Many Benefit from Cancer Organization

    1. Do you know a child who survived leukemia? Do you have a mother, sister or aunt whose breast cancer was found early thanks to a mammogram? Do you have a friend or coworker who quit smoking to reduce their risk of lung cancer? Each of these individuals benefited from the American Cancer Society’s research program.

    2. Each day scientists supported by the American Cancer Society work to find breakthroughs that will take us one step closer to a cure.¹ The American Cancer Society has long recognized that research holds the ultimate answers to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.²

    3. As the largest source of nonprofit cancer research funds in the United States, the American Cancer Society devotes over $100 million each year to research. Since 1946，they’ve invested more than $2.4 billion in research. The investment has paid rich dividends³ ：In 1946，only one in four cancer patients was alive five years after diagnosis; today 60 percent live longer than five years.

    4. Investigators and health professionals in universities, research institutes and hospitals throughout the country receive grants from the American Cancer Society. Of the more than 1,300 new applications received each year, only 11 percent can be funded. If the American Cancer Society had more money available for research funding, nearly 200 more applications considered outstanding could be funded each year:

    5. You can help fund more of these applications by participating in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, a team event to fight cancer. More funding means more cancer breakthroughs and more lives being saved. To learn more, call Donna Hood, chair with the Neosho Relay for Life of the American Cancer Society at 451–4880.

词汇：

leukemia /lʊ"kimɪə/ n.白血病

breast /brest/ n.乳房;乳腺

mammogram /"mæməgræm/ n.乳腺X光照片

relay /"riːleɪ/ n.接力

nonprofit /,nɑn"prɑfɪt/ adj.非营利的

dividend /"dɪvɪdend/ n.回报,效益

coworker /"kəu,wə:kə/n. 一起工作的人,同事

注释：

1.Each day scientists supported by the American Cancer Society work to find breakthroughs that will take us one step closer to a cure.每天,得到美国癌症协会资助的科学家们都在为更进一步接近有效疗法而不停地工作。

2.The American Cancer Society has long recognized that research holds the ultimate answers to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.美国癌症协会很久以来便认识到,预防、诊断与治疗癌症的最终答案取决于科研。

B many cancer patients

C more lives being saved

D more than five years

E the ultimate answers

Many outstanding applications are turned down each year for __________.

A:A B:B C:C D:D E:E F:F

Rigoberto Padilla, 21, came to the USA from Mexico when he was 6. He went to school in Chicago, joined the honor society and dreamed of becoming a lawyer-all while living here illegally. Padilla’s status wasn’t a problem until he applied for college and couldn’t qualify for financial aid without a Social Security number, he says.
In January, the University of Illinois-Chicago junior was charged with drunken driving. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor (轻罪), paid a fine and got court supervision, but that brought him to the attention of immigration officials and triggered deportation proceedings. "It was one mistake in my life," he says.
Padilla’s impending deportation, catapulted (猛投) him into a campaign to stop the deportation of college students and recent graduates. Lawmakers, students, members of the clergy and other acti-vists hope to buy the students time and use their stories to push for laws that would allow them, and perhaps millions of other illegal immigrants, to earn legal status, says Joshua Hoyt of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agreed last week to delay Padilla’s deportation for a year, making him one of at least seven young illegal immigrants who have had their deportations delayed since June, according to Dream Activist, one of the groups spearheading the campaign. Family ties and community standing are among the factors ICE considers when asked to delay a deportation, says ICE spokesman Richard Rocha.
"I want to graduate college and give back to this country," Padilla says. His supporters flooded the Department of Homeland Security with thousands of faxes and designed a Facebook page telling 2 800 members how to help. The Chicago City Council passed a resolution in his behalf, and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. , introduced a bill specifically for him that would allow him to stay. "Why would we deprive ourselves of outstanding students and future leaders" she asks. "They had no part in the decision to come here. "
There are 12 million illegal immigrants in the USA. Activists call for an overhaul of immigration law that would offer them a way to earn legal status. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Dill. , introduced a bill Tuesday that would give illegal immigrants who pay fines, pass background checks and meet other requirements a path toward legal residency. College students who are illegal immigrants fail under a separate proposal called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act--the DREAM Act. Requirements would include arrival in the USA at 15 or younger, a five-year residency or more, and at least two years of college or military service. Versions of the act have been introduced since 2001 without success.
Why do some Americans ask for legal status for some illegal immigrants

A:Because they would get decent jobs in the future. B:Because they would become outstanding people and give back to the country. C:Because there are some laws to protect them. D:Because they are not harmful to the country.

Michael Porter, who has made his name throughout the business community by advocating his theories of competitive advantages, is now swimming into even more shark-infested waters, arguing that competition can save even America’s troubled health-care system, the largest in the world. Mr. Porter argues in " Redefining Health Care" that competition, if properly applied, can also fix what ails this sector.
That is a bold claim, given the horrible state of America’s health-care system. Just consider a few of its failings: America pays more per capita for health care than most countries, but it still has some 45m citizens with no health insurance at all. While a few receive outstanding treatment, he shows in heart-wrenching detail that most do not. The system, wastes huge resources on paperwork, ignores preventive care and, above all, has perverse incentives that encourage shifting costs rather than cutting them outright. He concludes that it is "on a dangerous path, with a toxic combination of high costs, uneven quality, frequent errors and limited access to care. "
Many observers would agree with this diagnosis, but many would undoubtedly disagree with this advocacy of more market forces. Doctors have an intuitive distrust of competition, which they often equate with greed, while many public-policy thinkers argue that the only way to fix America’s problem is to quash the private sector’s role altogether and instead set up a government monopoly like Britain’s National Health Service.
Mr. Porter strongly disagrees. He starts by acknowledging that competition, as it has been introduced to America’s health system, has in fact done more harm than good. But he argues that competition has been introduced piecemeal, in incoherent and counter-productive ways that lead to perverse incentives and worse outcomes:" health-care competition is not focused on delivering value for patients," he says.
Mr. Porter offers a mix of solutions to fix this mess, and thereby to put the sector on a genuinely competitive footing. First comes the seemingly obvious (but as yet unrealized ) goal of data transparency. Second is a redirection of competition from the level of health plans, doctors, clinics and hospitals, to competition "at the level of medical conditions, which is all but absent". The authors argue that the right measure of "value" for the health of treatment, and what the cost is for that entire cycle. That rightly emphasizes the role of early detection and preventive care over techno-fixes, pricey pills and the other failings of today’s system.
If there is a failing in this argument, it is that he sometimes strays toward naive optimism. Mr. Porter argues, for example, that his solutions are so commonsensical that private actors in the health system could forge ahead with them profitably without waiting for the government to fix its policy mistakes. That is a tempting notion, but it falls into a trap that economists call the fallacy of the $ 20 bill on the street. If there really were easy money on the pavement, goes the argument, surely previous passers-by would have bent over and picked it up by now.
In the same vein, if Mr. Porter’s prescriptions are so sensible that companies can make money even now in the absence of government policy changes, why in the world have they not done so already One reason may be that they can make more money in the current sub- optimal equilibrium than in a perfectly competitive market--which is why government action is probably needed to sweep aside the many obstacles in the way of Mr. Porter’s powerful vision.
What seems to be the biggest problem with America’s health care system

A:American spends more money on health care than on other services. B:Most Americans couldn’t get their health insurance till their old age. C:Most American hospitals do not offer outstanding treatment to patients. D:The costs of health care are not steered towards a health direction.

As an outstanding scholar, he has become ______ to the research team.

A:senior B:junior C:indispensable D:independent

The singer gave an ______ (accept) performance, but it was not outstanding.

Gandhi and Martin Luther King are typical examples of outstanding leaders who ______.

A:are good at demonstrating their charming characters B:can move the masses with their forceful speeches C:are capable of meeting all challenges and hardships D:can provide an answer to the problems of their people

The singer gave an ______ (accept) performance, but it was not outstanding.