Questões de Inglês

Dr. Stephen Smith, professor emeritus of family

medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, tells

his physician not to order a PSA blood test for prostate

cancer or an annual electrocardiogram to screen for

[5]  heart irregularities, since neither test has been shown to

save lives. Rather, both tests frequently find innocuous

quirks that can lead to a risky odyssey of tests and

procedures. Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at

the University of California says that mammograms

[10]  detect too many false positives ( suspicious spots that

turn out, upon biopsy, to be nothing) and tumors that

might regress on their own, and there is little if any

evidence that they save lives. “There are many areas of

medicine where not testing, not imaging, and not

[15]  treating actually result in better outcomes,” Redberg

says. In other words, “less is more”.

That less care can lead to better health and,

conversely, that more health care can harm health, runs

counter to most patients’ conviction that screenings and

[20]  treatments are inherently beneficial. Most of us

wouldn´t think twice if our doctor offered us a test that

has the power to expose a lurking tumor, or a clogged

artery, or a heart arrhythmia. Better to know – and get

treated‐ than to take risks, the reasoning goes.

[25]  However in an Archives paper published this

month, a panel of physicians announced its first list of

tests and treatments that should be dropped for certain

patients and ailments: antibiotics for sinus infections,

imaging for low back pain, osteoporosis screening for

[30]  women under 65 and electrocardiograms in low‐risk

patients.

(from No! The one word can save your life, by Sharon Begley, in NEWSWEEK, August 29,2011)

The preposition at occurs with the noun phrase at the University of California (lines 8 and 9). It occurs in all the following alternatives, except

Dr. Stephen Smith, professor emeritus of family

medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, tells

his physician not to order a PSA blood test for prostate

cancer or an annual electrocardiogram to screen for

[5]  heart irregularities, since neither test has been shown to

save lives. Rather, both tests frequently find innocuous

quirks that can lead to a risky odyssey of tests and

procedures. Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at

the University of California says that mammograms

[10]  detect too many false positives ( suspicious spots that

turn out, upon biopsy, to be nothing) and tumors that

might regress on their own, and there is little if any

evidence that they save lives. “There are many areas of

medicine where not testing, not imaging, and not

[15]  treating actually result in better outcomes,” Redberg

says. In other words, “less is more”.

That less care can lead to better health and,

conversely, that more health care can harm health, runs

counter to most patients’ conviction that screenings and

[20]  treatments are inherently beneficial. Most of us

wouldn´t think twice if our doctor offered us a test that

has the power to expose a lurking tumor, or a clogged

artery, or a heart arrhythmia. Better to know – and get

treated‐ than to take risks, the reasoning goes.

[25]  However in an Archives paper published this

month, a panel of physicians announced its first list of

tests and treatments that should be dropped for certain

patients and ailments: antibiotics for sinus infections,

imaging for low back pain, osteoporosis screening for

[30]  women under 65 and electrocardiograms in low‐risk

patients.

(from No! The one word can save your life, by Sharon Begley, in NEWSWEEK, August 29,2011)

According to paragraph 1, mammograms

Dr. Stephen Smith, professor emeritus of family

medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, tells

his physician not to order a PSA blood test for prostate

cancer or an annual electrocardiogram to screen for

[5]  heart irregularities, since neither test has been shown to

save lives. Rather, both tests frequently find innocuous

quirks that can lead to a risky odyssey of tests and

procedures. Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at

the University of California says that mammograms

[10]  detect too many false positives ( suspicious spots that

turn out, upon biopsy, to be nothing) and tumors that

might regress on their own, and there is little if any

evidence that they save lives. “There are many areas of

medicine where not testing, not imaging, and not

[15]  treating actually result in better outcomes,” Redberg

says. In other words, “less is more”.

That less care can lead to better health and,

conversely, that more health care can harm health, runs

counter to most patients’ conviction that screenings and

[20]  treatments are inherently beneficial. Most of us

wouldn´t think twice if our doctor offered us a test that

has the power to expose a lurking tumor, or a clogged

artery, or a heart arrhythmia. Better to know – and get

treated‐ than to take risks, the reasoning goes.

[25]  However in an Archives paper published this

month, a panel of physicians announced its first list of

tests and treatments that should be dropped for certain

patients and ailments: antibiotics for sinus infections,

imaging for low back pain, osteoporosis screening for

[30]  women under 65 and electrocardiograms in low‐risk

patients.

(from No! The one word can save your life, by Sharon Begley, in NEWSWEEK, August 29,2011)

In the passage, risky (line 7) means

Dr. Stephen Smith, professor emeritus of family

medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, tells

his physician not to order a PSA blood test for prostate

cancer or an annual electrocardiogram to screen for

[5]  heart irregularities, since neither test has been shown to

save lives. Rather, both tests frequently find innocuous

quirks that can lead to a risky odyssey of tests and

procedures. Dr. Rita Redberg, professor of medicine at

the University of California says that mammograms

[10]  detect too many false positives ( suspicious spots that

turn out, upon biopsy, to be nothing) and tumors that

might regress on their own, and there is little if any

evidence that they save lives. “There are many areas of

medicine where not testing, not imaging, and not

[15]  treating actually result in better outcomes,” Redberg

says. In other words, “less is more”.

That less care can lead to better health and,

conversely, that more health care can harm health, runs

counter to most patients’ conviction that screenings and

[20]  treatments are inherently beneficial. Most of us

wouldn´t think twice if our doctor offered us a test that

has the power to expose a lurking tumor, or a clogged

artery, or a heart arrhythmia. Better to know – and get

treated‐ than to take risks, the reasoning goes.

[25]  However in an Archives paper published this

month, a panel of physicians announced its first list of

tests and treatments that should be dropped for certain

patients and ailments: antibiotics for sinus infections,

imaging for low back pain, osteoporosis screening for

[30]  women under 65 and electrocardiograms in low‐risk

patients.

(from No! The one word can save your life, by Sharon Begley, in NEWSWEEK, August 29,2011)

In paragraph 1, Dr. Stephen Smith

The expression “devoid of” is closest in meaning to

According to the boy reading his report in this cartoon, books should be