With a new Administration promising much needed reform in the way health care is accessed, delivered and reimbursed, legislators, health officials, doctors and patients see this as a rare opportunity, a sweet spot in which national need could meet national will and we could actually fix a system that seems to be costing us more and more but delivering less and less. The improvements can’t come too soon. In spite of our gleaming hospitals and cutting - edge technology that can detect the tiniest tumors and repair the most complex organ, on some basic health measures the U. S. is starting to fall behind--far behind. What does the author think of the present health - care system
A. Satisfactory
B. Dissatisfactory
C. Efficient
D. Hopeless.
Your health can suffer simply from fear of losing your job, says Sarah Burgard, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. After crunching data from two large national surveys, she concluded that chronic job insecurity over a two--year period rivals the anxiety of a job loss or a major illness. Burgard adjusted her data for what psychologists call "neuroticism" and found that even people who aren’t typically worriers report worse health when they believe their jobs are in danger. Fears of poor job prospects may have similar consequences. When Swedish researchers asked 21 - year - olds about their health during a recession, they reported more problems than a comparison group during a boom.
According to Sarah Burgard, people’s health tend to get worse whenA. they develop chronic diseases.
B. they experience job insecurity.
C. they see good job prospects.
D. they have psychological problems.
While NICE’s decisions have angered some doctors and patient groups -particularly some oncologists (肿瘤科医生) who say they are unable to prescribe expensive, life- extending cancer drugs- mainstream politicians, the media and most Britons accept NICE’s rare rejections as a necessary compromise to keep universal coverage affordable in the face of rising health -care costs. As NICE chairman Sir Michael Rawlins recently told TIME, "All health -care systems have implicitly, if not explicitly, adopted some form of cost control. In the U. S. , you do it by not providing health care to some people. That’s a rather brutal way of doing it. " NICE’s decisions hear the loudest voice of disapproval from
A. some oncologists.
B. mainstream politicians.
C. the media.
D. most Britons.
Vitamins are another essential requirement for health. There are about florty, known vitamins, lint the most generally referred to are A, B, C, D and E. Deficiency of Vitamin A, foundin carrots, rose -hips (玫瑰果), liver, etc., is alleged to affect the vision and the skin and reduce resistance to infection. Vitamin C, present in nearly all fruit, particularly oranges and other citrus fruit (柑橘属水果), has come to be regarded as particularly effective in the preventipn of cold and low energy states.
According to the paragraph, the best source of Vitamin C isA. citrus fruit
B. fruit in dark color
C. carrots
D. rose - hips.