综合写作：
Reading:
The world has been radically transformed by digital technology and many industries have incorporated technology advancements to streamline and optimize their operations. one field that has not yet fully embraced the digital age is the medical industry. many proponents advocate modernizing the medical industries record keeping system so that digitizing patient health records becomes the new industry standard. shifting from paper medical records and physical filing to electronic medical records and digital filing will have considerable benefits.
Firstly, digitizing paper records and doing away with wasteful physical records will save money. the cost of keeping physical paper records, to name but a few, includes the cost of paper, printer ink, and physical storage filing systems. switching to electronic medical records will eliminate these expenses and reduce costs, benefiting medical office record keepers and reducing operation overhead. in the case of large hospitals that treat hundreds of unique patients monthly, these cost reductions could translate into millions of dollars in savings.
Another benefit is safety. in the case of physical paper records, doctors obtain patient health history by having patients fill out forms about medical history, including previous surgeries, drugs they take on a regular basis, and so on. if a patient forgot to accurately provide information, or if information was not provided because it seemed unimportant, then doctors would not have a complete and accurate picture of patient health. having electronic health records can reduce errors, improve patient safety and support better patient outcomes by ensuring that each doctor has the most up-to-date and accurate patient medical history.
One more benefit of maintaining electronic medical records is the possible uses for medical research. submitted digital records can be used to accumulate and integrate patient records from geographically separate areas. this data can be compiled into a single database for medical research that encompasses patients from around the world at the click of a button. the monitoring and analysis of electronic medical records have the potential to make every patient a participant in a vast, ongoing clinical trial, pinpointing treatments and side effects that would otherwise be hard to discern.
Listening:
Directions: You have 20 minutesto plan and write your response. Your response will be judged on the basis of the quality of your writing and on how well your response presents the points in the lecture and their relationship to the reading passage. Typically an effective response will be 150 to 225 words.
Question:Summarize the points made in the lecture you just heard, explaining how they cast doubt on the specific theories discussed in the reading passage.
This week, I want you to discuss assessment criteria. Some schoolteachers give high grades (marks) only to those students who perform well on their homework assignments and tests. Other teachers, however, may give high grades to students who have worked very hard on their assignments but have not performed so well. Which approach do you think is better: Giving grades based only on performance, or grading students not just on performance but also on their effort?
Kelly的观点：
I think grades should be based on performance only. It’s a matter of fairness. I’d be really upset if another student got nearly the same grade that I did when I turned in work that was almost perfect and the other student’s work had incorrect answers or unclear ideas. It wouldn’t matter to me if they worked harder.
Paul的观点：
Sure, evaluation should mainly be based upon the student’s performance, but hard work should count for something. A student who works hard, even when the final grade isn’t the highest in the class, builds character, which will benefit the student later in life when they go to university or apply for a job.
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