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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 on to employers a
A. supportive.
B. indicative.
C. negative.
D. comprehensive.
[单项选择]Using the program developed at University of California at Berkeley, the papers are checked by using ______.
A. printing and looking carefully at hundreds of papers on the Internet
B. a search of many web pages and a comparison of words used
C. asking the student where they got the information in the paper
D. comparing all the papers which are turned in by the students
[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
[单项选择]Which of the following was developed earliest
A. The fish hook.
B. The first hatchet.
C. The bow and arrow.
D. Pottery.
[单项选择]What will probably happen to workers in developed countries in the happy ending
A. They will get higher wages.
B. They will have less competition.
C. They will get a bigger share of the national income.
D. They will enjoy a faster increase in payment.
[单项选择]Out of the elementary plane geometry developed by the Greeks ______ we use today.
[单项选择]By 2030 the governments in developed countries may put an end to fixed retirement ages ______.
A. to save the current pension system
B. to ensure the benefits for healthy pensioners
C. to realize full retirement benefits substantially
D. to relieve the pensions burden on the working population
[单项选择]The risk of dying from cancer in developed countries is
A. double that in developing countries.
B. much higher than that in developing countries.
C. the same as that in developing countries.
D. much lower than that in developing countries.
[单项选择]The harpsichord, developed during the Middle Ages, was one of the {{U}}forerunners{{/U}} of the piano.
A. competitors
B. imitators
C. predecessors
D. offspring
[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]Despite the wonderful acting and well-developed plot the ______ movie could not hold tour attention.
[单项选择]The British manufacturing industry developed because of ______.
A. rich energy resources
B. water power
C. the declining rural economy
D. cheap labor
[单项选择]Although television was developed for broadcasting, many important uses have been found that have nothing to do with it.
A. 电视不仅促进了节目的播送，而且也有很多其他重要的作用。
B. 尽管开发电视的初衷是为了播送节目，后来却发现电视还有很多与此毫无关系的重要用途。
C. 为了播送节目电视被开发出来，相应地，很多与此有关的重要用途也被发现。
D. 尽管开发电视的初衷是为了播送节目，后来却发现其实电视的重要用途都与此无关。
