People today expect to be examined when they enter a doctor's office. At least they expect their blood pressure and temperature to be measured. However, as recently as two hundred years ago, a doctor's treatment depended on talking with patients. In general, the communication be- tween doctors and their patients was the most important part of medical methods. The modem age of medicine began with the stethoscope, an instrument for listening to patients' heartbeat and breathing. Before that, a doctor did not touch a patient. In fact, there was no such thing as a me- dical examination.
The stethoscopewith all other medical instruments--has a serious effect on the practice of medicine. Doctors become better at finding the medical problems. More lives are saved. At the same time, doctors give less importance to the communication between patients and doctors. Some doctors actually stop talking to their patients. It is easy to understand why some sick people thought themselves as broken machines.
24.A stethoscope can be used to_______.
A. check health conditions
B. cure some illnesses
C. measure temperatures
D. treat heart disease
25. Doctors give less importance to the communication between patients and doctors mainly be-cause_______.
A. modem medical instruments are used
B. they can cure more diseases and save more lives
C. they have much more medical experience than before
D. they are too busy to have time to talk with patients
26. Some sick people think of themselves as broken machines, which suggested that_______.
A. modem doctors should treat their patients as machines
B. the level of the treatment was greatly improved
C. they thought they were useless just like broken machines
D. they were not satisfied with the manner in which doctors treated them
篇章分析
本文是一篇说明文，从检查病人的身体状况方面说明了医学的进步。二百年前是通过医生和患者的交流来检测病人的身体状况，现在是通过专门的仪器来检测，于是更多的生命得到挽救。但是同时也有一些弊端，医生和病人之间的交流少了，病人觉得自己是破损的机器。
答案及解析
24.A
【题型】细节题
【解析】由文章第一段倒数第三句…stethoscope，an instrument for lis—tening to patients’heartbeat and breathing.可知，这种仪器是用来检查身体状况的。
25.A
【题型】细节题
【解析】由文章第二段可知，医生对于病人和他之间的交流不如以前重视是由于引进了现代医疗仪器。
26.D
【题型】推理题
【解析】由文章第二段可知，一些病人认为自己是破损的机器是因为医生与他们的交流少了，他们不满意医生现在对待他们的方式。
