[单项选择]In developed economies, service industries______.


A. tend to employ an increasing number of people
B. cause problems for the white-collar unions
C. employ more people than manufacturing industries do
D. try to reduce their employees and to combat rising costs

[单项选择]Economies, several courses of which I have taken thus far, （） to be difficult but useful for almost all students.
A. prove
B. proves
C. have been proved
D. are proved

[单项选择]The phrase "token economies" ( Para. 5, Line 1 ) probably refers to ______.


A. ways to develop economy
B. systems of rewarding students
C. approaches to solving problems
D. methods of improving performance

[单项选择]what is Scarsdale diet developed


A. It is a limited-intake diet.
B. It is a new high-energy diet.
C. It is a restricted-menu diet.
D. It is a two-thousand-calorie diet.

[单项选择]Social psychology developed in the USA


A. because its roots are intellectually western in origin.
B. as a direct response to the great depression.
C. to meet the threat of Adolf Hitler and his policy of mass genocide.
D. because of its pragmatic traditions for dealing with social problems.

[单项选择]In the past ten years skyscrapers have developed ______ in Chicago and New York City.


A. homogeneously
B. simultaneously
C. spontaneously
D. harmoniously

[单项选择]Buses were developed at the beginning of the twentieth century to compete with streetcars by providing flexibility greater in routes.

[单项选择]The fish that have developed long feelers use them to ______.
A. recognize food particles
B. collect food
C. locate food by sense of smell
D. both A and B

[单项选择]Less developed countries ______.


A. devote a large portion of their budget to applied research
B. realize that progress depends on basic research
C. encourage their career scientists to experiment
D. devote less than 70% of their scientific budget to basic research

[单项选择]In a developed country, people will perhaps go out of work if the birthrate ______.


A. goes up
B. goes down
C. remains stable
D. is out of control

[单项选择]The old lady has developed a （） cough which cannot be cured completely in as hort time.
A. perpetual
B. permanent
C. chronic
D. sustained

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Text 2
Across the developed world, health-care spending is rising and will continue to in crease as populations age. As each country feels the financial strain, it is tempting to imagine that there must be a better way of funding medical care elsewhere. In Britain, for example, Bernard Ribeiro, the new president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has called for the National Health Service (NHS) to be financed from social-insurance contributions, as in Germany and France, rather than from general taxation. He worries that a tax-financed system will not deliver enough resources to meet the demand for health-care spending in the longer run.
There are indeed good reasons for concern about the way the NHS is financed, for it has allowed the government to pump in too much money too fast. But there is no ideal sys tem for paying for health care. The European social-insurance model is in even more trouble than Britain’s tax-based model. By loading the burden o
A. a better method of funding medical care.
B. the way of employing medical fund.
C. the threat to America's fiscal budget.
D. how the fund is raised effectively.

[单项选择]Hunted as the wild turkey is, it has developed a degree of in evading its pursuers.


A. genius
B. creativity
C. imagination
D. stability

[单项选择]Australia, which is one of the world's developed countries, has become rich through ______.


A. manufacturing industries
B. farming and mining
C. service industries
D. forestry and fishing