专题06 完形填空考点揭秘（下） -【高频考点解密】2024年高考英语二轮复习高频考点追踪与预测（上海专用）

专题06 完形填空考点揭秘（下） 01专题网络·思维脑图 02考情分析·解密高考 03高频考点·以考定法 04核心素养·微专题 05创新好题·分层练 （以2023年6月上海高考真题为例，深度解析高考完形填空命题趋势） Doctors are scientists who operate in a world of statistics, odds and probability. Yet they’ve long been taught that when dealing with patients they should convey a reassuring level of confidence and certainty. (41) ______, patients expect their doctors to give them a clear diagnosis and a straightforward course of treatment. But now that information about every medical condition imaginable is just a few clicks away, experts are asking whether doctors' apparent (42) ______ when communicating with their patients actually does more harm than good. With the information overload brought by the progress of medicine and technology answers are  (43)  ______ black or white. Medical schools are only just starting to teach doctors how to deal with this, and patients' expectations haven't (44)  ______, either. “Medicine has always fallen short of the sort of certainty that we find in math and geometry”, says Dr. Ross Upshur, a researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health in Toronto. “If you think about knowledge and what it does, it’s about (45)  ______ uncertainty, not about creating certainty. ” Doctors in training, like gamblers, need to be (46) ______ working in a field in which they’re constantly weighing the odds based on a myriad of factors. When Upshur teaches medical students how to diagnose an ailment(小恙), he tells them to (47)  ______ their inquiry ---- come up with a list of possibilities, rather than quickly home in on a single solution. “Even when you make a diagnosis that you think is firm, you usually don’t have certainty about what would be the best (48)  ______ and what the outcomes will be in the long run.”  Technology has helped (49) ______ the quest for certainty. We are reaching a point where we can feed a list of symptoms into a computer and get a more (50) ______ diagnosis than from a doctor. Dr. Richard Schwartzstein, a professor of