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Fiercely independent, 90 year-old Vincenzia Rinaldi wouldn’t consider a home health aide or nursing home. So Louis Critelli, her nephew had to coax the widowed homemaker into assisted living, the nation’s growing long-term care option for the elderly. For $1, 100 a month, Rinaldi became the reluctant resident of an efficiency unit where she could still simmer her much-loved tomato sauce and where caregivers would make sure she took her pills.
Instead, 30 months later, she died. Not because she was old. But because aides at her new home, Loretto Utica Center, one of the modern, hotel-style facilities that have sprouted across the country over the past decade, mistakenly gave her another resident’s prescription medication. That error led to her death, state inspectors concluded.
Neither the state nor Loretto told her nephew about the cause of death. Critelli, thinking his aunt had been properly eared for, only learned of the f
A. life in the nursing homes is largely regulated by caregivers.
B. old people are very much unsatisfied with life cared by a home health aide.
C. Rinaldi knew better than to live in an efficiency unit with caregivers.
D. the nation's long-term care options for the elderly are limite
No one can deny that pesticides have improved the ability of farmers to bring their crops to market. (1) pesticides, farmers no longer have to worry that they will lose an entire crop (2) an army of cut Worms or fruit flies. (3) , Americans can rely on a large and varied food supply.
However, we Americans need to become more (4) about the effects those pesticides on our food. More (5) , we need to think about what new (6) is necessary to protect ourselves from a (7) too rich in Pesticide residue. If we don’t demand greater (8) on pesticide use, we may be surprised, dismayed, and (9) horrified by the consequence of its use.
On the most obvious level, farm workers who continue to use the pesticides (10) their present rate will (11) serious diseases. It’s no (12) that farmers (13) to herbicides have a six times greater risk of getting cancer. (14) , children
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B. devoted
C. revealed
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