[单项选择]Poor health and lack of money may be both to educational progress roadblocks.
A. restraints
B. stains
C. scarcities
D. barriers

[单项选择]Poor health and lack of money may both be to educational progress roadblocks.


A. restraints
B. stains
C. scarcities
D. barriers

[单项选择]Poor health and lack of money may both be ______to educational progress.


A. restraints
B. stains
C. scarcities
D. barriers

[单项选择]Poor health and lack of money may both be ______ to educational progress.
A. scarcities
B. stains
C. restraints
D. barriers

[单项选择]Poor transport facilities and the lack of resources, raw materials and energy also partly ______ the drop in contract fulfillment.


A. contributed to
B. attributed to
C. depended on
D. accounted for

[单项选择]Poor knowledge of the market and lack of experience ______ his failure in investment.


A. resulted in
B. resulted from
C. brought in
D. brought from

[单项选择]We can safely conclude that ______ may cause educational problems.


A. test obsession
B. standardized tests
C. test-taking
D. preparation for mandated state tests

[单项选择]In any divorce case, both parties may NOT follow the binding decision if


A. the arbitrator was biased.
B. the arbitrator asked them to pay for costs.
C. the arbitrator made a gross error of law.
D. the arbitrator exceeded his authority.

[单项选择]Tom is（　）than Jim, both of them are very poor.
A. no rich
B. no richer
C. not richer
D. not rich

[单项选择]

Text 3
Could money cure sick health-care systems in Britain, which will be the place to look for proof in 2003. The National Health Service (NHS), which offers free health care financed by taxes, is receiving an emergency no-expense-spared injection of cash. By 2007, total health spending in Britain will reach over 9% of GDP--the same share France had when it was rated the world’s best health service by the World Health Organization in 2000.
The Labor government’s response was not to conduct a fundamental review about how best to reform health care for the 21st century. Rather, it concluded that shortage of money, not the form of financing or provision, was the main problem. In 2002, Gordon Brown, the powerful chancellor of the exchequer, used a review of the NHS’s future financing requirements to reject alternative funding models that would allow patients to sign up with competing insurers and so exercise greater control over their own he
A. restrained freedom.
B. shortage of funds.
C. patients' complaints.
D. radical changes.