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Computers are increasingly important in health care. But can they also help

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问题     Computers are increasingly important in health care. But can they also help poor people escape 【B1】______? Vikram Sheel Kumar thinks so. Mister Kumar is a doctor, an engineer and the owner of a small business in Boston, Massachusetts. And, in September, this 28-year-old 【B2】______an award for Technology in Service to Humanity, which came from Technology Review magazine.
    His goal is to improve health care in poor nations with the help of computers small enough to hold in one hand. These devices are known as personal【B3】______ assistants, or P.D.A.’s.
    Doctor Kumar started his company two years ago. It is called Dimagi, which means "【B4】______ guy" in Hindi(北印度语). His parents came from India. There, Dimagi computer programs are used to【B5】______ medical information on more than seventy thousand patients.
    Doctor Kumar says health care workers had problems at first, but then learned quickly how to use the devices. Nurses no longer have to carry heavy documents whenever they travel to villages. And they no longer have to copy【B6】______ health information by hand.
    In South Africa, health workers are using a Dimagi program for a different purpose in the KwaZu- lu-Natal area. They use it to【B7】______ results from tests for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. People who get tested must enter a secret【B8】______ code to see the results.
    Doctor Vikram Kumar says it is important to get patients【B9】______ their own health care by helping them gain information. He says there are endless possible uses for this technology, 【B10】______ in developing countries. And he urges people to suggest ways to improve it. Dimagi programs are written in code that is open to anyone. [br] 【B1】
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答案 poverty
解析 poverty“贫穷”，作escape的宾语；escape在此为及物动词，表示“避开，避免”。
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