Most people would be 【21】______ by the high quality of medicine 【22】______ to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization

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问题    Most people would be 【21】______  by the high quality of medicine 【22】______  to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of 【23】______  to the individual, a 【24】______  amount of advanced technical equipment, and 【25】______   effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must 【26】______  in the courts if they 【27】______ things badly.
   But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in 【28】______  health care is organized and 【29】______ . 【30】______  to public belief it is not just a free competition system. Besides the private system there has been a large public system, because private care was simply not 【31】______  the less fortunate and the elderly. But even with this huge public part of the system, 【32】______  this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars--mom than 10 per cent of the U. S. Budget--large numbers of Americans are left 【33】______ . These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits 【34】______  income fixed by a government trying to make savings wherever they can.
   The basic problem, however, is that them is no central control 【35】______  the health system. There is no 【36】______   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 heart attack, or a sick child, all the unfortunate person concerned can do is 【37】______  up. Two thirds of the population 【38】______  covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want 【39】______  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 per cent--about twice as fast as prices 【40】______  general.=
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选项 A、countless
B、titanic
C、broad
D、vast

答案D

解析 a vast amount of意为“大量的”;countless意为“无数的”,通常用于可数名词;titanic意为“巨大的”,常形容体积;broad意为“宽的,宽广的”;vast的用途比较广泛,可以用来形容体积、数量、程度及强度。
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