题目内容
Any country has good reasons to want its citizens to be as healthy as possible. This led to the instruction of health service in many countries.
But there are different opinions about the Health Service. The number of patients treated every year and the cost of treatment are much greater than expected. This means that the people who work for the Health Service― doctors, nurses and other hospital workers have much more work to do, and as a result they have little time for preventive treatment.
However, the tough problem is that as many people are able to receive treatment more expensive than they can pay, sometimes people go and visit their doctors when they don’t really need to. As there are many patients, doctors cannot spend time long enough with each patient. So some people prefer to pay for their own treatment so that their doctors can examine them more carefully. In fact, some rich people feel that they should pay more free money, which would be given to other citizens.
55.
A. it is a very rich country in Europe
B. it is a country with the Health Service
C. everyone in the
D. people have to play part of the medicine fee
56. What is the problem in the Health Service?
A. Doctors and nurses are not working hard.
B. People can get more preventive treatment.
C. There are not enough well-trained doctors.
D. Money is not enough to employ more medical workers.
57. Why do many people go and see the doctors even when they really don’t need to?
A. To get necessary protective treatment.
B. To take back some expensive medicine.
C. To receive treatment free of charge.
D. To keep himself even more healthy.
58. What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A. There is much to improve the Health Service.
B. People should not go to the doctor’s unless necessary.
C. The Health Service is quite successful so far.
D. The rich should be allowed to pay for the treatment.
本文介绍了英国实施公共医疗卫生服务的情况，并揭示了由此所引发的一些社会问题。
55. B
解析：考查细节。根据第一段第二、三句可知答案。
56. D
解析：考查细节。此题可用排除法。根据第二段中The number of patients treated every year and the cost of treatment are much greater than expected. This means that the people who work for the Health Service--- doctors, nurses and other hospital workers have much more work to do.可排除A、C。根据本段最后一句and as a result they have little time for preventive treatment可排除B。
57. A
解析：考查目的。根据第三段However, the tough… they don’t really need to可推知许多人在根本不需要看医生时也去，是因为许多人能得到比他们支付的贵得多的治疗，即想得到必要的保护治疗。
58. B
解析：考查推理判断。根据最后一段尤其是第二句As there are… with each patient可推知本段意思是说，如果没必要就不要去看医生。
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The standard of living of any country means the average person's share of the goods and services which the country produces. A country’s standard of living, therefore, depends first and foremost on its ability to produce wealth. "Wealth" in this sense is not money, for we do not live on money but on things that money can buy, “goods” such as food and clothing, and "services" such as transport and entertainment.
A country's ability to produce wealth depends upon many factors, most of which have an effect on one another. Wealth depends to a very large degree upon a country's natural resources, such as coal, gold, and other minerals, water supply and so on. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile (肥沃的)soil and a favorable climate; other regions possess perhaps only one of these things, and some regions possess none of them. The USA is one of the wealthiest regions of the world because she has vast natural resources within her borders(边疆), her soil is fertile, and her climate is of great variety. The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the least wealthy.
Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn them to use. Sound and stable (稳定的)political conditions, and freedom from foreign invasion(侵略), enable a country to develop its natural resources peacefully and steadily, and to produce more wealth than another country equally well served by nature but less well ordered.
Another important factor is the technical efficiency(效能) of a country's people. Old countries that have, through many centuries, trained up numerous(无数的) skilled craftsmen and technicians are better placed to produce wealth than countries whose workers are largely unskilled.
Wealth also produces wealth. As a country becomes wealthier, its people have a large margin(富余)for saving, and can put their savings(储蓄) into factories and machines which will help workers to turn out more goods in their working day.
| Title | People's (1)_____ standard |
| Meaning | The average share of the goods and services for people (2) _____ by the country. |
| Some factors that (3) _____ the standard of living of any country | ▲ Wealth depends (4) _____ upon a country's natural resources such as coal, gold, other minerals, water supply and a fertile soil and a favorable climate ▲ Next to natural resources comes the ability to turn (5) _____ resources to use. ▲ The (6) _____ efficiency of a country's people is another important factor |
| The comparison between the USA and the Sahara Desert | ▲ The USA has vast natural resources, her soil is fertile, and it has (7) _____ climate ▲ The Sahara Desert, on the other hand, is one of the (8) _____ |
| The (9) _____ of wealth | ▲ Wealth also produces wealth. ▲ Wealthy people can put their savings into factories and machines which will help workers to (10) _____ out more goods in their working day. |