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Part?V?Cloze?(15?minutes) Every?year?more?than?half?a?million?American?kids?have?drainage(排泄)?tubes?surgically?implanted?in?their?ears?to?combatpersistent?infections.?The?procedure,?know?as?tympanostomy,may?not?be?as?62?as?the?tonsillectomy?was?in?the?1940s,?but?itnow?63?as?the?nations?leading?childhood?64?and?a?new?studysuggests?its?being?vastly?overused.?In?65?more?than?6,000?scheduled?ear?tube?operations,?a?teamof?experts?66?by?Harvard?pediatrician?Lawrence?Kleinman?found?that?fewer?than?half?were?clearlyjustified. Each?year,?the?researchers?write?in?the?current?Journal?of?the?American?MedicalAssociation?(JAMA), several?hundred?thousand?children?in?the?United?States?may?be?67tympanostomy?tubes?that?offer?them?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?scars?theeardrum,?causing?a?partial?loss?of?71 .?Studies?show?that?the?benefits?are?most?likely?to?72?the?risksif?a?childs?middle?ear?has?produced?sticky?fluid?73?more?than?four?months?despite?treatment?74antibiotics.?For?less?virulent?infections,?drug?treatment?is?usually?a(n) 75 ,?safer?alternative?(thoughdrugs,?too,?can?be?overused).?In?the?new?JAMA?study,?Kleinmans?team?reviewed?the?medicalcharts?of?6,429?kids,?all?under?16, 76?doctors?had?recommended?the?procedure.?Even?makinggenerous?assumptions?about?the?likely?77 ,?the?researchers?found?that?a?quarter?of?the?proposedoperations?were?78 ,?since?less?invasive?alternatives?were?available, 79?another?third?were?as?likely?toharm?the?recipients?as?help?them. Parents?neednt?80?about?ear?tubes?that?are?already?in?place.?Once?81?implanted,?the?tiny?devicesprovide?drainage?for?six?months?to?a?year,?then?come?out?by?reducing?health?costs?by?hundredsof?millions?of?dollars?every?year. 62. [A]?rare?[B]?common?[C]?general?[D]?abnormal63. [A]?considers?[B]?alternates?[C]?ranges?[D]?ranks64. [A]?operation?[B]?disease?[C]?condition?[D]?injection65. [A]?finding?[B]?reviewin