【正文】 vered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want knowing that the insurance pany will pay the bill. The medical profession has as a result bee America39。s surgery is as likely to be about the doctor39。s health cost climbed percentabout twice as fast as prices in general. 36. In the . patients can effect, in medical ______. A. occasional mistakes by careless doctors B. a great deal of personal attention C. low charge by doctors and hospitals D. stacking nurses and bad services 37. Doctors and hospitals try hard to avoid making mistakes because ______. A. they fear to be sued by the patients B. they care much about Their reputation C. they pete for getting more patents D. they wish to join the private medical system 38. What do most Americans think about health in the .? A. It must be in total chaos B. It must be a free petition system C. It should cover the unemployed D. It should involve private care. 39. From Paragraph 3 we know that ______from the public health system. A. millions of jobless people get support. B. those with steady ine do not seek help. C. some people are made ineligible to benefit. D. those with private health care are excluded. 40. According to the author, what is the key factor in the rise of health cost in the US? A. The refusal of insurance panies to pay the bills B. The increase of the number of doctors and hospitals C. the lack of government control over the medical prices D. The merger of private health care with the public system. 41. It is implied that American doctors often______. A. trade their professionalism for financial benefits B. fails to recognize the paying power of the patients C. discuss about how to make money during the surgery D. gives the patients expensive but needless treatments. Passage two Almost every day the media discovers an African munity fighting some form of environmental threat from land fills. Garbage dumps, petrochemical plants, refineries, bus depots, and the list go on. For years, residents watched helplessly as their munities became dumping grounds. But citizens didn39。 but more than 1,400 people attended the fourday gathering. We are pleased that the Summit II was able to attract a record number of grassroots activists, academicians, students, researchers, government officials We proved to the world that our planners, policy analysts and movement is alive and well, and growing, says Beverly Wright, chair of the summit. The meeting produced two dozen policy papers that show environmental and health disparities between people of color and Whites. 42. In Paragraph 1, the word “residents?? refers to ______in particular A. ethnic groups in the B. the American general public C. a Africa American D. the . workingclass 43. More than three decades ago, environments justice was ______. A. controversial， among local activities B. First proposed by Martin Luther King Jr. C. fascinating to the civil rights groups D. barely realized by many environmentalists 44. In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis to help the garbage workers ______. A. get relieved of some of their basic duties B. know what environmental justice was C. fight for better working conditions D. recognize their dangerous surroundings 45.. Paragraph 3 implies that, in 1979 ______. A. the environmental justice issues were first brought to court in Houston B. environmental activists cooperated in defying the US government C. the government intervention helped promote environmental justice D. environmental problems attracted the attention of the government 46. the new breed of environmental activists differed from the previous activists in that______. A. they noticed environmental disparities between the rich and the poor B. they cried for government intervention in saving the environment C. they knew what ?the environment really meant to the White people D. they practiced environmentalism outside as well as within the US 47. With respect to getting environmental justice, Summit II aimed for ______. A. showing the achieved success B. attracting national attention C. identifying relevant issues D. finding solutions to the problems Passage Three Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spent only“ tow minutes with“ baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler stating to walk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often in separately tied to their children39。s not quite that simple. Kids can be given the opportunities, but they can39。t seem to have much. They say that by instilling confidence, encouraging some risk taking, being accepting of failure and expanding the areas in which children may be successful, both parents and teachers can reignite that innate desire to achieve. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic neuroscience to teach kids how the brain works and how it can continue to develop throughout life. The message is that everything is within the kids39。s important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other extracurricular activities. “The crux of the issue is that many students that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions ?says Michael Nakkula, a Harvard education professor who runs a Bostonarea mentoring program called Project IF (Inventing the Future), which works to get lowine underachiev