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Medical bills in the United States have risen violently since 1960’s and steps need to be taken to reverse this trend or the average American will not be able to afford medical care. The major factor in increasing the cost of medical care has been the dramatic increase in the cost of hospital services. The rise in the cost of hospitalization can be only partly blamed on inflation (通货膨胀)since hospital bills in the last two decades have risen at a considerably higher rate than inflation.

What is the author’s main point in the passage（　）
A. Inflation is having a terrible effect on medical bills.
B. Insurance companies are at fault in raising medical bills.
C. Action is needed to stop increase in medical bills.
D. Doctors need to work to decrease malpractice.

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Medical bills in the United States have risen violently since 1960’s and steps need to be taken to reverse this trend or the average American will not be able to afford medical care. The major factor in increasing the cost of medical care has been the dramatic increase in the cost of hospital services. The rise in the cost of hospitalization can be only partly blamed on inflation (通货膨胀)since hospital bills in the last two decades have risen at a considerably higher rate than inflation
Another factor cited by doctors as a major cause for the increase in the cost of medical care is malpractice(治疗错误). Increasingly large awards for malpractice have caused doctors to increase their rates to cover the higher malpractice insurance. Because of the large malpractice awards, doctors are also prescribing more conservative and more extensive and therefore more costly treatment for patients as a defense against malpractice claims. Whatever the causes of the wild increases in the
A. the increasing cost of malpractice insurance
B. factors causing the increase in U. S. medical bills
C. steps for Americans to take to obtain medical care
D. the dramatic medical profession

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Almost all states in America have a state fair. They last for one, two or three weeks. The Indiana state fair is one of the largest and oldest state fairs in USA. It is held every summer. It started in 1852. Its goals were to educate, share ideas, and present Indiana’s best products. The cost of a single ticket to enter the fair was 20 cents. During the early 1930s, officials of the fair ruled that the people could attend by paying with something other than money. For example, farmers brought a bag of grain in exchange for a ticket. With the passage of time, the fair has grown and changed a lot, but it’s still one of Indiana’s most celebrated events. People from all over Indiana and from many other states attend the fair. They can do many things at the fair. They can watch the judging of the price cows, pigs, and other animals; they can see sheep getting their wool cut, and they can learn how that wool is made into clothing; they can watch cows giving birth. In

[填空题]The member states of UN have the power to use force against other state to deal with the problems in international relations.

[单项选择]The United States and Canada have agreed ______ in regard to the Great Lakes.
A. to eliminate swimming entirely
B. to limit boating and
C. to limit phosphates and detergents
D. to kill all algae

[单项选择]The United States and Canada have agreed ________in regard to the Great Lakes.
A. to eliminate swimming entirely
B. to limit boating and fishing
C. to limit phosphates and detergents
D. to kill all algae

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Wage bills have increased because ______.
A. staff demand higher rates of pay
B. staff work overtime
C. staff have to sell more goods

[单项选择]United States hospitals have traditionally relied primarily on revenues from paying patients to offset losses from unreimbursed care. Almost all paying patients now rely on governmental or private health insurance to pay hospital bills. Recently, insurers have been strictly limiting what they pay hospitals for the care of insured patients to amounts at or below actual costs.
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the information above
A. Although the advance of technology has made expensive medical procedures available to the wealthy, such procedures are out of the reach of low-income patients.
B. If hospitals do not find ways of raising additional income for unreimbursed care, they must either deny some of that care or suffer losses if they give it.
C. Some patients have incomes too high for eligibility for governmental health insurance but are unable to afford private insurance for hospital care.
D. If the hospitals reduce their costs in providing care, insurance companies will maintain the current level of reimbursement, thereby providing more funds for unreimbursed care.
E. (E) Even though philanthropic donations have traditionally provided some support for the hospitals, such donations are at present declining.

[单项选择]Which two states have declared states of emergency（　）.
A. Carolinas and New England.
B. Connecticut and New Jersey.
C. Vermont and New York.
D. Pennsylvania and Maine.

[单项选择]Some United States psychologists have concluded that one specific set of parental behaviors toward children always signifies acceptance and a second set always signifies rejection, for there is remarkable agreement among investigators about the maternal behaviors designated as indicative of these parental attitudes.
The conclusion of the psychologists mentioned above logically depends on the assumption that
A. most maternal behaviors have been interpreted as conveying either acceptance or rejection.
B. the maternal behaviors indicating acceptance or rejection are exhibited by fathers as well.
C. the behaviors of fathers toward children have been studied as carefully as have the behaviors of mothers.
D. acceptance and rejection are the easiest to recognize of all parental behaviors.
E. (E) parental attitudes are best conveyed through behaviors that the parents have consciously agreed on.