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Read the following article and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on you
Read the following article and choose the best word for each space. For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on you
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2019-03-04
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Read the following article and choose the best word for each space.
For questions 26-45, mark one letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet.
Long-Term Care Crisis
The apparent demise of the Class Act leaves many middle-income Americans【C1】______to cope with rising expenses【C2】______long-term care for family members, The Times reported on Tuesday.
Unlike the rich, who can afford to pay for services themselves, or the poor, who get help【C3】______Medicaid, the federal and state program for low-income people, many members of the middle class have to look【C4】______disabled relatives themselves, or pay someone to do it. Polls show that many people believe that Medicare, the federal health program for those 65【C5】______older, pays for such care.【C6】______, Medicare stops paying nursing【C7】______bills after 100 days.
More than 10 million people in the United States already have long-term care【C8】______, and two-thirds of the costs are paid for by government programs,【C9】______Medicaid. Studies estimate that unpaid family members deliver an even【C10】______share of the care, and the cost of nursing home care averages $72,000,a year.
The Class Act’s ambitions were undercut by an impractical structure that doomed it from the【C11】______experts and government actuaries say. Its【C12】______harks back to an attempt by President Ronald Reagan and a Democratic Congress to protect the elderly from catastrophic medical expenses and provide a modest prescription drug benefit and somewhat【C13】______nursing home care.
That law, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, was repealed within months of enactment after a furious response by elderly voters angry that they had to【C14】______for the benefits themselves through a tax mostly paid【C15】______the wealthy. In a famous【C16】______, Representative Dan Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat who was chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, was booed and chased【C17】______a Chicago street by a group of elderly people, one of【C18】______draped herself over the hood of his car.
The repeal legislation created a commission to examine the issue of long-term care, but it【C19】______the appetite of many in Congress to resolve the issue. The Clinton health plan made another attempt at improving long-term care, but the bill failed. And now the demise of the Class Act is【C20】______history.
【C14】
选项
A、ask
B、.pay
C、wait
D、exchange
答案
B
解析
“pay for…”指“为……而付费”,根据上下文,老年人要为自己的收益而买单,因此选B。
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