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Dr. Shetty came from a rich family in India. He had a good education and then trained as a doctor in India. After qualifying（具备资格）, he went to Birmingham in the UK where he received his first training in heart surgery（外科；手术）. Later, he moved to London where he worked as a cardiologist in Guy's Hospital. He enjoyed working in England but he knew that there was a great need for cardiologists in India. Dr. Shetty knew that there were very few hospitals in India providing good medical care for poor people.
Many very poor people cannot afford the cost of hospital care so they cannot receive good health care. Dr. Shetty believed that this was wrong and he set out to provide hospital care for poor people. In Kolkata there are well-equipped hospitals but they only provide health services for those who can pay. In 1987, he set up a hospital in that city and, in 1997, he founded the Manipal Heart Foundation with 450 beds for patients who need heart operations.
Later, he was able to set up the Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata. This center provides general health care but in particular it provides treatment for patients with heart diseases. However, he wanted to do more; he wanted to provide for people in the countryside. Now he has set up Coronary Care Units (CCUs) in the far-away areas of the northeast of India which are linked（联系）by television to the hospital in Kolkata. Patients can now go to a local hospital with a CCU and receive treatment from a doctor far away through this link.
The cost of running the hospital is far cheaper than in many other countries. One of the reasons for this is that the doctors are specialists in particular operations. They may perform five heart operations in one day while in other countries a heart specialist will only perform one a day. Dr. Shetty's idea is clear. He says,“I have never practised medicine for my personal gain. I began as a social worker and I am continuing in that way. I dream, breathe and live healthcare.”He operates free on children and has conducted more than 5000 operations on young people from poor families out of more than 13000.
(1)We may know from this passage that a cardiologist is ________.
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A．a doctor who is specially good at treating heart diseases
B．a person who cares the health for poor people
C．a doctor who receives his training in a foreign country
D．a person who works as a doctor in a foreign country
(2)Shetty founded the Manipal Heart Foundation ________.
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A．to offer health care for poor people
B．because there was no well-equipped hospitals for heart disease patients
C．because there was no good health care for poor people in that city
D．to offer his special help to people
(3)The setting up of CCUs can ________.
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A．offer general health care to all the people in Kolkata
B．cure（治愈）more patients with heart disease
C．offer help to those patients living far away from big cities
D．help people to receive treatment directly from Shetty
(4)By saying“... I dream, breathe and live health-care.”Shetty means ________.
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A．he lives a happy life because of his good health
B．be wants to give healthcare to more people
C．he would give all his life to people's healthcare
D．he could only do things about people's health- care
查看习题详情和答案>>Taiwan police cannot decide whether to treat it as an extremely clever act of stealing or an even cleverer cheat（诈骗）. Either way, it could be the perfect crime（犯罪）, because the criminals are birds--homing pigeons!
The crime begins with a telephone message to the owner of a stolen car: if you want the car back, pay up. Then, the car owner is directed to a park, told where to find a bird cage and how to attach money to the neck of the pigeon inside. Carrying the money in a tiny bag, the pigeon flies off.
There have been at least four such pigeon pick-ups in Changwa. What at first seemed like the work of a clever stay-at-home car thief, however, may in fact be the work of an even lazier and more inventive criminal mind--one that avoids（避免）not only collecting money but going out to steal the car in the first place. Police officer Chen says that the criminal probably has pulled a double trick: he gets money for things he cannot possibly return. Instead of stealing cars, he lets someone else do it and then waits for the car-owner to place an ad（启事）in the newspaper asking for help.
The theory is supported by the fact that, so far, none of the stolen cars have been returned. Also, the amount of money demanded--under 3 000 Taiwanese dollars--seems too little for a car worth many times more.
Demands for pigeon-delivered money stopped as soon as the press reported the story. And even if they start again, Chen holds little hope of catching the criminal.“We have more important things to do,”he said.
(1)After the car owner received a phone call, he _____.
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A．gave the money to the thief and had his car back in a park
B．sent some money to the thief by mail
C．told the press about it
D．went to a certain pigeon and put some money in the bag it carried
(2)The“lazier and more inventive”criminal refers to _____.
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A．one of those who put the ads in the paper
B．one of the policemen in Changwa
C．the owner of the pigeons
D．the car thief who stays at home
(3)The writer mentions the fact that“none of the stolen cars have been returned”to show _____.
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A．what Chen thinks might be correct _____.
B．the thief is extremely clever
C．the money paid is too little
D．how easily people get fooled by criminals
(4)The underlined word“they”in the last paragraph refers to _____.
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A．pigeons
B．the stolen cars
C．demands for money
D．criminals
(5)We may infer from the text that the criminal knows how to reach the car owners because _____.
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A．he lives in the same neighborhood
B．he has seen the car owners in the park
C．he has trained the pigeons to follow them
D．he reads the ads in the newspaper
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