Health care is an extraordinarily obsolete system. A professor of emergency medicine at major university sent me a really heartb

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问题     Health care is an extraordinarily obsolete system. A professor of emergency medicine at major university sent me a really heartbreaking (1)_____ lie said that physicians have to start from the (2)_____ beginning with every patient. There is no history, no time to (3)_____—they know nothing about the (4)_____.
    We have inferior medical service (5)_____ the computer technology that could change it is not being used. The difficulties of just (6)_____ patient records—apart from analyzing them (7)_____—are unnecessary and hinder us from providing (8)_____ service.
    We have the opportunity to do some wholesale rethinking of (9)_____ we provide health care and turn it into not only medical service, but preventive maintenance that (10)_____ the patient in decision-making. We can begin through pilot and demonstration projects in hospitals, by doctors, and (11)_____ by private doctor participation. Physicians can show patients the (12)_____ of their actions and what the alternatives are. Technologies (13)_____ multimedia and interactive computers can (14)_____ patients, in the privacy of their own homes, to ask questions about these (15)_____. Other countries are moving much more (16)_____ than the United States in medical information. The computerization and redesign of Sweden’s health delivery system has reduced that nation’s (17)_____ on the health care from 12 % of GNP to a little over 7%. More than one-third of the population of the Nether-lands has their medical records computerized. (18)_____ some hospitals in the United States keep computerized patient (19)_____, these records only cover the time the patient is in the hospital and do not include their (20)_____ medical history.


选项 A、preferences
B、substances
C、consequences
D、refernces

答案C

解析 词汇辨析题。本句意思是:医生可以让病人看到他们行动的结果及其他可供选择的办法。从前文中提到的医院致力提高医疗服务,让病人参与进行决策,这些行动都会带来好的结果。因此,这里让病人看到这些行动的结果(consequence)符合本句语义逻辑关系。preference意为"偏爱,优先选择",substance意为"物质,内容",reference意为"参考,证明",这三个词放在句中不符合句子语义逻辑关系。
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