人教专题04+时文阅读理解-健康饮食-2023年高考英语时文阅读理解、完形填空、语法填空专练.docx

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专题04时文阅读理解-健康与饮食
主题语境—人与社会—人工智能—丙型肝炎 “隐形”患者—提供及时治疗—取得显著成效—人们积极评价。
重点单词—artificial人造的；wipe out清除；identify确认，识别；
1.Health chiefs are to use artificial intelligence to screen and treat people at risk of hepatitis C (丙型肝炎) under plans to wipe out the life-threatening disease by 2030.
The National Health Service (NHS) scheme, due to start within weeks in England, aims to identify thousands of patients unaware that they have the virus so that treatment can be given before it is too late. Staff will use AI to comb through patient health records and look for significant risk factors, such as historical blood transfusions (输血) or an HIV diagnosis. Hepatitis C often has no noticeable symptoms until the liver is severely damaged, which means the infected party may not know they are living with a potential killer. It can be cured with modern treatments.
Anyone identified by the AI software will be invited for a consultation by their doctors and, if necessary, will experience further screening for hepatitis C．Patients who test positive for the virus — which can be caught from contact with the blood of an infected person, such as by sharing a needle — will be offered antiviral medicines after NHS England struck a deal with three drug companies. Professor Graham Foster, the national clinical chairman for NHS England’s hepatitis C elimination (消灭) programmes, described the scheme as “a significant step forward” in the fight to eliminate the virus.
Hepatitis C deaths fell by 35 percent in the five years to 2020, from 482 to 314, according to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency. The fall in deaths was thanks to earlier detection of the virus and improved access to treatments, health experts said.
NHS staff will also visit at-risk communities in specially equipped vans (货车), to test for the virus and carry out liver health checks, in a bid to wipe out the virus in England before the 2030 goal set by the World Health Organization.
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