Victoria Barzilai opened her mouth wide so the doctor could look at her sore throat. Not (1) a remarkable event, except that Victoria was at home and the doctor was hundreds of miles away. Feeling too sick to (2) herself to the school health center, the third-year university student had chosen a cyber-doctor visit, the 21st century (3) of a house call.
A number of websites offer face-to-face consultations of the (4) visit to anyone with a credit card and access to a webcam-equipped computer. The services are intended for patients with (5) minor problems that don’t require hands-on diagnoses or treatments, not for people who need stitches, MRIs or casts on broken limbs.
One presumed strong advantage of e-visits like these is (6) . That counted with Victoria who points out that "My doctor is at least an hour away, and besides, I didn’t know wh
A. urgent
B. credible
C. contract
D. exactly
E. relatively
F. version
G. criticism
H. charge
I. dazzle
J. convenience
K. drag
L. dedicate
M. residents
N. deliberately
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attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths
from the American mainstream. Harry Holzer, an economist at Georgetown
University and a co-author of one of the recent studies, feels joblessness is
due to largely weak schooling, a lack of reading and math skills at a time when
such skills are increasingly required even for blue-collar jobs. Unable to find
jobs, he claims, black males turn to illegal activities, especially the drug
trade and chronic drug use, and often end up in prison. As usual, it fails to answer the important questions. Why are young black men doing so poorly in school that they lack basic literacy and math skills Scholars must have known that countless studies by educational experts have found that poor schools, per se(本质上), do not explain why after 10 years o A. They are inspired by black superstar athletes and entertainers. B. The subculture they live in makes them satisfied and respectable. C. The white youths respect the black people a lot. D. The black people lead a greatly satisfactory life. 我来回答: 提交
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