【正文】 s report:“the substantial buying power of such an agency would strengthen the public prescriptiondrug insurance plans to negotiate the lowest possible purchase prices from drug panies” C. What does “national” mean? Roy Romanow and Senator Michael Kirby remended a federalprovincial body much like the recently created National Health Council. D. The problem is simple and stark: healthcare costs have been, are, and will continue to increase faster than government revenues. E. According to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. prescription drug costs have risen since 1997 at twice the rate of overall healthcare spending. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 14 頁 共 37 頁 Part of the increase es from drugs being used to replace other kinds of treatments part of it arises from new drugs costing more than older kinds. Part of it is higher prices. F. So, if the provinces want to run the healthcare show, they should prove they can run it, starting with an interprovincial health list that would end duplication, save administrative costs, prevent one province from being played off against another, and bargain for better drug prices. G. Of course the pharmaceutical panies will scream. They like divided buyers, they can lobby better that way. They can use the threat of removing jobs from one province to another. They can hope that, if one province includes a drug on its, list the pressure will cause others to include it on theirs. They wouldn39。s premiers (the leaders of provincial governments), if they have any breath left after plaining about Ottawa at their late July annual meeting, 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 12 頁 共 37 頁 might spare a moment to do something, to reduce healthcare costs. They39。s your dream” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago39。s Ok to keep pouring fumes into the air until we know for sure. this is a dangerous game: by the 100 percent of the evidence is in, it may be too late. With the risks obvious and growing, a prudent people would take out an insurance policy now. Fortunately, the White House is starting to pay attention. But it39。s。 study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their became markedly different. In the world of capuchins grapes are luxury goods (and much preferable to cucumbers) So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either tossed her own token at the researcher or out of the chamber, or refused to 。s obvious that a majority of the president39。s Medical Center. “If you don39。re all groaning about soaring health budgets, the fastestgrowing ponent of which are pharmaceutical costs. 41. What to do? Both the Romanow mission and the Kirby mittee on health careto say nothing of reports from other experts remended the creation of a national drug agency. Instead of each province having its own list of approved drugs , bureaucracy, procedures and limited bargaining power, all would pool resources ,work with Ottawa, and create a national institution. 42. But “national” doesn39。t like a national agency agency, but selfinterest would lead them to deal with it. Part C Directions: Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET2. (10 points) It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media in this overwhelmingly significant phase in European history. History and news bee confused, and one39。s Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from per cent to per cent! B. Or they could read Mr. Kirby39。s A. interest in their language. B. appreciation of their efforts. C. admiration for their memory. D. contempt for their oldfashionedness. 40. According to the last paragraph, “paper plates” is to “china” as A. “temporary” is to “permanent”. B. “radical” is to “conservative”. C. “functional” is to “artistic”. D. “humble” is to “noble”. Part B Directions:In the following text, some sentences have removed. For Questions 4145, choosethe most suitable one from the list AG to fit into of the numbered blank thereare two extra choices, which do not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers onANSWER SHEET1. (10 points) Canada39。s emotional thermostat, regulating moods while the brain is “offline” And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mental events can be not only 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 8 頁 共 37 頁 harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, “It39。s report “Science never has all the answers But science does provide us with the best available guide to the future, and it is critical that out nation and the world base important policies on the best judgments that science can provide concerning the future consequences of present actions.” Just as on smoking voices now e from many quarters insisting that the 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 6 頁 共 37 頁 science about global warming is inplete, that it39。s and Dr. de waal39。accept the slice of cucumber Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other chamber (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to reduce resentment in a female capuchin. 中國最大的管理資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 部分版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 4 頁 共 37 頁 The researches suggest that capuchin monkeys, like humans, are guided by