单选题
单选题
Studies Show US Spending Doesn’t Get Best Health
The United States many spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries1, but it is not getting results to match2 according to studies released on Tuesday.
But in the study of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system.
Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and colleagues came up with3 a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries —Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
"None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators." Andersonsaid during a telephone briefing for reporters.
"If you are looking for the place to get the best care, there isn’t a single place. Every country has at least one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries. "
But, he said, theUnited Statesis not getting value for money. "TheUnited Statesshould be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country. So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in4 "better outcomes."
Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study, getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and leukemia survival, suicide rates, death rates from asthma, vaccination rates and cancer screening.
词汇：
Indicator /ˈɪndɪkeɪtə(r)/ n．指标；指示者
Leukemia / l(j)u:"ki:mɪə/ n．白血病
Briefing / ˈbri:fɪŋ / n．基本情况介绍会
Asthma /ˈæsmə/ n．哮喘 ’
Commonwealth /ˈkɒmənwelθ/ n．联邦
Vaccination /ˌvæksɪ"neɪʃn/ n．种痘
Breast / [brest/ n．乳房；乳腺
1.spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries:在卫生保健方面的花费是其他富裕国家的两倍
Each year, the US spends more money on health care than the previous one
A:Right B:Wrong C:Not mentioned
Studies Show US Spending Doesn’t Get Best Health
The United States many spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries1, but it is not getting results to match2 according to studies released on Tuesday.
But in the study of five wealthy countries, published in the journal Health Affairs, researchers found no single nation had clearly the worst or best health care system.
Gerard Anderson at Johns Hopkins University’s school of public health and colleagues came up with3 a list of 21 health fields they could evenly compare across the five countries —Australia, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and the United States.
"None of the five countries is consistently the best or the worst on all 21 indicators." Andersonsaid during a telephone briefing for reporters.
"If you are looking for the place to get the best care, there isn’t a single place. Every country has at least one indicator where it scores the best of the five countries and each country has at least one indicator where it scores the worst of the five countries. "
But, he said, theUnited Statesis not getting value for money. "TheUnited Statesshould be particularly concerned about these results, given that we spend twice as much on health care as any other country. So spending more doesn’t necessarily result in4 "better outcomes."
Anderson’s group of international health experts sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund spent five years working on the study, getting the latest possible data from the five countries on areas such as breast cancer and leukemia survival, suicide rates, death rates from asthma, vaccination rates and cancer screening.
词汇：
Indicator /ˈɪndɪkeɪtə(r)/ n．指标；指示者
Leukemia / l(j)u:"ki:mɪə/ n．白血病
Briefing / ˈbri:fɪŋ / n．基本情况介绍会
Asthma /ˈæsmə/ n．哮喘 ’
Commonwealth /ˈkɒmənwelθ/ n．联邦
Vaccination /ˌvæksɪ"neɪʃn/ n．种痘
Breast / [brest/ n．乳房；乳腺
1.spend twice as much on health care as other rich countries:在卫生保健方面的花费是其他富裕国家的两倍
The more a country spends on health care, the better care its people enjoy
A:Right B:Wrong C:Not mentioned
I’ll Be Bach
Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people can’t tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope’s computer.
It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers，brains work like big databases. First, they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope, only the great composers are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical patterns from it.
Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The software analyzed the data：it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They weren’t good, but it was a start.
Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyzemore complex music. He also added many other composers, including his own work, to the database.
A few years later，Cope’s computer program, called “Emmy”，was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot ofcollaboration between the composer and Emmy. Cope listened to the computer’s musical ideas and used the ones that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Falling, and it was a great success! Cope received some of the best reviews of his career, but no one knew exactly how he had composed the work.
Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of compositions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn’tlike of her music, but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!
词汇：
original/əˈrɪdʒənəl / adj．有独创性的
collaboration/ kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən / n．合作
review/rɪ"vju:/ n．评论
feedback/"fi:dbæk / n．反馈
注释
J.S. Bach约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫（德语：Johann Sebastian Bach，1685年3月31日一1750年7月28日），巴洛克时期的德国作曲家，杰出的管风琴、小提琴、大键琴演奏家，同作曲家亨德尔和泰勒曼齐名。巴赫被普遍认为是音乐史上最重要的作曲家之一，并被尊称为“西方‘现代音乐’之父”，也是西方文化史上最重要的人物之一。
We can infer from the passage that ______.
A:David Cope is a computerprogrammer. B:David Cope loves music C:Bach’s music helped him a lot. D:Emmy did much more work than a composer
I’ll Be Bach
Composer David Cope is the inventor of a computer program that writes original works of classical music. It took Cope 30 years to develop the software. Now most people can’t tell the difference between music by the famous German composer J. S. Bach (1685-1750) and the Bach-like compositions from Cope’s computer.
It all started in 1980 in the United States, when Cope was trying to write an opera. He was having trouble thinking of new melodies, so he wrote a computer program to create the melodies. At first this music was not easy to listen to. What did Cope do? He began to rethink how human beings compose music. He realized that composers，brains work like big databases. First, they take in all the music that they have ever heard. Then they take out the music that they dislike. Finally, they make new music from what is left. According to Cope, only the great composers are able to create the database accurately, remember it, and form new musical patterns from it.
Cope built a huge database of existing music. He began with hundreds of works by Bach. The software analyzed the data：it broke it down into smaller pieces and looked for patterns. It then combined the pieces into new patterns. Before long, the program could compose short Bach-like works. They weren’t good, but it was a start.
Cope knew he had more work to do-he had a whole opera to write. He continued to improve the software. Soon it could analyzemore complex music. He also added many other composers, including his own work, to the database.
A few years later，Cope’s computer program, called “Emmy”，was ready to help him with his opera. The process required a lot ofcollaboration between the composer and Emmy. Cope listened to the computer’s musical ideas and used the ones that he liked. With Emmy, the opera took only two weeks to finish. It was called Cradle Falling, and it was a great success! Cope received some of the best reviews of his career, but no one knew exactly how he had composed the work.
Since that first opera, Emmy has written thousands of compositions. Cope still gives Emmy feedback on what he likes and doesn’tlike of her music, but she is doing most of the hard work of composing these days!
词汇：
original/əˈrɪdʒənəl / adj．有独创性的
collaboration/ kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃən / n．合作
review/rɪ"vju:/ n．评论
feedback/"fi:dbæk / n．反馈
注释
J.S. Bach约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫（德语：Johann Sebastian Bach，1685年3月31日一1750年7月28日），巴洛克时期的德国作曲家，杰出的管风琴、小提琴、大键琴演奏家，同作曲家亨德尔和泰勒曼齐名。巴赫被普遍认为是音乐史上最重要的作曲家之一，并被尊称为“西方‘现代音乐’之父”，也是西方文化史上最重要的人物之一。
We can infer from the passage that ______.
A:David Cope is a computerprogrammer. B:David Cope loves music C:Bach’s music helped him a lot. D:Emmy did much more work than a composer
In the writer's view, the more new goods there are, ______.
A:the less pollution we have B:the harder pollution can be done away with C:the more pollution there will be D:the more easily pollution can be controlled
In the writer; s view, the more new goods there are, ______.
A:the less pollution we have B:the harder pollution can be done away with C:the more pollution there will be D:the more easily pollution can be controlled
