through physical check-up from head to toes. Then he was charged$ 800 . My friend wondered
why the American doctor made such a fuss.
There are several different reasons for this. One reason is that the fees are divided among several different places. Secondly, there are many lawsuits(诉讼) against doctors in America.
They have a lot of money and a lot of people go to court to try to get their money. (77)If doctors
don?t check something, and it turns out that they need to check it, the patient can sue(控告) for
hundreds of thousands of dollars for a small oversight(疏忽) . The third reason is that medicine
in America is a business for profit in many cases. The last reason is that a lot of American people can?t pay the high medical costs. But by law the hospital has to take care of them anyway. So
hospital has to charge other people more money to make up for those who can ?t pay very much or nothing at all.
1. “Enormous” means _________.
A. normal B. small C. very great D. certain
2. The doctors always have to give a patient a thorough examination so that ______.
A. they can find the cause of the disease B. they can take good care of him C. people will sing high praise for them
D. they cannot be sued later
3. An American doctor does a lot of tests to patient because______. A. the tests are quite necessary
B. he makes it a rule to do as much work as possible C. the patient wants him to do so
D. the more work he does, the more money he can charge you and the more profit he can make
4. Which of the following is true?
A. The medical costs in American have increased so much that a lot of Americans are unable to provide medical case for the family.
B. In the eye of the law the hospital needn?t take care of the poor patients.
C. By law the rich in America have to pay high medical care for the family.
D. Not every American can get medical care. 5. The best title for this passage is _____ A. High Costs in America B. American Medical Care
C. The Rich and the Poor in American Hospital D. Too Much Work for American Doctors CDDAB Passage 2
American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies? lungs. 78.They say
reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung disease later in life. Doctors in Boston, Massachusetts studied
1100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mothers smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung cancer if their mothers smoked. 79.The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father?s smoking did not affect a child?s chance of
developing lung cancer.
6. American doctors say that mother who smokes before her child is born may ______.
A. reduce the growth of her baby?s lung
B. cause her baby to suffer breathing problems and lung disease when the baby grows up
C. make her child develop lung cancer D. all of above are right
7. Doctors in Boston studied 1100 children to _______. A. find out whether their mothers had smoked B. examine whether these children were healthy
C. find why these children suffered breathing problems and lung disease
D. look into the effect that mothers smoking had on their children 8. According to the passage, which of the following sentences is NOT true ?
A. The lungs of the children whose mothers smoked, were 8% less developed than those of
other children.
B. Mothers who smoked did reduce the growth of their children? lungs. C. The children whose mothers hadn?t smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing
diseases than other children.
D. The lungs of the children whose mothers didn?t smoke were 8% more developed than
others.
9. Suppose John?s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary?s mother . According to this passage, ______.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer
C. John and Mary have the same chance to develop cancer D. Neither John nor Mary had the chance to develop cancer 10. This passage is to _________.
A. warm us of the danger of smoking before children B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children?s health D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers
答案: DDCAC Passage 3
One silly question I simply can't stand is \Usually the question is asked of a man in action—a man on the go, walking along the street, or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He'll probably say, \\—maybe now he's not sure. If you are a good friend, you may have seen something in his face, or his walk, that he did not realize that morning. It starts him worrying a little. First thing you know, he looks in a mirror to see if everything is all right, while you go merrily on your way asking someone else, \feel.'?\
Every question has its time and place. It's perfectly acceptable, for instance, to ask \friend in the hospital. 80 But if the fellow is walking on both legs, hurrying to make a train, or sitting at his desk working, it's no time to ask him that silly question.
When George Bernard Shaw, the famous writer of plays was in his eighties, someone asked him \\dead.\
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