Question

    Shop with Your Doc is part of a broader and still growing movement in US medicine to shift the focus away from simply treating disease toward caring for the whole person. It is meant to help people make educated, healthy choices one grocery cart at a time. Across the country, hospitals are setting up food banks and medical schools are putting cooking classes on the curriculum. Nonprofits are connecting medical centers with community resources to ensure that low-income Americans have access to fresh fruits and vegetables.

For centuries, Western medicine’s mission was to cure disease. But over the past generation, two generation, two significant trends are of concern to the medical community, says Timothy Harlan, executive director of Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans. Healthcare costs began to soar (激增), and relatively inexpensive, poor-quality food became more common. “There’s a very straightforward link between people improving their diets and improving the condition that they have,” Dr. Harlan says.

The connection drove the medical and nonprofit communities to rethink their approach to health. What emerged was the concept of the “social determinants of health”— the notion of taking into account the biological, physical, and socioeconomic circumstances surrounding a patient. A healthy person isn’t just someone who is free from disease, the theory goes; he or she also enjoys “a state of complete mental, physical and social well-being.”

The question the medical community now faces is how to get patients — especially low-income families — to recognize these determinants and make it possible for them to eat and live healthier. In Boston, medical experts responded by creating an on-site pantry (食品室) at Boston Medical Center. Since its founding in 2002, the pantry has evolved into a kind of nutrition center where primary care providers at BMC send patients for food. Today the pantry, which gets 95 percent of its stock from the Greater Boston Food bank, hosts free cooking classes and serves about 7,000 people a month. The Greater Boston Food Bank has also launched its own initiatives, striking partnerships with four community health centers across the state to offer free mobile produce markets. The organization also helped develop toolkits (软件包) that map local pantries. markets that accept government food vouchers, and other resources.

At Tulane in New Orleans, Harlan is leading the development of a curriculum that combines medicine with the art of food preparation. His philosophy: Doctors who know their way around a kitchen are better at helping their patients. And empowering patients to take charge of their own diets is one way to help them deal with the incredible costs of health care, Harlan says. The curriculum has since been adopted at 35 medical schools around the United States. Chipping away at bad habits is a good place to start getting patients to think about the choices they make for themselves and their families, say Dr Maureen Villasenor, the Orange County pediatrician (儿科医生).

1.The aim of Shop with Your Doc is to________.

A.help patients relax before an operation

B.assist patients in finding food fit for them

C.control people’s food consumption in supermarkets

D.persuade low-income families to take more fruits and vegetables

2.Paragraphs 2 and 3 mainly talk about_________.

A.the role Western medicine has been playing

B.how a new concept of health came into being

C.medical communities’ worries about food safety

D.why low-income families are less reliable on healthcare

3.What do we know about the Greater Boston Food Bank?

A.Its cooking classes are free of charge.

B.It was founded at the beginning of the 21st century.

C.It helps people locate pantries and markets.

D.It treats many a patient from BMC.

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.C

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述的是让医生为你选择健康的食物成为了一种新的趋势。

1.细节理解题。根据第一段中的Shop with Your Doc is part of a broader and still growing movement in US medicine to shift the focus away from simply treating disease toward caring for the whole person. It is meant to help people make educated, healthy choices one grocery cart at a time.(与医生一起购物是美国医学界一项更广泛且仍在不断发展的运动的一部分，该运动旨在将关注的焦点从简单的治疗疾病转移到照顾整个人。它的目的是帮助人们在一辆购物车里做出有教育意义的、健康的选择)可知，和医生一起去购物的目的是帮助病人找到适合他们的健康的食物。故选B。

2.主旨大意题。根据第二段中的Healthcare costs began to soar (激增), and relatively inexpensive, poor-quality food became more common. “There’s a very straightforward link between people improving their diets and improving the condition that they have,” Dr. Harlan says.(医疗费用开始飙升，相对便宜、质量差的食品变得更加普遍。哈兰博士说：“人们改善饮食和改善自身状况之间存在着非常直接的联系。”)及第三段中的The connection drove the medical and nonprofit communities to rethink their approach to health.(这种联系促使医疗和非营利性社区重新思考他们对待健康的方式)可知，文章的第二三段主要讨论在医学界对食品安全的担忧，所以促使医学界和非营利组织重新思考他们对待健康的方式。故选C。

3.推理判断题。根据第四段中的The Greater Boston Food Bank has also launched its own initiatives, striking partnerships with four community health centers across the state to offer free mobile produce markets. The organization also helped develop toolkits (软件包) that map local pantries markets that accept government food vouchers, and other resources.(大波士顿食品银行也推出了自己的计划，与全州四家社区卫生中心建立了合作关系，提供免费的移动农产品市场。该组织还帮助开发了工具包，用于绘制接受政府食品券的当地食品市场地图和其他资源)可推知，大波士顿食品银行帮助人们定位食品室和市场。故选C。