题目
But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in which health care is organized and financed. Contrary to public belief, it is not just a free competition system. To the private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not looking after the less fortunate and the elderly.
But even with this huge public part of the system, which this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 percent of the U.S. budget—large numbers of Americans are left out. These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits on income fixed by a government trying to make savings where it can.
The basic problem, however, is that there is no central control over the health system. There is no limit to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a heart attack, all the unfortunate person concerned can do is pay up.
Two-thirds of the population are covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want knowing that the insurance company will pay the bill.
The medical profession has as a result become America's new big businessmen. The average income of doctors has now reached $100,000 a year. With such vast incomes the talk in the doctor's surgery is as likely to be about the doctor's latest financial deal, as about whether the minor operation he is recommending at several thousand dollars is entirely necessary.
The rising cost of medicine in the U.S.A. is among the most worrying problem facing the country. In 1981 the country's health cost climbed 15.9 percent—about twice as fast as prices in general.
In the U.S. patients can expect, in medical treatment, ______.
A.occasional mistakes by careless doctors
B.a great deal of personal attention
C.low charge by doctors and hospitals
D.stacking nurses and bad services
第1题
They see many things which most people would fail____.
A: see
B: to see
C: seeing
D: seen
第2题
Scientists could see many things that most people would to see.
A. fell
B. fail
C. fall
D. fill
第3题
A.pollution
B.pop
C.population
D.popular
第4题
r war would be madness does not mean that it will not occur.
A) what B) which C) that D) why
第5题
The paragraph following this one would most likely deal with ______.
A.why some people can hear better than others
B.what can be done to help the hearing impaired
C.how this new auditory test is conducted
D.which hearing problems are the most severe
第6题
Acommon
Bordinary
Cusual
Dgeneral
第7题
A. feel
B. fail
C. fall
D. fill
第8题
More sleep in old age, however, is 50.____with better health, and most older people would feel better and more 51.____if they slept for longer periods, he said.
第9题
169 Which of the following would most likely increase the accuracy of estimating the project cost? A. Pricing out the work at lower levels in the work breakdown structure.
B. Using historical data.
C. Talking to people who have worked on similar projects.
D. All of the above.
E. A and C only
第10题
The passage mainly tells us that______.
A. money is the most important thing
B. there is something more important than money
C. we should look into their eyes while talking to people
D. the more money you have, the less happy you would be
第11题
A.Complain face-to-face to the waiter
B.Push the bad food to the side of their plate
C.Pull disgusted faces at each other
D.When the waiter asks if everything is all right they smile politely and mutter, ‘Yes, fine, thanks.’
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