Question

    A few years ago, a doctor gave a wrong prescription to a 9-year-old boy because he had accidentally clicked the next medicine listed in the drop-down menu. Unfortunately, the boy died.

Dr. Gidi Stein heard the story and felt forced to do something. “It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button…Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.”

Several things were immediately obvious to the 54-year-old Stein, who had previously studied computer science. “If you look at this problem from a bird’s eye view, there were so many places down the line where this decision could have been stopped-from the physician to the pharmacy (药房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have the judgment that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient. For Stein, it represented a systematic failure.

Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern emerges of how we use our cards : the grocery store, the gas station in our local town. If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, “‘Hey, was that you?’”

But nothing like that existed in the field of prescription drugs. So Stein set up a company called MedAware. He came up with a machine learning outliner detection system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.

The system is already used in hospitals and doctor5 s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel.

1.What caused the boy’s death?

A.The doctor’s carelessness. B.The doctor’s poor medical skill.

C.The failure of the computer. D.The incomplete health care system.

2.How did Dr. Gidi Stein react to the boy’s death?

A.He was annoyed and put the blame on the doctor only.

B.He was regretful and tried to prevent similar accidents happening.

C.He was embarrassed and mistook it as a systematic failure.

D.He was confused and detected the mistakes in prescriptions himself.

3.What does Stein want to tell us by mentioning credit cards?

A.Credit cards are available for doctors’ prescriptions.

B.Instructions in using credit cards are offered to users.

C.The boy might have been saved with the technology like credit cards.

D.MedAware’s technology will benefit the patients in Zimbabwe.

4.It can be concluded from the text that ________.

A.MedAware’s technology helps doctors choose right medicine

B.MedAware’s technology checks the prescriptions doctors make out

C.Medical industry worldwide has enjoyed MedAware’s technology

D.The boy? s mother was not to blame for his death during the accident

Answer

1.A

2.B

3.C

4.B

【解析】

这是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了Dr. Gidi Stein从一次医疗事故中受到启发，从而研发出了一种技术来帮助医生检查是否开错了药，来确保病人正确的用药。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中A few years ago, a doctor gave a wrong prescription to a 9-year-old boy because he had accidentally clicked the next medicine listed in the drop-down menu. Unfortunately, the boy died.可知几年前，一个医生给一个9岁的男孩开了一个错误的处方，因为他不小心点击了下拉菜单中列出的下一种药。不幸的是，男孩死了。由此可知，医生的粗心大意造成了男孩的死亡。故选A。

2.推理判断题。根据第二段中“It was like killing someone with a spelling error. He just clicked on the wrong button…Stein said. “One would have thought there’d be some kind of spell-checker to prevent these terrible things from happening. But apparently this is not the case.”可知“这就像杀了一个拼写错误的人。他只是点错了按钮……Stein说。“人们会认为会有某种拼写检查程序来防止这些可怕的事情发生。但显然情况并非如此。”由此可推知Dr. Gidi Stein对男孩的死很遗憾，结合后文Stein开发识别处方错误的软件可知，Stein试图阻止类似的事故发生。故选B。

3.推理判断题。根据第四段中If your credit card would appear tomorrow in Zimbabwe, it would be unusual. The credit card company would call you and say, “‘Hey, was that you?’”可知如果你的信用卡明天出现在津巴布韦，这将是不寻常的。信用卡公司会打电话给你，说:“嘿，是你吗?”结合后文提到了Stein开发出可以识别处方错误的软件，由此可推知，Stein是将信用卡发现使用不寻常的情况与自己的软件发现处方错误相比较，以此来告诉我们这项技术将拯救许多死于医生失误的孩子。故选C。

4.推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.可知换句话说，他训练计算机去识别是否医生不小心开错了药。由此可推知，MedAware公司的技术是检查医生开出的处方的。故选B。