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[多项选择]The costs of medical health care are increasing all the time. Governments are finding it difficult to balance the health care budget. Should citizens be totally responsible for their own health costs and takeout private health insurance, or is it better to have a comprehensive health care system which provides free health services for all
You are to write an essay’ of approximately 400 words on the advantages of each situation, explaining which you think is better.
In the first part of your letter you should present your thesis statement, and in tile second part you Should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural concision with a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the a bove instructions may result in a loss of marks. Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
[单项选择]As the costs of health care continue to rise, employers will ask their employees to pay more for their benefits by the year 2 000. This forecast comes from a recent survey of 400 executives conducted by the group Insurance Division of Northwestern National Life Insurance Company ( NWNL).
A similar NWNL survey in 1986 found that two-thirds of the employers were planning to add benefits. Now, two-thirds are planning to offer fewer choices. Factors cited as driving up the cost of health care include hospital and doctor fees, new medical technology, and malpractice suits. Employers also face the expensive prospect of providing health care for the growing number of retirees. Says the employee benefit director of a Boston communication company, "With people living longer, and being sicker when older, we could be paying a big sum of money for 30 to 40 years after they retire."
Compulsory benefits are also likely to increase health-care costs to employers. A majority of the respo
A. new medical technology helps to reduce the cost of health care
B. employees have to pay more for their benefits
C. employees will be offered more choices in the benefit plans
D. two-thirds of the employers are thinking of adding benefits
[单项选择]Exercise Lowers Employers’ Health Costs
Companies can save millions in health-care costs simply by encouraging their employees to exercise a little bit, researchers reported on Friday.
They said obese (肥胖的) employees had higher health-care costs, but lowered those expenses by exercising just a couple of times a week — without even losing any weight.
Feifei Wang and colleagues at the University of Michigan studied 23,500 workers at General Motors.
They estimated that getting the most sedentary (惯于久坐的) obese workers to exercise would have saved about $790,000 a year, or about 1.5I percent of health-care costs for the whole group.
Company-wide, the potential savings could reach $7.1 million per year, they reported in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Of the whole group of workers, about 30 percent were of normal weight, 45 percent were overweight (超重的), and 25 percent were obese. Annual health-care costs averaged $2,200 for normal
A. By taking more rest.
B. By eating less.
C. By exercising a little bit.
D. By saving more money.
[单项选择] Natural Health Care
Natural health care is a philosophy and a set of principles and practices based on science that lead to an extraordinary level of personal health and happiness.
It recognizes the unity of all life and holds that physical, mental, and emotional health cannot be separated, and that personal health, environmental health, and community health are parts of a whole. Natural hygiene (卫生学) teaches that the best way to achieve best health is right living—developing self-esteem and a positive attitude towards life; eating fresh, whole natural foods; exercising regularly; getting plenty of rest and sleep; getting plenty of fresh air and sunshine; learning to handle stress; and avoiding all negative influences of life.
Basic principles: Natural health care is unique in its argument that health is normal—as simple as living in harmony with nature. Health and disease are a continuum (连续统一体)—the same physiological (生理的) laws govern the b
A. may prove difficult
B. is impossible
C. will need a great deal of argument
D. should be easy
