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30. A) There can be no speedy recovery for mental patients.
B) Approaches to healing patients are essentially the same.
C) The mind and body should be taken as an integral whole.
D) There is no clear division of labor in the medical profession.
31. A) A doctor’s fame strengthens the patients’faith in them.
B) Abuse of medicines is widespread in many urban hospitals.
C) One third of the patients depend on harmless substances for cure.
D) A patient’s expectations of a drug have an effect on their recovery.
32. A) Expensive drugs may not prove the most effective.
B) The workings of the mind may help patients recover.
C) Doctors often exaggerate the effect of their remedies.
D) Most illnesses can be cured without medication.
(30) Western doctors are beginning to understand what traditional healers have always known that the body and the mind are inseparable. Until recently, modern urban physicians heal the body, psychiatrist the mind, and priests the soul. However, the medical world is now paying more attention to holistic medicine, which is an approach based on the belief that people’s state of mind can make them sick or speed their recovery from sickness. (31) Several study show that the effectiveness of a certain drug often depends on the patient’s expectations of it. For example, in one recent study, psychiatrist and a major hospital tried to see how patients could be made calm. They divided them into two groups. One group was given a drug while the other group received a harmless substance instead of medicine without their knowledge. Surprisingly, more patients in the second group showed the desired effect than those in the first group. In study after study, there’s a positive reaction in almost one-third of the patients taking harmless substances. How was this possible? How can such a substance have an effect on the body? (32) Evidence from a 1997 study at the University of California shows that several patients who received such substances were able to produce their own natural drug, that is, as they took the substance their brains released natural chemicals that act like a drug. Scientists theorized that the amount of these chemicals released by a person’s brain quite possibly indicates how much faith the person has in his or her doctor.
预览三道题各选项，出现了很多与医生和病人相关的词汇，如mental patients，healing，medical profession，doctor，hospital，recovery，drug，remedies等，由此可以推测这篇短文的谈论话题为医疗医药。
30. According to the speaker, what are western doctors beginning to understand?［答案］C) The mind and body should be taken as an integral whole.[听前猜测]四个选项都是陈述句，都是人们对事情的看法，因此推断本题考查人们对事情的看法。[精解]文章一开始提到西方的医生们开始理解传统医者的关于“人的身体和意识是不能分离”的观点，故本题应该选择C)。
31. What does the recent study at a major hospital seem to prove?［答案］D) A patient’s expectations of a drug have an effect on their recovery.[听前猜测]四个选项中除了B)都提到了影响病人康复的因素，有doctor’s fame，harmless substances和patient’s expectations of a drug等，由此推测本题考查影响病人康复快慢的各种因素。[精解]文章中间部分提到多项研究表明，the effectiveness of a certain drug often depends on the patient’s expectations of it，即“药效往往取决于病人对药物的期待程度”，选项D)是对此意的转述，故为正确答案。
32. What evidence does the 1997 study at the University of California produce?［答案］B) The workings of the mind may help patients recover.[听前猜测]四个选项都是与病人的治疗效果有关，听音时注意相关介绍。[精解]文章在最后部分介绍了加州大学1997年的研究。研究表明，许多服用无毒物质的病人能够在体内释放出象药物一样的化学物质。换句话说，病人的意识对康复有很大的影响。 |
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