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【正文】 m hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, “Yes, I’ll do it if it will save Liz.” As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, “Will I start to die right away?”As a little boy, he had misunderstood the doctor。 he thought he was going to give his sister all of his blood. 1. What happened to little Liz?2. What was the only way for Liz to recover?3. What has happened to Liz’s brother?4. Why did the little boy hesitate for a while?5. What do you think is the best title for this passage? Task 3 The Social Security system in the United States provides monthly payments to retired people and the disabled. Most of the money es from a wage tax paid by workers and employers. For now, Social Security collects more money than it pays out. The surplus goes into a trust fund for workers who will retire in the future. But the future will have more retirees and fewer workers to support them. Last June, the Congressional Budget Office said Social Security is expected to have a deficit beginning in 2019. President Bush says now is the time to act. On Wednesday, at the first news conference of his second term, he said the program will be out of money in 2042. Mr. Bush wants Congress to make changes. But there is intense debate about how much fixing this popular program needs. Social Security was born out of the Great Depression. Poverty spread during this period from 1929 to the beginning of World War Two. Many leaders spoke of creating a system to guarantee payments to the disabled and the retired. Some states created their own plans. President Franklin Roosevelt wanted a national system that could pay for itself. He proposed the Social Security Act in January of 1935.Congress passed the law that year. But payments did not start until1940. Until then, money gathered in the trust fund so the program could start with a surplus. At first, Social Security was meant to provide a small amount of money to retired industrial workers. In time, other jobs were added. The government also offered benefits to people who survived the death of someone on Social Security. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson and Congress added two programs to offer medical benefits. Medicare, for older Americans, and Medicaid, for the poor, are no longer under the Social Security Administration. In 1983, Social Security faced a deficit. Congress agreed to increase the retirement age and Social Security taxes. Lawmakers also required all federal workers to be in the system. These changes were meant to fix the system for 75 years, until around 2060. 3
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