Question

Using a Mobile Phone to Improve Mother and Child Health

People around the world are working to expand the uses for mobile technology in health care.

In the world, there are six billion mobile phone users in a population of seven billion people.

   1.     Africa has widespread adoption. Three or four years ago the penetration rates were 20 percent or 30 percent, and now they’re getting upwards of 60 percent in some countries.

    2.     Earlier research has been to look at mobile technologies and HIV and AIDS. And so we have some great evidence on the effectiveness of mobiles.

During the first week of December, 2012, more than 4,000 people from 50 countries met for the fourth annual mHealth Summit. It brought together experts from what the organizers call the mHealth ecosystem.

In 2011 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton started a public/private partnership called the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action, or MAMA. There are about 800 women a day and about three million babies a year die from pregnancy and childbirth-related causes.      3.     The messages cover pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life. These health messages may also be sent to a pregnant woman’s husband and mother-in-law.    4.    

Messages can be text or voicemail. You can have a pregnant woman in Bangladesh registered into a system that provides messages that help her know what to do and when to do certain things.

Simple text messages can be important sources of information to people without Internet

access.      5.     They have to be able to read through thousands of entries that come back to them on Google, for example, and then figure out what that information means to them. And that’s not something that someone in a poor and uneducated kind of situation can do.  

A．They have no access to the relevant information.

B．That way they too can understand what needs to be done.

C．Millions of messages about baby care are received every day.

D．A lot of work has been done to use mobile technology for health.

E. And the most rapidly growing markets are those in developing countries.

F. The program sends messages to women to educate them about their health.

G. Besides, online users may sometimes not understand all the information available.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.E

2.D

3.F

4.B

5.G 

【解析】

试题分析：

1.从后面的句子：Africa has widespread adoption. 可知发展中国家是快速增长的市场。选E

2.从后面的句子：Earlier research has been to look at mobile technologies and HIV and AIDS.可知关于移动科技和健康的问题已经做了很多工作，选D

3.从后面的句子：The messages cover pregnancy and the first year of a baby’s life.可知这个程序发送信息给女性教育她们关于健康的问题。选F

4.从前面的句子：These health messages may also be sent to a pregnant woman’s husband and mother-in-law.可知这样他们也知道怎么做了。选B

5.从后面的句子：They have to be able to read through thousands of entries that come back to them on Google, for example, and then figure out what that information means to them. 可知人们不一定理解网上的信息。选G 

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