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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.
The CBO’s prediction in 2011 seems to be too ______.
选项 A、objective
B、optimistic
C、ambiguous
D、pessimistic
答案B
解析 根据CBO，2011等关键词定位到最后一段，再根据prediction“预测”=projected(文中意思为“预计”)，可以确定答案主要来自最后一段首句。该句指出2011年CBO预计的奥巴马医改减少无医保群体的数量，两个数据分别为2 100万和3 400万；而下句指出：Now the CBO is gloomier：it says the law will shrink…从gloomier“更加郁闷”和shrink“缩水”，再到下文提到的1 300万和2 500万这两个数据，我们知道奥巴马医改未能达到2011年预期目标，即2011年CBO的预期过于乐观，故[B]项optimistic“乐欢的”为本题答案。
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