Who should be least criticized for negative consequences of students' credit card debt according to the passage?
A. Parents.
B. Students themselves.
College and university administrators.
D. Credit card issuers.
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A.Bonks they had read.B.Places they had been to.C.Histories and things they remembered
A. Bonks they had read.
B. Places they had been to.
C. Histories and things they remembered.
D. The fun they got from rending.
Most people would be【C1】______ by the high quality of medicine【C2】______ to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of【C3】______ to the individual, a【C4】______ amount of advanced technical equipment, and【C5】______ effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must【C6】______ in the courts if they【C7】______ things badly.
But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in【C8】______ health care is organized and 【C9】______ .【C10】______ to public 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【C11】______ the less fortunate and the elderly.
But even with this huge public part of the system,【C12】______ this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 per cent of the U.S. budget—large numbers of Americans are left【C13】______ . These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits【C14】______ income fixed by a government trying to make savings where it can.
The basic problem, however, is that there is no central control【C15】______ the health system. There is no【C16】______ 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 person concerned can do is【C17】______ up.
Two-thirds of the population【C18】______ covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want【C19】______ that the insurance company will pay the bill.
The rising cost of medicine in the U.S. is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 1981 the country's health bill climbed 15.9 per cent—about twice as fast as prices【C20】______ general.
【C1】
A. compressed
B. impressed
C. obsessed
D. repressed
听力原文: Conversations are really kind of interesting. I guess it's a kind of hobby of mine to listen to conversations that I can hear in public. It's amazing how different the style. or the tone or the content of different conversations can be and to listen to the differences in the language that people use when they speak to different people.
If you are ever in a bookstore or a department store, it's interesting to hear how the same salesperson talks to different people. There're other interesting places to listen to conversations too, I think, and one place that I've found is on bus trips. People often talk to each other as if no one else were there. I guess they think people can't hear their conversations.
Recently I was on a bus. and I was listening to a conversation of two people behind me. I can't really say I was listening. I guess it would have been hard not to hear it. It was amusing to listen to the two people, though, because they were playing a kind of language, uh, word game about states and state capitals. One person would say the name of the state, and the other person would say the name of the capital.
It sounds like a kind of simple game that doesn't involve much language, and you wouldn't think that it would involve very much conversation, but actually this wasn't the case because as they were playing the game, they continued to compliment one another and to talk about how much they knew about history and how many of the other things they could or couldn't remember about those places from their trips or from their reading.
It was really kind of fun to listen to them.
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A. Listening to different styles of conversations.
B. Listening to the content of different conversations.
C. Listening to bow salesmen talk to different people.
D. Listening to conversations in public.
From the passage we know that home school advocates think that ______.
A. home schooling is superior and therefore they will not easily give in
B. their increased cooperation with public school will bring about the improvement of public education
C. things in public schools are not so bad as has often been said
D. their tolerance of public education will attract more kids to public schools