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A Chines hospital on Thursday launched free consultations featuring artificial-intelligence (AI) cameras to detect eye diseases, which are major causes of blindness.

Deqing county hospital in Guangdong Province became the first to use the device, co-developed by China’s search engine Baidu and Sun Yat-sen University, to serve the general public, Baidu told Xinhua.

The instrument is capable of diagnosing three types of eye disorders — diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration. It scans the eyes and generates a report in 10 seconds, all done without the need for an doctor to be present.

With an accuracy rate of 94 percent, it had previously been piloted in hospitals in nine Chinese provinces, according to Baidu.

Though it may be interpreted as AI making the doctors lose their jobs, Baidu said the new tool aimed to help cut the waiting line at the eye doctor’s short, especially in China’s rural regions.

Eye diseases are a major cause of blindness in the developing world, where the short supply of eye doctors and instruments make it difficult to check and treat in time. China, with a population of 1.39 billion, has only thousands of eye doctors capable of analyzing eye screening photos.

Xu Yanwu, a Baidu engineer developing the instrument, said the AI cameras were specifically designed to address the lack of medical instruments and eye doctors at grassroots health facilities.

1.How many kinds of eye disorders can the instrument diagnose?

A 1.

B 2.

C 3.

D 4.

解析：选C。细节理解题。根据第三段第一句The instrument is capable of diagnosing three types of eye disorders—diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and macular degeneration.可知这种仪器可以检测三种眼底疾病，故选C。

2.What’s the disadvantage of the instrument?

A It can make the eye doctors lose jobs.

B It can cut the treatment cost down.

C It can reduce the eye disorder rate.

D It can rise the eye treatment rate.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第五段第一句Though it may be interpreted as AI making the doctors lose their jobs, Baidu said the new tool aimed to help cut the waiting line at the eye doctor’s short, especially in China’s rural regions.可知这个发明可以被解读为会让眼科医生失业，这是这项发明的缺点，故选A。

3.What is the aim of the instrument?

A To make the eye disease check more accurate.

B To make eye disease treatment easier.

C To make eye doctors’ work easier.

D To make seeing an eye doctor easier.

解析：选D。推理判断题。根据第五段...Baidu said the new tool aimed to help cut the waiting line at the eye doctor’s short, especially in China’s rural regions.可知这种仪器发明的初衷就是让等待看眼科医生的队伍减下来，即让看眼科医生更容易，故选D。

4.Which of the following is TRUE?

A The AI instrument can bring brightness for blind people.

B The AI instrument is easy to use and have high accuracy.

C The AI instrument is invented by two universities.

D The eye doctors feel uneasy about the AI instrument.

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第三段最后一句It scans the eyes and generates a report in 10 seconds, all done without the need for an doctor to be present.和第四段With an accuracy rate of 94 percent...可知这种设备使用简单，无需医生在场，而且精确度很高，故选B。

5.What is the main idea of this passage?

A The short of eye doctors is making eye disease treatment hard.

B The AI instrument is being put into use to diagnose eye diseases.

C New diagnosing ways are being used for eye diseases.

D .Eye doctors are in danger of losing their jobs because of the AI instrument.

解析：选B。主旨大意题。根据本文高频词AI设备检查眼科疾病、这种设备精度高、使用方便、这种设备的设计初衷以及可能带来的影响可知本文主要内容是说AI设备投入眼底疾病检测，故选B。