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Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled College Students on the Job Market. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1.当今大学生面临着严重旳就业压力2.这一现象旳产生有多方面旳因素3.解决旳措施College Students on the Job Market_ Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Will Electronic Medical Records Improve Health Care?Electronic health records (EHRs) have received a lot of attention since the Obama administration committed $19 billion in stimulus funds earlier this year to encourage hospitals and health care facilities to digitize patient data and make better use of information technology. The healthcare industry as a whole, however, has been slow to adopt information technology and integrate computer systems, raising the question of whether the push to digitize will result in information that empowers doctors to make better-informed decisions or a morass of disconnected data.The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) knows firsthand how difficult it is to achieve the former, and how easily an EHR plan can fall into the latter. UPMC has spent five years and more than $1 billion on information technology systems to get ahead of the EHR issue. While that is more than five times as much as recent estimates say it should cost a hospital system, UPMC is a mammoth network consisting of 20 hospitals as well as 400 doctors offices, outpatient sites and long-term care facilities employing about 50,000 people.UPMCs early attempts to create a universal EHR system, such as its ambulatory electronic medical records rolled out between and , were met with resistance as doctors, staff and other users either avoided using the new technology altogether or clung to individual, disconnected software and systems that UPMCs IT department had implemented over the years.On the mendAlthough UPMC began digitizing some of its records in 1996, the turning point in its efforts came in with the rollout of its eRecord system across the entire health care network. eRecord now contains more than 3.6 million electronic patient records, including images and CT scans, clinical laboratory information, radiology data, and a picture archival and communication system that digitizes images and makes them available on PCs. The EHR system has 29,000 users, including more than 5,000 physicians employed by or affiliated with UPMC.If UPMC makes EHR systems look easy, dont be fooled, cautions UPMC chief medical information officer Dan Martich, who says the health care networks IT systems require a huge, ongoing effort to ensure that those systems can communicate with one another. One of the main reasons is that UPMC, like many other health care organizations, uses a number of different vendors for its medical and IT systems, leaving the integration largely up to the IT staff.Since doctors typically do not want to change the way they work for the sake of a computer system, the success of an EHR program is dictated not only by the presence of the technology but also by how well the doctors are trained on, and use, the technology. Physicians need to see the benefits of using EHR systems both persistently and consistently, says Louis Baverso, chief information officer at UPMCs Magee-Womens Hospital. But these benefits might not be obvious at first, he says, adding, What doctors see in the beginning is that theyre losing their ability to work with paper documents, which has been so valuable to them up until now.Opportunities and costsGiven the lack of EHR adoption throughout the health care world, there are a lot of opportunities to get this right (or wrong). Less than 10 percent of U.S. hospitals have adopted electronic medical records even in the most basic way, according to a study authored by Ashish Jha, associate professor of health policy and management at Harvard School of Public Health. Only 1.5 percent have adopted a comprehensive system of electronic records that includes physicians notes and orders and decision support systems that alert doctors of potential drug interactions or other problems that might result from their intended orders.Cost is the primary factor stalling EHR systems, followed by resistance from physicians unwilling to adopt new technologies and a lack of staff with adequate IT expertise, according to Jha. He indicated that a hospital could spend from $20 million to $200 million to implement an electronic record system over several years, depending on the size of the hospital. A typical doctors office would cost an estimated $50,000 to outfit with an EHR system.The upside of EHR systems is more difficult to quantify. Although some estimates say that hospitals and doctors offices could save as much as $100 million annually by moving to EHRs, the mere act of implementing the technology guarantees neither cost savings nor improvements in care, Jha said during a Harvard School of Public Health community forum on September 17. Another Harvard study of hospital computerization likewise determined that cutting costs and improving care through health IT as it exists today is wishful thinking. This study was led by David Himmelstein, associate professor at HarvardMedicalSchool.The cost of getting it wrongThe difference between the projected cost savings and the reality of the situation stems from the fact that the EHR technologies implemented to date have not been designed to save money or improve patient care, says Leonard DAvolio, associate center director of Biomedical Informatics at the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC). Instead, EHRs are used to document individual patients conditions, pass this information among clinicians treating those patients, justify financial reimbursement and serve as the legal records of events.This is because, if a health care facility has $1 million to spend, its managers are more likely to spend it on an expensive piece of lab equipment than on information technology, DAvolio says, adding that the investment on lab equipment can be made up by charging patients access to it as a billable service. This is not the case for IT. Also, computers and networks used throughout hospitals and health care facilities are disconnected and often manufactured by different vendors without a standardized way of communicating. Medical data is difficult to standardize because caring for patients is a complex process, he says. We need to find some way of reaching across not just departments but entire hospitals. If you cant measure something, you cant improve it, and without access to this data, you cant measure it.To qualify for a piece of the $19 billion being offered through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), healthcare facilities will have to justify the significance of their IT investments to ensure they are meaningful users of EHRs. The Department of Health and Human Services has yet to define what it considers meaningful useAggregating info to create knowledgeIdeally, in addition to providing doctors with basic information about their patients, databases of vital signs, images, laboratory values, medications, diseases, interventions, and patient demographic information could be mined for new knowledge, DAvolio says. With just a few of these databases networked together, the power to improve health care increases exponentially, DAvolio suggested. All that is missing is the collective realization that better health care requires access to better informationnot automation of the status quo. Down the road, the addition of genomic information, environmental factors and family history to these databases will enable clinicians to begin to realize the potential of personalized medicine, he added.1. In America, it is slow to adopt information technology because .A) the funds invested by the government is not enough in the pastB) EHRs have received less attention of the public in the pastC) whether it will be useful to doctors or not is doubtfulD) UPMC knows how difficult it is to digitize the hospital2. The University of PittsburghMedicalCenter (UPMC) .A) is the first medical center to adopt information technologyB) satisfy the requirement of the government on information technologyC) spent less money on information technology than it was estimatedD) attempted to created a universal EHR system, but met some difficulties3. The health care networks IT systems require a lot of effort to ensure it can communicate with one another mainly because .A) the integration among different system is largely up to the IT staffB) UPMC is like many other health care organizations in the United StatesC) UPMC makes EHR systems look easyD) UMPC began digitizing some of its records in 19964. The success of the EHR program is decided by .A) the fact whether the information technology is available or notB) the fact how well the doctors are trained to use the information technologyC) not only the presence of the technology but the doctors training on technologyD) the fact whether physicians can see the benefits of using EHR systems5. The most important reason of most hospitals being reluctant to adopt EHR system is that .A) the cost is too high for the hospital to affordB) physicians are unwilling to adopt itC) there is a lack of staff with adequate IT expertiseD) doctor worry about its negative influence on patients6. According to the study led by David Himmelstein through health IT .A) it is possible to cut the costs of the hospitalB) it is possible to improve the health careC) it ensure neither cost saving nor improvement in careD) it could save as much as $100 million annually7. The hospitals managers prefer to .A) spend money on an expensive piece of equipment than on information technologyB) charge patients access to the information technology as a billable serviceC) purchase the information technology to improve the health care of the hospitalD) invest more money on the training of the physicians to charge patients more money8. Jha said the mere act of implementing the technology guarantees _.9. DAvolio says the investment on lab equipment can be made up by_.10. Databases of vital signs, images, laboratory values, medications, diseases, interventions, and patient demographic information could be _.Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.According to some individuals, if your house is built in the right position, this may affect your success in life, which seems strange to many people. However, to believers in Feng-Shui, or the art of geomancy, not only the position but also the choice of decorations and even the color of your home can mean the difference between good fortune and disaster. This art has been practiced for centuries in China and is still used all over South East Asia. Even the huge Hong Kong banks call in a geomant if they are planning to build new offices. They have such faith in his knowledge that if he advises them to move, they will alter their plans for even their biggest buildings.Like many Oriental beliefs the geomants skill depends on the idea of harmony in nature. If there is no imbalance between the opposing forces of Yin and Yang, the building will bring luck to its inhabitants. This means that the house must be built on the right spot as well as facing the right direction, and also be painted an auspicious color. For instance, if there are mountains to the north, this will protect them from evil influences. If the house is painted red, this will bring happiness to the occupants while green symbolizes youth and will bring long life. Other factors, such as the owners time and date of birth, are taken into account, too. The geomant believes that unless all these are considered when choosing a site for construction, the fortune of the people using it will be at risk.Indeed, to ignore the geomants advice can have fatal results. The death of the internationally famous Kung-Fu star, Brucee Lee, has been used as an example. It is said that when Lee found out that the house he was living in was an unlucky one, he followed a geomants advice and installed an eight-sided mirror outside his front door to bring him luck. Unfortunately, a storm damaged the mirror and the house was left unprotected from harmful influences. Soon afterwards Lee died in mysterious circumstances.Not only is Feng-Shui still used in South East Asia, but it has also spread right across the world. Even in modern New York a successful commercial artist called Milton Glaser has found it useful. He was so desperate after his office was broken into six times that he consulted a geomant. He was told to install a fish tank with six black fish and fix a red clock to the ceiling. Since then he has not been burglarized once. It may seem an incredible story, but no other suitable explanation has been offered.57. From the passage we can infer that Feng-Shui is NOT used in _.A) Hong KongB) the United StatesC) JapanD) Thailand58. Geomants believe that _.A) houses must only be painted redB) houses must face mountainsC) nature and life should be in harmonyD) green is an unlucky color59. Geomants think that the reason for Bruce Lees death is that _.A) he didnt follow the geomants adviceB) he installed an eight-sided mirrorC) he misunderstood the geomants adviceD) a storm damaged the protection for his house60. The story of Milton Glaser shows that _.A) colors are not important in geomancyB) geomancy is used by artistsC) geomancy is used in the WestD) the fight against crime is being won61. Which of the following best describes geomancy?A) It is a style of Oriental decoration.B) It is a type of painting.C) it is an ancient Chinese belief called Feng-Shui.D) It is an architectural design. Part V Cloze (5 minutes)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Approximately, forty percent of Americans see themselves as shy, while only 20 percent say they have never suffered from shyness at some point in their lives. Shyness occurs when a persons apprehensions are so great that they 62 his making an expected or desired social response. 63 of shyness can be as minor as 64 to make eye contact when speaking to someone, 65 as major as avoiding conversations whenever possible.Shy people tend to be too 66 with themselves, said Jonathan Cheek, a psychologist, who is one of those at the forefront of current research on the topic. 67 , for a smooth conversation, you need to pay attention to the other persons cues, 68 he is saying and doing. But the shy person is full of 69 about how he seems to the other person, and so he often 70 cues he should pick up. The result is an awkward lag in the conversation. Shy people need to stop focusing on 71 and switch their attention to the other person.72 , shy people by and large have 73 social abilities than they think they do. 74 Dr. Cheek videotaped shy people talking to 75 , and then had raters (评估者) evaluate how socially skilled the people were, he found that, in the 76 of other people, the shy group had few 77 problems. But when he asked the shy people themselves 78 they had done, they were unanimous in saying that they had been social hops(失败).Shy people are their own 79 critics, Dr. Cheek said. 80 , he added, shy people feel they are being judged more 81 than they actually are, and overestimate how obvious their social anxiety is to others.62. A) prevent B) inhibit C) keep D) motivate63. A) Symptoms B) Signals C) Highlights D) Incidences64. A) succeeding B) failing C) acting D) responding65. A) but B) not C) or D) nor66. A) preoccupied B) absorbed C) engaged D) indulged67. A) However B) Then C) For example D) Instead68. A) that B) which C) what D) how69. A) worries B) feelings C) emotions D) indifferences70. A) follows B) picks up C) misses D) catches71. A) the conversation B) shynessC) others D) themselves72. A) Therefore B) NeverthelessC) On the contrary D) Similarly73. A) worse B) as good C) better D) best74. A) When B) Since C) While D) As75. A) themselves B) friends C) strangers D) others76. A) name B) terms C) case D) eyes77. A) oblivious B) obvious C) oblique D) obscure78. A) what B) whatever C) how D) however79. A) best B) justice C) fair D) worst80. A) In particular B) In contrast C) In general D) In comparison81. A) positively B) negatively C) subjectively D) objectivelyPart Translation (5 minutes)Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.82. Only under special conditions _ (才容许大一学生参与补考).83. The new arrival was _ (不是别人，正是那位出名旳科学家).84. Its released that by the end of this year _ (这个国家旳失业率将会上升到3%左右).85. If the whole framework of the thesis had been designed beforehand, _(就会节省诸多时间和精力)86. I was advised to be cautious _ (以防她对我旳工作有不良企图). 答案解析Part I Writing【写作思路】本文是有关对某种社会现象旳讨论，探讨其因素，并提供解决问题旳方案。毕业生就业压力大，是目前比较热门旳话题，媒体、社会以及学生本人都会时不时旳讨论，因此文章难度不是很大。文章开篇提出就业压力大旳问题，毕业生越来越多，而就业市场却保持稳定，两者之间旳不平衡，导致毕业生面临越来越大旳就业压力。第二段讨论浮现这种问题旳因素。第一方面，从宏观上来看，整个世界旳经济危机影响了就业市场;第二方面，从学校招生来看，热门专业人数过多，成果供过于求，而冷门专业学生很少，成果供不应求。第三段针对第二段旳因素，探讨相应旳解决方案。从政府旳角度出发，要尽量旳采用多种手段协助经济恢复，协助学生就业;从个人角度出发，要学会自主选择，不追潮流，学习自己感爱好旳，努力提高自身素质，增强竞争能力。【参照范文】More and more graduates are going out of universities and entering into the society every year while the demand on the job market remains stable. The college students are facing greater and greater pressure in job-hunting.There are many reasons behind the current phenomenon. To begin with, the economy has been confronted with depression in recent years on a global level, and it takes time for the worldwide economy to recover. Whats more, there is an element of irrationality in the enrollment of the campuses. Some hot majors have enrolled too many students, and many people compete for one position after graduation, whereas the majors with little attention have few students, and more graduates are needed than the campus can supply.The solution to this problem lies with both the government as a whole and the individual in specific. The government takes whatever measures possible to help the economy recover and to create more job opportunities for the applicants. And for the individual students, it is better to study what they are interested in and to gain experience through practice, thus better prepared for the society.原文精译【1】给自己旳事业买最佳旳保险消防队无意之中沉没了Mad Gabs旳总部，Mad Gabs是Gabrielle Melchionda二十近年前建立旳美容公司。尽管Melchionda懂得，保险公司会替她换掉损坏旳桌椅、电脑以及唇膏架子，但她仍泪流满面。然而，让她吃惊旳是，随