题目内容：

    FOR ALL the technological wonders of modern medicine, from gene-editing to fetal(胎儿的) surgery, health care—with its fax machines and clipboards(资料夹)—is often stubbornly old-fashioned. This outdated era is slowly drawing to a close as, slowly, the industry catches up with the artificial-intelligence (AI) revolution. And it should have happened earlier, argues Eric Topol, a heart doctor keen on digital medicine.

Dr Topol’s vision of medicine’s future is optimistic. He thinks AI will be particularly useful for repetitive tasks where errors arise easily, such as selecting images, examining heart traces for abnormal symptoms or recording doctors’ words into patient records. In short, AI is set to save time, lives and money.

Much of this is imaginary—but AI is already defeating people in a variety of narrow jobs for which it has been trained. Eventually it may be able to diagnose and treat a wider range of diseases. Even then, Dr Topol thinks, humans would watch over the rules, rather than being replaced by them.

The author’s fear is that AI will be used to deepen the assembly-line(流水线) culture of modern medicine. If it awards a “gift of time” on doctors, he argues that this additional benefit should be used to extend the time of consultations, rather than simply speeding through them more efficiently.

The Hippocratic Oath holds that there is an art to medicine as well as a science, and that “warmth, sympathy and understanding may be more important than the surgeon’s knife or the chemist’s drug”. That is not just a cliché: the patients of sympathetic physicians have been shown to do better. As Dr Topol says, it is hard to imagine that a robot could really replace a human doctor. Yet as demand for health care goes beyond the supply of human carers, the future may involve consultations on smartphones and measurements monitored by chat robots. The considerately warmed stethoscope(听诊器), placed gently on a patient’s back, may become history.

1.According to the author, health care has been generally considered ____________.

A. to bring out many technological wonders

B. to boost the sales of fax machines and clipboards

C. to be out of date and fail to keep up with modern times

D. to constantly catch up with new technological progress

2.AI is set to save time, lives and money because it can ___________.

A. repeat doctors’ words and instructions

B. correct doctors’ errors and mistakes

C. select doctors according to patients’ demands

D. replace doctors’ tasks in certain fields

3.The underlined word “cliché” is closest in meaning to __________.

A. an idea so often used that becomes uninteresting

B. an idea so interesting that is often used

C. an effective rule that applies to medicine and doctors

D. a benefit to both doctors and patients

4.It can be inferred from the passage that _____________.

A. AI will completely replace the jobs of doctors

B. doctors’ sympathy and understanding should not be ignored

C. the application of AI will discourage the assembly-line culture

D. AI will bring warmth, sympathy and understanding to patients