a reduction in complications such as eye and kidney problems, this is an impressive result. It suggests that texting can cheaply and effectively support intensive therapy among teenagers, who often demonstrate poor compliance5.[/size][/font]
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[size=4][font=Times New Roman]Despite such promising results, Dr Rifat notes, many of the medical uses of text-messaging have not yet been [b][u]__ (I) _ [/u][/b]clinical trials, because they are so new. And even where the benefits are proven, the technology has not been systematically deployed on a large scale. But when it [b][u](J)[/u][/b] improving outcomes and reducing costs, [/font][font=宋体]（[/font][font=Times New Roman]4[/font][font=宋体]）[/font][b][u][font=Times New Roman]text messages would seem to be just what the doctor ordered. [/font][/u][/b][/size]
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[b][font=Times New Roman][size=4]1. Fill in each blank with an appropriate form of each following phrasal verb. One verb can only and must be chosen once.[/size][/font][/b]
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[b][font=Times New Roman][size=4]2. Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.[/size][/font][/b]
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[b][font=Times New Roman][size=4]呵，下次传答案哦[/size][/font][/b]

:hzluguo 看不懂

看不懂:'( :'(

这是什么东西?

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我也是从别人那人那转过来的,其原文是从世界著名的报纸<经济学家>中摘过来的.

正所谓学英语要读原版的资料也.

个人觉的对大家学英语很帮助,所以就摘下来了.

谢谢共享，什么时候帮忙译译？

:@ 他们这个都不懂!别理他们!来先跟我说说这上面写的是什么?是不是讲非洲有人来赣县给我们发钱了?:question

怎么没人做题目呢

b①look at, h②subject to, g③allow for, f④carry out, e⑤associate with, a⑥worry about，d⑦back up, i⑧come to, c⑨fall into,j ⑩translate into

A.worry about
B.carried out
C.fall into 分成，变成（如：The lecture series falls naturally into three parts. 该系列讲座可自然分作三部分。）
D.translate into 转化为（如：I wonder how your religious belief will translate into political action. 我不知道你的宗教信仰如何转化为政_治行动。）
E.looking at 考虑（如：That's the way I look at it, too. 我也是这么想。）
F.backed up 支持，援助（如：He drought along a file of document to back up his claim. 他随身携带一卷宗文件以便证实索赔要求。）
G.allows for 考虑到（如：In calculating profit, retailers must allow for breakage and spoilage. 计算利润时，零售商们必须考虑到破碎和损坏情况。）
H.associated with
I.subjected to
J.comes to

都在等你公布答案

貌似四级就有这个题型哦～嘿嘿

你现在不是过四了吗?

过了啊，只是看到这个题目想到了这中题型啊，嘿嘿，中国的学生就是这个样子的啊

[quote]原帖由 [i]老表[/i] 于 2008-4-23 10:43 发表 [url=http://www.ganxianw.com/bbs/redirect.php?goto=findpost&pid=103631&ptid=11174][img]http://www.ganxianw.com/bbs/images/common/back.gif[/img][/url]
过了啊，只是看到这个题目想到了这中题型啊，嘿嘿，中国的学生就是这个样子的啊 [/quote]
你是说中国的学生咋滴啦:lol

老表不厚道啊