18.
76.C
Physicians'fees are only one reason for rising health costs in the United States.Medical research has produced many tests to diagnose,or discover,patients'illness.Physicians usually feel obliged to order enough tests to rule out all likely causes of a patient's symptoms.A routine laboratory bill for blood tests can easily be more than $100.
77.A
Sophisticated new machines have been developed to enable physicians to scan body organs with a clarity never before possible.One technique involves the use of ultrasound-sound waves beyond the frequencies that human beings can hear-to produce images.Others use computers to capture and analyze images produced by X-rays or magnetic fields.These machines are extremely expensive:The price of a single machine can exceed one million dollars.
78.B
New technologies also mean new personnel.Physicians,nurses and orderlies can no longer staff a hospital alone.Hospitals now require a bewildering number of technical specialists to administer new tests and operate advanced medical equipment.
79.D
Physicians and hospitals also must buy malpractice insurance to protect themselves should they be sued for negligence by patients who feel they have been mistreated or have received inadequate care.The rates for this insurance have been raised very steeply in the last ten years,as patients have become more medically knowledgeable,and as juries sometimes awarded very large amounts of money to injured patients.
80.F
As a result,hospital costs and physicians'fees rose steadily through the 1990s.Government agencies became convinced that it was necessary to limit rising medical costs.One approach is to require hospitals to prove that a need exists for new buildings and services.Hospitals also have faced pressure to run their operations more efficiently,and to decrease the duration of hospital stays for patients receiving routine treatment or minor surgery.
A.Using expensive testing equipment B.Staffing a modern hospital C.Testing becoming a great help D.Cost of medical accidents E.Cost of training medical workers F.Measures of reducing medical costs |
Physicians'fees are only one reason for rising health costs in the United States.Medical research has produced many tests to diagnose,or discover,patients'illness.Physicians usually feel obliged to order enough tests to rule out all likely causes of a patient's symptoms.A routine laboratory bill for blood tests can easily be more than $100.
77.A
Sophisticated new machines have been developed to enable physicians to scan body organs with a clarity never before possible.One technique involves the use of ultrasound-sound waves beyond the frequencies that human beings can hear-to produce images.Others use computers to capture and analyze images produced by X-rays or magnetic fields.These machines are extremely expensive:The price of a single machine can exceed one million dollars.
78.B
New technologies also mean new personnel.Physicians,nurses and orderlies can no longer staff a hospital alone.Hospitals now require a bewildering number of technical specialists to administer new tests and operate advanced medical equipment.
79.D
Physicians and hospitals also must buy malpractice insurance to protect themselves should they be sued for negligence by patients who feel they have been mistreated or have received inadequate care.The rates for this insurance have been raised very steeply in the last ten years,as patients have become more medically knowledgeable,and as juries sometimes awarded very large amounts of money to injured patients.
80.F
As a result,hospital costs and physicians'fees rose steadily through the 1990s.Government agencies became convinced that it was necessary to limit rising medical costs.One approach is to require hospitals to prove that a need exists for new buildings and services.Hospitals also have faced pressure to run their operations more efficiently,and to decrease the duration of hospital stays for patients receiving routine treatment or minor surgery.
14.High school students in Asia often do better than American students on international math and science tests.Experts say (1)B is because schools in countries like China and South Korea do better at preparing students to take tests.Yet some of these (2)C countries want to learn what makes American students good at (3)A and critical thinking.
Evan Glazer,the principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in America,says the school (4)D science and math with literature and other liberal arts.
EVAN GLAZER:"Curriculum,when it's seen within one (5)D context,you're really just (6)A knowledge and skills.But if you want to look at the complexity of real problems and (7)B solutions,it requires people to come at them from different (8)C.And so we foster (培养) a lot of team teaching,(9)Dwith teachers from different (10)B so that,when they're offering challenges to students,that they have (11)Aview-points as they approach problems."
He points out that as East Asian countries consider greater (12)B for their schools,American education is (13)C in the opposite direction.Most states have recently approved (14)D standards in math and reading.
Evan Glazer:"In China and in Korea there is a strong interest in trying to get students to be more creative.And in America there is a strong interest in standardization.And,you know,the reality is we don't operate (15)A.It's trying to find that right balance."
Evan Glazer,the principal of Thomas Jefferson High School in America,says the school (4)D science and math with literature and other liberal arts.
EVAN GLAZER:"Curriculum,when it's seen within one (5)D context,you're really just (6)A knowledge and skills.But if you want to look at the complexity of real problems and (7)B solutions,it requires people to come at them from different (8)C.And so we foster (培养) a lot of team teaching,(9)Dwith teachers from different (10)B so that,when they're offering challenges to students,that they have (11)Aview-points as they approach problems."
He points out that as East Asian countries consider greater (12)B for their schools,American education is (13)C in the opposite direction.Most states have recently approved (14)D standards in math and reading.
Evan Glazer:"In China and in Korea there is a strong interest in trying to get students to be more creative.And in America there is a strong interest in standardization.And,you know,the reality is we don't operate (15)A.It's trying to find that right balance."
1.A.absolutely | B.partly | C.hardly | D.impossibly |
2.A.poor | B.small | C.same | D.ancient |
3.A.creativity | B.argument | C.relaxation | D.independence |
4.A.confuses | B.examines | C.evaluates | D.combines |
5.A.popular | B.useful | C.scientific | D.particular |
6.A.developing | B.inventing | C.destroying | D.considering |
7.A.difficult | B.original | C.ideal | D.easy |
8.A.moods | B.spirits | C.angles | D.theories |
9.A.talked | B.agreed | C.compared | D.mixed |
10.A.countries | B.subjects | C.ages | D.religions |
11.A.various | B.same | C.unbelievable | D.enough |
12.A.tasks | B.freedom | C.pressure | D.disciplines |
13.A.lost | B.refused | C.headed | D.stopped |
14.A.usual | B.ordinary | C.right | D.common |
15.A.oppositely | B.willingly | C.properly | D.eagerly |
12.Most people agree that a pet adds joy to a person's life.Scientists are now finding that having a pet may keep its owner (41)A.And good health may add years to a person's life.
Scientists have been (42)C the link between pets and health for years.In 1990,a study was done with people aged 65and older.It (43)B that pet owners went to the doctor less than people (44)D pets.Do pets make people (45)C?Are people able to handle their everyday lives better?Alan Beck,who is a researcher,says that (46)C the answer to the questions is yes,then having pets may be a good idea.
Can pets also help people live longer?Rebecca Johnson did a study to (47)A.Johnson teaches nurses how to care for (48)C people.Her study shows that having pets may cause people to (49)A more slowly.
The human body makes many chemicals.Some of the chemicals make people feel (50)D.Others make people feel bad.In Johnson's (51)A,levels of the"good"chemicals (52)D when people were around pets while levels of the"bad"chemicals went down.The good (53)B seemed to slow the aging of cells.If this is (54)C,maybe people should spend more time with their (55)B.Then people might feel better and (56)A longer.
You might be allergic(过敏的)to pets.Or you may not want to (57)D a pet.Never fear.A robotic,or computer pet may be just the thing for you.
Scientists are testing computer pets,like the robotic dog AIBO.They want to see if (58)B pets can help people the way (59)D dogs do.
Will a robotic pet (60)B the real pet sitting with you on the sofa?Something tells us that it will probably become a reality.
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Scientists have been (42)C the link between pets and health for years.In 1990,a study was done with people aged 65and older.It (43)B that pet owners went to the doctor less than people (44)D pets.Do pets make people (45)C?Are people able to handle their everyday lives better?Alan Beck,who is a researcher,says that (46)C the answer to the questions is yes,then having pets may be a good idea.
Can pets also help people live longer?Rebecca Johnson did a study to (47)A.Johnson teaches nurses how to care for (48)C people.Her study shows that having pets may cause people to (49)A more slowly.
The human body makes many chemicals.Some of the chemicals make people feel (50)D.Others make people feel bad.In Johnson's (51)A,levels of the"good"chemicals (52)D when people were around pets while levels of the"bad"chemicals went down.The good (53)B seemed to slow the aging of cells.If this is (54)C,maybe people should spend more time with their (55)B.Then people might feel better and (56)A longer.
You might be allergic(过敏的)to pets.Or you may not want to (57)D a pet.Never fear.A robotic,or computer pet may be just the thing for you.
Scientists are testing computer pets,like the robotic dog AIBO.They want to see if (58)B pets can help people the way (59)D dogs do.
Will a robotic pet (60)B the real pet sitting with you on the sofa?Something tells us that it will probably become a reality.
41.A.healthy | B.excited | C.mad | D.hurried |
42.A.carrying out | B.making up | C.looking at | D.breaking down |
43.A.warned | B.showed | C.reminded | D.advised |
44.A.through | B.beyond | C.against | D.without |
45.A.busier | B.funnier | C.happier | D.angrier |
46.A.though | B.until | C.if | D.unless |
47.A.find out | B.put out | C.turn out | D.set out |
48.A.sick | B.friendly | C.old | D.lovely |
49.A.age | B.move | C.walk | D.grow |
50.A.bored | B.surprised | C.sleepy | D.good |
51.A.study | B.work | C.story | D.case |
52.A.changed | B.varied | C.fell | D.rose |
53.A.sides | B.chemicals | C.studies | D.dogs |
54.A.important | B.unusual | C.true | D.impossible |
55.A.children | B.pets | C.friends | D.neighbors |
56.A.live | B.wander | C.stay | D.travel |
57.A.head for | B.search for | C.cheer for | D.care for |
58.A.family | B.computer | C.baby | D.toy |
59.A.brave | B.quiet | C.faithful | D.real |
60.A.destroy | B.replace | C.improve | D.accompany |