考研英语阅读题的技巧中心思想的方法.ppt

考研英语阅读理解  2003 text 4 56. What is implied in the first sentence? 57. The author uses the example of caner patients to show that 58. The authors attitude toward richard lamms remark is one of 59. In contrast to the US, Japan and Sweden are funding their medical care 60. The text intends to express the idea that  hat is implied in th is said that in England death is pressing, in first sentence Canada inevitable and in California optional. Smal wonder. Americanslife expectancy has nearly [A]Americans are better doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be prepared for death than eplaced, clinical depression controlled cataracts other people removed in a 3o minute surgical procedure. Such [B]Americans enjoy a advances offer the aging population a quality of higher life quality than ife that was unimaginable when l entered ever medicine so years ago. But not even a great [C]Americans are over- health-care system can cure death -and our confident of their medical failure to confront that reality now threatens this technology greatness of ours [D] Americans take a vain pride in their long life  Death is normal; we are genetically programmed to disintegrate and perish, even under ideal conditions, We all understand that at some level 57. The author uses the yet as medical consumers we treat death as a example of caner patients problem to be solved. Shielded by third-party to show that payers from the cost of our care, we demand [A] medical resources everything that can possibly be done for US, even are often wasted if its useless The most obvious example is late [B] doctors are helpless stage cancer care. Physicians-frustrated by their against fatal diseases inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of [C]some treatments hope in the patient-too often offer aggressive are too aggressive treatment far beyond what is scientifically [D] medical costs are JUstified becoming unaffordable  In 1950, the US spent $12.7