Taking a picture of your tongue with a mobile phone could soon instantly tell you how healthy you are. Researchers believe the images can reveal important information about a patient’s health and even give them early warning of serious illness.
A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle, which is based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body, and uses the tongue as a key to learning about a person’s physical health, or “zheng” according to Chinese medicine.
“Within a year, our goal is to create an application for smart phones that will allow anyone to take a photo of their tongue and learn the status of their zheng,” said Dong Xu, chair of MU’s Computer Science Department in the College of Engineering and the co-author of the latest study.
The software analyzes images based on the tongue’s color and coating to distinguish between tongues showing signs of “hot” or “cold” zheng. Shades of red and yellow are associated with hot zheng, whereas a white coating on the tongue is a sign of cold zheng.
“Hot and cold zheng doesn’t refer directly to body temperature,” said Xu, “Rather, it refers to a series of symptoms associated with the state of the body as a whole.”
For the study, 263 gastritis(胃炎) patients and 48 healthy volunteers had their tongues analyzed. The gastritis patients were classified by whether they showed infection by a certain bacteria as well as the intensity of their gastritis symptoms. In addition, most of the gastritis patients had been previously classified with either hot or cold zheng. This allowed the researchers to test the accuracy of the software’s analysis.
“Our software is able to classify people based on their zheng status. And as we continue to work on the software we hope to improve its ability,” said another co-author Ye Duan, “Eventually everyone will be able to use this tool at home using webcams or smart phone applications, which will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.”
小題1: The software mentioned in the passage is based on ________.
A．the latest development of smart phones
B．a(chǎn) traditional Chinese medical principle
C．the changes in one’s flow and energy
D．symptoms related with the state of the body
小題2:According to Chinese medicine, zheng refers to ________.
A．one’s body temperatureB．the physical health of a person
C．the possible disease of a personD．the color and coating of one’s tongue
小題3:The study led by Dong Xu proves _________.
A．the effect of the software
B．the software’s great prospect
C．the advancement of smart phones
D．the greatness of Chinese medicine
小題4:The underlined word “ailments” can be replaced by _________.
A．a(chǎn)nalysisB．effectsC．illnessesD．a(chǎn)pplications
小題5:It can be inferred from the passage that _________.
A．the software still needs improvement
B．the subjects in the study are all gastritis
C．the software has been in market for a year
D．the subjects in the study are classified by age

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C
小題5:A

試題分析：文章介紹了一種新的手機(jī)軟件，通過拍攝舌頭的圖片，軟件可以根據(jù)中醫(yī)原理判斷一個(gè)人的健康狀況，給出適當(dāng)?shù)慕ㄗh。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第二段的句子：A team at the University of Missouri is developing a system that can analyze pictures using a 5,000-year-old Chinese principle,可知文章提到的軟件是以傳統(tǒng)醫(yī)學(xué)原則為基礎(chǔ)的，選B
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第二段的句子： and uses the tongue as a key to learning about a person’s physical health, or “zheng” according to Chinese medicine.可知根據(jù)中醫(yī)zheng指的是一個(gè)人的健康狀況，選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第六段的句子：This allowed the researchers to test the accuracy of the software’s analysis.可知Dong Xu的研究證明了這個(gè)軟件的效果，選 A
小題4:猜詞題：從文章最后一段的句子：which will allow them to monitor their zheng and get an early warning about possible ailments.這個(gè)軟件可以讓人們監(jiān)控他們的癥狀，得到可能的疾病的早期的警告：可知“ailments” 指的是“疾病”，選C
小題5:推理題：從文章最后一段的句子：And as we continue to work on the software we hope to improve its ability,”可知這個(gè)軟件還需要改善，選A
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