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【題目】 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 (藥房) even to the mother. All of them had all the relevant information to have a judgment call that this was just the wrong drug for the wrong patient.” For Stein, it represented a systemic failure.

Stein compared this with credit cards. “If you use your credit card in the daily routine over time, a pattern of how we use our cards comes out: 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 outlier detection (異常檢測值) 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 doctor’s offices. To date, MedAware has used their technology to help nearly six million patients in the United States and Israel.

【1】What led to the boy’s death?

A.The doctor’s carelessness.B.The drawback of the computer.

C.The doctor’s poor medical skill.D.The incomplete health care system.

【2】What does Stein feel about this medical accident?

A.Angry.B.Frightened.

C.Embarrassed.D.Regretful.

【3】What can MedAware’s technology do?

A.Help doctor choose right medicine.B.Reminds patients to take medicine.

C.Introduce new drugs to doctors.D.Check the prescription.

【4】Where is this text most likely from?

A.A diary.B.A guidebook.

C.A magazine.D.A science fiction.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】D

【3】D

【4】C

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文。文章講述了吉迪·斯坦博士成立MedAware公司的原因及其研發(fā)的機器學(xué)習(xí)異常值檢測系統(tǒng)。目前，該系統(tǒng)已經(jīng)在醫(yī)院和醫(yī)生辦公室使用。迄今為止，MedAware已經(jīng)使用他們的技術(shù)幫助了美國和以色列的近600萬患者。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段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，幾年前，一個醫(yī)生給一個9歲的男孩開了一個錯誤的處方，因為他不小心點擊了下拉菜單中列出的下一種藥。不幸的是，男孩死了。由此可知，醫(yī)生的粗心導(dǎo)致了男孩的死亡。故選A。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段中的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.可知，吉迪·斯坦博士聽了這個故事，覺得自己必須做點什么�！斑@就像殺了一個拼寫錯誤的人。他只是點錯了按鈕�！彼固拐f。由此可知，斯坦因?qū)�這次醫(yī)療事故感到很遺憾。故選D。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的He came up with a machine learning outlier detection (異常檢測值) system. In other words, he trained the computers to realize if a doctor accidentally prescribed the wrong medicine.可知，他提出了一個機器學(xué)習(xí)異常值檢測系統(tǒng)。換句話說，他訓(xùn)練計算機去意識到醫(yī)生是否開錯了藥。由此可知，MedAware的技術(shù)可以檢查處方。故選D。

【4】推理判斷題。本文主要講述了吉迪·斯坦博士成立MedAware公司的原因及其研發(fā)的機器學(xué)習(xí)異常值檢測系統(tǒng)。A. A diary.一本日記；B. A guidebook.一本導(dǎo)游手冊；C. A magazine.一本雜志；D. A science fiction.一本科幻小說。結(jié)合選項可知，這篇文章最有可能來自于一本雜志。故選C。

推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案，切忌胡亂猜測，一定要做到有理有據(jù)。如第2小題，What does Stein feel about this medical accident? 根據(jù)第二段中的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.可知，吉迪·斯坦博士聽了這個故事，覺得自己必須做點什么�！斑@就像殺了一個拼寫錯誤的人。他只是點錯了按鈕。”斯坦說。由此可知，斯坦因?qū)�這次醫(yī)療事故感到很遺憾。A. Angry.生氣的；B. Frightened.害怕的；C. Embarrassed.尷尬的；D. Regretful.遺憾的。故選D。