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四级完型填空预测
四级完型填空预测（1）
Part?V?Cloze?(15?minutes)
Every?year?more?than?half?a?million?American?kids?havedrainage?(排泄)?tubes?surgically?implanted?in?their?ears?tocombat?persistent?infections.?The?procedure,?know?astympanostomy,?may?not?be?as?62?as?the?tonsillectomy?was?inthe?1940s,?but?it?now?63?as?the?nations?leading?childhood?64and?a?new?study?suggests?its?being?vastly?overused.?In?65more?than?6,000?scheduled?ear?tube?operations,?a?team?of?experts?66?by?Harvard?pediatricianLawrence?Kleinman?found?that?fewer?than?half?were?clearly?justified. Each?year,?theresearchers?write?in?the?current?Journal?of?the?American?Medical?Association?(JAMA), severalhundred?thousand?children?in?the?United?States?may?be?67?tympanostomy?tubes?that?offerthem?no?demonstrated?68 ...and?may?place?them?at?increased?69 .
Tube?placement?isnt?a?70?risky?procedure,?but?it?costs?$1,000?to?$1,500?and?sometimes?scarsthe?eardrum,?causing?a?partial?loss?of?71 .?Studies?show?that?the?benefits?are?most?likely?to?72the?risks?if?a?childs?middle?ear?has?produced?sticky?fluid?73?more?than?four?months?despitetreatment?74?antibiotics.?For?less?virulent?infections,?drug?treatment?is?usually?a(n) 75 ,?saferalternative?(though?drugs,?too,?can?be?overused).?In?the?new?JAMA?study,?Kleinmans?teamreviewed?the?medical?charts?of?6,429?kids,?all?under?16, 76?doctors?had?recommended?theprocedure.?Even?making?generous?assumptions?about?the?likely?77 ,?the?researchers?foundthat?a?quarter?of?the?proposed?operations?were?78 ,?since?less?invasive?alternatives?wereavailable, 79?another?third?were?as?likely?to?harm?the?recipients?as?help?them.
Parents?neednt?80?about?ear?tubes?that?are?already?in?place.?Once?81?implanted,?the?tinydevices?provide?drainage?for?six?months?to?a?year,?then?come?out?by?reducing?health?costs?byhundreds?of?millions?of?dollars?every?year.
62. [A]?rare?[B]?common?[C]?general?[D]?abnormal 63. [A]?considers?[B]?alternates?[C]?ranges?[D]?ranks 64. [A]?operation?[B]?disease?[C]?condition?[D]?injection 65. [A]?finding?
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