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Health Care in the US
Health care in the US is well-known but very expensivE.Paying the doctor's bill after a major illness or accident can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
In the US, a person's company, not the government, pays for health insurancE.
Employers have contracts with insurance companies, which pay for all or part of employees' doctors' bills.
The amount that the insurance company will pay out to a patient differs wildly. It all depends on what insurance the employer pays. The less the boss pays to the insurance company, the more the employee has to pay the hospital each time he or she gets sick. In 2004, the average worker paid an extra US $558 a year, according to a San Francisco report.
The system also means many Americans fall through the cracks (遭遗漏). In 2004, only 61 per cent of the population received health insurance through their employers, according to the report. The unemployed, self-employed, part-time workers and graduated students with no jobs were not includeD.
Most US university students have a gap between their last day of school and their first day on the joB.Often, they are no longer protected by their parents' insurance because they are now considered independent adults. They also cannot buy university health insurance because they are no longer students.
Another group that falls through the gap of the US system is international students. All are required to have health insurance and cannot begin their classes without it. But exact policies (保险单) differ from school to school.
Most universities work with health insurance companies and sell their own standard plan for students Often, buying the school plan is required, but luckily it's also cheaper than buying direct from the insurance company.
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Friends May Be Key to Living LongerLooking for the secret of a long life? Look closely at your friends. New research suggests that having a strong network of friends helps people live longer.'Older people with better social networks of friends were less likely to______(51) over a 10-year follow-up (随访) period than older people with ______(52) friends networks,'Lynne C.Giles of Flinders University in Australia told Reuters Health.But in what may come as a surprising finding to older people ______(53) rely on their children and other relatives, having a large network of relatives was not associated with longer life, according______(54) Giles and her colleagues.'Of course, that is not to say that social networks______(55) children and other relatives are not important in many other ways,' Giles saiD.Study after study has shown that elderly people who______(56) connected with lots of people tend to live longer lives. ______(57) , few studies have examined whether different types of relationships — with friends, partners, children and______(58) relatives — have different effects on longevity (长寿).Giles's team set out to examine the relationship between various types of social networks and______(59) in a group of almost 1,500 Australians who were at least 70 years______(60). Volunteers answered ______(61) about their social networks and then were followed for 10 years.The researchers took into account several factors that could have influenced how long a person lived, ______(62) sex, age, health and smoking status.What the study showed was______(63) older people who reported better social networks of friends were______(64) likely to be alive at the end of the study than people with fewer friends.But relationships with children and other relatives did not have______(65) effect on survival in the study.A.liveB.dieC.workD.stay
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SECTION B INTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.Now listen to the interview.听力原文:M: Though should chocolate lovers everywhere be rejoicing today, Samantha Heller is a contributing editor of Health Magazine and a clinical nutritionist at New York University Medical Center. Hey Samantha, good morning.W: Good morning.M: People tend to do the one plus one equals two, and consider things OK. I just heard this news and I'm going out buying a lot of chocolatE.Bad idea?W: It's a bad ideA.And the reason is that the way we process chocolate in this country—the way we dilute with a lot of sugar and fat takes out a lot of the healthy compounds.M: And I am basically talking about that dark chocolate is good for you. In this country there are more people who tend to consume milk chocolatE.W: That's right. That's diluted and it's treated to take the bitterness of dark chocolate out. And that's also taking out the healthy compound that's in it. You can take, like cocoa powder and make your own hot chocolate and you're getting some of the benefits.M: But you don't dispute the fact that this flavonoid seeder found in chocolate may be beneficial to health.W: It may absolutely be beneficial but what we are finding out in research is when you isolate a compound from food that's healthy in the food, it may not have the effect by itself in your body that we would anticipatE.M: So, more research needs to be done?W: So much more research, yes.M: While we have you here, we wanna talk about some other foods in the news if you will. I've been hearing so much. Really this has been in the last couple of years. Green teA.Everybody is talking about it. You've seen it in advertisE.People I know have said that stop drinking coffee in the morning, I'm drinking green teA.What's the potential benefit here?W: Green tea is packed with polyphenols. These are chemicals that actually help fight disease high in anti-oxidants. Green tea has been showing to be anti-carcinogenic, anti-tumorgenic and may even help prevent cavities.M: No caffeine? Is there caffeine?W: There is some caffeine surE.M: So by switching from coffee to green tea in the morning might we be doing some, helping ourselves?W: You certainly might hE.I don't think you will get the caffeine kick that you get from coffee, but the green tea is a great choicE.M: Alright, we've got a couple of other things we wanna talk about. First is ginger. What's the benefit to ginger?W: Ginger, again, anti nausea, anti-motion sickness.M: Actually a lot of pregnant women use ginger for morning sickness.W: Yeah. It's great for that. You can have ginger teA.It's versatile and also some of the anti-inflammatories may be good for people with arthritis.M: Is this turmeric?W: Yes. It's the bright yellow spice in herE.And there's a compound called curcumin which has been shown to fight cancer. It's very potent, very strong.M: We all know that fruits and vegetables are good for us, but you in particular wanna just mention today the cruciferous. That's the vegetables which are things like broccoli and Brussels sprouts.W: That's right. Now these have compounds called indoles and others that are very anti-cancergenic, protect against stomach, colorectal cancer, lung cancer and breast cancer and may help detoxify the liver diseasE.These are very important, very helpful. M: Down on the end of the table, I just wanna say here basically you say anything that comes or as a product from other animals is not good except in small amounts.W: That's right. And the reason is that it has artery-clogging fat, saturated fat, not good for you. But the lower, non-fat choices areA.it is less hitter than dark chocolatE.B.it is more healthy than dark chocolatE.C.it has special flavor with many nutrients.D.it is less expensive than dark chocolatE.
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