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Bringing Nanotechnology to Health Care for the Poor
Nanotechnology uses matter at the level of molecules and atoms. Researchers are finding different uses for particles with a length of one nanometer, or one-billionth of a meter. These include things like beauty products and dirt-resistant clothing. But one area where many experts believe nanotechnology holds great promise is medicine.
Last week, speakers at a program in Washington discussed using nanotechnology to improve health care in developing countries. The program took place at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Peter Singer at the University of Toronto says a nanotechnology called quantum dots could be used to confirm cases of malaria. He says it could offer a better way than the traditional process of looking at a person’s blood under a microscope.
In poor countries, this process is often not followed. As a result, sick people may get treated for mala
A. By traditionally looking at a person’s blood under a microscope.
B. By letting a person take some kind of medicine.
C. By lighting up in the presence of a targeted molecule.
D. By subjecting a person to an X-ray examination.
[单项选择] Natural Health Care
Natural health care is a philosophy and a set of principles and practices based on science that lead to an extraordinary level of personal health and happiness.
It recognizes the unity of all life and holds that physical, mental, and emotional health cannot be separated, and that personal health, environmental health, and community health are parts of a whole. Natural hygiene (卫生学) teaches that the best way to achieve best health is right living—developing self-esteem and a positive attitude towards life; eating fresh, whole natural foods; exercising regularly; getting plenty of rest and sleep; getting plenty of fresh air and sunshine; learning to handle stress; and avoiding all negative influences of life.
Basic principles: Natural health care is unique in its argument that health is normal—as simple as living in harmony with nature. Health and disease are a continuum (连续统一体)—the same physiological (生理的) laws govern the b
A. closely linked
B. completely unrelated
C. pretty much the same
D. quite unimportant
[单项选择]The cost of health care and health insurance remains the most urgent health problem facing the country today（ ）.
A. pressing
B. important
C. neglected
D. complicated
[填空题]Once you have a health care directive, the health providers ______.
[单项选择]Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community’s health.（ ）
A. destruction
B. contribution
C. charge
D. origin
[单项选择]In Canada health care is considered a social right, ______ in the
United States it is treated more like a commodity.
A. when
B. while
C. as
D. since
[填空题]In colonial times women provided health care for their families and neighbors. Doctors were often not (47) , and at that time they had not learned to cure many of the illnesses that we often go to a doctor for today. So women usually cared for the sick in their homes. Women did the work of both nurses and midwives, caring for people when they were sick and (48) babies.
Women also provided (49) medical services in the wars that our country was involved in. Women cared for wounded soldiers in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Their (50) work was the real beginning of modern nursing practices. Doctors became more (51) of the work done by nurses after seeing the skill that they used to treat the wounded soldiers. Training for nurses became more (52) available after the Civil War.
By the middle of the 1800’s, hospitals were being built to treat the sick and injured. The American Medical Association was also formed to
