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What impact can mobile phones have on their users’ health? Many individuals are concerned about the supposed ill effects caused

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问题     What impact can mobile phones have on their users’ health? Many individuals are concerned about the supposed ill effects caused by radiation from handsets and base stations,【C1】______ the lack of credible evidence of any harm. But evidence for the beneficial effects of mobile phones on health is rather more【C2】______ Indeed, a systematic review【C3】______ by Rifat Atun and his colleagues at Imperial College, London , gathers【C4】______ of the use of text-messaging in the 【C5】______ of health care. These uses【C6】______ three categories: efficiency gains; public-health gains; and direct benefits to patients by【C7】______ text-messaging into treatment regimes.
    Using texting to【C8】______ efficiency is not profound science, but big savings can be achieved. Several【C9】______ carried out in England have found that the use of text-messaging reminders【C10】______ the number of missed appointments with family doctors by 26-39% , and the number of missed hospital appointments by 33-50%. If such schemes were【C11】______ nationally, this would translate【C12】______ annual savings of ￡256-364 million.
    Text messages can also be a good way to deliver public-health information, particularly to groups【C13】______ are hard to reach by other means. Text messages have been used in India to【C14】______ people about the World Health Organization’s strategy to control tuberculosis(肺结核) . In Iraq, text messages were used to support a【C15】______ to immunize nearly 5 million children【C16】______ polio(小儿麻痹症).
    【C17】______ , there are the uses of text-messaging as part of a treatment regime. These involve sending reminders to patients to【C18】______ their medicine, or to encourage compliance with exercise regimes or efforts to stop smoking. However, Dr. Rifat notes that the evidence for the effectiveness of such schemes is generally【C19】______ . More quantitative research is【C20】______ —which is why his team also published three papers this week looking at the use of mobile phones in health care in more detail.
【C1】
选项 A、so
B、even
C、despite
D、and
答案C
解析 逻辑关系。“许多人担心手机及通信基站的辐射会对身体有害”和“缺乏可靠证据”两部分之间是转折关系，C项despite意为“尽管，不管”，符合题意，为正确答案。A项so表结果，B项even表递进，D项and表并列，三者都不是介词，从结构和语义上都可排除。
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