The cost of medical care in the US is very high．The time and money that  1  spend on their medical education is probably one reason  2  this problem．

A visit to a doctor’s office    3    from fifteen to fifty dollars．It is almost   4   for people to pay for the medical care they need．Many people in the US think that doctors  5  overpaid． Most doctors ,however,．    6   ．They say that they are required to study    7  for a long lime．Tuition(学费)for many    8  of medical education costs   9   money .Doctors say that it is necessary for most medical students to borrow money from  10   to pay their tuition．Because this money must be repaid to the bank．  11   doctors need to receive a lot of money for their work .  12   ，they charge(收费)people   13   prices for medical care．

Therefore．it is possible that the high cost of medical care in   14   is necessary，because high tuition is one cause of high costs．One way to  15  costs would be to have medical schools that are free or have low tuition．

1．A．teachers    B．soldiers    C．doctors    D．workers

2．A．for        B．of        C．about       D．at

3．A．spends     B．pays      C．costs       D．uses

4．A．impossible  B．possible   C．necessary   D．unnecessary

5．A．aren’t      B．are       C．were       D．weren’t

6．A．disagree with B．agree to  C．agree       D．disagree

7．A．physics    B．medicine   C．maths      D．chemistry

8．A．years      B．months    C．days       D．weeks

9．A．little      B．a lot of     C．many      D．a number of

10．A．shops    B．schools     C．factories    D．banks

11．A  young    B．old        C．men       D．women

12．A．And     B．but        C．However    D．So

13．A，low      B．lots of     C．high       D．many

14．A．China    B．America   C．England    D．Japan

15．A．lower    B．taller      C．higher      D．shorter

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It seems that the cities in the future will have to change. Because the world’s population

1 , there will be  2  people in the cities tomorrow.

It may be    3   for any family to live in a house with land around it. There   4  enough space for them. 5   to solve this problem may be the skyscraper city(摩天城). The highest building in the world today is in Taipei. It’s about 509 metres high. The skyscraper cities in the future will be many times 6  .

In a skyscraper city about 250,000 people will live. Nearly a million people can 7  in four of these great buildings. Each skyscraper city will have four towns in it and each town will have ten villages. They will live, work and 8   their free time in them. They won’t need to leave the city 9  they want to. They will be able to move about in the city by transport controlled 10  computers. Let’s imagine how the life will be then!

Jack is 1.8 meters tall and he is __________boy in our class.

A．tall              B．taller             C．tallest            D．the tallest

Lucy is ________ girl of the twin sisters.

A．tall              B．taller             C．the taller          D．the tallest

Kate is as _________as Maria.

A．tall              B．taller             C．tallest            D．the tallest