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    The different parts of a health-care system have different focuses. A hospital’s stroke unit monitors blood flow in the brain. The cardiac (心脏的) unit is interested in that same flow, but through and from the heart. The data is effective in its own field, but for the most part has little relevance to other bits of the body and conditions.

Apart from all this, the instruments that doctors use to monitor health are often expensive, as is the training required to operate them. That combined cost is too high for the medical system to scan regularly, for early signs of illness.

A research project called AlzEye, run from Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, may change this. It is attempting to use the eye as a window through which to detect signals about the health of other organs. The doctors in charge of it, Siegfried Wagner and Pearse Keane, are linking Moorfields’ database of eye scans, which offer a detailed picture of the health of the retina (视网膜), with information about other aspects of its patients’ health collected from other hospitals around England.

The data set includes every one of the 300,000 patients who visited Moorfields between 2008 and 2018 and was over the age of 40. The idea is to examine changes to people’s eyes within that ten-year period, and link these with, say, the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease in the same patient.

Drs Wagner and Keane are searching for patterns in the eye that betray the appearance of disease elsewhere in the body, and are focusing first on Alzheimer’s disease. They will seek such patterns with the help of algorithms (程序) that can spot far tinier variations. They may, it should be remembered, never find such patterns. Although there is evidence that the back of the eye does change as its owner develops Alzheimer’s, it may be that the changes are too small to be detected reliably enough for diagnosis (诊断). If such patterns could be recognized reliably, though, the potential impact would be huge. Even in rich countries, between 50% and 80% of Alzheimer’s cases go undiagnosed. Moreover, even if the technique does not work for Alzheimer’s, it might work for something else. Dr Wagner and Dr Keane therefore plan further searches for patterns related to strokes and heart disease. Even one relevant pattern would contain a remarkable diagnostic leap forward.

If it does work, the technique the two researchers are recommending will be cheap to carry out. An indication of how cheap is the project’s total budget of just £15,000. Also, the equipment and algorithms to perform an eye scan are available to anyone, through cloud-computing services like Google and Amazon.

1.What is the disadvantage of the traditional way to monitor health?

A.Doctors are only interested in their own fields.

B.It can’t find early signs of illness effectively.

C.It can’t offer all-around health information.

D.Hospitals can’t afford the equipment and training.

2.Drs Wagner and Keane use eye scans to _______.

A.decide whether the patients’ retinas are healthy

B.compare Moorfields’ database with other hospitals’

C.find the connections between eye changes and disease

D.explore the use of algorithms in detecting Alzheimer’s

3.The underlined word “betray” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to _______.

A.change B.show

C.cause D.prevent

4.What do we learn about the AlzEye project?

A.It examines the lifelong changes to 300,000 patients’ eyes.

B.It can correctly diagnose Alzheimer’s cases by scanning eyes.

C.It may be applied in finding other diseases besides Alzheimer’s.

D.It provides cloud-computing services with Google and Amazon.

 

1.C 2.C 3.B 4.C 【解析】 这是一篇说明文。文章介绍了一种通过眼睛来监测身体疾病的新型医学手段。 1.细节理解题。根据第一段中The data is effective in its own field, but for the most part has little relevance to other bits of the body and conditions.(数据在它自己的领域是有效的,但在大多数情况下,与身体和条件的其他部分几乎没有相关性)可知,传统的健康监测方法的缺点是不能提供全面的健康信息。故选C。 2.细节理解题。根据第三段中It is attempting to use the eye as a window through which to detect signals about the health of other organs.(它试图利用眼睛作为一个窗口,通过它来检测其他器官的健康信号)可知,Siegfried Wagner and Pearse Keane使用眼睛扫描来发现眼睛变化和疾病之间的联系。故选C。 3.词句猜测题。根据第四段中的The idea is to examine changes to people’s eyes within that ten-year period, and link these with, say, the appearance of Alzheimer’s disease in the same patient.(这项研究的目的是检测10年内人们眼睛的变化,并将其与阿尔茨海默氏症的出现联系起来)可知,Drs Wagner and Keane在研究眼睛变化与疾病之间的关系。由此可知,划线词所在句意为“Drs Wagner and Keane正在寻找一种模式,从眼睛中暴露身体其他部位疾病,他们首先关注的是老年痴呆症”。从而得知,划线词意为“暴露,展示”。故选B。 4.推理判断题。根据第五段中Moreover, even if the technique does not work for Alzheimer’s, it might work for something else. Dr Wagner and Dr Keane therefore plan further searches for patterns related to strokes and heart disease.(此外,即使这项技术对阿尔茨海默氏症不起作用,它也可能对其他疾病起作用。因此,瓦格纳博士和基恩博士计划进一步研究与中风和心脏病有关的模式)可知,除了阿尔茨海默病,AlzEye项目还可以用于发现其他疾病。故选C。
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