People today expect to be examined when they enter a doctor's office. At least t

People today expect to be examined whenthey enter a doctor's office. At least they expect their blood pressure andtemperature to be measured. However, as recently as two hundred years ago, adoctor's treatment depended on talking with patients. In general, thecommunication between doctors and their patients was the most important part ofmedical methods. The modem age of medicine began with the stethoscope ,aninstrument for listening to patients heartbeat and breathing. Before that, adoctor did not touch a patient. In fact, there was no such things as a medicalexamination.

The stethoscope──and all other medicalinstruments──-had a serious effect, on the practice of medicine. Doctors becamebetter at finding the medical problems. More lives were saved. At the sametime, doctors gave less importance to the communication between patients anddoctors. Some doctors actually stopped talking to their patients. It is easy tounderstand why some sick people thought themselves as broken machines.

1. A stethoscope can be used to________.

A. check healthconditions     B. cure some illness

C. measuretemperature       D. treat heart disease

2. Doctors gave less importance to thecommunication between patients and doctors mainly because________.

A. modern medical instruments were used

B. they could cure more diseases and savemore lives

C. they had much more medical experiencethan before

D. they were too busy to have time to talkwith patients

3. Some sick people thought of themselvesas broken machines, which suggested that_______.

A. modern doctors should treat theirpatients as machines

B. the level of the treatment was greatlyimproved

C. they thought they were useless just likebroken machines

D. they were not satisfied with the mannerin which doctors treated them

4. The best title for this passage shouldbe________.  

A. Medical Methods of Two Hundred Years Ago

B. The Development of Medical Methods

C. The Modem Age of Medicine

D. The Use of the Stethoscope

试题答案

【答案】

 A

 A

 D

 B

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