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长沙理工大学课程考核试卷 （A卷） 2013――2014学年第1学期 命题教师签名: 审核教师签名： 课号：0502000055 课名：英语报刊选读 考试考查：考试 此卷选为：期中考试 （ ）、期终考试 （√）、重考（ ）试卷 年级 专业 学号 姓名 得分 题项 I II III IV Total 得分 Part I. Reading Comprehension Directions: There are 3 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice Passage One Pregnancy mothers are getting a new tool to help keep themselves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips sent directly to their cell phones. The so-called text4baby campaign is the first free, health education program in the U.S. to harness the reach of mobile phones, according to its sponsors. Organizers say texting is an effective means of delivering wellness tips because 90 percent of people in the U.S. have cell phones. Especially if you start talking about low-income people, cell phones are the indispensable tool for reaching them and engaging them about their health, said Paul Meyer, president of Voxiva, a company which operates health texting programs in Africa, Latin America and India. Studies in those countries have shown that periodic texts can reduce smoking and other unhealthy behaviors in pregnant mothers. Meyer said the U.S. program, run by Voxiva, will be the largest health-related texting program ever undertaken. Under the new service, mothers-to-be who text “BABY,’ to a specified number will receive weekly text messages, timed to their due date or their babys birth date. The messages, which have been scanned by government and nonprofit health experts, deal with nutrition, immunization and birth defect prevention, among other topics. The messages will continue through the babys first birthday. Text4baby is expected to be announced Thursday morning by officials from the White Houses Office of Science and Technology Policy. Government officials will be publicizing the ca