【正文】 B］ left ［ C］ drawn ［ D］ exposed 14. ［ A］ ineffective ［ B］ inpetent ［ C］ inefficient［ D］ insufficient 15. ［ A］ introduce ［ B］ summon ［ C］ trigger ［ D］ create 16. ［ A］ still ［ B］ also ［ C］ otherwise ［ D］ nevertheless 17. ［ A］ sure ［ B］ sick ［ C］ aware ［ D］ tired 18. ［ A］ tolerate ［ B］ repel ［ C］ neglect ［ D］ notice 19. ［ A］ availabe ［ B］ reliable［ C］ identifiable［ D］ suitable 20. ［ A］ similar to［ B］ such as ［ C］ along with ［ D］ aside from 中國最大的資料庫下載 中國最大的資料庫下載 Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension Part A Directions:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1(40 points) Text 1 Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “ all too human” , with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Geia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it all too monkey, as well. The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are goodnatured, cooperative creatures, and they share their food tardily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “ goods and services” than males. Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan39。s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a window opens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated his revolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and rears, by the late 1970s. neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “ mental noise” the random byproducts of the neuralrepair work that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind39。s resistance to a national agency is provincialist ideology. One of the first advocates for a national list was a researcher at Laval University. Quebec39。t have to mean that. “ National” could mean interprovincialprovinces bining efforts to create one body. Either way, one benefit of a “ national” anization would be to negotiate better prices, if possible, with drug manufacturers. Instead of having one provinceor a series of hospitals within a provincenegotiate a price for a given drug on the provincial list, the national agency would negotiate on behalf of all provinces. 中國最大的資料庫下載 中國最大的資料庫下載 Rather than, say, Quebec, negotiating on behalf of seven million people, the national agency would negotiate on behalf 31 million people. Basic economics suggests the greater the potential consumers, the higher the likelihood of a better price. 43. A small step has been taken in the direction of a national agency with the creation of the Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment, funded by Ottawa and the provinces. Under it, a Common Drug Review remends to provincial lists which new drugs should be included, predictably and regrettably Quebec refused to join. A few premiers are suspicious of any federalprovincial dealmaking. They (particularly Quebec and Alberta) just want Ottawa to fork over additional billions with few, if any, strings attached. That39。s advisers still don39。s and Dr. de waal39。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 harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better, “ It39。s Drug Insurance Fund has seen its costs skyrocket with annual increases from per cent to per cent! 中國最大的資料庫下載 中國最大的資料庫下載 B. Or they could read Mr. Kirby39。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。s obvious that a majority of the president39。s。s your dream” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago39。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