Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?
Adverse drug reactions -- a major cause of death
B. Adverse drug reactions are medical errors
C. Doctors and adverse drug reactions
D. High incidence of adverse drug reactions
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(二)Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:If U.S. software companies don’t pay more attention to quality,they could kiss their business good-bye. Both India and Brazil are developing a world-class software industry. their weapon is quality and one of jobs is to attract the top U.S. quality specialists whose voices are not listened to in their country. Already, of the world’s 12 software houses that have earned the highest rating in the world, seven are in India. That’s largely because they have used new methodologies rejected by American software specialists. for example, for decades, quality specialists, W. Edwards Deming and J. M. Juran had urged U.S. software companies to change their attentions to quality. But their quality call mainly fell on deaf ears in the U.S. but not in Japan. by the 1970s and 1980s, Japan was grabbing market share with better, cheaper products. They used Deming’s and Juran’s ideas to bring down the cost of good quality to as little as 5% of total production costs in U.S. factories, the cost of quality then was 10 times as high: 50% in software it still is.Watts S. Humphrey spent 27 years at IBM heading up software production and then quality assurance, but his advice was seldom paid attention to. He retired from IBM in 1986. In 1987, he worked out a system for assessing and improving software quality. It has proved its value time and again. For example, in 1990 the cost of quality at Raytheon Electronics Systems was almost 60% of total software production costs. It fell to 15% in 1996 and has since further dropped to below 10%, so, like Deming and Juran, Humphrey seems to be winning more praises overseas than at home.Let’s hope that U.S. lead in software will not be eaten up by its quality problem.6.Which countries respected Deming’s and Juran’s ideas according to the passage?
A. India and Brazil
B. India and Japan
C. U.S and Japan
D. Japan and Brazil
Which of the following is true about the cost of software quality?
A. It is higher in U.than in Japan.
B. It is higher in Japan than in India.
C. It is higher in India than in Japan.
D. It is higher in Brazil than in U.S..
What does the passage say about watts Humphrey?
A. He was responsible for software production while at IBM.
B. He has won more respect in U.S than overseas.
C. His advanced system helped reduce the production cost.
D. He was paid more in overseas companies after this retirement.
What does the writer imply about software companies in the future?
A. Brazil may reduce their production costs.
B. Japan may employ more quality specialists than other counties.
C. India may take the lead in the competition.
D. U.S will surely beat other counties and win the competition.