2022 年医学考博英语统考听力真题
Conversation 1
A.I have a really bad headache.What doyou recommend?
B.You can purchase some over-the-counter pain relievers in aisle 6
A:Do I need a prescription for those?
B:No.You just pick whichever brand you prefer and pay for it at the register.
A:Is there a difference between the name-brand pills and store- brand pills?
B:Usually there isn’t.Just compare the labels and look for the active ingredients
A: The store- brand is less expensive
B:Usually itis just as effective
A:I sure hope so because l want to save money and not have an headache
1.Where would the woman find the pain reliever?
2.What do we know about the store-brand pills?
3.What are the two speakers mainly talking about?
Conversation 2
A: In the last few years, professor Laurie Santos from Yale University has been
teaching students about the pursuit of happiness-the most popular course Yale has
ever had. Welcome,professor Santos
B:Morning.Thank you for having me
A:I heard you’ve developed the high school version of this course. So why did you
expand the curriculum to high schoolers?
B: Well,I started the class by seeing mental health issues in college students.And
I quickly realized that many students came to college with those issues.The health
statistics for young people are really devastat-ing
A: Really?
B: Yeah. So l want to give the high school students the tool to improve their
well-being and flourish a bit more
4.What is the main topic of this conversation?
5.What do we know about the health statistics for young people?
6.How would Professor Santos’coursehelp high school students?
Conversation 3
A:As a pediatrician,what do you tell parents when they come in and beg you “Please
give me antibiotics for my child? She's sick.
B:l am a parent,too.So l understand you want to do something.But antibiotics wont
work for viral infec-tions,but only for bacterial ones
A:So what can we do in the case of viral infections?
B:Unfortunately,we are sort of limited in what we can do.Good old-fashioned chicken
soup,fluids and a hu-midifier in the room,elevating the head at bed at night so
that they can breathe and sleep.Those are theihings that are really effective
7.What do we know about the woman?
8.What does the woman say about the treatment for viral infections?
9.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
Conversation 4
A:Now a study finds hospitals that trained their operating room members in teamwork
had a lower rate of surgical deaths than other hospitals
B:That's a quite important finding. No doctor wants to make a mistake.That's why
doctors are required to be trained in teamwork and communication and tne training
seeks to empower each team member
A:Right. The study suggests one of the key elements for training was flattening the
hierarchy in the operating room So that everybody, the nurse, the surgeon and the
anesthesiologist could bring up any concerns they had about the patients
B:And the more training, the better communications among team members,and the
greater the chances that the patients would sunive
10.What is the key element of training mentioned by the speakers7
11.Whatis mentioned by the speakers as the favourable outcome of the training?
12.Whatare two speakers mainly talking about?
Conversation 5
A:Did you know that trees can communicate with each other?
B:lnteresting! But how?
A:A professor of forest ecology at University of British Columbia observed how
logging companies would Cut down diverse forests and replace them with the single
tree species. They believe that by removing comp etition, the favored trees would
thrive as they would receive more space,water,and sun light.
B:ls that so?
A:However.the favoured trees were actually more prone to diseases.10%of them would
die if the surroun ding trees were removed. Trees communicate through underground
network of fungi. The fungi help conne ct trees of different species across the
forests
B:That is amazing
13.Why would logging companies remove some trees?
14.What can be inferred about the result of tree removal?
15.Whatis the subject of the conversation?