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  3. Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23 rd, 2010. Exactly four years later J. Louis Felton, a pastor in Philadel

Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23 rd, 2010. Exactly four years later J. Louis Felton, a pastor in Philadel

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问题     Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act on March 23 rd, 2010. Exactly four years later J. Louis Felton, a pastor in Philadelphia, led his flock in an unusual procession: out of church and onto a bus owned by a local insurer. " We need to sign up," Mr. Felton says. " People in our communities have never had the opportunity to get health coverage before. " On the bus he prayed for Obamacare’s success.
    The fight over the law makes mud-wrestling look decorous. This year Obamacare is, yet again, Republicans’ favourite weapon on the campaign trail. On March 25th it was, yet again, debated in the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama continues to undermine his own law by delaying parts of it: this month officials said Americans could keep old plans that don’t comply with Obamacare for another two years.
    America is the world’s only rich country not to have universal health care. Obamacare was meant to address that. In the past insurers charged the sick higher rates than the healthy. Since January this has been banned. To keep insurers from going bust, the law requires all Americans to have insurance or pay a fine. The premiums from cheap, healthy people are supposed to offset the costs of the sick. New online health exchanges allow people to shop for coverage. For the hard-up, Obamacare does two things. It expands Medicaid(public health care for the poof)to individuals earning up to about $ 16,000. And it offers subsidies to those who make more than $ 11,700 but less than $46,700.
    In 2011 the Congressional Budget Office(CBO)projected that Obamacare would lower the number of uninsured by 21m in 2014 and 34m in 2021. Now the CBO is gloomier: it says the law will shrink the ranks of the uninsured by 13m in 2014 and 25m in 2021. More than 30m Americans will still lack coverage after Obamacare is fully implemented.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that Obamacare______.
选项 A、will be abolished in the near future
B、is favored by almost all Americans
C、has caused controversy for a long time
D、has been a powerful weapon of Mr. Obama
答案C
解析 选项[A]will be abolished in the near future“近期会被废除”在原文中找不到任何对应信息，属于无中生有，故排除。选项[B]is favored by almost all Americans“几乎获得所有美国人认同”也没有句子直接证明，故排除。选项[C]has caused controversy for a long time“长期以来都引人争议”对应第二段第三句：On March 25th it was yet again，debated in theSupreme Court．由此可见Obamacare不仅一次，也不仅一年引起争议，故可以推断该项表述正确。选项[D]对应第二句：This year Obamacare is，yet again，Republicans’favourite weap—on…原文提到Obamacare是Republican“共和党”的武器，而不是奥巴马的武器，该项属于偷换概念。综上，本题答案为[C]。
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