三、Part Ⅲ　Reading Comprehension  (40 minutes)

Section A

  Signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room. But the  1   popularity of electronic medical records has forced hospital-based doctors to become  2   on computers throughout the day, and desktops—which keep doctors from besides—are  3   giving way to wireless devices.
　　As clerical loads increased, “something had to  4  , and that was always face time with patients,” says Dr. Bhakti Patel, a former chief resident in the University of Chicago’s internal-medicine program. In fall 2010, she helped  5   a pilot project in Chicago to see if the iPad could improve working conditions and patient care. The experiment was so  6   that all internal-medicine programs adopted the same 7  in 2011. Medical schools at Yale and Stanford now have paperless, iPad-based curriculums. “You’ll want an iPad just so you can wear this” is the slogan for one of the new lab coats  8   with large pockets to accommodate tablet computers.
　　A study of the University of Chicago iPad project found that patients got tests and  9  faster if they were cared for by iPad-equipped residents. Many patients also  10   a better understanding of the illnesses that landed them in the hospital in the first place.

A.dependent

B.designed

C.fast

D.flying

E.gained

F.give

G.growing

H.launch

I.policy

J.prospect

K.rather

L.reliable

M.signal

N.successful

O.treatments