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Most people would be ___1___ by the high quality of medicine available to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of ___2___ to the individual, a vast amount of advanced technical equipment, and intense effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must ___3___ in the courts if they handle things badly.But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in ___4___ health care is organized and financed. ___5___ to pubic belief it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not looking after the less fortunate and the elderly.But even with this huge public part of the system, which this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 percent of the U.S. budget—large number of Americans are left ___6___. These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits on income fixed by a government trying to make savings where it can.The basic problem, however, is that there is no central control over the health system. There is no ___7___ to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a heart attack, all the unfortunate persons concerned can do is pay up.Two thirds of the population ___8___ covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want, ___9___ that the insurance company will pay the bill.The rising cost of medicine in the U.S.A. is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 1981 the country’s health bill climbed 15.9 percent—about twice as fast as prices ___10___ general.

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There are two methods of fighting, the one by law, the other by force; the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is, therefore, necessary for a prince to know well how to use both the beast and the man. This was covertly taught to rulers by ancient writers, who related how Achilles and many others of those ancient princes were given to Chiron the centaur to be brought up and educated under his discipline. The parable of this semi-animal, semi-human teacher is meant to indicate that a prince must know how to use both natures, and that the one without the other is not durable.A prince, being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast, must imitate the fox, and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. Those that wish to be only lions do not understand this. Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interest, and when the reasons which made him bind himself no longer exist. If men were all good, this precept would not be good; but as they are bad, and would not observe their faith with you, so you are not bound to keep faith with them. Nor have legitimate grounds ever failed a prince who wished to show colorable excuse for the nonfulfillment of his promise. Of this one could furnish an infinite number of examples, and show how many times peace has been broken, and how many promises rendered worthless, by the faithlessness of princes, and those that have best been able to imitate the fox have succeeded best. But it is necessary to be able to disguise this character well, and to be a great feigner and dissembler, and men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that the one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.1. The writer does not believe that __________.2. “Prince” in the passage designates __________.3. The lion represents those who are __________.4. The fox, in the passage, is __________.5. The writer suggests that a successful leader must __________.

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Hong Kong, major commercial center for Asia, and with a population which has grown at an alarming rate to over 5 million, is a city highly dependent on mass transit of all sorts, both local and long distance. The average Hong Kong worker or businessman, going about his daily activities, simply must use public transportation at one time or another.Because Hong Kong is in two parts, Kowloon, on the mainland side, and Hong Kong, the island, with Hong Kong’s harbor in between Hong Kong’s mass transit systems, in addition to going over land they must also cross water.Going from home to work, or going shopping from one side of the harbor to the other, the Hong Kong resident has three choices. One way is to take a bus which will cross the harbor through an underwater traffic tunnel moving slowly through bumper-to-bumper traffic. Another way is by ferry boat, a pleasant ride which crosses the harbor in from seven to fifteen minutes.But by far the fastest way of crossing the harbor is the newly built underground electric railway, the Hong Kong Metro. If one gets on the train in the Central District, the commercial area of Hong Kong on the island side, he can speed across the harbor in an astonishing three minutes. On the other side of the harbor the railway continues, snaking back and forth through the outlying districts of Kowloon, allowing one to get off a short distance from his destination.The story of the Metro is an encouraging one for supporters of mass transit. Although building the system was certainly a challenging task, the Japanese firm hired to construct it did so in record time. Construction got underway in 1979 and it was completed in 1980.For the average commuter the system has only one disadvantage; it is more expensive than by bus or ferry. One can ride the bus across the harbor for half as much or he can ride the ferry across for less than one-fifth as much.1. Hong Kong __________.2. Hong Kong Public transportation extends __________.3. The traffic in the underwater traffic tunnel is __________.4. Crossing the harbor by train is __________.5. The business area on the island side of Hong Kong is referred to be as __________.

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When Louis Braille was three years old, he became blind in both eyes as the result of an accident in his father’s harness shop. His father, determined that Louis should not suffer the usual fate of blind persons at that time and become a beggar, kept him in the village school until he was ten and then entered him in the Institution des Jeunes Aveugles in Paris. Louis learned to read from the three books engraved in large raised letters in the Institution library, did exceptionally well both in academic work and at the piano and organ, and was soon helping to teach the younger children.In 1819, the same year that Louis entered the Institution, Charles Barbier, an army captain, reported to the Academy of Sciences on a system of raised dots and dashes which enabled soldiers to read messages in the dark. Later Barbier brought his invention to the Institution. After experimenting with it, young Braille produced a writing system using only dots, from which he generally devised 63 separate combinations representing the letters in the French alphabet (at the request of an Englishman, he later added “w”), accents, punctuation marks, and mathematical signs. Although government bureaucracy prevented immediate official adoption, his system was used at the Institution as long as the director, Dr. Pignier, was in office. Pignier’s successor insisted on returning to the officially approved former system, but students continued to use Braille’s method secretly. Eventually, its superiority was established and it was adopted throughout France.1. Louis Braille’s father most likely kept his son at home until the age of ten because he __________.2. Louis Braille did all of the following things except __________.3. Charles Barbier originally devised his writing system for __________.4. We can assure that all of the following items were represented in Louis Braille’s original system except __________.5. The Institution was not able to adopt Braille’s method officially for some time because __________.

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The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures.That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.1. How has science done a disservice to mankind?2. What are nitrates used for?3. What does FDA mean in this passage?4. The word “carcinogenic” means most nearly the same as __________.5. Which of the following statements is not true?

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The international significance of sliding downhill struck Americans like an avalanche about fifty years ago. Until then, snow had been something to be shoveled out of driveways in the morning. Then the Winter Olympics of 1932 were held at Lake Placid, New York, and a wonderful suicidal new would be opened up.City dwellers read of strange and stirring deeds: bobsledders missing a turn and being scraped off the ice, skiers flying through the air to land on their skulls. The coach of the American team stated that the Winter Olympics were the biggest boost that skiing had ever had; that they should awaken American boys and girls to the possibilities of this wonderful, healthful sport. He was right—in the years that followed, three or four million American boys and girls strapped on skis, and the healthy snapping of bones was heard from Vermont to Colorado.In February of 1960 the Winter Olympics returned to the United States, this time to remote Squaw Valley, California, in Sierra Nevada; where there had been only a lodge and two ski lifts, visitors found that a tiny metropolis had been developed. Early in the preceding December, everything was ready—except the snow. An agitated call was sent out for Piute Indians to dance for the weather gods.“Snow fall in two weeks,” announced the chief when the ceremony was finished.“Why not earlier, chief?”“No chains for our bus,” he said, “Snow too soon, we not get home.”1. The writer introduces the world of winter sports as __________.2. “stirring deeds” means __________.3. Holding the 1932 Winter Olympics in America served to __________.4. Visitors arriving for the Olympics found __________.5. The passage was written to __________.

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