Increasingly, Americans are being their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.
Every day, more than six million Americans turn to the Internet for medical answers – most of them aren’t nearly skeptical enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. Look up “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and plete information, free from a motivation for mercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warn that a large amount of inplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
The problem is most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that’s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative(权威的), so it’d hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
【小题1】According to the text, an increasing number of American .A．are suffering from mental disordersB．turn to Internet pharmacies for helpC．like to play deadly games with doctorsD．are skeptical about surfing medical websites【小题2】Some Americans stay away from doctors because they .A．find medical devices easy to operateB．prefer to be diagnosed online by doctorsC．are afraid to face the truth of their healthD．are afraid to misuse their health insurance【小题3】According to the study of Brown Medical School, .A．more than 6 million Americans distrust doctorsB．only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profitC．about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high qualityD．72% of health websites offer inplete and faulty facts【小题4】Which of the following is the author’s main argument?A．It’s cheap to self-treat your own illness.B．It’s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits.C．It’s reasonable to put up a medical website.D．It’s dangerous to be your own doctor.B
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(答案→)B
解析：
【小题1】本题考查理解细节信息的能力。由全文第一句 “Increasingly, Americans are being their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, ….”可知正确答案为B。
【小题2】本题考查语义替换的能力。由第一段Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game.可知正确答案为C。
【小题3】本题考查根据文章有关细节进行推理判断的能力。由第二段 “Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”.”可知，169家保健网站，只有16家安全可靠，即占1/10。故正确答案为C。
【小题4】本题考查概括主旨大意的能力。最后一段指出作者的写作目的和主要论点：健康网站参差不齐，直接找网站寻求健康信息不太可靠。